“Everything will be fine with Steiner’s attack Farage’s government”

The main concern with old hardware is probably powerdraw/efficiency, depending on how old your PC is, it might not be the best choice. But remember: companies are getting rid of old hardware fairly quickly, they can be a good choice and might be available for dirt cheap or even free.

I recently replaced my old Synology NAS from 2011 with an old Dell Optiplex 3050 workstation that companies threw away. The system draws almost twice the power (25W) compared to my old synology NAS (which only drew 13W, both with 2 spinning drives), but increase in processing power and flexibility using TrueNAS is very noticable, it allowed me to also replace an old raspberry pi (6W) that only ran pihole.

So overall, my new home-server is close in power draw to the two devices it replaced, but with an immense increase in performance.

On a CFW PS3, you can use multiman to create an ISO of a video BluRay or copy the file structure off of the disc by putting it into “classic multiman mode” - This will not work on HEN systems You’ll still need to copy the result over to your PC and use software like MakeMKV to rip it to a movie file, but it works. I had to do that recently with a BluRay Disc that my PC Drive was refusing to read without errors.

If PS3 gaming is what you care about most, best get a slim model that can run proper cfw. A HEN system (later slims, superslims) work as well, but they can be quirky with a few tasks outside of gaming (e.g. trying to rip a Bluray movie for conversion on a PC), and you have to run HEN on every boot (just a single button press and a few seconds of waiting, but still).

That being said, the superslim, while feeling very cheap, can sometimes also be bought very cheap (i paid 20 EUR for a used one a few years ago), and since they use a fixed drive (i.e. no slot loading mechanism), you don’t have to worry about the mechanism failing.

you could make parking spots that won’t fit almost six meter long pickup trucks

still, they will try and park their car in there:

https://feddit.org/post/10733288

it’s from the makers of “Heavy Rain” and “Beyond: Two souls”. The player has to play the role of three different humanoid androids throughout the game, and make choices that heavily affect the gameplay. Depending on the choices you make with every character, their story and outcome changes their future paths. It’s a good game, and can be bought quite cheap at sales. The acting is really good IMO.

“I was curious if I could use a soldering iron to remove the device and try to escape”

SteamOS is a linux distro based on Arch Linux, similar to any other. It’s a amalgamation of different pieces of software, including a traditional desktop environment (plasma). But it does not boot into the desktop mode by default, instead it boots into their own graphical environment (gamemode) by default, running their steam client.

That’s because their main focus is gaming machines, and that’s why they want gamers to be greeted with a consolized, 10-foot UI.

I think you’re confused because you think of steamOS being the UI (i.e. “Desktop Environment”) that welcomes you when you boot into it, instead steamOS is the entire package, including a “traditional” desktop environment (which is KDE Plasma), as well as their own (gamemode), etc.

Which aspect of that confuses you? That it uses a Desktop Environment to do desktop things, or that they are using KDE Plasma instead of something else (say, gnome)?

Microsoft […] gets massive backlash

Pretty much since the release of Windows 10, Microsoft has been getting backlash because of the invasive, hostile and insane decisions they make and force on their users. It’s gotten particularly vocal since W11 and the EOL of Windows 10.

Yet, everybody seems to eat the plate of shit MS serves them. They complain, but most people dont seem to want to put in effort to rid themselves of Microsoft.

I could cry.

I mean, that’s how I read it, too. It’s going to be the default for any urban area, cities of millions, towns of dozens.
But that doesn’t stop rural towns from increasing the speed limit by posting a 50kph sign, either where it is reasonable, or overall. When you enter any town/city-limits by car, you need to slow down to 30kph, unless there is a speed sign allowing for higher or lower speeds.
This is literally all a town needs to say “the 30kph limit is nice, but we don’t want that”:

I mean, sure, start out low. In Germany, we already have such a rule, and its 50% (on top of there being an actual need for the clause to be legitimate, company secrets for example. Just because the company fears their customers might move along with their former employee is not a valid reason).

And I believe that percentage, while a start, is way too low. I guess I am looking at it from my local perspective when I think of 90% being the minimum it should be.

I believe the percentage should be no lower than 90%.
A non-compete clause is very valuable for a company, at the detriment of the employee - this needs to be heavily reimbursed.

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The Stadia Controller and the Gullikit KK3 Series have built in batteries and therefore come with their own charging circuit.

The Steam Controller does not charge the batteries, you have to use an external AA charger

The 8bitdo Pro 2 comes with a rechargable battery pack that sits in the AA compartment of the controller (similar to the old xbox 360 play-and-charge kits) and can be charged via USB. I don’t know if that charge function is limited to their battery pack, or if it will work with AA rechargables as well. My guess is, though, that it doesn’t, because it would have to somehow identify if the cells are actually rechargable, or if they are just alkaline batteries - trying to charge alkalines can be dangerous.

Allthough persoanlly, I consider using an external AA charger a convenience.

I do have quite a few different controllers, all work fine on linux for me:

• Xbox One controllers (newer models, older ones don’t support bluetooth)
• 8bitdo SN30 Pro 2
• Gulikit KK3 Pro
• Steam Controller
• Google Stadia

The Stadia Controller is not my favourite, but it still works well. I mainly use the Gulikit and 8bitdo ones, depending on the game and wether my main input is meant to be d-pad or left joystick.
The Steam Controller is unique, but I rarely use it.
Bonus points for the 8bitdo Pro 2, the Steam Controller and the Xbox Controllers using AA batteries instead of relying on built in, proprietary rechargable batteries. Pair them with some good IKEA Ladda rechargables and they are awesome.

usually, they don’t actively seed, they are just part of the swarm, and request content from you. And if that content is part of e.g.their movie, they get you for distributing the movie.

That’s a new kind of cuck chair, but its facing the wrong way.

That’s what someone in the pockets of big mouth wash would say.

Back when Randall Munroe released his “What if” in eBook format, it essentially was only available with DRM.
When I emailed him about it, asking for a place to buy it without DRM, he responded with DRM unfortunately being mandated by his publisher, and finished his email with a link to this comic of his:
https://xkcd.com/488/