I mean steam adds a convenient way to keep your games up to date instead of having to manually patch them. I also was on the anti-steam bandwagon for the longest time until I finally gave in and decided to buy Modern Warfare 2 in 2010. I ended up repurchasing the rest of the Call of Duty games because it was so convenient not needing the discs and not having to locate patches.

Steam is the one launcher I don’t get pissed about having to use because it has so many value add features.

Unlike epic/origin/uplay

I’d take BBC/PBS over Fox News any day.

Usually when you think of reform, you imagine things getting better, not things getting worse…

Not sure that HDMI to component would be any better than just going straight component if your PVM doesn’t accept HDMI. Even if it does accept HDMI, it probably would be better to do straight component anyway. I would defer to your research as I’m not an experts on PVMs.

But personally I would probably just play ps3 on an LCD rather than a CRT. Most games, especially the last half of the generation were designed to plan on an LCD and it’s the easiest to connect and get good picture quality.

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The added content for the switch 2 looks underwhelming but I really liked wonder. It was a breath of fresh air after nearly 2 decades of new souper ports and sequels

PS3 comes with Composite cables. Why not use them instead of trying to downscale HDMI back to SD and adding lag?

lol my main pc runs on a Xeon from 2011 and 16 GB of DDR3. Now it doesn’t play games newer than 2016 but that’s besides the point as I rarely play anything made past 2011

I jumped in the hot tub with my phone in my pocket last summer and needed a phone and couldn’t really wait for one to ship from a random eBay or swappa seller so I had to go to Best Buy.

They had nothing carrier unlocked that was newer than the 128GB iPhone 15 for $800, refurbished. All else they had was a couple old pixels and galaxies and they weren’t much cheaper.

Policies like impact the poor folks who can’t afford the cash for phones that are unlocked and are stuck paying high monthly service rates.

Yet again, pirates get the better experience than the paying customer

I have yet to play half life 2 (waiting on my son to get the motivation to help me beat decay, I’ve beat the other expansions)

But I can’t imagine that half life 2 doesn’t hold up when the first game is a masterpiece that holds up better than pretty much any FPS released after it

Apple computers, which is a higher market share than Linux, are more expensive. That’s what I was getting at.

Windows became dominant because of enterprise software sales 20 years ago. Now everything runs in an electron wrapper that can run on any platform or in the browser.

PCs don’t even have optical drives anymore. No normal consumer even knows how to install a program today, let alone is considering legacy program compatibility when making a computer purchasing decision

I am qualifying my statements based on interactions with my coworkers of whom I deploy and manage their PCs. I could probably install mint on 50% of their PCs and the only reason they’d notice is because Microsoft office looks different and is called Libre Office for some reason

98% of Windows users, use windows because that’s what the OS that came with the computer they could afford.

98% of windows users probably don’t know what version they are on or even what windows is

I agree that if you completely take away their agency that it only makes the slop look more attractive but I also disagree that sentiment that “you can’t”. Technically it’s true. But that doesn’t mean we ought to give in to slop as parents. Low effort slop has been around since before AI. Find ways to teach the importance of genuine creative content and cultivate a preference for the real creative works with your children.

I can understand your viewpoint and agree with it even that Fortnite is overly engineered to sell overpriced cosmetic items to children.

I think where we differ is that one wrong (regular Fortnite skins), doesn’t excuse another, worse wrong (brainrot lootboxes and expensive mtx that can be lost)

The whole operation should be shut down, I think we agree there. Fortnite is actually the majority profiteer in this case, the “experience dev” only gets 34% of the revenue from the sale. Infuriating how hypocritical epic is after fighting apple and google over these practices only to do the same thing.

At least Apple and Google try to protect their users from this kind of thing

We had to use a family computer in a shared space. Not a tablet or phone that could be used unmonitored. Just because it wasn’t a technical measure doing the monitoring doesn’t mean we were unmonitored.

Only whitelist content or creators you personally have vetted with apps like YouTube kids, jellyfin, etc until you can trust their own decision making. Then share an account so that you can see watch history (and hopefully your good media choices influenced their tastes as you would share an algorithm)

Exploiting children isn’t funny. Stealing from fools is not ok. Having it be legal is not good for the health of society.

Normalizing antisocial behavior is not a good thing

Pretty obvious what was going to happen when they decided to go the Roblox route. Fortnite and Roblox are both predatory slop. Quite frankly the developers (even if they are kids) releasing paid “experiences” (aka slop) are just as immoral and predatory.

Talk to your kids about not falling for scams like f2p monetization schemes.

To be more clear, I mean when parental controls are added to an app they are almost always half baked and inserted as a marketing gimmick.

As a whole parental controls are definitely important for parents to utilize to the best of their abilities, it’s just hard to actually implement them on the application level as opposed to the network or device level.