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New comment by LetsGetTechnicl in "Physical disc production ending in Jan 2028 for new games on PlayStation"

LetsGetTechnicl — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 16:40:58 +0000

Gaming is in a really tough spot right now, and it's not being made easier by the drain AI has put on chip and RAM prices. It's absolutely insane that Sony and Microsoft have had to raise prices on their years-old consoles.

New comment by LetsGetTechnicl in "Nintendo has raised its employees base salary by 10%"

LetsGetTechnicl — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 16:39:30 +0000

Retro Studios is a subsidiary of Nintendo, actually! Not sure how it's structured organizationally, but Nintendo does own it.

New comment by LetsGetTechnicl in "Microsoft new Outlook takes 10 seconds to do what Outlook Classic does instantly"

LetsGetTechnicl — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 14:46:07 +0000

Web apps are a scourge.

New comment by LetsGetTechnicl in "Fox to buy Roku"

LetsGetTechnicl — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 20:04:55 +0000

The latest remote at least has directional buttons, and I think you can disable the touch part entirely. Might be worth looking into, I think you can buy it separately and it works with most if not all Apple TV's.

New comment by LetsGetTechnicl in "AWS Bedrock to require sharing data with Anthropic for Mythos and future models"

LetsGetTechnicl — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 14:26:04 +0000

Simple solution here is to not use AI?

New comment by LetsGetTechnicl in "Microsoft Wants to 'Make People Addicted' to Its New AI Assistant"

LetsGetTechnicl — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 16:25:44 +0000

So their "humanistic" approach is just marketing, huge surprise /s

New comment by LetsGetTechnicl in "The Public Should Own Half of the Big A.I. Companies"

LetsGetTechnicl — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 18:57:37 +0000

I mean gen AI is based on theft, I don't really see that as a deterrent. I don't want the companies to exist, and having government ownership sounds like a convenient way to get bailed out when the bubble pops

New comment by LetsGetTechnicl in "32GB of DDR5 now costs $375 – AI shortage continues to squeeze PC building"

LetsGetTechnicl — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 18:51:44 +0000

Must feed the AI slop machines!!

New comment by LetsGetTechnicl in "Can the stockmarket swallow Anthropic, SpaceX and OpenAI?"

LetsGetTechnicl — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 14:23:31 +0000

There goes my 401k

New comment by LetsGetTechnicl in "Please Use AI"

LetsGetTechnicl — Fri, 29 May 2026 15:06:20 +0000

What the fuck?

New comment by LetsGetTechnicl in "Please Use AI"

LetsGetTechnicl — Fri, 29 May 2026 15:03:35 +0000

Choosing AI over human authenticity is a death sentence.

New comment by LetsGetTechnicl in "Uber president says AI spending is getting 'harder to justify'"

LetsGetTechnicl — Wed, 27 May 2026 14:32:39 +0000

That's depressing

New comment by LetsGetTechnicl in "Outsourcing plus local AI will soon become more economical vs. frontier labs"

LetsGetTechnicl — Tue, 26 May 2026 20:24:42 +0000

So all that hype for the AI revolution just for it to be... taking advantage of cheap overseas labor after all?

New comment by LetsGetTechnicl in "Uber president says AI spending is getting 'harder to justify'"

LetsGetTechnicl — Tue, 26 May 2026 16:17:17 +0000

Please tell me you're being sarcastic.

New comment by LetsGetTechnicl in "Gemini 3.5 Flash"

LetsGetTechnicl — Wed, 20 May 2026 03:12:41 +0000

And AI investors and stock market boosters are just going to accept OpenAI not having anything "new" to show for all their investments? What about replacing hardware once it's been burned out from constant high usage? Is it not odd to you that so many big AI deals get announced and never heard from again? What's the business reason for neoclouds buying GPU's from NVIDIA only for NVIDIA to then pay them to rent them back? How does this make any sense?

New comment by LetsGetTechnicl in "Gemini 3.5 Flash"

LetsGetTechnicl — Wed, 20 May 2026 02:18:51 +0000

Yeah a lot of AI hype is look at the amazing new thing our new model can do! Like Google at this event. But when pressed about its pricing reality the answer is “use a worse cheaper model”?? Real convincing argument there

New comment by LetsGetTechnicl in "Gemini 3.5 Flash"

LetsGetTechnicl — Wed, 20 May 2026 02:12:57 +0000

Also OpenAI somehow having 44% of the world’s population as its customer base is a plainly absurd goal and will never happen, not in 5 years

New comment by LetsGetTechnicl in "Gemini 3.5 Flash"

LetsGetTechnicl — Wed, 20 May 2026 02:12:04 +0000

Then why do they constantly need more and more funding from VC and Google and MS and NVIDIA? Why is it all circular dealing? Why aren’t there smaller AI startups running these smaller, “profitable” models?

New comment by LetsGetTechnicl in "Gemini 3.5 Flash"

LetsGetTechnicl — Tue, 19 May 2026 20:47:11 +0000

Then why haven't they reported any profits using GAAP (generally accepted accounting principles)? They all use ARR which is easily gamed.

New comment by LetsGetTechnicl in "Gemini 3.5 Flash"

LetsGetTechnicl — Tue, 19 May 2026 20:46:17 +0000

If it's profitable, why haven't they reported any profits? People like Ed Zitron have done the math and it just doesn't add up. I mean he just published this piece today: https://www.wheresyoured.at/ai-is-too-expensive/