Tarambor
@Tarambor@lemmy.world
- Comment on Valve raises Steam Deck prices by more than $200 3 days ago:
The fact that it’s extremely specialised equipment that’s needed to make the chips of which there is a limited supply due to there being basically only one manufacturer of lithography capable of making chips at the nanometer level that is required, and the factories that produce chips are extremely complicated to make. And you can’t just make more machinery to make the chips because they require rare earth materials, China controls most of the global market for rare earth minerals and because of Trump they’re rationing them.
- Comment on Valve raises Steam Deck prices by more than $200 3 days ago:
Food is already going to go up in the future even if they opened the Straits today. Crops have sowing and harvesting seasons. Miss the sowing season because of a lack of fertiliser and you’ve no harvest. And those windows for sowing are fixed and known, you can’t just go “oh I’ve got fertiliser now so I can go plant my crops.” If you’re out of the sowing window you can plant the seed but it’s not going to germinate and grow. And for a lot of crops we’re in the middle of that season right now.
- Comment on If I got in a collision with a car from the 70s with a car today, would not the 70s car win out since it would primarily be metal? If so why don't people buy more 70's cars? 1 month ago:
It wouldn’t win out. They typically didn’t have any crumple zones to dissipate the forces of the impact so the full forces in the accident got transferred to the passenger cell and therefore the passengers. Also no seatbelt pre-tensioners to stop you flying forward before the seatbelt locks would engage and no airbags to protect you. Steering columns were also not collapsible so the driver’s chest being impacted by the steering wheel was a common thing in a head on.
- Comment on What are some good, solid cables for charging and data transfer? 1 month ago:
Anker or uGreen are my go to.
- Comment on Does anyone actually have a plan after Trump and clean up? Try as he might he's not in there forever. Can we be allies again with old ones while trying to stregthen ties with new one? 1 month ago:
The relationship you had before and the position the US enjoyed is gone thanks to Trump setting fire to whatever soft power the US had left. All the middle powers, such as the UK, EU nations, Canada, Australia, South Korea etc are pivoting away from the US, strengthening trade with themselves and China and reducing reliance on US tech, US banking especially Mastercard and VISA, and US military equipment. The end of the petro-dollar has also begun.
- Comment on Is it predatory if (hypothetically) a 35 year old woman is dating a 25 year old guy because she was in a coma for 10 years so she's mentally about 25, and she hangs around with people in their 20s? 1 month ago:
People in those comments need to get a life. I can only assume that they were still at school if they’re considering 35 as middle aged.
- Comment on How do you feel about a 25 year old dating a 46 year old? 1 month ago:
It has zero impact on my life therefore I don’t care.
- Comment on Switch 2 demand appears to be flagging as Nintendo reportedly lowers production 2 months ago:
Amazon UK have just discounted the Switch 2 form £499 to £385.
- Comment on Forza Horizon 6 requirements are out 2 months ago:
Probably because it never happened. I take it you’re unaware that FAT32 has a file size limit?