Or just wanting to have a bunch of PR’s in their portfolio

Great. Now can we please fix the same issue for the original Steam Controller on the Deck?

Escalators have brakes to prevent them from moving. If the escalator breakdown causes the brakes to fail, then it can accelerate enough to seriously injure people

Density issues for grid storage is fairly negligible compared to cars and handheld electronica

Doubt (x)

Also, it’s supposed to cost less because materials are much cheaper.

Lithium is currently in a temporary dip in prices. It’s going to go back up

As someone who has 30k in the bank and qualified for multiple 350k loans

Don’t trust those lenders. They want you in more debt than you should take on because it makes them more money

and got much more house for my money.

And have way more debt as well

Sodium ion batteries would be better for grid storage. They’re cheaper, more durable, and work in a wider range of temperatures. Plus they’re going to market within the year

That doesn’t stop sodium batteries from being fundamentally bigger and heavier than lithium batteries for the same capacity. That just means the tradeoff can be more worth it in some regions

Not necessarily bad for cars. Some vehicles can use just sodium batteries. Some companies are looking at making battery packs with mixed cell types in different ratios to get a best of both worlds for their use case. Sodium sucks for personal electronics though

in the more important ways

This is HIGHLY dependent on use case

In only a few years, most batteries will be made without lithium anyway.

Really depends on the use case. Grid-scale storage? Yeah, there’s better chemistries for that. Cars? We’re probably going to see a mix of chemistries in the same battery packs to tailor use case. In personal electronics? No, lithium will remain king

When it comes to tech, id never say never.

Eh, there is a degree to that, but there’s also the fact that you can’t just break thermodynamics. With quantum effects you need to remove a lot of noise, and near-0k temperatures will do that.

Not only that, is there even a practical purpose to getting quantum computing on an individual level? While it’s better for specialized problems, current transistor tech is way better at general use cases and is good enough that we don’t really need significantly more power. And even if it was technologically possible to shrink dpwn quantum computing enough to fit in a desktop of phone, what’s going to be the cost of it compared to transistors?

Valve had limits in place for controller orders, like requiring an existing Steam account witb a purchase history. They just didn’t set up a queue.

And if you look, there doesn’t seem to be a huge number of scalpers. My guess it’s just a handful of people who got lucky, and decided they’d rather get $200-400 and wait longer for a controller for themselves

Removed by mod

Kinda. ARM isn’t great for high-power user cases, and the hardware in the frame isn’t top-end for the architecture.

The frame can run less intensive games, but will struggle with heavier games. I assume Skyrim VR will be in the latter category, especially with mods.

I dont think we’ll see quantum powered consumer products for a while

Or ever. Quantum processors have to operate close to 0k to work

Is #2 in line for the guillotine

Then they don’t deserve your business

Tbf, almost all of them are decended from cultists, if not cultists themselves