I don’t trust the current federal government to regulate AI, and it’s not worth crippling state legislation over.

The American South is essentially a different country from the rest of America with different people, different culture, different geography and extremely different values. It’s been a terrifying hellhole since the 1800s despite many liberal eras since the Civil War. There’s no saving the South when it doesn’t want to be saved, and this legislation would cripple Blue states’ ability to make sovereign decisions independent of the Southern influence responsible for MAGA. Any attempt to regulate AI, at least for now, needs to be done separately.

I’m hoping the new Deck prices are due to a small production run, and that the Steam Machine will have economies of scale to bring the price down at least a little.

It’ll be at least $1,000 now for sure, though. I doubt it’ll be more than $1,500 because the more powerful base model Framework Desktop is that price. I’m just really hoping Valve doesn’t seriously delay shipment for the many people who won’t be able to afford it on launch. Having to wait over a year for a Steam Deck due to their preorder system was painful.

Is 128 GB of ram per unit enough for your organization’s use case? You could convince them to buy a Framework Desktop and then install an offline llm to it (ollama with Mistral, perhaps). Then you don’t have to rely on American companies or the environmental impact of data centers, and then after the startup cost, it’s free from then on.

Best of all, they can just be normal work computers when the bubble bursts.

I wish I could just say, “Convince your company not to use AI,” but I’m sure your higher-ups aren’t taking no for an answer.

I’ve been waiting years for this!

The Tsunamods devs (the minds behind the 7th Heaven mod manager) said on their Discord that they’re working on mod support for both the new Steam and GOG releases, but that most mods aren’t working out of the box at the moment. I don’t mind waiting a little bit longer to finally experience the graphical mods and A New Threat, DRM-free.