Moderately useful for basic tasks you’re going to review. Extremely useful for puff stuff like marketing where you don’t care about little mistakes. Those generic corporate emails? Done. Random picture of dude with your product? Easy.

Where it’s never going to be worth it is places you have to be 100% right. Finance is a big one. So of course they’re trying to shove it in that stuff too.

And no amount of performance improvements is going to change the minds of those people. Either they’ll finally try electric and realize how great they are or eventually die out. Either way ICE is going to be the oddity one day.

Yeah but I’m not even talking budget gear from this generation. Heck used 3080s go for as low as 350 on eBay and those are still great and those will let you play 1440p on high, far from the minimum you need to play these days.

Admittedly I have no idea of the price for used laptops or full systems.

Tell me you didn’t read my post without replying without…you know. Where did I mention new anywhere? Yes, bubbles ruin the price on the latest and greatest. We’ve been dealing with it since crypto. However, we don’t NEED the latest and greatest anymore and haven’t for years.

Despite the bubble, this is still a better time when it comes to ability to play awesome games for cheap than ever before.

Bah these articles are trash. I’ve got a 5 year old PC ands still playing games on high. For console, Switch games and even DS are still great portable and multiplayer options.

Gaming is cheaper than ever because we’ve got a massive backlog of great games that you’d never catch up on even if you did nothing but game all day. Plus stuff more than a few years old gets CHEAP!

I wouldn’t mind upgrading, but even if something dies I can buy a used replacement and keep going until this bubble pops.

Can they even code them to do that? They’ve struggled so much with the em-dash and never managed to block Disneys characters so I figure they can’t do it 100% of the time even if they want to.

If you pay for them via Openrouter or something then you’ve got an enormous window to work with. Gets more and more expensive as the history increases though.

DD may pay more, but they aren’t covering your costs. Most people who do the numbers find it only works if you have a cheap car that gets great mileage and do maintenance yourself.

Best practices are something I’ve rarely ever seen applied at corporations. If I’m lucky, I’m only trying to explain to management why we need source control, if I’m unlucky the tech team needs to be educated and forced to use it.

Really can’t see AI assistance going smooth when it lets people think even less about what they’re doing.

There are definitely companies that can take advantage of it and use it properly, but I think they are going to be a minority.

I like AI. I think it’s great for quick references or a starting point, but I’ve already seen projects scrapped and restarted because a bunch of junior devs used AI with no understanding and management gave up on them after a year where the number of significant bugs never decreased. Take one down, feed it to the AI, two more bugs in the tracker.

We’ll see when the reviews hit. It’d be pretty dumb for it to be worse than an M1 when older airs get discounted down to similar prices.

Ok at this point it’s been 5 years since the M1 and it’s crazy people are still acting like 8GB is unusable on them. My work Mac is 8GB. So is my wife’s. I run Xcode, iOS simulator, safari, VSCode and the corporate security software at the same time without issue.

Would I want that little for video games? Hell no.

It’s still fine for the typical user. As a developer, I find the base 256GB far more of an issue since it’s impossible for me to fit multiple versions of Xcode and simulators on it simultaneously.

Yeah it doesn’t break down into noise but it’s still nonsense. If the Iron Man one is a good example then it’s still janky.

I don’t even trust Id.me. If the government needs to securely identify someone they should be setting it up themselves instead of us trusting some random company that used to provide coupons to soldiers.

Tesla is also the one caught intentionally destroying that evidence when FSD was at fault.

Sorry if I took it the wrong way. I can see some common ground in Steam vs others and Apple vs others since both focused on the user experience against really poor competition in that area, though Apple has a helluva stronger walled garden.

I do think fanboying a for profit company is silly, but a lot of this is also driven by hate for Epic’s CEO. Epic’s just another business that wants to make money and that alone isn’t the reason people keep backing Steam on these threads. People shit on them because their CEO is an asshole who spends a lot of time bitching about other storefronts while their own still sucks 7 years after release despite the company raking in billions. Guy tries to act like he’s some underdog despite Unreal engine having a greater stranglehold over game development.

Epic doesn’t do a single thing that doesn’t directly result in profits. Features are only added off they can derive income from them. Lawsuits are filed so they can take a larger percentage of profits. Even his twitter posts are mainly about him getting a larger cut, when he isn’t defending AI child porn.

Valve is very old school in their ‘keep improving your offering and it will work out’ way. Usually companies like that get bought out and their name run into the ground. It sadly happens in all industries, from Samsonite luggage to BioWare games and even service companies.

Apple directly makes money off iOS apps and in most of the world you can only buy via their store. On the other hand, I can and do buy games from GoG and run them just fine on my Steam deck and can still benefit from proton.

The only reason I buy most of my games from Steam is they make things even easier than buying from GoG.

Epic makes tons of money off licensing Unreal to developers and have since before their store was a thing.

Proton makes direct zero profit, though it does make Steam the best store for anyone on Linux.

Where did you go skiing that it required training, licenses or insurance? I’ve never heard of any of that being required.

In fact I’ve spoken to insurance agents that specifically will not insure heavy skiers because of their increased risk.