If you didn't know that going in, it's on you, it'svery clearly advertised as basically a chrome browser with hardware but around it. Also if you just need it for email, making word docs, excel, youtube. A chromebook works great and can be cheaper than a high end tablet like an iPad.

I fucking hate apple and finally caved and bought an iPad. My 5yr old Chromebook crapped out and every other device on the market is absolute junk.

Not true, they are mainly used is school settings now. And my company uses them for temps who's work requires only online available applications like word, or excel.

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Tablet to a laptop is what a laptop is to a PC.

Sacrifice performance and capabilities for portability. Just depends on where your needs/wants fall in that balance.

Nope 3d printers requires a lot of power, still requires a lot of construction by hand doors windows plumbing electric, insulation, sewers etc and each location has its own soil conditions that need to be analyzed for each new development.

Also 3D printer is not cheap, it requires one of a kind machines, transport assembly and calibration by specialized technicians and to have concrete preparation scheduled to the minute so it can flow to the machine.

You just simply can’t have one type of housing plan, because people still care for aesthetics, and don’t want cookie cutter homes. And honestly, there is no guarantee that just because you can build cheaper that’s gonna sell cheaper to the public, that’s the most naive misconception about 3d housing.

You can build a Tesla and use anywhere in the world, but you can’t just buy a 3d house and just drop it in every single market. It’s a tremendous labor consuming effort.

IDC tracker is accurate because no one cares

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well people can do more outside now, pretty easy to predict after having lockdowns.

THAT'S NOT THE ISSUE!!!

Remove zoning laws and problem solved

You mean, they will again

but they will anyway.

yes all media for public consumption is not useful for understanding the state of the world, it is only useful for swaying hearts and minds to agendas, often in opposition to the state of the world so that the hearts and minds can be taken advantage of.

3d printing addresses the structure of the house . . .which is only a small portion of the cost of a house.

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Exactly.

When the pandemic kicked it schools ordered millions of chromebooks for distance learning.

No one wants to build affordable housing that can be sold and used instead the profitability and bragging rights of making luxury housing that sits empty except when it is rented by air bnb is the future..... and it is killing this country.

It’s an affordable housing crisis not a housing crisis. Most cities and the outskirts along with tourist towns have plenty of empty homes. People just can’t afford them.

"How many times do we have to teach you this lesson, tech boi!" -Pretty much everyone, everytime article like this appear

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The concept rendering is just absolutely ugly and I cannot imagine anyone wanting that.

No, because construction costs isn't the issue. It's investment companies buying the houses before anyone else can and raising the prices beyond what's affordable. There's a major crash coming and the government can NOT bail these people out.

If it significantly lowers the cost of manufacture, which it has the potential to do dramatically, it puts more people in homes. It doesn’t solve anything, but it has potential to ease the pressure and improve accessibility to ownership.