thatOneGuy

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[–] thatOneGuy@aussie.zone 1 points 20 minutes ago

I mean, I personally view the start of the PS3 era as part of that same golden period - but it was also the time when we began to see the beginnings of enshitification also:

  • Day 1 patches
  • Day 1 “on disc DLC”
  • Microtransactions
  • $10 “online pass” for 2nd hand games

The launch PS3 was probably the peak of Somy giving the customers what they wanted; full hardware backwards compatibility with PS1/PS2 titles, affordable Blu-Ray player, built-in and upgradable HDD, heap of standardised IO options.

It’s just been all downhill from there.

[–] thatOneGuy@aussie.zone 3 points 2 hours ago (2 children)

PS1, PS2 & PSP era.

[–] thatOneGuy@aussie.zone 5 points 3 hours ago

Are you sure? We have two OLEDs (a CX from 2020 and a C1 from 2021), and both have these remotes with microphones:

[–] thatOneGuy@aussie.zone 1 points 4 hours ago

I would still be extremely wary; HDMI as a spec has the ability to carry Ethernet data.

I wouldn’t put it past the manufacturers from giving it a couple of years for this news cycle to pass from user memory, before trying more nefarious methods to try and exfiltrate data by piggybacking through connected devices like a Chromecast.

That’s mostly because I don’t trust Google to not help facilitate that for a share of the profits and access to the data for AI training.

[–] thatOneGuy@aussie.zone 7 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) (1 children)

I did ~330m x $1000 = ~$330b x 5 = $1.65t

e: Mind you, it’s 9:30pm here and I’m exhausted looking after a newborn, so I may be missing something. 😅

[–] thatOneGuy@aussie.zone 5 points 16 hours ago (5 children)

Sure, go right ahead and add something like $1.6T to the national debt. Fuck it - why not!