I feel like killing a rat is probably therapeutic for a therapy ferret. I mean, that's kind of what ferrets are into. Probably more than being handled by the planet's superpredator, at any rate.
Russia has its own opioid epidemic.
It's better than driving the state budget into the ground, though I still think that it'd be better to get the birth rate up to a sustainable level.
True. And maybe there will emerge a new group of people who use a living room computer in a new way, and that might really mix things up.
But I still think that the principal market here is most-likely going to be people who are looking to use it in basically the same way that they have a console, and will probably have roughly the same price sensitivity.
EDIT: One factor in the Steam Machine's favor is going to be the vastly-larger existing launch library compared to the other consoles listed. The Steam store currently has 115,106 items in the "Game" category listed. Hard to quantify the impact of that, since we don't really have data points for anything on that scale (though maybe someone could still try to look for correlation between launch library size and sales
consoles have had varying level of backwards compatibility).
I think that they should have deferred it two years for component prices to drop. I had a graphic showing inflation-adjusted console prices a while back. Aside from the Atari 2600, no console has had a price near that level and been successful.
goes looking
https://lemmy.today/pictrs/image/92214dd2-8c37-4df1-8c80-7adb02e3ae4c.jpeg
The highest-priced successful console was the PS3, at $778 in 2024 dollars.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PlayStation_3
At launch, the PS3 received a mixed reception, largely due to its high price—US$599 (equivalent to $960 in 2025) for the 60 GB model and $499 (equivalent to $800 in 2025) for the 20 GB model—as well as its complex system architecture and limited selection of launch titles. The hardware was also costly to produce, and Sony sold the console at a significant loss for several years. However, the PS3 was praised for its technological ambition and support for Blu-ray, which helped Sony establish the format as the dominant standard over HD DVD. Reception improved over time, aided by a library of critically acclaimed games, the Slim and Super Slim hardware revisions that reduced manufacturing costs, and multiple price reductions. These factors helped the console recover commercially.
But we'll see.
I have been assuming they had stock set aside for some kind of Machine + Controller bundle.
Could be
I haven't seen news along those lines and the Steam Machine description on their website doesn't presently say anything about coming with a Steam Controller
but I suppose that it's not unreasonable. But it's also worth remembering that they're probably aiming for the console market with the Steam Machine, and a lot of people use consoles for local multiplayer games and are probably going to want more than one controller for that.
Now, local multiplayer is less common among PC games than console games. But, especially with console ports, it's definitely out there.
https://store.steampowered.com/search?tags=7368&supportedlang=english&ndl=1
That says that there are 7,933 games currently on the Steam store that are tagged as Local Multiplayer.
ebikes
Apparently there are now also rolling blackouts in Crimea. Electric vehicles may not work so well.
You can actually tell, given the graph they posted.
The four states beneath Poland for 2025 are Lithuania, which slightly decreased from 2024 (though not enough to affect the ranking order), and then Portugal, Romania, and Slovakia, which are all in about the same spot (no visible increase or decrease).
So the factor in terms of it moving up four slots will have been Poland increasing.
That does sound like something that Trump would say.
It's an mp4, so maybe Jerboa can't handle that.
It shows up in Firefox in the Lemmy Web UI for me.
Another possibility
it's hosted on files.catbox.moe, and given that catbox allows arbitrary uploads of files, I'm sure that there's content that people have uploaded that violate pornography laws in some jurisdictions, and it's possible that you're in a country or on a network that that has some sort of network blacklist that includes catbox. You might try opening the URL directly in a Web browser. If you can't open that, probably it's your network provider.
https://www.npr.org/2026/06/21/g-s1-129200/ukrainian-attacks-russia-crimea-halt-gas-sales
He later wrote on social media that local gas stations would halt all sales to non-state companies and individuals for an undefined period.
"Fuel will be sold only to government agencies that ensure the functioning and security of the Republic of Crimea," Aksyonov said. "I ask everyone to remain calm and to only trust official sources of information."
Dear comrades, I want to say that the special military operation is proceeding strictly in line with the timetable, according to plan. All the tasks that have been set are being successfully resolved.
Vladimir Putin
There were increasing rumblings about the merits of the plan.
In fact, IIRC from an article I was reading a while back, the very first industrial robot was used on an American auto assembly line.
searches
Yes, Unimate, and it was even on a GM line, same as here.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unimate