deadballcretin

> I certainly don’t want anyone to take this article to mean “no one actually has a problem with phones or social media”. It’s worth being mindful about what role these apps play in our lives, and if we’re having trouble with procrastination because of them, we can take steps to mitigate that. But there’s a big difference between a drop in our cognitive abilities and there being something distracting in our pocket.

First off, this feels like it rings true for me, personally. Second, I feel like there is a huge confirmation bias in the click-centric, hyper-commodified world that a lot of the sites mentioned in this article operate on. The studies confirm what we think we are seeing with no real depth or rigor to the study (especially in the case of the 'goldfish' attention span anecdote).

I have seen some thoughts via comments on this news on other platforms and the prevailing kneejerk response to this is somehow that Valve is bad at managing their supply chain as opposed to being one of the last hardware manufacturers to raise prices in the gaming space. The Ally family, while faster, launched at the higher end, Sony raised the cost of the PlayStation, Microsoft with the Xbox, and even Nintendo. All to say, I think this is a bummer but also believe that Valve deserves some credit for having navigated the market as best they could before raise the price.

Whether the hardware is worth the price hike is a different question all together. Even further, the question is what this may mean for the other hardware products that they have still in the pipeline.

MFA and allowing some sort of music streaming (specifically Plex, for me) would make this a no brainer. Without those two, like you said, it wouldn't be able to be my only mobile device.

The performance jumps that Nvidia has had in a fairly short amount of time is impressive, but I can't help but feel like there is a real need for another player in this space. Hopefully AMD can challenge this supremacy soon.

What's the grift here, get as much voluntary biometric data as possible before regulatory pressure shuts the whole thing down?

I'm talking about the city, not the brewing scene. The brewery is a staple of the city and it is a shame to see it shutter in such a fashion. Looking at the rest of the scene and not what the brewery represents is intentionally missing the point of what I was trying to say. The city is being dismantled, bit by bit, being replaced with facsimiles of what people think San Francisco is supposed to be instead of letting the city be.

Simply put, par for the course when it comes to what little of San Francisco's soul is actually left. Slowly dismantling the weird to make way for the boring.

Saporro has mismanaged this from the very start, they had no plan when they bought the company and will almost certainly turn to victim blaming and crying foul amidst their successful unionization effort in 2019.

Nothing, the issue is who is buying and implementing it.

On one hand, 'if it ain't broke' etc.

On the other, 'wait, what?'.

The entire operation manages to somehow feel both incredibly sophisticated (it's not easy to get a sub to that depth) and simultaneously incredibly stupid.