Path finding in video games is also AI.

the S27 Ultra/Pro next year sounds like it’s shaping up to be a far more interesting device compared to any of the phones they released in the last few years.

After reading this I googled it and what I read didn’t sound super exciting. Just the regular spec bump and I’m skeptical of the reported RAM increase. Wouldn’t be surprised if they cut RAM like everybody else. So unless you want a Ultra level model in a base level enclosure, I don’t see what the “far more interesting device” is.

I could get somewhat excited if someone made a Xperia Play type phone with a full FEX-enabled Steam client.

AI isn’t a tool, it’s an umbrella term applied to countless individual tools. Just a couple of years ago automated language translation wasn’t AI. Now it is for whatever reason.

I like mine. Can’t speak how much changed in recent generations because it’s my first new phone in 4 years. Other than deleting Chrome and switching browsers to Iceraven and the launcher to Lawnchair as well as the keyboard to Gboard, I don’t think I customized much. Slight tweaks here and there but for the most part I was pretty content with the defaults which is rare for me. In the past I may have been shocked by crap on new phones I needed to get rid of but I actually think most Samsung modifications to Android are pretty good and I often prefer the Samsung feature to whatever the Google counterpart is.

I use that sidebar they have a lot. That AI Select thing is great and I set all Galaxy AI stuff to be on device. The only thing I dislike about AI Select is that a recognized song can only be played through Spotify which I don’t use.

I cannot speak for the entire range of devices out there but if a line of products is unobtrusively good for a long time, it surely retents its user base.

I’m sort of okay with this.

I guess Sony didn’t revoke any movies you bought without any refund just a few days ago?

I never understand the thought process of giving a Linux newcomer some niche Ubuntu derivative.

Just go with Bazzite desktop. Pretty popular and should something go wrong, there is fairly up to date information out there, so no forum posts from 15 years ago with shell commands that at best don’t work and at worst break stuff.

One concern I have is she uses her personal laptop for work

Employer needs to provide a new notebook.

Pretty sure these are the occasional individuals, not large scale bot nets.

The PS3 compute cluster incident commented below is what came to mind.

You mean the thing that was amazing advertisement for the computing power of the PS3 over the Xbox360? Yeah, Sony suffered so much from the abuse.

do you think it would stop a savvy IT personnel?

You expect companies to list on their tax forms with hundreds of Steam accounts?

No, machine generated output is not eligible for copyright protection. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Threshold_of_originality

Duh - people are shitty and would abuse it.

One order per valid account (the same restrictions they applied to Steam Deck purchases years ago, account at least a year old and previous game purchases from that account). There can’t be large scale abuse.

If they did that, some companies would buy them for their offices. It can probably run Windows too.

Not if Valve sticked to their 1 order per valid account rule.

Sure. Fans work totally different when there’s a slightly newer processor.

Of course. And it will last for years.

The Steam Machine uses semi-custom processors.

Steam Machine uses old crap AMD had lying around. This is also why it’s not an APU design.

Companies like Asus fart out new designs every year. It’s doable if the design pipeline if efficient enough.

changing the design now

Not now. When RAM prices started skyrocketing. That wasn’t only today or yesterday.

The point of shitty old processors was to get them cheap. Now that RAM and storage are the biggest factors, they could have gone with newer processors and not be significantly more expensive but significantly more performant.

Edge is pretty much dead.

I honestly don’t know why. If you are a Windows user and don’t care about privacy, you may just as well stick with Edge. As a Chromium web browser by a megacorp, it’s in no way worse than Chrome.

Remember “Hour of Code”?

Actually no