Frame was originally intended to be cheaper than the Index kit, Quest 3 was $499-$650, so maybe $700-850 depending on storage. Steam Deck got a $300 price hike just recently, so there’s a possibility it could still be closer to a grand than one and a half.

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It’s the Gabecube.

Yes, that video is 14 years old.

Hardware usually first reduces in price because manufacturers start with a need to quickly recover the large R&D costs using a high profit margin, and at some point they break even and can start bringing the price down. And often manufacturing just does get cheaper as time goes on too. Game consoles are kinda special, as they are often sold at a loss from the start because they expect sales in games to eventuslly cover it all, so their pricing usually slowly trends down in hopes it attracts new owners that will then buy a bunch of games.

Valve doesn’t do that with the Deck (they want the hardware division to be entirely self-sufficient), but they also set the margim to be really low right from the start to be competitive, so they had to increase the price to match current manufacturing costs or each Deck would lose the hardware division a lot of money.

Though the Index did use an intricate OLED screen and it had the lighthouses and finger tracking controllers (they have 87 different sensors per controller). Without the AIpocalypse, the Frame was originally supposed to be the cheaper of the two.

2026 prices though, who knows. Painful, like any tech hardware, that’s for sure.

Microsoft is the one that forced manufacturers to add it, or they couldn’t advertise their keyboard as being “Designed for Windows 95”, as it is required for the shortcuts (e.g win + d shows the desktop). The “Menu” key was added at the same time so that the Win 95 UI could be navigated without a mouse.

Now they are going the same with the CoPilot key. And poorly - Windows keys send keycode 0x5B and 0x5C. Menu sends 0x5D.

The CoPilot key? Left Shift + Windows + F23, obviously.

My grandfather managed to install win 11 without meaning to, and the result was kinda “all your things are exactly where you left them, except we just remodeled the entire house, changed all the appliances, removed half the doors, replaced some with windows, and installed an unusable pool in the bathroom. Oh and the fridge is in the bedroom behind the living room couch.”

Trying to explain why everything is different over the phone was real fun.

They got the first shipment of manufactured controllers - one estimate is around 40k based on some import data - and sold them out in minutes, then started taking backorders.

Interesting. Here in Finland you are spoiled for choices, and half of those support direct bank transfers from basically every Finnish bank too.

The Frame is an embedded mobile device with space constraints, it’s going to have soldered ram and storage. At least it has a Micro SD card slot so you don’t have to necessarily pay for the biggest SSD.

My guess is between four days and shortly. .

That is already a massive improvement, as the actual minimum for autonomous vehicles is just “kill fewer people than human drivers”. Waymo has 200 million miles driven, which means they should have killed three people already.

It’s much better when you take into account that to get gasoline, you have to refine crude oil first. That process alone uses electricity an EV could directly use instead - somewhere from 5-11kWh/gallon from what I can find, which is enough for roughly 15-33 EV miles - not to even mention the energy cost comparison for the whole extract - transport - refine - transport chain of gas.

It is if you compare it to a regular controller, but from what it offers - touchpads, back buttons, hall effect sticks, gyro, full remappability etc - it’s more comparable to something like the PS5 Edge and those are almost twice the cost.

And be grateful that we didn’t start calling it “apping”, even though the term “program” is effectively extinct these days.

I would really want to know what kind of a use-case results in using a 386 or 486 computer in 2026 in such a manner that not being able to install the latest kernel updates would in any way be an actual issue.

Reminds me of how I got taught to google shit like 20 years ago before social media and SEO: don’t ask “how can I do x”, write “doing x”, as that would find you a website explaining doing the thing and not some BBS post of a person asking about it.

One argument is that gambling requires the chance of a loss - you go to a casino, make a wager, buy a lottery ticket, bet on a horse race, you can lose your money and end up with nothing.

But buy a Labubu, a Lego minifigure blind bag, MtG booster, or a video game lootbox, and while you don’t know exactly what, you will always get something in return for your money.

Then again, “taking a gamble” is a term used for many things, like when you buy a used car without extensively checking the condition first, because you don’t know what exactly you are getting…

AI code is like alternative medicine, it’s called that when it’s bad and doesn’t work. If it does, it’s just called code. And the issue isn’t using code made by AI, it’s when people who don’t know how to code think the AI does, and blindly do without checking. That’s very unlikely to happen with the Linux kernel, as the entire project is basically just one constant code review where it really doesn’t matter if bad code was written by a human or an AI.

Even Torvalds has used AI to help with his projects, because it would be kinda silly not to.

Bah, first people complain when suddenly they can’t turn their computers off, now they complain when they can’t turn them on…

AFAIK it’s a fedia (mbin) compatibility issue with Lemmy in general, some links posted aren’t federated properly and instead just show up as the thumbnail image from Fedia.

Probably something that is going to be, or already is, fixed in a newer Lemmy version, but some instances are a little slow to update.