The issue is this lessens the price difference for a PC. NVIDIA's RTX 5000 series has been available at MSRP lately.

You can build a PC that outperforms the PS5 Pro for $1,000 versus $750. (Ryzen 7600x /w 16GB RTX 5060ti)

And Sony charges $80/year if you want to play non-F2P games online. So the break even price is down to three years, and that's not taking into account all the free games, and greater discounts on games for the PC.

Switching from farming to an urban society and birth rates as a whole will drastically fall in a country.

But in the US during the Great Recession that began in 2008, birth rates were down for several years. After 2012-2016 when things recovered did people have kids.

Many people are also putting off having children until their mid 30s if not later which leads to greater risks of complications.

Yes there are people who want a large number of children who aren't discouraged and only end up with one. But many people who wanted 2-3 may decided to just stick with one.

Do you know what also happened to Japan in the early 90s? The crash of the 80s bubble economy, and the resulting almost 40 years of stagflation.

When people have uncertain futures many will opt to not have children, or just one child.

Changing up society to not require both parents working which then complicates childcare would cause a major shit.

But expectations also have to change, you can't be leveraged out the wazoo and busy running little Timmy to sports ball 1, and then sports ball 2, then art class, swimming, etc. Having your children enrolled in multiple activities and never having free time instead of growing up and exploring with their peers is having issues with social skills, and less community engagement.

The latest low power CPUs have impressive performance for their 15-40W full system power budget in mini PCs. I saw a drop in my power bill and I'm not as hot by switching out some old systems for new power efficient ones.

Of course anything that's doing large compute, video encoding, 3D rendering, AI, will still need more powerful systems. But 10-15 year old enterprise servers being VM hosts for normal homelab stuff can be swapped with much more power, noise, and space friendly options.

Are increased wages a bad thing? They haven't kept up with inflation over the last two decades.

And who said anything about only hiring citizens? The goal should be to make it less expensive to hire citizens, but if there is a labor shortage then workers could be brought in but it will cost the company more than just hiring a local.

And it is a global market, but wouldn't the cheapest just be out sourcing with workers from cheaper cost of living countries living in those cheaper countries and telecommuting? That was tried an lots of work is moving back. So there needs to be a pipeline to train people in the necessary skills and foster high quality jobs for citizens. The government should be doing what's best for citizens, not corporations.

I recommend reading up on the current situation that's been around for over a decade. Things have changed in the almost 30 years since you used the program.

The majority of H1-B visas are used by have a handful of consulting firms that under pay their staff. Many require managerial kick backs and staff are staying 4-5 if not more to an apartment or condo. H1-B recipients can change jobs why finding a new corporate sponsor. But many are unable to so the choice is keep working and living in the subpar conditions getting low pay, or having to go back home.

Having a program where you can bring in needed talent is a net positive. But there's tons of fraud going on with faking of education and credentials. Initial video calls where someone is sitting in front of the camera and being giving responses on what to say. And that's if the person on the camera is the one who physically shows up.

Why would companies bring someone in if they were able to hire two citizens for the same wage?

H1-B is being abused to out source and bring in a bunch of cheap labor. Take away the "cheap" factor and things change.

Besides the increased wage requirement, having every H1-B position require companies to also pay into a system that trains citizens on the needed skills would over time solve the issue that there's no one local with the needed abilities.

Do you mean the O-1 Visa?

To qualify for an O-1 visa, you must demonstrate extraordinary ability in the sciences, arts, education, business, or athletics, or extraordinary achievement in motion pictures or television. This requires evidence of sustained national or international acclaim, meaning you are one of the small percentage at the top of your field. You must also be coming to the U.S. to continue working in your area of expertise

Everyone seems believe H1-B's requirements are that of the O-1. But H1-B in reality has really just brought in cheap labor and suppressed wages.

For supported games cloud saves just work across Xbox, PC, and Cloud. If you have a game suspended on your Xbox, but then play and progress on your PC. When you come back the console will sync the save and kick you back to the game's main menu to choose to resume from the new last save or load a different one.

The change here is the Xbox app used to just list PC games to continue playing. Now console games that aren't on the PC will be shown in it and launch the game via cloud streaming.

Don't worry the artifacting from "AI" upscaling and frame generation will make that look the normal. Your locally run games will now look no different from the cloud streamed games.

Also, Steam's streaming really sucks in terms of quality. I recommend giving the Sunshine fork Apollo a try. It can stream to normal Moonlight clients for now and has several great quality of life features.

It was over 2,000. They are the largest studio that Microsoft owns. They are bigger then all of the Activision studios that were pumping out yearly Call of Duty games combined.

Yet from their release schedule they put out fewer than one new game a year. I wouldn't be surprised if it ended up like Twitter where 70% of the staff could be let go and it would keep humming along.

Cool made up story bro. Maybe try sticking to just one topic instead of jumping around with your fantasy writings.

There's new AI you can have freely proofread your rambling so it will be somewhat coherent for someone who isn't off their meds.

Cats aren't known of accurately choosing workloads. Cats also generally loaf about laying in the sun. So extra training is needed for them to be able to perform jobs which requires the services of special trainers who are expensive to employee.

Odd to see a report about the job of the future being dead based on solely on enrollment into old forms of education.

It's gotten earlier than ever to get access to the latest tools and learn. Why end up going to a college and get saddled with debt just to be given an outdated curriculum.

That's type 2, this treatment is for type 1 which is genetic.