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Put them in the medicine cabinet next to your detachable penis. You know, when you think it might get you into trouble.

As someone who daily drives Linux since '96, I can say that while it’s a much better OS and way less enshitified, driver issues, hardware issues, compatibility issues, and everything else above is just part of PC gaming as a whole. The problems I’ve had to fight with over the years most people would have given up and installed windows.

Console gaming is definitely way less problematic and when problems do arise, much simpler to troubleshoot.

You can sell your old PS* discs. There’s a few used stores around here. That said, you probably won’t get tons for them, but it’s worth a look, I try to buy used games if the new ones hold their value too long.

When I got my PS5, I picked up like 5 PS4 titles I always wanted but went from 3 to 5. Got 5 pretty popular triple A games for like $30-40 at the time when it would have been like $100+ for them all new.

I don’t want to make digital seem better, but for this argument it is… you don’t even need the disc, you just turn on the console and select the game. All from the comfort of your sofa. Hell, you don’t even need to go to a store or wait for a delivery in the first place, all those bytes just come to you.

I think something to realize here is that A.) The above is why the majority of people just use digital at this point, and B.) Inserting a brand new game disc into your console still requires downloads, installing and often being online to do so anyway. Modern games rarely even fit on one disc, so the disc is less useful that it was in the XBox OG and PS1 days. It’s more like what Nintendo is doing with the Game Key Carts.

Thanks Jack, but the people who pay attention to the news will listen to you and say “Duh, we already know this, it’s blatantly obvious.”

The rest of the people are either profiting off of it, don’t know this but also don’t care, or don’t trust a word you say.

“Come on, I still have to employ you all?!” - Zuck

The RAM I bought in 2019 for $100 is now over $500. at this rate I’ll sell it in a few years to put my daughter through college.

This was my plan 3-4 yrs ago when there was a big solar company “get in before the subsidy goes away” push. I must have had 5 or 6 solar companies I talked to, all of them wouldn’t touch that setup with a 10ft pole. They think the money is in credits/chargeback. I want independence. I have since moved and haven’t tried here but that area would get large storms and issues that would require me to have a generator anyway, so Solar + Batteries seemed a no brainer. I still want power independence, but it’s less a necessity here.

What would be the recourse? let’s say, magically, Steam goes out of business. Files Chapter 11, restructures, doesn’t work out, no one buys their IP, closes up shop. servers go offline.

Sure they could have open sourced the servers, removed DRM (the publisher would be the more important one for that though), etc. But if they didn’t, they just went under, ran out of money, and they’re gone. Who are you going to sue? How will you get them to do the above? Why would they care? They no longer have money or resources to make it happen anyway. Can’t squeeze blood from a turnip.

Honestly:

“A Strike 3 Holding investigation found that 47 IP addresses belonging to Meta were used to torrent 2,396 of its videos a total of 6,008 times between 2018 and 2025.”

That’s 2396 x 6008 x $150,000=$2.159 Billion

And honestly, that’s what they need to do. $450M is a cost of business expense.