Buddy, I hate capitalism… But I also know how it works.

Valve has more than one revenue stream, that means that they can afford to take a loss on something like hardware because it usually means increased game and peripheral sales.

This isn’t unique to Valve, Sony and Nintendo are well known for selling hardware at break even (or small loss). These are billion dollar corporations.

Can you really not grasp how simple minded it is to see the CEO of a company (for decades) buy an expensive yacht, and assume that must mean that this one specific product that’s only a few years old, must have large profit margins? Despite literally all evidence saying the opposite?

That’s just not how it works, dude. Just take a moment to think about what you’re actually implying.

Dunno if this OP is part of it, but I’ve 100% seen a pretty big influx of pro-AI sentiment on Lemmy over the past couple of months

Is there any evidence that Europeans are better drivers than Americans? I’m not saying you’re wrong, I’ve just never seen any kind of data about that.

Also I’m not sure where you got the idea that the US doesn’t have sidewalks.

Edit you mean there are places in the US without sidewalks? Ya don’t say!

Now overlay Europe over a map of the US to see just how much larger the US is. And then tell me that everywhere on the entire continent of Europe has sidewalks.

The person I replied to was suggesting that sidewalks are a rare thing in the US and that’s absurd.

Huh?

It all takes too much out of a day.

What does this even mean

When young people say “chat,” they’re not talking about ChatGPT. Generally speaking.

Wow that’s a pretty awful name lol

Can’t be, Kelvin doesn’t use degrees

And the Steam Deck was widely reported to have razor thin (if not negative) margins.

I dunno boss, why don’t you tell me

Do you not have a need to update it?

It literally does this for you.

I dunno, maybe I’ve just had good luck when it comes to hardware compatibility, but networking has always just worked for me. Along with audio and pretty much everything else.

Getting the apps you want installed is the same thing you’d have to go through with a fresh Windows install too. And I think Linux package management is way easier once you do the initial install. So I would argue that Linux is actually better in that regard.

So Gabe made the Steam Machine with super high margins, sold out, and then went back in time to buy a yacht last year?

You do realize that they just started selling this device, so any wealth he may have had last year is completely unrelated.

Linux isn’t hard to set up anymore

So I guess no, you don’t care to share

but over the last decade or so the prices have kept going up while the quality has gone down.

True for literally every fucking thing.

I’m so sick of it.

When’s the last time you’ve been to one, they’re crazy overpriced