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Not that I want to give dbrand any credit but this also seems like a stupid move for Valve.

Why didn't they just offer a license agreement if dbrand was willing to accept?

Seems like a missed opportunity which the steam machine desperately needs right now.

Even dumber, you'll probably be able to find this on ali express or temu in a couple of weeks after some chinese brands make knockoffs anyway.

Unless they already had some poor history with dbrand, seems kind of off character for Valve.

tbf you can build a more powerful version with new parts for about $100 less.

My point is that if you're gonna drop 1k anyway, you might as well get something much punchier.

Market is so screwed right now anyway, but at that price you could just build a significantly beefier PC with used parts.

I'm just excited for Lepton which will hopefully demonstrate the stupidity of kernel level anticheat when it will allow Linux users to play Fortnite for a couple of hours before Epic inevitably starts monkeypatching their android port lol.

It would be like the 2007 financial/housing crisis.

You could get amazingly huge and quality houses, cars, stores, etc for dirt cheap but that's because a metric ton of people were layed off and had to sell their assets to make ends meet.

The AI bubble is compounded by the fact that it's primarily propped up by ~1 trillion USD in private credit, which for all intents and purposes is basically just the same system as CDOs which caused the 2007/8 crash.

If AI blows, all that debt comes back null, and since all other major investments are based on speculation and multiplied debt obligations, the economy collapses (again).

Granted, if you're lucky enough to not fall to the effects of such a crash, components will be dirt cheap and great time to buy.

But if you're layed off, you're looking at potentially a year+ of unemployment, in which case it won't matter if you can get a 5090 for $300 because you'll be more concerned with surviving without an income.

I think they're just pooling stock because the RAM prices are already screwed.

AYN already announced that their supplier is bumping prices, so their console prices are definitely gonna increase by the next batch.

The bubble will eventually pop, it just won't be rapid or soon enough to halt product sales and wait it out.

Which sucks because a year ago, the GabeCube would have sold at a seriously competitive price to the point where it would have legitimately challenged Xbox as the superior product, despite much lower unit count.

I'm honestly surprised TV OEMs haven't bothered to at least try throwing in DisplayPort, especially during the period of time it far exceeded the highest possible quality on HDMI.

HDMI is just the last hardware standard created from the ashes of the format wars that has no practical place anymore. It only exists to collect hostage licensing fees.

Choice between chemical weapons dictator or literally a former Al-Qaeda member.

Poor Syria

I mean they theoretically can but they'd have to hide one under like a false rock, keep the radar off until they somehow know an F-35 is very close, flick it on and then hope that's close enough for a track and launch.

Israel has huge intel on where their SAM sites are located in real time, so this already makes it near impossible.

A better solution would be a fully integrated radar system with a modern airforce to run and protect it, but that's expensive and would require years of buildup.

Then you could use some stacked radar tricks to identify F-35s from further out, and use data link to avoid alerting them on RWR. It would still be hard just due to the low RCS so any non stealth fighters would likely be prime targets as the F-35s slip by.

A military enforced trade blockade is too much for some people to handle who think battling a state responsible for genocide can be done without violence... which is exactly what a military specializes in.

Of course now that the US has gone home, no one is there to intercept all the antiship missiles, so any vessel aiming for Israel should really take the alternative route.





Mwuahahaha I got so many of these

Edit:

>They say the campaign included viral posts on social media, manipulated imagery showing supposed Rafale debris, AI-generated content and video-game depictions to simulate supposed combat. More than 1,000 social media accounts newly created as the India-Pakistan clashes erupted also spread a narrative of Chinese technological superiority, according to French researchers who specialize in online disinformation.

>French military officials say they haven’t been able to link the online Rafale-bashing directly to the Chinese government.

This is just internet sledging from actual users lmao


The "pilot error" in question

Also not a Rafale, but you get the idea of IAF's reputation:

https://x.com/MenchOsint/status/1921608777687560535

Yes 4 jets were confirmed shot down with 1 proven to be a Rafale, 1 Mirage, 1 Su-30MKI, and a MiG-29. US confirmed 2 French origin jets were shot down but didn't specify which ones, Pakistan still claims they shot down 3 Rafales total on top of the other 3.

There's several good sources of the entire air battle and the key aspect being the BVR kill chain, meaning the Rafale isn't necessarily a bad jet.

But Dassault suffered an immediate loss in stock value and potential sale clout right after the battle ended and both sides had their debrief.

As much as I'm going to make fun of the other reply in this thread for trying to cover up getting slammed by a PL-15 as "pilot error", this really has more to do with the modern methodology of air combat which the IAF was not prepared for due to their lack of a dynamic integrated electronic platform.

Their Rafale purchase was already a knee jerk response to their loss in 2019 when a MiG-21 pilot was shot down by the PAF and captured.

France sold them a guarantee of quality, but they didn't buy a full package with AWACS, EW, etc because it was already extremely expensive with each jet and armaments coming in at 300 million USD.

Now that Russia is no longer selling big weapons due to their war in Ukraine, India is really stuck in a tight spot because foreign tech will always be very expensive, and their homegrown projects under HAL have never really taken off or been battle proven (ex: their Tejas jet).

Doyee, people called USAID's NGOs a lazy way for the CIA to fund their operations lol

Pakistan's ISI:


I got banned from one of the NCD communites (not world, different instance) here for insinuating the US doesn't want Ukraine to join NATO lol


Right, the conclusion that the US can't resupply missiles fast enough is a fallacy unless you know for sure you can affect the supply chain invovled.

They only have that many because they don't need that many, but if you think you're gonna win a war by expecting the US to run out of ammo against even a swarm of cheap drones, you're in for a rude awakening.

I think only China could output higher production in full wartime scenario, and even they know it's not much of an advantage if their tech doesn't stack up.

Right? US spends a metric ton of money on bases and basically running the middle east, they could at least throw in a nicer regime instead of some insane monarch dictators.

I'm waiting to see if Trump/pentagon escalates or does their strike package and goes home.

I doubt this is going to lead to some sort of ground invasion. Biden would have done the exact same although maybe more clandestine.