8gb of vram in 2026 is not what a "good product" would have. It also costs more than a similar diy pc, performs worse and can't be upgraded. This thing is doa.

It doesn't even have a pc price. It's more expensive than diy (or even prebuilt in some cases) and the 2tb ssd is way more expensive that just buying the 512gb model and upgrading it. It also has a lot of proprietary hw. That's pretty shitty imo. Who's the target demographic for this?

Dude, if they're real and there are lots of them, share an example.

Also, your analogy makes 0 sense. I'm not saying that they haven't popped up for me, I literally searched for them and found no videos or thumbnails that matched your description. If you google scams you'll find lots of examples.

Nah, fuck tipping. Pay a livable wage.

That's the problem, you can't stop training your model. New and useful information is created every day. This is simply not an economically viable product.

Except that, over those 10+ years, iheartradio accumulated less than half of the debt that OpenAI already has.

They increased the price of the steam deck quite a bit. Doubt they're not making money off of it.

I just searched for palworld videos and found literally 0 videos with a thumbnail that fits that description. Also, a shitty thumbnail to get more clicks is a common practice. It doesn't mean that people want or support AI. Not to mention that, for all you know, those images could've been generated manually.

I've started having problems with bluetooth as well. My bluetooth IEMs refuse to work at all with W11.

What they "pumped" into linux (proton, actually) is a general investment for the future, not something that should be taken into account when discussing the Steam Deck hardware cost, specifically.

You're also assuming that they hadn't already purchased the steam deck components at a lower cost, before everything started to get more expensive. Once that inventory ran out, they increased the prices.

Basically you're making up a relatively plausible but nevertheless imaginary scenario with 0 proof/sources.

So the latter, gotcha.

A very useful metric here would be a $/day to see if it's slowing down or speeding up.

Except that you're answering a question I never asked? I simply said that a $/month number over time would be useful. That is currently not on the website.

Maybe you should think about improving your reading comprehension skills before criticizing other people.

Nope. They subsidize the product so that people are more willing to pay, and they're betting that they have deeper pockets than the competition (hence, a race to the bottom). Once they can no longer subsidize the product, the idea is that you're so addicted to it (or you've integrated it so much to your product) that you'll pay the full price.

Except that no one will, because they're already increasing prices and people and companies are waking up to the fact the cost does not outweigh the benefits.

Wtf, these folk s are clinically insane. It'd be funny if they weren't literally fucking over the entire world in the process.

Don't know about iheartradio but OpenAI's 3:1 ratio for 2026 does not bode well. That's without considering therir future operational commitments, which are quite high.

Yup, pretty annoying.

That has nothing to do with my point. I'm saying that, given the current price (and age), of the steam deck, I doubt that they're losing money on it.

/s?

This is another incorrect take. OpenAI is not the only one hemorraging money. All of these LLM companies are offering a heavily subsidized product. Once the money runs out, which it will, the bubble wil pop or deflate. It's not a matter of "if", just "when". It's simply not an economically viable product. My guess is that the only reason they're doing this, is because they're hoping for some wild technological breakthrough that will massively lower costs.