That was a hypothetic example, not my opinion on this post.

There’s nothing “absolutistic” about my “stance”. If you’re rusty using a language, you won’t get better if someone else does the homework for you. Make an effort, make mistakes, write in a way that sounds weird, who cares. But practice. If you only take the easy way out, that’ll be your only option in the future.

Although, like I already said, that’s MY way of thinking about it. If you want to use ai to write your stuff, you do you. It doesn’t negate the fact that, whle it’s not “wrong”, it’s the lazy (or minimum effort) option. Don’t know why it bothers you so much.

First, that’s an awful analogy.

Second, you’re assuming (for some unknown reason) that they “cleaned up” the “translation” using ai. You have literally no idea exactly how they wrote the post. It’s kinda weird to make up a random scenario but ok.

Third, no, it’s not an awful take. You can code something that requires a ton of effort but write awful documentation. One thing does not make the other impossible.

Fourth, I already explained that there have already been studies that concluded that using AI to write stuff for you has a negative impact on your communication skills. This is not an opinion or me being ingrateful or whatever. I was just sharing information.

“Activists”? What are you even talking about?

Regardless, I specifically said that what you did wasn’t wrong or anything likw that. I simply think that it’s going to do you more harm than good in the long run. You’re free to do whatever you want though, obviously.

Another piece of advice. When someone simply shares an opinion, don’t get instantly butthurt over nothing. Otherwise this might as well be reddit.

They said it wasn’t their “first” lanugage. Which leads me to believe that they do speak English. If that’s the case, then they indeed are kind of lazy. There have already been studies in the impact of AI when used for communication and the results are not positive.

This isn’t something I’d personally point out and criticize, just something I wouldn’t do personally. Take the time to express your own ideas in your own words. The long term cost is higher than the short term gains.

You seem like a very pleasant individual.

Or just use two dns providers. I have duckdns and desec. That latter seems to be a bit faster and has’t had any downtime for me so far.

Well, the linked article is literally titled “Bondi Beach hero revealed as Muslim fruit seller Ahmed al Ahmed”, so maybe that’s why? Just a wild guess.

Sure, people can use the presets, but on a lower end machine, those aren’t perfect for getting the most out of your specific hardware.

If that’s the case then you could play around with individual settings to find something you’re comfortable with. I’ve been doing that since I was 12…

Sure, he could pay someone to upgrade it for him, but at that point it loses a lot of the benefits that come with being able to upgrade in the first place.

What? No. The main benefit is that you don’t need to throw anything away. You can even sell the comonent you’re replacing. Would it be more expensive than learning how to do it yourself? Yeah but it’s still cheaper than buying a new computer. It’s also not as wasteful considering that a broken cpu would mean throwing away the entire motherboard on a Steam Machine, whereas you would simply replace the cpu on a normal computer.

The Fractal Terra is actually larger than all modern consoles. The Fractal Terra is 11.4 liters. The PS5 is 7.2 liters.

Nope. Fractal Terra is 10.4 liters and the base ps5 is also 10.4 liters. I would even argue that the form factor of the terra is better. The series X is smaller, true but it’s only 6cm smaller in one of the sides of the top and 4cm shorter. I really don’t think that’s that different.

The steam cube is a lot smaller, sure. It’s also, like I already said multiple times, completely custom and impossible to upgrade. Not worth it imo. We also haven’t discussed the hardware. It comes with 8gb of soldered memory for the gpu. You can see here that that was not enough vram (even at 1080p) for some games over a year ago.

Knowing “how to use one” is different from knowing how to build and upgrade one.

Which is precisely why I specifically referred to people knowing how to use it, not build or upgrade it.

I don’t agree that it’s that hars to build a pc. Even if it was, saying that adjusting visual settings is complicates is waaay too much. You’d have to be straight up dumb not even be able to use the low/medium/high/extreme presets every game has.

Also saying that since he can’t build it, he can’t upgrade it, is false. Any “pc technician” can do that for him.

The size part is also kinda moot. A Fractal Terra is smaller than a console and it can fit an itx build with most gpus.

Stop normalizing incompetence. We use computers, people should at the bare minimum know how to use them.

No, you don’t need to do an introductory year. You also don’t really need to know what’s compatible with what. Tools like pcpartpicker already do that.

Finally, you’re comparing building a pc with buying a prebuilt, which is something people have been able to do since forever. The argument then becomes, why buy a steam machine with custom parts, which will be harder to fix and impossible to upgrade instead of a mini itx prebuilt with standard parts?

That really doesn’t make much sense. Valve creates steamos, donates time (employee time, i mean) and money to open source projects, they improve proton a lot and what you’re interested in is having steam installed? Ok…

It’s not repairable in the sense that it doesn’t use standard parts so whether you can get replacements or not depends on where you are, geographically. If it used a standard atx psu for example, you’d be able to buy that anywhere. Same thing for the cpu, if it used a standard cpu+gpu instead of a custom apu, you’d be able to replace just that if it broke, instead of the whole motherboard. Or even upgrade it if you wanted to.

Even motherboards themselves have different features. You might need 2.5g ethernet whereas someone else is fine with gigabit but wants better wifi. In my case, I always buy boards with spdi/f to use them with a dac. You lose that flexibility with a device like this.

Regarding the OS in prebuilts, it’s very common to have the option to order them without Windows. If you don’t know how to install Bazzite, just pay a technician to do it. It will still be cheaper than Windows. That’s not an excuse or impediment.

Not a fan of prebuilts tbh. As far as linux goes, Bazzite is free so create a bootable thumbdrive with rufus and literally just follow the installation prompts. If you can’t even do that, then maybe you ahould learn how to.

Why would you want “steam” installed? It’s just a normal program, you can install it yourself in 5 minutes.

That’s wishful thinking. Valve hasn’t even announced a price range.

It has a custom soc that is most likely soldered and most of the components (except maybe storage and ram) are custom as well. If you need to repair it, you depend on steam still providing the parts. I doubt the parts will be available in retail stores, so that’s another inconvenience. Upgrading (the cpu/gpu, etc) will also probably be impossible.

Also, building a pc is a lot simpler than you make it out to be. Not sure what you mean about that “support” bit either. People have always been fixing their computers getting help online. Either from forums or manufacturers.

To top it off, the “benefits” you’re mentioning are literally the same as if you bought a prebuilt pc.

In my case I just can’t see the appeal. If you want a small desktop computer, just build an itx machine that can be fixed and upgraded.

There are tons and tons of websites where you can create an account with just your email. I wouldn’t expect a third party account to be mandatory. Specially from a product like this one.

Maybe this is a pet peeve but it’s a vpn tool that forces you to log in with an “identity provider”. Yeah, no thanks.

you don’t need permission from the company to model your own replacement parts. It’s nice if they provide the models but it’s not necessary.