Mine has a few plastic bits fail but I was able to 3D print replacements

My old Brother color laser is still going strong!

I just installed SteamOS on a mini PC that costs about half what the Steam Machine does (and less than the Deck under current pricing), and runs on an AMD 7840HS with 32GB of RAM in a form-factor that’s the size of 3 stacked pieces of bread.

While that APU is likely powerful than the Steam machine’s with its dedicated VRAM, I did test a few games and it definitely outperforms the Deck and the higher system RAM makes it potentially more versatile than either.

There are, but there are also a lot of drawbacks to bring divorced multiple times. This also depends on how long and far the person is taking at the “getting to know each other” stage before marriage, etc as well

Or - as a Canadian - they DO have an online store but it doesn’t ship here :-(

I’d kinda love to see a comeback for optical given the supply issues for flash memory, but I’ll about that a custom USB ROM stick or SDCard style carts for PC would be kinda sick

What data exactly is it going to upload? There’s a finite amount of data that can store and I’d imagine with the chip/storage costs on the rise no manufacturer is going to be using a larger onboard storage device. They’re all too damn cheap for that

Hopefully also as a supported option to the existing phones. I’ve got a Fold and switching is sounding pretty good right now…

I have the skill, but no longer the willingness to maintain said PC for the enjoyment of everyone else who is less technical. Updates on Steam Deck has been dead easy, and compatibility fairly straightforward.

I’ll still muck around with my own bigger gaming rig, but for the “this goes on the living room” device the SM seems like a good balance.

I’m kinda surprised that these things aren’t being stripped for parts by meth-heads TBH

If you’re willing to wade into FB Marketplace there’s also a lot of mini Dell/HP PC’s - probably retired business workstations - out there for cheap with 8-16GB of RAM.

They make dandy TV boxes of mini homelab hosts

Yeah but up until now it really feels like their relationship was more about them having some sort of dirt on Trump that kept him on a short leash. Wonder why he doesn’t care any that anymore

“we’re gonna have to repossess grandma’s heart transplant unless y’all pay up …”

How long ago did people order these ago, and what was the cost then? The price surge on RAM and storage due to AI has already caused the prices of many mobile devices to go up, especially the ones with larger capacities.

“modern human civilization” is also a pretty big range. Electricity alone is a rounding error in terms of how long we’ve been around.

Yeah, cameras should almost always be on a segregated network, preferably with port-security. The NVR may need to connect to the Internet for updates - assuming one can’t just upload that via the UI - but that’s about it.

Yup. I wasn’t disagreeing so much as pointing out a common failing with AI adoption in general: the number of cases where it’s being implement as a replacement for existing functional systems or humans rather than an augment to them. The “additional tool” aspect is 100% my preferred use case (where it functionally makes sense), but many are seeing it as a human-replacement that feeds into their desire for control/subservience, cost-reduction, or rent-seeking.

Local-AI actually has a lot of useful cases, and AI vision is something that in many forms has been around for awhile and is generally fairly effective. It’s great as a tool for indexing or enriching visual data that would otherwise at best a slog and at worst improbable for a human. Surveillance video is especially good with this. I see it as an addition to motion detection. Instead of needing to go through hours of footage of video, you only need to go through stuff where movement was detected, and from that you could further search for “frames tagged as having a person/bear/vehicle/whatever”. The thing is, I’m not depending on it to protect me from running into a bear when I go out out my trash (although Frigate can do alerting), but I could use it to follow how the bear moved between cameras/zones through my property and possibly use that to better bear-proof the premesi

In this particular case, it might be somewhat useful as an early warning if it can actively detect human+firearm, but there were obviously going to be either a number of false positives or negatives that make it less valuable as such. It could still be useful in reconstruction or actively following some incidents, but we need to keep humans in the loop too.

AI isn’t bad/evil or good when used correctly and with knowledge of the limitations in a given use-case. Trusting AI to replace humans/judgement is often very bad, and massive datacenters are obviously a major source of concern, but the issue is again in the use not the overall technology. Just like nuclear fission can produce huge amounts of power to either keep the lights on or blow stuff up, AI can help sort through your album if 5000 photos to find that one shot in a jiffy… or it can be used identify, track and you for a surveillance-state, and false positives in the latter case can make for a very bad day.

The cheap system I have with a Google Coral and FOSS software is pretty good about detecting people and dogs from my camera streams. Sometimes it detects my one dog as a small bear if I haven’t cut his hair recently.

Having such systems as a later if defense is good. As the only defense, not so much.

I - way back when - bought a Switch 1 because it played a bunch of the games that I could easily involve my kids/family in, and can come the times I’ve used it on battery with one hand.

However, that was also before the Steam Deck became a thing and haven’t really given Nintendo my patronage since.

The Deck also has an internal-only battery but replacing that at least is fairly straightforward (I have not needed to do so but was in the area when upgrading the storage card).

Ok the other hand, for people with painful period cramps they can actually help things quite a bit when installed (is that the right word here?) correctly