Trying to mimic real human is too hard and usually gets you in the uncanny valley. Creating fantasy arms helps with inclusion.

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they are though, right? plenty of weird metals in them like palladium

I think so.

I mean, you can release it as a niche, make some money, and then disappear as the project dies down. Mostly what most of those companies do.
But if you plan to stay relevant and make it long lived, you will want to take some part of the market. Even 0.01% is a big part of the market.

But even to reach that, you need to make people who buy a dell/whatever and put a linux on it, buy your platform instead. And if all they do is concept and open-source, I don't think it will ever really catch on beside maybe a few influences in that market who will make content out of it.

Besides, what is the point if you don't want to enter the market?

If you recycled everything from you old computer a few hundred bucks and you’re top notch again

Good.

The 4090 actually only supports PCIE Gen 4.0, so those getting fancy PCIE 5.0 motherboards will not gain any performance over the GPU. That, and I believe (really not sure on this) 4090 is not capable of saturating the 4.0 bandwidth. OP could’ve had his 5600X in a PCIE 3.0 build, though.

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AMD

the questiin remains: why do they put on all those pci stuff for a simple r5 processor. Fair enough is the stuff is expensive and x670 are expensive but a normal bare basic b650 without wlan and all that crap should really be around max 150. Otherwise it just makes no sense to upgrade to a 240 dollar cpu. And the old stuff is also sold out so there is no way I can justify upgrading right no... I am just pissed that after the gpu crap, this crap exists (and you won't even gain performance from it= ddr5, wifi6, pcie5, speaking as 'most user')

PC parts went stupid expensive and games are not made to their maximum potential to stay compatible with consoles. So why bother upgrading or buying new?

So tired of being price gouged at every opportunity.

I watched a video with interviews of some amputees. It featured Angel Giuffria. I can't remember if she was the one saying this or if it was another interviewee, but she basically said the best use of a prosthetic was for socializing, as it made gestures look more natural and smoothed over the sometimes jarring reaction people have to the unexpectedly ending limb.

> how are they still so expensive?

Too much useless shit. There are very few utilitarian mobos with little to no frills.

They have come out with these modular laptops and phones like a million times. There are a ton of reasons why they suck and wont ever reach production.

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Were we really the ones, that caused it to begin with? Not overly greedy ad placements, so you had to click away floaty overlays, try to click on moving close buttons, flashy disturbing ads, animated ads, video ads on autoplay, ads with sound, scripts that would reopen the content in another window while the original window kept loading a ton of (often dubious) ads, opening multiple ad windows (later tabs), ad distributers neglecting due diligence regarding the potential malicious nature of their ads,… should I continue?

Imho the use of ad blockers started because of corporate greed to begin with. They, for the most part, went way to far, so ad blockers were readily accepted as a solution to an existing problem.

Oh, I see, thanks for the clarification ;).

You're point?

Sure. But pointing out that price gouging exists does not make the case that current GDP growth is the result of price gouging. That’s what I’m saying.

It would be interesting to see what will develop in a new ecosystem where Windows and Intel do not dominate.

No one wants to admit or talk about it but we’ve caused this. Not passing judgement but we all use the ever living fuck out of ad blockers, which was their only source of income…not even journalists want to work for free….

Is it expecting infinite growth? Or is it thinking that the total addressable market may grow (due to opening new markets for a product, or finding new customers within a market due to interest growth) or that a given company is looking to increase their market share. Companies can grow and expect growth without thinking it is infinite.

They definitely haven’t gone away BUT they have lessened to a significant degree yet prices haven’t bothered to come back down….crazy who could have seen this coming?!

I'm on an old Broadwell machine and was thinking the same. Then MicroCenter kept emailing me about that $600 7900x bundle and wore me down. Can't beat that price really.

Why not the ryzen 5800x3d for a lot less initial investment by staying with AM4?