vanillama

Try making the volume really loud, had some devices not working until sound was above a threshold, like an offset, for no apparent reason

I feel you, but most of us don't work for silicon valley, in most countries the salaries are average to slightly above average, and being fired or forced to work with tools you don't want sucks, which is also a workers issue

The red flag is calling people SJWs, not necessarily being one. Most of the time it's just random progressives who gets labeled as such. So using the word as a pejorative makes it sound like you absorbed the term straight from the alt-right. Which is a red flag.

Nothing wrong with disliking performative people, but again, SJW isn't even the best word to call them.

Using SJW unironically is a red flag

How good/bad was it compared to the HDD?

I agree with most of this, and I vastly prefer Valve over anything else, and as long as there's competition Valve will probably keep being the best of the bunch. I have a massive appreciation for their work on Linux gaming as well.

That said, Steam requiring that you don't sell elsewhere for cheaper can definitely be considered anticompetitive, just not anticonsumer, which isn't always the same thing. Anticompetitive behavior becomes a problem when markets consolidate and then the consumers have to pay whatever the dominant players say. Until then, consumers usually benefit (like buying stuff for much cheaper in Amazon until they make their competition go broke).

Conversely, there are people whose accounts have been frozen either by the US or the EU for political motivations

Don't let the world change you, this is wonderful

They can vary wildly and it's very useful to keep a track on it

Considering the MIC is in bed with AI corporations I worry they will get bailed out to some extent, and that the gains will remain completely private, with taxpayers being expected to foot the bill (or alternatively, dealing with the inflation while their wages remain stagnant). I hope you're right though, I really want there to be a positive in the end, I'm just skeptical on this front.

The silver lining to me is that there's encouraging developments in FOSS AI, developed mainly in China. Maybe after the crash we can get somewhat cheaper GPUs to run them locally.

That makes the metaphor imperfect, but the data centers are being paid with circular money that isn't there, based on the assumption that AI will make obscene amounts of money to actually pay their bills when currently they're losing lots of investor money to subsidize the price, and they're already talking about transitioning to a usage based system, which might push some enterprises to use a FOSS alternative from China.

We're in a bubble, when it pops it's likely many data center projects will be abandoned before they're done.

We'll get a literal crusade against AI before GTA 6