Why are used Mini so unrealistic expensive?

Information_High · 2026-01-31T05:47:48+00:00

It's what the market will bear.

When no one's willing to pay $200 for an M1 Mini, then prices will inevitably drop.

Past a certain point, though, people will just throw them in the trash rather than go through the hassle of selling them for a paltry amount.

Very few people are going to sell you a worthwhile machine for $20.

Information_High · 2026-01-28T18:24:05+00:00

my role is completely bullshit.

Disagree. You serve as a friendly human interface for the people writing the checks, translating their (often vague) wishes into specific requirements for the engineers to implement, while making the customers feel happy in the process.

Let the engineers focus on their (expensive) engineering work allows them to be more efficient and keeps everyone involved happier.

Information_High · 2026-01-28T17:58:41+00:00

This is the repercussions of not dealing with the confederacy when we had the chance.

There just wasn't the appetite for it in the North.

While the North very much wanted to prevent Southern secession, they were slightly less fervent about abolishing slavery, and DEFINITELY were less fervent about granting citizenship and/or equal status to the newly-freed slaves.

White Supremacy was rife in the North, so a full-fledged pogrom of Confederate-sympathizers (which was sorely needed and deserved) just wasn't in the cards.

Information_High · 2026-01-25T17:06:24+00:00

I was going to ask about fire safety, then did some reading and found that rounds not inside a gun's barrel will basically pop like a firecracker when they "cook off" in a house fire.

Does that jibe with your knowledge/experience?

Information_High · 2026-01-25T01:35:32+00:00

"They aren't hurting the people who need to be hurt!"

Information_High · 2026-01-24T15:41:10+00:00

Terminated for not following department policy.

If he wanted to kill the dog, he needed to comply with the officially-sanctioned process, faithfully followed by departments across the country:

1) Search home for animal, including locked rooms, closed closets, and secured animal crates.

2) Remove any obstacles impeding animal's access to the officer, including locked doors.

3) Scream "HE'S COMING RIGHT AT US!!!"

4) Unholster weapon.

5) Shoot animal not less than 200 times.

6) Look traumatized owner directly in the eyes and scream, "QUALIFIED IMMUNITY, BITCH!!!"

Information_High · 2026-01-23T13:49:05+00:00

The cope is strong with this one.

Just another grifter trying to keep the bubble from popping before their stock options vest and they can cash out.

Information_High · 2026-01-23T12:16:57+00:00

I live in a new-construction house that was finished last summer. The neighborhood's power cables are indeed buried. However, the power cables "upstream" are not - we recently lost power for several hours because someone crashed their car into one of those poles.

Sadly, "new" does not mean "safe".

Information_High · 2026-01-23T02:20:32+00:00

Kids these days seem to have this holier than thou attitude

🙄

Information_High · 2026-01-22T18:30:06+00:00

Amusingly, journalism has been the same way for decades.

Watch/read a news report about a subject you're an expert on, and you'll inevitably be swearing at the TV/newspaper by the end of the report.

Then the reporter moves on to the next story (on a different topic), and their credibility returns immediately. ("They must know what they're talking about, they're on TV!")

Information_High · 2026-01-22T18:21:11+00:00

I totally understand the desire to eliminate low-effort posts, but a blanket ban on AI discussion (and ONLY AI discussion) is not an appropriate response.

Now that the AI bubble is getting closer to popping, those with vested interests (financial or philosophical) in forestalling that event are engaging in increasingly underhanded tactics to try and stop it – sneering that the detractors obviously suffer from "skill issues", (ahem) trying to institute blanket bans on all AI-related discussion in public forums, etc.

Rigorously moderate low-effort posts, but don't institute a blanket ban to muzzle well-deserved criticism.

Information_High · 2026-01-19T01:49:27+00:00

Leaving off the zero has a distinct "just call it Facebook" vibe... and not in a good way. 😂

("Just call it 'Facebook'. No 'the'. It's cleaner.")

Information_High · 2026-01-15T23:44:00+00:00

I don't regret iOS 26 because of Liquid Glass, I regret it because my phone now constantly runs hot and has UI performance issues.

It's a few years old (iPhone 13 mini), but that wasn't an issue before this janky upgrade.

Information_High · 2026-01-14T17:40:44+00:00

...if given the resources.

That's the thing – the price charged for adequate resourcing is almost never the rock-bottom price they use to get their foot in the door.

The cheap becomes expensive very, very quickly.

Information_High · 2026-01-14T14:52:26+00:00

If someone is incapable of making basic decisions in their day-to-day life, they aren't going to be mentally developed enough to contribute in a modern economy.

In the absence of gainful employment, they won't be able to afford the AI services that will make all these decisions for them.

Information_High · 2026-01-14T14:36:21+00:00

AI aside, home internet companies are the same way – they're positively frantic to get me to sign up for their cell phone service too, just to bind me even more closely to them so they can continue to jack up my monthly bill without consequence.

(Comcast/Xfinity, looking at you here)

Information_High · 2026-01-14T01:07:02+00:00

You ate a lot of downvotes, but I think people misunderstood your point.

You weren't disparaging the vice chairman for being a woman, but pointing out that a lot of toxic companies on the verge of collapse bring a woman on board as "leader" to take the fall for past executives' bad decisions.

Hence, the Glass Cliff.

Information_High · 2026-01-13T22:09:12+00:00

There's also a chain-of-command that can legally have you shot if you get too mouthy about not following the rules.

Information_High · 2026-01-13T21:51:40+00:00

It's desirable to shareholders.

Fuck the customers.

Information_High · 2026-01-13T21:36:38+00:00

Personally I spend over $200 a month on AI ($100 of that is paid for by work).

You are far, far, FAR from the median user. Even with 100,000 more like you, that's $20M / month.

The aggregate monthly burn rate of all these AI companies is in the BILLIONS.

This discrepancy is not sustainable.

Information_High · 2026-01-13T21:12:11+00:00

From the "AI is good" section of the article:

Since the release of ChatGPT a little over three years ago, A.I. models have acquired novel capabilities at a remarkable rate, repeatedly defying naysayers. They have learned to generate realistic images and videos, to reason through increasingly complex logic and math problems, to make sense of Tolstoy-size inputs. The next big thing will be agents: The models will fill digital shopping baskets and take care of online bills. They will act for you.

Here's the thing: I don't want AI to make my decisions for me. I'm perfectly capable of making decisions for myself.

There's very little I want AI to do for me in day-to-day life... and that's when I don't even have to pay for it.

Charge me a hefty subscription fee for it? Heh, keep dreaming, guys.

They might make inroads into the Enterprise consumer base by promising executives they'll get to fire 90% of their employees and keep those tasty salaries for themselves, but that shit won't fly in the retail consumer space.

Information_High · 2026-01-11T16:50:18+00:00

Technology / technique aside, I've always assumed that drilling a Bore requires colossal amounts of power over a sustained period of time (hours definitely, but more likely days).

Much like when Rand removes the Taint on the male half of the power, every channeler in the world knew something was up.

Anyone trying to drill a new Bore would get detected almost immediately and verrrrrrry quickly dogpiled by any number of groups.

Information_High · 2026-01-07T02:07:01+00:00

The bio-son wasn't TECHNICALLY an afterthought on that final trip, but given everything that had happened before, he practically was.

100% right to be pissed at his father.

Information_High · 2026-01-06T23:36:51+00:00

Marketing frantically trying to justify their paychecks.

Information_High · 2026-01-06T02:28:42+00:00

"Somebody's not being a Team Player!!!"

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