Most of those "houses" are glorified emergency shelters.

Ignoring the fact that concrete is one of the worst materials you can build with in terms of environmental impact, 3D printing doesn't solve the problem of building systems...

Electrical, plumbing, and sometimes even HVAC assemblies are typically housed in wall cavities. Building your walls out of a solid, homogeneous material leaves no space for these critical building systems, and even if they did, they would be impossible to maintain once the walls are closed up.

Additive manufacturing has its place in the AEC industry, but anyone claiming 3D printers will essentially replace traditional construction is selling you a lie.

MSRP is always bonkers for phones. You're not supposed to actually pay the MSRP, you're supposed to get it with a subsidized phone plan that knocks hundreds of dollars off the cost and itemizes the remainder throughout your contract time.

No, it can't. Unless you are taking about very specific ground floor only projects. Modern construction materials like AAC are insanely fast, whole walls for a single floor can be done within 2 days, 3rd for preparing the reinforcement for ceiling, 4th day you are done...

Also - walls and ceiling in my house is less than 12% of 'developer' state, meaning all construction and installations done before finishing work can start (floors, furniture, lights and so on). Walls are cheap.

Depends on what country you're in but not really, unfortunately.

Fuck. Not this again.

You can't 3d print the land

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No it cannot quit posting this bs. Someday machines might do it better but “3D printing” ain’t it . At best it does the cheapest easiest part of home construction, the walls. Homes are expensive because they are now incredibly complicated and need to last for 100+‘years.

Oh no, is google going to cancel chromeos now? :O

There’s a better way. Get rid of landlords. Boom. Problem solved.

Have you seen framework? Those are not half bad. The modularity is mostly with the ports, but most everything is replaceable and upgradable. Not perfect by any means, but taking that approach doesn't have to mean the laptop has impractical tradeoffs.

Maybe it has something to do with companies bleeding everyone, besides the rich, dry?

Housing currently sitting empty and people sleeping on the street. Our housing crisis is not about housing

That's the meme

Shit, about twenty years ago people used to leave old computers out on the street. I'd pick them up and swap out faulty components with working bits from other machines I'd found. Eventually set up a free internet cafe thingie in a local kind of community squat. Only had half a dozen machines working at any time and there was constant maintenance but it was an inner city area where everyone except the drug dealers was broke and it was somewhere people could get online for free. It's been years since I've seen old computers dumped like that. People seem to hang onto them as long as they can, which is great - too much e-waste anyway. Plus everyone has tablets now I guess.

I remember like 10 years ago I kept seeing all these stories about how the PC and laptops in particular were dead and tablets were the future since they were outselling them. Not that, like, tablets were new and people were buying one for the first time.
I love my tablet, but for me it's really more of a toy. Scrolling through something sitting on the sofa or watching a movie on a plane. It's not something I replace until my old one won't function anymore and even then if I found myself in a tough financial situation, like, say the current state of inflation, it's not something I NEED.

It’s not the getting. It’s the keeping. Ever heard of Cabrini-Green in Chicago?

I read that in Ron Howard’s voice from Arrested Development.

Thats fair. It was basically top of the line amd right before Nvidia dropped the 3000s

With respect, that doesn't mean much without context. It's possible to build a PC for that amount right now - it'll just suck at gaming.

I mean you're not wrong, but I'm just talking about acceptable value, not even great value.

"a new apple store opened up 5 blocks down, time to jack up the rent and do some evictions!"

No it fucking won't.

They want us to believe that there’s a housing shortage and not a deliberate effort to consolidate property in a small number of hands, forcing most Americans to be permanent renters.

I doubt my mom could make heads or tails of a laptop, but she does fine with her iPad. iPads start at $300, and their sales are up for the quarter, according to IDC Tracker.