I have no idea what this means. They don’t make hardware. Maybe they can keep an CD press still running for their own published games, but what about when the PS6 and Nextbox don’t include optical drives? Do they start shipping read-only flash media?

Or is it all posturing to get praised?

the slight difference is that now it doesn’t affect profits

1. Fat PS3 60GB

2. OG Xbox

3. PSP

I chose the original model PS3 because of the HDMI output for PS1/PS2 titles. Three generations of titles. We’ll never see another library like that.

The OG Xbox because of it’s superior ports of PS2 games, and Duke controller (I’ve got big hands). It was the last dying breath of mainstream console games that shipped complete. No cut content shipped as DLC. No Day 1 patches.

Lastly PSP because of it’s weird inbetween spot of PS1/PS2 graphics on the go. It let developers do some really cool almost-console like 3D games while still having a decent battery life. Amazing library of interesting titles to boot. A shame about the single analog stick. I still have nightmares about using the claw.

This is the same man who thought injecting disinfectant and irradiating lungs with UV would control COVID… so no, I do not think he knows what “controlled burning” is. I do think he literally meant people going into the forest with trash bags and cleaning.

I’d say the 10 Chrome tabs were probably affecting memory usage more.

He proposed that people start cleaning the forest because of leaves and broken tree during the California wildfires, which summarized into raking

Very informative! Thank you!

I have confirmed that neither startup, nor System folders on the old Win11 install have LDA. Very strange how I was spared, despite using the G203 and K120 to type this post.

Is auto-install something Windows debloat tools disable? I’ve been using the G203 mouse and it’s predecessors for years without any “download assistant” getting installed.

I even had to go to Logitech’s website to manually download the software suite so the LEDs would stop flashing and changing colors.

The CEO’s response:

They play PS2 games just fine, all PS3 models do.

Noooo… that’s not right at all. If we are talking unmodified hardware. The original models did have something like 99% compatibility, but as the generation moved on, the fat models removed more components to make it cheaper and made PS2 backward compatibility more software driven… until the slim models removed PS2 disc reading completely.

We used to look at the hard drive size to gauge. 20GB & 60GB was full hardware, 80GB was partial software, anything above was a slim and had no PS2 abilities.

PS1 muddies the water because all PS3s can play PS1 game discs.

Back when I commuted to the office, I’d stop into Gamestop pretty much daily. Got to know the manager pretty well.

I was surprised to find out that Gamestop purchased a pre-set amount of games for new releases, and allocated based on pre-order numbers. That meant that a pre-order wasn’t even an order. Your order could be one of one, and thus the store gets nothing from the delivery. Absolute insanity.

I can’t find a proper source, but I think even the fan communities were taken down.

It is not surprising that Sony would hold that level data close to the chest. If LBP4 did actually become a thing, they could release all that legacy data as day 1 content.

You can totally get a fake PSN service running in RPCS3. It’s called RPCN. However, LittleBigPlanet servers were not hosted by PSN, they were hosted by Media Molecule in conjunction with Sony.

Unfortunately those servers were hacked and they took down everything. So any content for LittleBigPlanet 1, 2 or 3 is totally gone.

I was taught that it’s really only voltage that really needs to match to avoid damage. And even that can be a bit fuzzy with modern electronics and their charging circuitry.

The wattage and amperage only measures how fast the charger will recharge the battery. There will be a minimum amperage needed to power the laptop… but as long as you exceed the the minimum the laptop will run fine even if the adapter is capable of crazy high Amps. The laptop will only pull what is needed.

Is this a different incident than the one mentioned by GamersNexus on Youtube?

I’ve got another one for you:

Yup.

With the crazy number of layoffs from the AI frenzy… for those people, some money is better than no money. Even if the job won’t be there in 6 months.

we will get cool giant fighting robots though

That… doesn’t make sense. The Windows NT line changed the way hardware and drivers interacted with a new Hardware Abstraction Layer, so a WinME driver wouldn’t load in Win11.

Additionally, Win7 changed it so that drivers require certification and signature, which I could guess the certification would come in grandfathered, but the signature certainly wouldn’t be there for a WinME driver.

Why even complain about a 300kb driver sitting in System/SysWOW64, as it isn’t going to reside in RAM until the actual device is plugged in… so it’s actually a good thing to keep. I’m glad they don’t act as the arbiter of what is too old and force people to purchase new hardware when the old stuff still works.