I don't know, it wouldn't be that hard to produce an empty catalytic converter. The same part, but without the expensive bits on the inside. That would save a lot of money and increase pollution a whole bunch.
However one big flaw in the plan, number must go up! No company ever passes on savings to the customer, they will just make a crappier cheaper product and sell it for the same price or more even.
It's really amazing how much power you can get for cheap in a small package these days. But yeah putting a battery on that wouldn't be practical, it's still a very efficient chip, but in absolute terms eats a bunch of power. So you'd need to be tethered. You could easily wear one of those mini pcs, but need a power cable. One of those could be dropped down from the ceiling, but still not as good as a mobile solution.
It was Book 2 of the Extinction series called Extinction Countdown by James D Prescott. The whole series was available for 1 credit so I thought I gave it a try.
Book 1 was very cliche and over the top, but enjoyable enough. Kinda dumb and predictable but good enough. Pretty short as well, so for a credit per book it would have been too expensive. However Book 2 doubled down on all the bad parts of Book 1 and turned the cringe to 11.
It said: "If even 10% of the predictions made by Elon Musk on Ai are true..." I rolled my eyes so hard I think I hurt myself. Then three sentences later they went on about Kanye West's new fashion line. So I turned it off for then, thought about it today and refunded. The author probably meant well, but oof.
I'm not sure what a Steam deck costs? $450 - $550?
A Minisforum UM870 with 32GB of memory and 1TB SSD is around $500. That has an AMD Ryzen 7 8745H CPU. 8 cores 16 thread 4.9ghz boost Zen4. Gpu builtin Radeon 780M with 12 RDNA3 2.7ghz cores. That could give the Steam Deck a round for it's money I think.
Is it not much easier and cheaper to buy a mini pc and run Steam with an OS of choice? (You can chose between any number of Linux distros, I use Arch btw). Steam can just launch on boot into big picture mode, it's pretty much a console at that point.
I was listening to an audio book the other day and it mentioned Elon Musk and Kanye West unironically within three sentences of each other. The book was written in 2018, but still pretty cringe. I refunded today, the book was already pretty ick to begin with and those two put it over the top.
The Nvidia stock is based on expected demand. The idea is they are the top dog when it comes to Ai compute. So as the world ramps up in putting shitty Ai in everything we can, the future demand on Nvidia stuff goes up and up. No serious competition is expected, so people are buying stock in expectation of huge profits in the future. So for a brief time right before the resource hungry shitty Ai destroys the planet, a lot of rich people will become even richer than before.
However this new Ai has shown you can make a just as shitty Ai, but using a lot less compute. This not only lowers the demand for Nvidia products, because less compute is needed. It also boosts supply because less capable competitor hardware might be in the running after all.
The stock market is pretty dumb, so instead of being fully dependent on supply and demand, it's also heavily based on expected supply and demand, which in turn are based on promises and hype. And because it's become so easy to trade these days, it can get very volatile because there are traders that just jump on any hype train and sell at the first sign of trouble. These amplify stock movements a lot. This has lead to the dot com bubble in overdrive, a lot of stock is so hyper inflated it isn't connected to reality anymore. See for example Tesla stock or in this case Nvidia.
The worst part is all these products suck so bad, it never works like you want it to and it has weird limitations and restrictions that really shouldn't be there. So it isn't even like selling your soul to the devil, but getting what you wished for. It's just bad news all around.
Didn't he buy the whole thing in a hostile takeover? That means no more publicly traded shares and he owns the whole thing. Probably through some complicated holdings construction but ultimately he owns it fully.
He owned 9% of stock before the takeover. His price was way high, which is why he attempted to get out of it. And no shareholder complained as they got a good return on their investment.
As far as I understand a lot of the finances came from different sources, like the Saudis. But the agreements around those aren't public, so I don't think anyone knows exactly if they can demand anything except money and what the rules are for Musk. Unless that's been confirmed leaked, but I don't care enough about Musk or Twitter to keep tabs on that.
I'm pretty sure the two girls only had the one cup