On one hand - great news. Fewer workers and potential conscripts for the US empire.
On the other hand - I don’t think anyone wants even a single American more in their own country.
Side note - how on earth are other countries still respecting US driver’s licenses?
The losers that leave aren’t welcome back. I don’t give a fuck about your degree or job.
Yeah, just like North Korean detectors aren’t welcome back in North Korea. Bummer.
Normalize not buying useless $2000 USD pieces of junk that starved children in Congo had to dig with bare hands, just to marry your soul mate.
Same California that is supposedly against the federal government’s assaults on people’s rights and freedoms…?
Same California governor that wants to run for president to end fascism in the country…?
In case you still thought the sports industry isn’t evil…
Practically all sports stars are perfectly happy to advertise and work with scummy companies (like aforementioned gambling companies), and countries like Israel or UAE. As long as they’re paid nice money.
Same for sports events. They’ll all happily take money to advertise billionaire pedophiles’ companies or terror states.
It’s almost impossible to spend any money on sports-related events or merchandise without supporting gambling or contributing towards genocide. Maybe some local ones? Maybe…?
I mean, of course. If it was extremely powerful at a low price, then hell yeah. But personally I ain’t paying double premium for that performance.
Fex is making decent progress every week, so I wouldn’t worry about it too much.
As a person living with cats my entire life… Yeah, absolutely deserved.
Too big, too heavy, too powerful. Honestly I’d prefer a Snapdragon 870 tablet if I could install Linux on it.
Technically Xiaomi Pad 6 meets these criteria, but unlocking the bootloader is a gargantuan pain in the ass. Hopefully I’ll manage by the end of this year…
Very cool devices, but the Intel-based ones are kind of pointless. They overheat during tasks like watching YouTube or Netflix. Surface Pro X was very nice, with its only downside being Windows. Not sure about the new X Elite ones.
Dekstops - no. Phones - not anymore. But Microsoft does in fact ‘build’ laptops and tablets, with this new Surface Ultra being one of them.
Admittedly, ‘build’ may not be the right word, since Microsoft’s input is very limited. The same is true for a lot of OEMs though.
At the very least, Microsoft did help Qualcomm with designing SQ1 and SQ2 for the Surface Pro X gen 1 and gen 2.
Personally it’s my favourite device ever made by Microsoft, and among my favourites in general. If only we could install Linux on it. Even the newer SQ2 is on the slower side, and just barely manages a mostly smooth experience on Windows 11.
I’m sure there are people interested in this laptop, and it’s good to see there indeed are. Although, they’re making it sound like it revolutionizes mobile computing. Perhaps the issue here is with marketing, and not with the device itself?
The weight might be a problem here. MacBook Pros weigh about 1.5kg, while the new Surface Ultra is going to weigh just a little over 2kg, which is almost as much as gaming laptops. Would anyone want to carry this around?
Personally I think this is a massive flop. Are there really people who want a [likely] more expensive and heavier MacBook Pro that runs Windows?
What I think most people need and want is just a small laptop with a moderately powered Snapdragon, just enough to browse the web, watch videos, and run lighter games.
Who is this for?
I unironically hope the game never launches. I don’t think it’s gonna be an interesting game. Absolutely not worth all the trouble it’ll put on other studios. Also, fuck Rockstar and fuck Take-Two.
Now imagine a data center in the middle. My God… It’s just so beautiful I almost cried.
What failure? They’ve done their job perfectly as controlled opposition. The real failure is people expecting anything else from them.
I love my original 512GB LCD Deck and I’ve been encouraging a lot of people to get one every since it came out.
However… at the current price point it just doesn’t make sense. Right now you can buy Snapdragon 8 Elite handhelds for less than half of a Steam Deck’s price. Or an Ayaneo Konkr Fit with much better specs and almost 2x larger battery for $999.
Everything is getting more expensive, but at this price I couldn’t recommend anyone a Steam Deck with a clear conscience.
I’m not American and my comment wasn’t meant to be negative towards you. This is an argument quite often brought up in my home country, usually by the group of people I mentioned. This is also because, similarly to the USA, pretty much all of the ‘experienced’ politicians are just horrible.
So all I was saying is that, in my opinion, when you take all of this into account, this qualification becomes worthless. Because you can either have a qualified fascist or an unqualified maybe-somewhat-good guy or gal.
lacks experience, especially in foreign policy
I honestly don’t think there’s a single real person that cares about this in the slightest. The only people I see unironically bringing up this argument are old people who preffer fascists over anyone younger than them.
Personally I couldn’t care less who you voted for.
Well, yes. No offence to anyone, but vast majority of Americans are a problem wherever they go. Not due to any fault of their own, of course. I’m sure I’d be just as much of a problem if I was born and raised in the US.
However, the fact remains.