Oh, Windows will love that.

Thanks for explaining to Slashdot what a proxy is. I had no idea.

Is Twitter operating just as well?

The gutted moderation lead to a lot less advertisers bidding on views.

The unreliability of the service during the transition to being so far reduced dramatically reduced the number of daily users.

The company isn't public, so we don't know if it's making more/losing less money than it was. But we can be pretty certain that the operations are not the same (reduced users less money per user).

They probably didn't want to do a large build if it's 30% price increase on a years old device.

You need to dock it to do work.

But a sub $50 dongle on a desk with a monitor, mouse, and keyboard you're good to go.

In that sense it's sort of less portable than a laptop (need the work desk reserved for it), but in other ways it's more portable (smaller and lighter). The same device can dock at a TV and be a console, or dock at a desk and be an office PC. It's pretty convenient if you have multiple use spaces that are fixed. It's very inconvenient to take to the cafe and work.

and yet the only photo is clearly not a steam deck.

Seems as likely planted misinformation as real.

I doubt the price will come back down.

It'll stay this price until the deck 2 comes out, and the deck 2 will release at this price (Valve has basically said they were shocked to learn that people wanted to spend more on more powerful devices than the steam deck, but people did).

Same here. And it puts all of this new shit at the top, forcing you to scroll past it each time.

They should have put some effort into fixing whatever memory leak keeps me having to reboot the ting every few days.

You can definitely see it in stores though.

When it gets dark at 5ish people seem to go home and then stay home.

When it gets dark at 8 or 9ish people seem to go home and then maybe go do a chore or go to a bar or something.

I'm skeptical for it leading to extra retail shopping though (rather than time shifting away from the weekends). You can definitely see the difference in restaurants/bars though.

It tends to be the weeks where people come home to light or just dusk and it quickly gets dark most impacted (early spring/late fall).

$100k gives a lot of space to pay people for 2 weeks.

Is google really that much better of a gatekeeper?

Somebody's gonna gatekeep what of the 1000x more content you see.

I really like how they summed it up at the end though "that was terrible". At least they were self aware. I feel sorry for anyone that needs to watch 90 minutes of it.

I just got an Amber Alert for a kidnapped child in Los Angeles less than 24 hours ago. You'd think that if these license plate cameras were any good at what we keep being told we need them for, they would have caught the guy before needing to send that out.

Or "crime prevention" is complete bullshit, and this is just a convenient excuse to get more warrant-less surveillance on everyone.