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[–] floop@lemmy.dbzer0.com 24 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Bewildering? Quality is dropping so profit margins can increase.

[–] floop@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago) (1 children)

Slapping one together out of spare parts is not at all the same as mass producing one in a factory.

And whatever you could slap together for 30 bucks would, as I said, in previous comment, suck and break very easily, not to mention that you wouldn’t be able to bring it anywhere close to the ocean for fear of everything corroding extremely quickly.

[–] floop@lemmy.dbzer0.com 38 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (7 children)

Probably because it would weigh 40 pounds and cost $1700. It would probably also suck, and break very easily.

And having any of that shit anywhere close to saltwater? Hell no. The electronics should be corroded within a week.

Edit: while we definitely have the technology to do this, we just don’t have the capability to mass produce them at a reasonable price or of any reasonable quality. Current technology and materials also come with a lot of really crappy limitations. Maybe something like this might get developed if a lot of people suddenly show interest in it, but aside from that happening, it could be a while.

Developing a product like this could take hundreds of millions of dollars and 10 years to get something like in the picture above.

[–] floop@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 day ago

Have a good recovery. Best wishes!

[–] floop@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 day ago

They’d rather starve and flood devastated Texas than for a brown person to get healthcare

[–] floop@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

You’re allowed to say Cunt on the Internet

[–] floop@lemmy.dbzer0.com 155 points 1 month ago (15 children)

Exactly. Reddit isn’t my fucking bank. They don’t need to know who I am.

[–] floop@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

I had one of those. It was a great sound card.

[–] floop@lemmy.dbzer0.com 37 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

It’s worth considering that a good reason they decided to start invading other countries is because their economy was in the absolute fucking toilet. The interwar period Was nothing but economic failure for Germany, mostly because they had these gigantic sanctions and embargo and reparation payments to deal with. All that war spending didn’t really help that much.

[–] floop@lemmy.dbzer0.com 273 points 1 month ago (17 children)

Does this guy just sit up all day trying to find new ways to be a fucking piece of shit asshole?

[–] floop@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

No, I actually worked for Microsoft. I was 15. It was a sort of contract gig for bug hunters, especially if you were able to fix the code at all. Otherwise, you just had access to download it from Microsoft servers and submit feedback.

Back then, these betas were tested by the Microsoft user interface group, maybe that’s where I did contractor work for Longhorn. It was a very long time ago.

[–] floop@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 month ago

Memphis was the code name for Windows 98. The code name for Windows 96 was Nashville.

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