Oh boy! Not all ads! Oh yippee! I have been blessed on this fine day! 🥰

Huh, it’s maybe as if, nooooo… it couldn’t be, the Zuck and Elon are my trusted friends, my confidants, they wouldn’t. They couldn’t. No way in hell they’d sell or otherwise compromise my personal data

Oh totally, Linux is in the same ballpark as, if not better than, Macs when it comes to RAM usage. Windows is just a hog

I own a 8GB MacBook Pro for work, it’s definitely better than a PC with 8GB of RAM, but not better or even close to a PC with 16GB. Just the amount of stutters/freezes while the swap file goes is insane

That’s just an APU, see consoles and laptops. The unified memory is basically just the above, but Apple also claims that due to Apple Silicon having the storage controller on board, the swap is magically faster 🤷

Also Mac OS/Linux use less RAM than Windows which certainly helps.

8GB is “fine™” on a MacBook Air, but it’s criminal for a Pro machine, and it certainly should not cost £200 for an extra 8GB. That’s genuinely insane pricing

It is 100% a joke. Literally other than Windows being slightly more RAM hungry, there’s not a huge difference between it and Mac’s RAM

Whoa, that’s like 32GB of Windows RAM. Seems excessive to me tbh

Well, your comment was generic of all ages. Not saying something along the lines of “16 year olds are intelligent enough to vote”, which I would agree with.

We can just just lower the 18 to 16 and resume the same conversation. No need to be condescending, you’re turning a misunderstanding into a disagreement

Lmao, the article is literally talking about children under the age of 10

As someone else who has never owned an Apple device, only watched other people using them. What the fuck are you on about?

Are you seriously complaining about people complaining that Google’s main rival seems to be immune from the same punishments, despite the fact that they, as you have said, are the most draconian and locked down system? Do you not see why this might be a relevant problem that Apple is just immune to legal repercussions because “lmao they’ve always been evil 🙈”?

Most All antivirus software runs at kernel level

An insurer is an interesting one for sure. They’d have the stats of how many times that AI model makes mistakes and be able to charge accordingly. They’d also have the funds and evidence to go after big corps if their AI was faulty.

They seem like a good starting point, until negligence elsewhere can be proven.

If the CEO was lying to the investors that’s akin to being lied to about the odds of a slot machine. It should totally be prosecutable.

At the same time I don’t feel sorry for them, and think they should be last in line after all the other victims

Like literally every American company does. I’m not a tankie and I’m definitely not a fan of China, but this is one of those situations where the US government doesn’t actually care about the issue, just that they’re not the one doing it

I’m fairly sure the vouchers are sponsored, they’re so low it’s essentially advertising for Uber Eats

You can look it up yourself, I was just giving a worst case scenario

$0.025 per GB is the most expensive option on S3 I could find rounded up. It would be absolutely insane if Steam were paying those prices when they have their own servers. I also used 100GB game size as a large number, and $30 as a small price tag (for an 100GB game).

I was trying to be charitable with the numbers and it still came out pretty positive

Download. It’s also rounded up. Storage is negligible compared to bandwidth, especially considering Steam’s business model

No harm meant. I do think Steam is the golden example of a big business done right. All I’m saying is that there’s room for improvement.

However do we know their full PNL/balance sheet?

We can make an educated guess. Amazon’s S3 charges roughly $0.025 per GB, so an 100GB game would cost $2.50 for Steam to upload to a user. For a $30 game, that’s around ~8.5% or just over 3 downloads before it’s unprofitable.

Obviously Valve isn’t paying consumer level S3 prices, and obviously users can download multiple times. But I would be extremely surprised if they didn’t make a rather large margin on each sale

I agree with you, but justifying anything by saying they’re successful in a free market is really iffy. There are plenty of large evil companies that are incredibly successful. That said I agree with everything else you’ve said.

I personally think 30% cut is too much for any app/software store. But if anyone deserves it Steam does