Doesn’t help that prices are skyrocketing because of circular investing and spending between companies trying to amass as many data centers as possible to cash in on AI hype. These same companies keep pushing this idea that everything you know and do is worthless in the face of prompt-fu and that you have to use these platforms they’re pushing or you’re NGMI.

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babelfish 3 hours ago | parent [-]

What does this have to do with the steam deck?

	▲	doubled112 3 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		PC hardware like the Steam Deck is more expensive due to demand from AI hype.
	▲	aquova 3 hours ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		Where do you think all the supply that the Steam Deck was previously leveraging went?
	▲	mrhottakes an hour ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		The insides of the Steam Deck have a lot of the same bits and bobbins and thingamajigs that go inside AI data centers.
	▲	yieldcrv 2 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		RAM is expensive and there is scarcity in getting a supply of it = all consumer electronics will cost more