Oh, the lifechanging technology isn't completely 100% free? They sell ads just like a bajillion other things?

ChatGPT is not 100% free in the first place, and this is about tracking and selling your data, not the existence of ads themselves.

You're firmly in the build-a-pc bracket. Nothing else will ever make sense.

I'm actually firmly in the console (XSX in my case) bracket for my gaming. I want it to just work without any fuss, and for way under $1000.

The main benefits to the PC gaming space (upgradability of components, higher than console performance, compatible with a diverse ecosystem) are all worse on the Steam Machine than basically any other gaming PC. And running Windows games on Linux is definitely more fuss for many/most games.

The Steam Machine is extremely small and supports HDMI-CEC. Other than that, it doesn't have a lot going for it, and it is priced at quite the premium. That is a questionable value prop for many.

But a person can't really use their PS5 as a home PC.

Sounds like a nice, charitable thing. Of course it benefits the business too, nothing is free, duh. But it's still good. Cheers.

This Hacker News thread isn't useful at all. It's the same people that comment on every thread stating their opinions overconfidently. It's the same perpetually negative Wired article. These things would be the same no matter what is really going on, and so I can't use it to learn anything.

Could be said of almost every HN thread to be fair

I couldn't care less about this, it's not in the top 1 million problems. If this is an issue for you, seriously re-evaluate how you spend your time.

Bilt sends your rent payments to Equifax. Equifax used to sell that data through The Work Number.

There seem to be a lot of misleading sentences on this page.

There's that section about how Meta executives got drunk on an airplane. And the only thing that happens is they sing karaoke. There's nothing inappropriate. They're a bunch of boring nerds.

Yeah that was essentially my takeaway as well.

The author thought the people she was working for were Really Special People and that by extension she was a Really Special Person. She gets very upset when she sees that are just Ordinary People and that by extension she is just an Ordinary Person as well.

And how could she be just an Ordinary Person and so sad/stressed at the same time?

Actually when you put it that way, I mean who can't relate to that.

haha I mean everyone can relate to it but we don't all write a book about it

Congrats, sounds good for everyone.

Thank you!