Most other countries don’t have to rely on the antiquated network the US uses for resolving those bank to bank transactions. In South korea, Street vendors have what looks like a phone number posted on signage around their Wares or snacks and people just make effectively debit pushes from their bank to the merchant’s bank in real time with zero margins.

I kind of expect this is how the rest of the world operates and it’s only the us then sits on using its own infrastructure which it made one time, in the 1960s, and has refused to move off of since. This created a lot of the market need for a bunch of private companies to make their own little piggybacking solutions like venmo, zelle, square cash, and all the others.

Too be fair, a lot of major businesses in the US now just exist as financialization institutions extending debt to their large-scale clientele, under the guise of being manufacturing or data services. Like GM. Or Oracle.

Bazzite, all night. I’ll fortune to transition towards Linux but I still need the sad, commercial and technical predictability of Windows for some time longer.

Give me LTSC or give me death!

I paid about $450 for mid-range Mini PC and another $450 for a smallish egpu that should match the performance of what’s going in the Steam Machine. That was before the Rampocalypse, and I would still expect valve company to have contracted with manufacturers and component packages upstream from the public announcement so I’m still crossing my fingers people can buy these things for sub $1000.

Hot take: I think they should only allow any one Steam account to purchase one or two units total and require at least one paid game purchase in the account history, thus frustrating the efforts of scalpers and office businesses trying to get at productivity machines for cheap.

That works out to a $1 USD fee and an extra 3 minutes of effort, if they’re going to be cheap about it.

This is my solution, as well. Let the windows application do its thing, sandboxed effectively. I’m no purist.

Mr Jonathon Swift over here, it took me a moment to recognize your Proposal was Modest, given Poe’s Law.

Perhaps it is an ESL thing? We were using it in the States in the 90’s to describe a hardware authenticator key on parallel port that allowed CAD software to run, in a drafting class.

Later (00’s) i heard it used for all manner of peripheral USB accessories.

I’m trying to imagine what the gimmick would be.

You’re getting downdooted, but I was stuck on rereading that nonsensical sentence, as well, and I’m glad it was clarified.

LOL, I bought a small amount of NVDA because they were trying to acquire ARM, but regulators blocked them from doing so.

Fast forward a fistful of years and they are now 9% of the entire NASDAQ stock exchange, and are eating x86.

Business as usual, I see. There but by the grace of the gods go we all.

100% of the phones I purchase include the SIM slot. No joke.

I want even aware iPhone users lost this ability with the iPhone 14 and beyond, until your remark. I’m so sorry. :(

“These assholes included an antenna and SIM slot again!?! HTC did that last season. So unoriginal.”

Is it a Manifest v3 thing?

People keep recommending Chromium based browsers, as if Google can’t cut them off from further security updates at will, just like they are screwing with AOSP releases …

My own mother (pensioner) sent me the video asking “is this real?” But could only follow the first minutes of it.

I lol’d at that part and had to explain the brilliance of it. Then she lol’d, too.

It’s nice to share in the shadows humor, as a family, while we feel our liberties erode.

There is now enough adjacent cctv coverage to follow your approach and exit from the scene of the crime. The rush is that another Flock camera is used to identify, and then make an example out of you or me.

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GTX 750 Ti was an absolute champ even for playing games at 1440p, and I would argue the GTX 1060/1050 were worth spiritual successors.

20 years ago you’re looking at an MX440, over AGP if you were lucky.

In think they had many market segments covered, even with their Shield products.

It’s clear that where they are going, tech enthusiasts/consumers won’t sustain them, though. They will have to overextend themselves in Corpo bullshit, and either behind just another nightmare conglomerate, or die trying.

Even after the Dot Bomb era in 2000-2002 and beyond.

Programmer buddy of mine was telling me their theory that AI is the last hurrah of Big Tech and Venture Capital, shifting a patient that has been in place since most of us were children.

Even after the Dot Bomb area is the 2000’s, FinTech taking it in the chin in the 2008 global financial crisis, three meaningful Crypto rises and falls, and now AI, there’s always been some new for train to institute and sell to the retail investor and the general public.

The beleaguered finances of middle classes pretty much everywhere, hand in hand with the deleted brain trusts from AI making us really dumb and unconfident (or falsely confident), convinced with the lack of new productivity borne from these last few market cycles (AI and Crypto not actually doing much for the majority of humans commensurate with the hype) results in a possible chance for actual market accountability and seeing only genuine market growth.

I think that megacrash and the world waking up to the marketing machine is considerably less likely, but agree with them (given their best experience in FinTech) that it might meaningfully end our collective beliefs that Silicon Valley can steer everyone towards brighter shores.

I’m confused, having never got into Halo at all. Isn’t that was the Master Chief collection was?

Edit: got it, Remake vs Remaster, thanks, kind humans!