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See5harp t1_j8gqdql wrote

Reply to comment by z0mbiemechanic in Can 3-D Printing Help Solve the Housing Crisis? - Standard construction can be slow, costly, and inefficient. Machines might do it better. by speckz

I def get like the idea you can make houses cheaper to build and maybe make it more affordable for the ones already in the market but like I feel like in many cities there is def places to buy or rent. The issue isn’t inventory of houses it’s affordable houses. Just seems like this is just going to increase profit margins for potential buyers.

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z0mbiemechanic t1_j8gpsrt wrote

Reply to comment by See5harp in Can 3-D Printing Help Solve the Housing Crisis? - Standard construction can be slow, costly, and inefficient. Machines might do it better. by speckz

Not to mention banks letting houses sit until they are so expensive to repair, the only people buying them are investors who fix them then jack the price up so high that no one can afford them. House goes into foreclosure and there's still 100k owed, by the time anything happens the house sells for 15k. How does that make any sense? There's house all aroubd my small town like this. It's even worse in the bigger towns/cities near me. It's a fucking shit show.

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app4that t1_j8gk7hw wrote

Reply to comment by strangebutalsogood in Worldwide Shipments of Tablets and Chromebooks Declined Sharply in 2022, According to IDC Tracker by Majestic-Praline-696

I don’t know… for connecting to a work VPN, browsing, email, Zoom, streaming, etc, a ChromeBook at the $200 level seems to do everything quite well. For that price you get a machine that takes care of itself with virus and security updates for the next 7 years and is a great every day machine. It is not meant for high intensity compute tasks or gaming though.

Plus, if you for some crazy reason ever decide to loan it out and the person trashes it or loses it, it’s not a major wallop on your budget.

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Car-face t1_j8ghop9 wrote

Reply to Motherboard Shipments Plummet by Ten Million Units in 2022 by Avieshek

I'm running a mongrel pc at home, made from a bunch of random builds over a 2 year period, built about 6 years ago now - basically at the end of a now extinct upgrade path, and planning to do a full ground up build with am5 or 13th gen.

First was planning to do it at the end of last year, then baulked at the prices.

Figured I'd wait a couple of months for the edge to come off the prices, but that didn't happen.

I figure it'll be at least another 6 months before I consider building now.

Prices are just ridiculous, and whilst it was always going to be pricey at the beginning of a new gen, new socket, new ram, etc. It just feels like they're taking the piss.

I'm not desperate to build, so it's no big deal, but I can't help but feel they're playing by covid rules at a time when cost of living is skyrocketing, interest rates are skyrocketing, covid support is ending and people are starting to tighten purse strings - it just feels like a huge mismatch, and they're nowhere near close to even acknowledging it. Like if they just oretent everything it fine, they can keep flogging everything for idiotic prices.

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phillyguy60 t1_j8g95m2 wrote

Reply to Motherboard Shipments Plummet by Ten Million Units in 2022 by Avieshek

Not surprised. I spent a couple months playing the games to maybe have a shot at forking a couple grand over for parts. Got tired of competing for parts and got away from gaming. Now I’m like don’t really need a desktop. Same with cars, was told all the hoops I’d need to go through to buy what I wanted and was like nope not worth it.

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