Don’t worry - there’s a cloud gaming subscription solution for that.

Is it dumb to ask if solving the puzzles will be used to train more AI?

Is a certain someone lobbying against it to push everyone to LEO satellites?

Doesn’t matter when you’ve already been exposed N times…

World War 3 will keep it going!

If I needed a replacement I’d probably be looking at the used market.

Uh huh. Sure it did.

Don’t worry – they’ll offer renting or rent-to-own options soon.

Okay - go tell Valve to subsidize it for marketing purposes then.

not much to abuse

Then I’m misunderstanding this part. The PS3 compute cluster incident commented below is what came to mind.

But in the current climate I image that if the Steam machine was heavily subsidized that there would be a subset of people abusing that by doing something like purchasing, harvesting, and immediately reselling its parts.

Huh – what do you think I said or why I said it?

Consoles make an attempt to be a locked ecosystem - which is why they can subsidize it - because they know if you buy it your buying their games for it.

Duh - people are shitty and would abuse it.

What are they gonna do – buy Twitter again?

Gotta eat and new grads need their first jobs on their resume. (Assuming Meta is even hiring new grad roles.)

It’s like becoming middle managers without the people managing experience.

I kind of just assume they also collected dna from your poop.

It’s all vibes mannnn.

It gets better if it somehow kills access for people being able to play their original copies.

More or less than the employees?