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I'm on the Ultra plan and use it for chat, antigravity, and some other work automations (similar to your example). The only time I've ever hit my limit is when I use Deep Think (which usually eats up 4-5% of the 6-hour usage limit per response).

I think most people making a good ol' desktop program these days do it because they need very liberal access to the filesystem, or access to weird hardware peripherals. If they don't need either they could just put their app on the web!

Looking at the top apps on Mint's "app store" shows this trend too, everything is an editor of sorts (code editors, photo editors, video editors, audio editors, painting, modelling etc.)

Possible EU tariffs on electronics could have some effect.

IMO Nothing legal would need to be done. I think practical reasons like shipping time, shipping cost, and the annoyance of using a phone from one region with telecoms in another region would drastically reduce sales. Also you're not going to get 1st party support and that effects Apple devices more than others.

It's not the bubble, it's the DoD

The only downside is that you have to run macOS

Ah wait this is literally in the Matrix where humanity darkened the sky.

Looking through all the methods people are developing and proposing in this thread, there is a story developing where the "clean" machines are pushing humans to devolve into toxic porn-crazed racists with stolen material.

Makes me wish I was a good enough writer to develop this into something. Maybe I can use an LLM to write it...

That's it, AI has finally made HN obsolete!

Best we're getting is probably a stop to the price raises, but no price cuts. Kids will continue to grow up not knowing a $600 flagship GPU or a $1000 gaming PC.

I guess EVs have the acceleration and top speed crowns now, but it'll take a while for them beat any 24 hours of Le Mans records.

I'm very pessimistic about this. Goodbye to those nice, budget-friendly intel GPUs. nGreedia is going to continue selling 8 gig cards to consumers forever.

> I have never heard of a bank that has a hard requirement of a mobile app

My bank's app recently started warning me that I should "Turn off developer mode" for """security""" on every sign-in. This warning doesn't stop me from using the app yet, but I'm sure it'll get there.

The videos have white backgrounds, maybe it's to match that and keep the page cleaner.

Probably for easy mouse & keyboard support? Also, mini PCs are usually used in offices a lot and I bet most places that buy these things still have lots of USB-A storage devices as well.