Cook the books by claiming $500 million in profits? That’s a lot of tax money and a lot to risk over just keeping investors happy for a short amount of time.

That was part of my point and why I said that those prices were what I could buy them for.

You’re not wrong, but I don’t think it went up $300 over what it was when they released the OLED model. The micron 2230 1 tb ssd is like $200 right now (micron was a major provider of 1 TB steam deck storage, but Valve used several) and that’s what I can get it for. They were like $140 when the OLED came out in 2023, they went below $100 like a nearly a year later. Ram has definitely shot way up, but I doubt even that has straight up 5x on the price, to constitute the rest of that $300 increase.

I’ll still say this will be a lot more about making the steam box have less sticker shock.

At this stage, the price hike of the steam deck is probably more about making the price of the upcoming Steam Box and VR headset look like an easier pill to swallow, and not about actually needing to raise the price of the steam deck.

When you’re fighting a battle so hard against the people that they burn your medical centers down for trying to control it; fuck being there.

All ET’s fault.

That means you’d have to adjust the clock all the time. End of October for instance, we’re on “normal time” but high noon is almost 1 pm. Not 12.

I’m still hugely in favor of a permanent dlst. It fucking sucks to be dark as hell before you even get home from a normal work day. If you’re going to cage the public till 5pm, at least give the opportunity at a brief bit of light.

Didn’t work for the Senate. Billionaires have enough money for a thousand judges. More judges just means less focus on the corrupt ones, and the ones who aren’t corrupt can be ignored and drowned out by the corrupt ones. It doesn’t matter if there’s 5 judges or 500 judges. It’s still just 51% that need to be pieces of shit in order to ruin it all.

Throw them in prison.

Making the system even larger is stupid. Make accountability instead.

You mean like the billion physical DEF delete kits that have been sold and installed?

Sigh. This will be a huge pita. I have probably over 100 things saved into bitwarden. Where’s a good foss alternative.

GabeN, please don’t die before me.

Been on windscribe for 2 or 3 years now and been quite happy with them. Fuck those Dutch oven bitch boys for trying to stupidly jack with their server. Thing has probably got like a billion dollars worth of ram inside it.

Huge plus that they aren’t publicly traded and forced to chase profits above all. Plus their employees are far and wide the best paid in the industry, and they never do mass lay offs.

What do families do, that only want or need to live in a place or area for like a year or so? Buy a house, pay thousands in closing costs and inspections, lose several thousand to realtors, and then have to go through the trouble of trying to sell the place a year later?

We very much need landlords. What’s screwing everything up is corpos doing it as a business or individuals with like 20 homes instead of one or two. Renting a house is a viable need for some people and it would actually suck if it was an option that didn’t exist at all.