The debt becomes a permanent leash around the country as neoliberal institutions suck it dry, and/or Russia agrees to take on a portion of the debt in exchange for annexing more of the territory.
The latter is better for everybody involved, but who knows if all the stakeholders are ideologically ready for that sort of deal.
I always worry about recycling old phones/laptops this way since it's trusting an aging battery in an always-on device when I won't be home. Idk if I'm being paranoid, but it feels like a fire risk.
It's very niche. You have to enjoy learning a run-based drafting system, looking at things, taking notes, and being a total conspiracy theory cork board goober, to really get a lot out of it.
I only played to the first ending (there are many layers past this) and thought its puzzle designs were too boring to warrant how much effort it wanted out of me. But some people get really really into it, and I don't think they're wrong or anything.
A mansion with everything you could ever want is "only" tens of millions of dollars, so any billionaire has as many as they could want. But you you want to go to different cities for different events, and settling in to a new place is such a hassle. You ever spend a week on vacation or at a relative's house and, for the first few days, every time you wake up in the middle of the night to take a piss, you have to remember where you are and where the bathroom is?
What if you were so rich that this is the biggest remaining problem in your life? Wouldn't it be nice if you just had one mansion set up the way you like, and could take it with you?
Under communism you need a wiki to know which Half Life 7s are supposed to be sequels to the Half Life 6 you played because the abolition of intellectual property means we've abandoned the false idea that an official sequel to something from 20 years ago can exist when all the people who created it have moved on to different projects, or at least different parts of their lives.
Game devs are like an entire Overton window to the left of gamers, and ex-industry devs who go into indie dev talk about their time in the industry like it was mandatory military service or a prison sentence.
Image generators can make a much wider variety of styles than this (still all derivative, of course), but the people in charge of these AI companies are hollowed out soulless fuckers, trying to make a product that produces "content"-shaped images, to sell to an audience of creatively bereft upper managers at games and media companies, who've spent their entire careers trying to corral artists into producing interchangeable art so they can be more easily reassigned and fired.
It's so hard to say without knowing the price. If it's too expensive, it doesn't matter. If it's a little expensive for what it does, then at least it'll bring more people to Linux (but relatively affluent gamer nerds, not anybody cool). If it's exactly the appropriate price for the hardware, then that's very good for Linux. If it's below that, that's fantastic for Linux and I might get one. If they somehow made it genuinely cheap, then that's the most important thing to happen in computing since the iphone.
For the last decade or so, the tech jobs market has been dominated by big tech hiring everyone they can, so they can't wander off on their own and make new competitors. That's predicated on big tech having so much money that they can't find anything more useful to spend it all on. It won't continue past the tech growth stock bubble, whenever it pops. (Which might not be the pop we're currently headed for; if it's just AI instead of the whole thing somehow, then those jobs will bounce back.)
On the positive side, if that ever stops, some of the unemployed tech workers will make actually useful things, some of which will become businesses that can hire the other tech workers. This is more like how it worked in the early 2000s.
However, those new tech companies have to actually make money somehow, which means somebody has to be able to afford their products, which means new tech will be beholden to the shape of the wider economy. For example, currently startups are all B2B, because businesses have money and consumers don't. In a wide scale economic downturn where businesses are cutting costs, even those B2B startups won't be able to find customers, so they'll have to fold (or just not get founded).
So I don't think the market is going to recover to the old maximum, and afterwards it'll be much more cyclical, following the rest of the economy along whatever nonsense it does.
The debt becomes a permanent leash around the country as neoliberal institutions suck it dry, and/or Russia agrees to take on a portion of the debt in exchange for annexing more of the territory.
The latter is better for everybody involved, but who knows if all the stakeholders are ideologically ready for that sort of deal.