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  • They almost certainly are running at a loss. Same as Twitch, their parent companies are generally okay with it, because they also serve as pretty solid tech demos for other services they offer (YouTube runs on Google Cloud Platform, Twitch runs on Amazon Web Services), and that pays off indirectly.

    Moreover, their parent companies can use them as free advertising. Google about to launch a new phone? Guess what you’re gonna see ads for!

    I think the term for this is “loss leader”

  • Hey, look at this guy! He thinks Qualcomm gives a shit about his privacy!

    Both American and Chinese phones use Snapdragon chips. If the American government is spying on you, despite your phone having said Snapdragon, what makes you think the Chinese government isn’t also spying?

    Your whataboutism is slightly concerning, it’s not like China is also home to Hauwei or anything..

  • Going to corroborate this with that I had a really similar experience with my old Sabertooth 990FX board. Was supposed to support Bulldozer, and they put out a BIOS update the night before Bulldozer launched. I grabbed the update, put it on a flash drive, and updated the board. It would never post after that. RAM, CPU (FX6100), graphics card were all reseated multiple times. Never even gave post beeps, so there wasn’t even a hint as to what was going on. Even tried a different PSU just to be safe.

    ASUS told me to get shafted because they couldn’t guarantee I updated the BIOS safely.

    CompUSA exchanged it with a pre-updated board, no questions asked.

    I fucking miss. That. Store.