With hardware you will always have higher per unit costs for more niche product lines due to weaker economies of scale.
It's true for hardware products that are free (as in freedom) or apple products (e.g. Vision Pro).
Not much we can do about this, short of a revolution in 3D printing and distribution systems (you will never be able to 3D print all components; e.g. semiconductors).
The Threadiverse is definitely not ready for "normies". Even if we ignore the extremism, the on-boarding, UX, service provision stability, topical coverage is not at the point where normies can join.
I've told people about the Fediverse as a concept, but I haven't suggested anyone try it, as I don't think it's ready.
I will note that I personally think the federated model isn't inherently too complex, it just needs better UI/UX and the network needs to be larger (e.g. 1 M MAU, 50 K DAU with coverage of at least 5 major langauges).
I am not really sure there is any magical solution to dealing with extremism. Better mod tools, a development focus on automated admin work will help, but I don't think it will solve the root cause. IMO it's not technical problem, it's a social issue that's also present in mainstream corporate network (albeit it can be more subtle there).
Thanks for sharing!
From my perspective, the best way to deal with toxicity (whatever that might be for a given individual) is to have multiple accounts and to have regular "time out" periods where you only use the non-politics accounts. This is of course not viable if you are a single admin.
Then there is the issue of making the most of a bad situation. Even though for me tankies are mortal enemies (including the Lemmy Devs), I see usage of Lemmy (well the Threadiverse) being a less worse choice than using American commercial social media.
With the Threadiverse, there is a weak light at the end of the tunnel. We may never get there, but it's there. On the other hand American social media is an intellectual, moral and even economic (I am actually serious about this) dead end. That's why I use the Threadiverse, although I am trying to slowly move off Lemmy to Piefed for obvious reasons.
Just sharing some thoughts in context of your very justified comments on the Threadiverse. I am not necessarily trying to change your mind or prove anything. :)
Moved a community over from lemm.ee to Piefed (!monitors@piefed.social). It's going well enough. The community never had all that much engagement, but the content is complementary to the !hardware@lemmy.world community that I mod/curate, so it doesn't require additional time/effort.
Please do share.
I am not attached to Lemmy, I joined because from my perspective commercial American social media is not viable for me, it's equivalent to supporting/enabling those who wish you harm.
Apologies in advance for being overly pedantic, but it's Zen 2, not Ryzen 2. Ryzen is a generic brand, when Zen is the architecture family.
The seemingly high level of compatibility with existing archival system and alleged low costs make this tech sound very intriguing.
It's also good to know that they haven't taken any VC money (they are currently relying on public funding).
The 5060 is not that bad of a SKU, albeit the comparison relative to 4060 is misleading, in many cases the 4060 shows a mere ~10-15% gen on gen improvement relative to the 3060.
The biggest issue is the price. It's supposed to be $300 (excluding taxes?) in the US, but where I live it's over $400 (full out of pocket price).
And based on the reports its not only middle management, but also lots of engineers and technicians.
Perfect approach to regain their leadership position in semiconductor design and manufacturing!
Earlier this year, Indonesia’s Attorney General announced an investigation into why authorities chose Chromebooks as client devices when a pilot of the machines pointed out they’re not useful without reliable internet connections – a situation that’s common across Indonesia.
That's a really bad outcome. To be fair, Google itself doesn't seem to be directly involved (although they had to have known about this limitation).
You could even buy a good GPU and still have another $39 K leftover.
I would even go as far speculating that Nvidia is not even going to bother with hardware changes. Especially considering AWS (and other cloud providers?) have mitigation approaches.