The way I see it, a box of drives still needs something to connect it to your network.

And that something that can only do a basic connection costs only a little less than something that can run a bunch of other stuff too.

You can see why it all gets bundled together.

I can see why it was popular with hikers.

Never know when you might need to start a fire to keep warm.

When I was doing work experience in around 1995, I did mine at a local computer firm. A few days in, the doorbell rang. I looked over at the security camera. It was four lads in balaclavas.

I thought we were going to get robbed. The boss opened the door, put his hand over the camera, and returned a few seconds later with his hands full of SIMMs. Which he dropped on the table in front of me.

“Test these will you” he said, and that was it. That’s what memory theft was like. A bunch of lads breaking into offices, nicking the RAM from the PCs, and selling it local computer shops who would sell it right back to the offices they stole it from.

Not one guy having an expensive package stolen at random.

That would be scalpees.

I went into Netflix recently to find the same thing. Hardly anything visible on screen, just a handful of massive buttons.

You can see maybe two movies to the right of the main one, and the top half of the row below.

I assume this is just to hide the fact that there’s precious little worth watching on it.

A PS5 currently costs less than £300. I can’t even get 32GB of RAM for that, let alone a GPU or any of the other parts.

PC gaming is dead for now. The only affordable way is Steam Decks and similar.

Like a consent button will stop them doing it anyway. Consent is something for little people. They don’t believe in it.

Every time I use that site it says I am unique. So is that good? Surely if I was trackable, it would match me against the previous times I’d been there.

Or maybe the site is just spouting a load of clickbaity nonsense?

You don’t even need AI. Just pay staff less and charge customers more, and give the stolen money to shareholders. Ta-da! That’s the CEO’s job done.

So are closed source developers.

While singing “I want to break free” at full blast.

If it isn’t diversified, then you’re not investing. You’re gambling.

Even the original with the destructable landscape.

I don’t know how you’d do that even now, and certainly not how they did it on a PS2…

Red Faction’s destruction has still never really been attempted by anything other than Teardown.

Vodkabot.

I remember seeing the Virtuality kits on TV in the 90s.

Clearly absolutely unplayable nonsense, and yet I still wanted to play on one.

It took so long for hardware to catch up.

I mean, you can certainly pick up a used Quest 2 if you wanted to try it out. There’s a handful of exclusive stuff in the Quest store you’d be able to use, but not much of value. Resident Evil 4 VR is about it for the Q2. I think there was a Batman game for the Q3. You’d have access to anything the Steam Frame has access to if you’re streaming from a PC.

I think the PSVR2 works as well, but it’s wired only.

Half Life Alyx is certainly worth a blast through.

Doesn’t Wayland slow to a crawl under CPU load? I get mouse updates like once a second if I dare to make this mini PC play a video.

Betteridge’s law of headlines: “Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no.”

“now if you just sign here to buy our Stasi-Bot…”