True, but it's something to think about when discussing SpaceX's plan for adding thousands of AI data centers in space.

I doubt that they were going to get launch costs down to the point where that became profitable anyway, but the idea of an errant Chinese or Russian rocket accidentally or "accidentally" destroying a few of them is probably something that SpaceX investors are thinking about right now. They're too busy buying up those shares at insanely inflated prices.

Yeah, the interface has been slowly becoming more ad encrusted throughout the years.

The Roku Channel also has a really odd selection of movies, with a surprisingly large collection of Cinemax style soft core porn if that's your thing. Seemed like an odd thing to give away on an free ad supported service, but hey... you do you, Roku!

If you're not gaming, those old Radeon HD graphics cards are perfectly functional as a basic display adapter. You really don't need more than that if you're spending all your time in Firefox doing basic web browsing, office work, and watching stuff on the Tube sites.

Somebody should remind this guy how a compiler works. His hand written "artisan" code is being turned into machine code by a computer anyway.

They also need to get space launch costs to about 5% of where they are now to make orbital data centers profitable, but don't let things like economic reality lower the hype on that new SpaceX IPO.

I'm sure that the $699 model will come with terrible hardware specs like 8 or 12 GB of RAM and a 256 GB SSD.

Expecting more than that during the 2026 AI Rampocolypse is foolish, because RAM and storage cost at least twice as much as they should right now.

Yeah... is he sure that the Mighty Orange One is going to be OK with that? After all of the recent corporate ass kissing, I'd imagine that he's expecting Jensen to be building his new chip plants in the US instead.

I think that it's more like blaming AI for taking your tech job, and then giving it to outsourced foreign labor if/when that doesn't work out.

You can partly blame COVID for this, as we showed that 90% of IT can be done fully remote. Frankly, I'm surprised that it took the IT managers so long to realize that work being done from a living room in Omaha or Boise can done cheaper in Odessa or Bangalore.

I find it odd that Apple is going downmarket with their $699 MacBook Neo, while Microsoft is now pricing their new Surface Pro laptops at prices that rival a MacBook Pro.

So, now I can get all of the flakiness and advertising bundled into Windows 11 AND pay more for the privilege? Wow, where can I sign up!

If it's like other Grok AI products, I would think that the goal would be to promote your vibe coded AI slop project on X.

Then you can hope that Elon Musk or someone from his fanboy army reposts about it, giving your project some publicity.

Something tells me that if you can afford the $48,000 price tag for just one of 40 245TB drives in that insanely dense 2U server, you probably also have the money to build your own power generation.

I honestly thought that Microsoft already tried an automated driver rollback "feature" back in the early Windows Vista days.

I vaguely remember it breaking more issues than it resolved.

Or you'll end up with this situation:

Game XYZ won't run because it says that your video card drivers are out of date
You update them
The game crashes anyway with a different graphic driver error because it's bug ridden launch day garbage
The drivers roll back
And Game XYZ won't run again ...and suddenly you wish that you bought a Playstation 5 instead.

Don't most people just use the router that their ISP provides them? This seems like this is more of a issue for the ISP's to resolve than an issue for your average consumer to resolve. They'll just buy the latest Netgear from Amazon, or from whatever other companies decided to pay the new FCC certification bribes.