Linux FOMO is finally here?

Why would anyone spend 3x the already too much for a steam machine?

Its not like they locked the os or even think the price is good. Who needs one of these this bad?

Totally not a cult guys!

Create the problem, sell the solution situation?

Or just enshitifcation?

A firm handshake and eye contact should do the trick!

OK, so how does this work for things without cameras? They exist, I am using one right now. Does it just fail, does it default to another method?

No browser is wild. And what does that even mean here? You have to run everything by app now? That sounds like ass.

What is the point of it being linux if it just runs “99% of android apps” but no browser?

I mean, but this is arch.

Yes, that is correct.

They want to look like they care, not actually care.

It was a video. And covered in said video.

As stated in the video, this was not done long ago. This is why he has to wait 60 days.

Yeah, it looks like that is by design then. Glad I don’t deal with those programs myself. I would worry opening the thing on my phone.

Charge back time! That is like full on Karen mode appropriate (a very rare occurrence).

Since we know what happened is the liquor store just has every order that comes in “confirmed” by default and its just better for them and Dash to work this way. Like what if a child had hit the button? Fuck you I guess?

$949

… the much more pleasant problem of shopping for a replacement PC with a $3,500 budget.

Uhhhh how much PC does that get a person these days? 2 Gigs of ddr3 ram?

I mean yeah? This is the only way to square the circle. Same as if you buy a thing from amazon, it does not matter what they try to pull in the back you went and bought a thing from a place. If you google a thing and google shows a wrong (and often plain dangerous) answer then yeah, that counts as google! Maybe if they did not also try and fake the result being true they could have an argument.

And there is already precedence for this as a few nation’s courts have found that a company is bound by promises made by their own AI agents that it empowers to answer customers. This is just the same idea but for search. I hope it goes though all the German courts and is picked up in other places.

$1000 I would guess. They are just burning money at this point.

Ha! They where big, but now they have closed every store in my nation (in 2015) and have gotten out of more ventures then they entered. They like many large corporations are now coasting on past success and just waiting to have a big break (that’s never coming).

I can’t find it now (I looked but search engines seem to have gone to shit) but many years ago I remember an article about Sony’s addiction to non standard formats and it included a quote from a Sony person when the Ericsson line first came out. Basically Sony always wants to try and make things a bit different to give them more control, think Betamax vs VHS. They thought they where just better then everyone and (they do this a lot) assumed that their format would “win”. The closest to the article I can find was in 2023 https://www.bwuphoto.com/from-betamax-to-cfexpress-why-sonys-visionary-formats-often-miss-the-mark/ but it is like 20 years later and kinda short without much value.

When they went to the silly phone screen size there was some meat on that idea however, they enjoyed a position as a major player. Sony expected phone apps and such would be made in their odd format and when that did not happen, just kept the format for longer then they should of. I remember having a Sony phone and almost anything you did outside of the web or home screen would just have black bars on ether side. I was always bothered by it but did not know why until I read that article (that now seems to be lost). The reason for these odd formats always seems to be nothing but control for Sony and issues for the consumer.

I can think of a few times Sony did this crap, Betamax, Phones, Playstation disks, CD-i, wierd audio compression tech, mini disk, digital cassettes and their own memory card format.

Any others people can think of? I am now on a bit of a orphaned format kick.

My line was when I learned their phones had non standard screen sizes for the reason of “fuck you”.