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  • Hence their point about being the best of a bad bunch. Remember the people making decisions are people. A corporation has no soul and only seeks profit. People work for them and can make good decisions and be good people whomever they work for.

    There were good people that worked for the nazis. Unless you think the cleaner, for instance of the Nazi headquarters cleaned as a way to speak evil.

    However. I take your point. I just think that’s not what is the point of the discussion here and is no different to both sides being bad on politics. It lacks nuance.







  • I imagine that while that maybe was involved in their reasoning, that they are more worried about steam deck. Xbox is circling the drain. Steam deck is gaining steam. Ahem.

    Their model is based on subscription to use online features. That becomes a harder sell when the hardware is also much more expensive. So, they will want to make gamers miss out by not having a PlayStation, similar to past console battles. However, in the past people picked a side and stuck with it. A gen or two ago, many gamers had more than one console or a console and a gaming able PC. I think that’s going to shrink with the cost rises.

    They want people to choose PlayStation as their first choice. I don’t think people will, so it might mean they lose on both, so it’s a gamble. However, they can port to PC at any time, so I expect that’s what they will do.




  • I think it’s not just about holding the information hostage, but also about holding comoute power hostage.

    Just like the move to subscriptions for everything you won’t own. You’ll no longer own processing power but will subscribe to it.

    I think the chines models and the open source community are going to be very helpful in combatting that. Already it’s hard to get hardware that is not geared towards ai. Be that a phone, or a PC. If ram and video cards and storage continue to be too expensive, cheaper consumer products are the end result, whereby only labs and corporations have processing power.

    Luckily when that happens, we can just ask ai to vibe code more efficient apps that our crappy hardware can run, making sure to specify that they are secure and privacy focused.




  • Slightly left on social issues but generally right on financial issues and it is mainly a final based newspaper. Through an emeicsn lens, it might all appear more left than the reality due to the Overton window shift.

    What’s nice is they do look at social programs on a cost benefit basis. So, where something helps people and saves money, it can help to remove any opposition ideologically.