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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • I’m extremely curious about the price.

    For a long time, there were $1200 rumors.
    Now we have the “less than index”, which I believe spawned the “under $1000” rumors.
    but since index has a huge range, depending on the accessories you buy with it “less than index”, can mean anything from <$600 to <$1100.

    But in reality this has to compete with Quest 3, and preferably also with Quest 4 when that releases.
    So I think it really should be on the lower side. <$600 would be good, <$500 would be great, <$700 would be okay


  • The most disappointing part is the rumoured pricing of “aiming to be under $1000”.

    $1 is “under $1000”.

    at $999, even for the 1TB model, this is a really tough sell.
    I’m not sure I’d get one, even though I love what they’re doing, and want to support it.

    I really hope, that the “under $1000” is a misunderstanding from the “cheaper than index”, which currently sells for 539€ (~$625, incl tax) without controller and base stations.
    That would be a great price.
    I can just hope it’s nearer to that than the $1000.


  • I think all of these are nice, if priced correctly

    Steam Frame needs to compete with quest, so prices over $800 are a really tough sell.
    Steam Machine needs to compete with consoles, PS5 (non-pro) and Series S, so prices over ~$700 will become really tough.

    Prices start becoming really good, if they manage to come it at ~$600 for Steam Frame and ~$500 for Steam Machine.

    But with current hardware prices, Valve being valve and no-one can know if they want to make money on the hardware, or if they are willing to sell at cost, or if they are willing to subsidize, who knows where we will land.


  • Prusa is way more open, but significantly more expensive, especially when buying assembled.
    If youbwant multicolor/multimaterial their current (fairly soon to be replaced) solution is not considered as user-friendly as the current bambu-solution.
    Yes, when the build volume is 10x10x10 you can print things within that volume, but of course it still has to be a printable shape.

    A T shape for example would be difficult to print, printer print layer by layer and as the “Arms” on the top would have nothing to be “stuck on”, so you’d need what is called “supports”, a printed shape just there to support the actual object that you want to print. Usually were support meets object the surface quality of the print suffers to some degree.
    In the case of a T shape, just print it upside down then ;)












  • Because you don’t train your self-hosted LLM.
    As a result you only pay for the electricity of computing your tokens (your request), this can be especially reasonable if the same machine also does local game streaming and or transcoding, and thus already has the requirements to host a LLM.

    If you don’t have rather unreasonable means, your local LLM is just very much more limited in parameters (size), and will not be as good as other, much larger models.

    Privacy, Ethics and personal interest usually are the largest drivers from what I can tell.


  • When asked about Nintendo’s solution for backwards compatibility with Switch games and the GameCube classics available on the system, the developers confirmed these games are actually emulated. (This is similar to what Xbox does with backwards compatibility).

    “It’s a bit of a difficult response, but taking into consideration it’s not just the hardware that’s being used to emulate, I guess you could categorize it as software-based,” Sasaki said of the solution.

    They are (mostly?) talking about Gamecube right?..
    right?

    Or is that the reason for the Switch-Emulator-Witchhunt, they actually “bought” the tech?