This assumes that we won't need new hardware in ~2 years. I find that unlikely. So they have to make back what they got up until now PLUS the running upgrade/development costs. So what will it be in 5 years? $20t? $30t? It's all getting a bit outlandish.

What I'm often hearing though is the equivalent of "gg ez" when I bring that up. I don't understand how this will at any point blitz scale to profitability. As far as I know they don't have positive cash flow, no one has a moat and I don't think they will push out engineers.

I'd be interested in a bare bones version. That way I could shop for RAM and an SSD myself.

I want to go one step further and be able to add the CPU and GPU myself. Would also make future upgrades easier.

Maybe someone can invent a universal system to allow CPU and GPU upgrades on a desktop computer.

Fewer people than ever are comfortable doing that, even though the information on how is easier to get than ever.

I hope a repairable and upgradable Steam Machine would help more people dip their toes into it.

I fully understand being uncomfortable with a CPU swap, but a GPU swap isn't difficult.

Valve also could have gone the Framework route of releasing a motherboard+CPU combo so you can upgrade later down the line just by swapping the board out.

I guess they can earn more money by soldering everything on the board and having you buy a completely new PC every time you want to upgrade.

That would include trade off of locking yourself to single form factor. Less of issue with laptops with decades of design behind them. But unlikely to be preferable for first design you make.

You could use mini-ITX form factor.

Sometimes it is heavily marked up, but I'll never be able to get it cheaper than Valve in bulk.

To be honest you dont really need high speed or high quality SSD on Steam Deck. Almost 100% of games work just fine from good MicroSD card.

Its obviously less reliable, but with read only OS with only occasional writes it will work just fine for decade.

But many do already own SSD and RAM that they can reuse.

I think they mean Taiwan

I honestly forgot last.fm was a thing. But good for them that they have independence now.

Is catchy name with domain and website for every vulnerability now the norm? I mean it's good that it was found but there have been a lot of vulnerability websites lately.

they should make a .cve tld to make keeping track of these easier.

It's a bit of an overkill but then again, why not.

I need a table emoji because then I could combine it with a horse emoji. This would be "Pferd Tisch" (Horse Table) in German which sounds similar to "Fertig" which translates to "done". Yes I want it only for that dumb joke.

If by "investments will pay off" you mean major profits, that's never going to happen as long as scaling laws hold. All revenue will just go to financing more compute, and either we hit AGI or have the greatest economic collapse in modern history.

The world will look drastically different 5 years from now; for the better or worse, so save every penny (especially if you work in tech).

If it is an open source project then that is quite alright with me. An open source author doesn't need to support all platforms. Only those they care about. If someone else wants support for another platform they have the source.

Yeah, I think I did miss mentioning that my comment was more weighted on simpler cli tools or library projects (file format readers,etc).

I don't expect anyone writing GUI tools or more high-perf servers to spend their time porting to other platforms (trying to compile GTK on Windows wasn't for the faint of heart).

I think you are missing the point. Someone made the software and assigned it a license. Bambulabs decided they wanted to build their product on top of that. No one forced them. It was a business decision. So it's first and foremost a dick move to not adhere to it.

They could have created their complete custom, closed source, commercially licensed slicer. They didn't. It was probably a lot cheaper to take some else's work and slap your customizations on it.

On open source license if first and foremost the original author's decision on what can and can not, must or must not be done with their code. therefore shaming someone for ignoring the wishes is not just a last resort, but a valid strategy. Especially if it is company that wants and has money.

We wouldn't need any legal avenue when saying "don't be a dick" would work. Not respecting someone's work and wishes seems to be a pretty universal dick move from what I understand.

Believe me the point is not lost on me. But it's certainly not a universal dick move. It's an opportunity in a society that does not care for the laws on the other side of the world.

If it's such a universal dick move, then why do Chinese companies keep doing it? Do you imagine they realize they are being unethical? Perhaps your morals and ethics are less universal than you believe. Do you think that perhaps it is the case that a society that prides itself on its communist integrity might not hold fond feelings about copyright

I see businesses make this mistake again and again. I don't know why they expected a different outcome. You don't anthropomorphize a lawn mower. Shaming does nothing to improve the situation.

What you’re espousing here is just basic moral relativism. Except what you’re getting wrong is that US companies break IP law constantly. It turns out companies aren’t moral actors, they’ll do whatever. The GPL is a business opportunity here too. It’s just that in the US/canada/eu the legal side is more enforceable. Don’t give a f about the GPL in china -> successful biz. Don’t give an f about the GPL in the US -> successful biz + a chance at a lawsuit or some social blowback. That’s the only real difference - no need to evoke some deep cultural or moral difference.

> Shaming does nothing to improve the situation.

Except it does? Less bambus are being sold because of this, and more printers from manufacturers that respect the open source licenses are being sold. In fact, bambu initially locked things down hard and the social blowback made them backpedal and gave us “lan-only mode”.

Fundamentally I agree with you.

I'd love to see stats showing a material impact to their sales but I'm not optimistic. If I were to guess I'd reckon their sales are still climbing.

It would be nice if they felt the push back but sometimes it's just nice to see when some calls out a dick move.

I have been to China, I know a lot of Chinese people and I am pretty sure that this is a dick move in China as well.

Problem is that companies don't care if they are dicks as long as the money is right.

And you call it shaming, I call it warning others. Sometimes bad publicity is actually bad for the company. Sometimes people will reconsider buying things if they find out that companies are being dicks. Not always. But sometimes.

Open Source was made by someone. With copyleft they decided: You can use my code, you can modify my code but if you build on my work you will also open source that.

Open Source is not necessarily a business decision but often a personal one. Often authors start without any pay but instead because they thought it was a nice thing they want to share. So it's their right to say what people can or can't do with their original work.

Companies have the ability to write their own software if they don't want to follow these rules.