They spiked way up pretty hard and fast the last 18 months. This is more of a correction after extras didn’t pan out than a company going under. 4 years ago this time of year they were at $74. Right now they’re $149. I doubt it will fall below $130 any time too soon.

My laptop is Linux. My desktop is staying win 10 a while longer because it’s compatible with a couple online games I still play every so often.

Lol. Man, did I see this coming like 2 years ago.

Exactly which sedans are giant and\or shitty? Is it the Prius? Like the one I have that still runs great after nearly 300,000 miles? Or maybe the Corolla that’s probably the most famously well known reliable long term sedan to ever exist?

Yeah. I’m hoping it’s a big success and after a couple model years all our supply issues with Trump’s dumbass and AI and lack of tax incentives for EV will be different and they release one with a longer range. I want a 20 year vehicle (my Prius is about 20 and it’s still going like a boss at nearly 300k miles) so ideally, with battery ware and such, I’d like one that would start with a 300 mile range. I’d expect that to get me 200 miles in the winter after 10 years of battery ware.

I have enough that I could go out right now and drop $5k on a new PC build and not have it affect me.

My last mostly full build was in 2016. I’m still on ddr4 ram and just 6 months ago I upgraded my system to a used AMD R 5 5600x processor I got for $150 and an AMD 6600xt GPU I paid $200 for.

I’ll play one of the million older games I haven’t played yet before I ever spend so damned much on a new build or $900 on a console.

FYI: it looks like slate has switched battery chemistry and suppliers. They will now be using LFP batteries. Cheaper, but they’ll last longer. Especially if you charge them to 100% and discharge them below 15%.

An overall win, as there was a zero chance I would have bought one if they put the NMC batteries in it they were going to use.

There will no longer be battery options for a small 150 mile range battery or a bigger battery that would go around 240 miles, though. Now (due to LFP batteries not being as energy dense) there’s only going to be one battery option that they claim will have a 205 mile range.

Unfortunately for me, this means I won’t be getting one. I need to go 180 miles round trip between charges, and that’s just cutting it way too close. Especially during winter time when the range would be reduced by quite a bit.

That was a long article to essentially say there isn’t a problem.

That’s a weird way of saying a stock started at $135 and is now at $181 a week later, but some people bought it when it was higher than that for a few days.

I mean seriously? I want spacx to fail super hard and musk to get completely dumped on, but this amount of volatility is completely typical when well known companies start an IPO. It sucks it’s like 35% higher than the initial offering price.

It was good for a couple seasons, even though it was completely unbelievable in so many ways. Total trash science sci fi. I watched it all to see out it would end, even though it kept getting worse.

What a gamers nexus normie!

If it’s deliberate and not put back, there’s also the possibility the government made them remove it and not disclose why. So they can continue to access certain info and back doors and this security was giving them issues.

The government forced email providers to have a backdoor for them. It’s the NSA’s PRISM program. Been around since at least 2008.

Since when has stupid ever stopped anything?

Law offices, hospitals, and insurance companies are not going to set up their own servers, localize an AI, and upload all the custom data sets they need into a pre trained locally hosted model. Everyone could easily host their own cloud backup system as well, but no one does it.

But yes. That’s their plan. It’s been done multiple times before amongst things. It’s how busses eliminated trolleys, how ride share beat out taxis, and how Walmart sells the cheapest Coke. Amazon does it as well. It’s a variation of predatory pricing. It’s common as hell. Supposed to be illegal, but seldom does anyone get in trouble for it. Crooked government that works for the wealthy n all.

All the investors know it’s a massive money sink right now. The goal isn’t for “everyone” to get to use AI.

It’s to get so many people used to using AI that businesses like law offices and hospitals and other corporations so ingrained and built around having AI, while leaving so many graduating college students useless without AI, that businesses will be reliant upon it, no matter what costs of it they will have to absorb.

In five years there won’t be a $200 plan. There will be a $15,000 plan per person and businesses will pay it because they won’t be able to do well without it.

I’m not gonna go back and forth with you in this one. It doesn’t look like you’ve kept up with this, or been around long enough to see that the exact same strategy has happened several times. It isn’t a new strategy. It’s one tried and true. You’ll see for yourself within 3 years time.

There’s a big difference between what a corporation will pay for and cost absorb and some individual paying for an entertainment service is. A shrinking user base that largely relies on “my friends use it, so I have it too” can swing a big pendulum.

So to anyone who doesn’t know the venture capitalist investment side of AI: All the AI queries from people are kind of expensive as hell. Right now, even with most of the paid for use AI subscriptions many companies have paid for they’re operating at well over an 80% loss. AI is expensive. The game plan has been to keep dumping money into the very net negative revenue stream of AI long enough in order to get corporations, doctors clinics, law offices, software companies, etc so imbedded into using AI that they’ll be forced into absorbing the costs, even at a 10 fold price increase.

That’s the plan. Increase the price by 10 fold over the course of the next several years. It will also push out any smaller businesses from being able to afford to use AI, and stop regular people from having free or low cost AI. It will all be consolidated and expensive, and prevent any new startups in industries that would benefit from AI to afford to get started.

A cess pool.

If they lost less than a third of the total, they’re making a lot of money for the short term.

In the long term, they’re fucking themselves into obscurity.

Because there’s currently only one place that should theoretically be able to create one that works at scale to become energy positive, thanks to a novel way of making the electromagnets used to contain the plasma under enough pressure. As per usual, a beneficial reactor tech is still “five years out”. We do keep inching closer though.