$2000 Facebook machines

Why are so many people constantly acting like manufacturing costs are the problem? All cheaper house would do is increase profit margins for landlords.

sees a shitload of empty houses

Housing crisis?

The land isn't even the issue at this point.

>which it has the potential to do dramatically, it puts more people in homes.

Except it doesn't. Because any reduction in costs gets offset by an increase in fees.

That's too simplistic. As long as housing is a commodity, you'll always have an artificial shortage. 2 things need to be revisited to fix it. Zoning, and ownership rights. Prevent ownership of single family homes from companies and trusts and your housing shortage will get fixed real fast.

Are you telling me that sales don't ONLY go up, up, up?!?!

Whaaaaaat?

I love how sales of PCs and tablets and similar devices were hitting record numbers over the last couple of years and business executives acted like that could possibly continue forever. Now that the market is coming back down to more normal levels, immediately everyone is overhyping the decline.

There was just a piece in The Economist (I think) about how productivity has not improved in construction in the last 30 years.

Basically labor saving devices and technologies have been more than offset by more paperwork, permitting, safety standards, environmental constraints, not to mention limited land supply, local zoning, NIMBYism, and many many other factors.

So yeah, one or two or 10 "cheap building techniques" aren't going to offset all the other factors.

So the answer to the headline is "No."

I didn't really need to download anything except a locked browser so I could take tests. I ended up getting a new laptop.

I understand, but my point was that it was advertised as if it was a laptop that would work for students. This was false. Something as simple as a testing browser shouldn't be blocked

Except you can download and use loads of software on a MacBook that isn’t owned by Apple, MacOS isn’t a closed system.

If you're looking in that price tier, I'd go AMD where the deals are much better. A 6700XT is basically the same price as a 3060 and is a substantially more powerful card.

I mean if that were true there'd be double wides on every empty lot in America but there's not..

This offers little improvement over existing prefab tech like SIPS

No. Not really. We already have prefab's and prefab panels, barely anybody uses them.

The big problem seems to be getting loans on the stuff and then finding a builder who will do the work.

As cool as it might be the scale it needs to be rolled out at is astonishingly large if you want but to have any impact at all.

Otherwise you'll have handfuls of these houses dotting the US and eventually the printing business will go out of business

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Yes, this makes sense and is just common sense. Why would you think that you wouldn’t have to do the bypass method on every major update?

That is until you try to update Windows. I used various bypass methods on several unsupported machines and was unable to update to Windows 11 22H2 until I made ANOTHER set of modified installers.

How do people believe in any of this nonsense?

Good. ChromeOS is shit and the sooner it dies the better.

Yes, let’s all live inside some junky hybrid of a cave and a computer chip inside a new version of the projects. This is solutionism at its worst.

Like others have said, they've being putting out these "3d printed homes" things for years and years. We've had pre fabricated materials and whole pre-fab homes. Many pre-fab homes are amazing and better than what I live in now.

Prices have not been coming down.

There are thousands of abandoned / empty houses.

When it comes to the price of homes / housing, the problems are not supply, it's financing; and in places where there is bountiful supply of housing, crime, and employment often deter people.

The op Article was about housing, and not about "basic economics"

They’ve become very popular amongst university students for note taking and doing assignments. Since you have to submit everything online now, they’re pretty handy to have around.

Everyone sees the light eventually.

Tablets and Chromebooks suck, it just took people a while to figure out they don't have too many use cases.

The consumer tablet market is stupid right now.

The Galaxy A-series are the only reasonably priced quality tablets.

Everything else is either too expensive for a toy, or shit quality.