LurkingLuddite

No and yes.

Started as Warcraft 3 custom maps before Dota 1.

That’s an insane exaggeration of consequences, but that game is still uniquely boring.

In fairness to him, most politicians are both stupid and paid to make bad decisions, so he’s sadly probably still right…

It begs the question why the key carts even exist.

They aren’t lowering cart prices, so see the rest of my post as to why they’ll still be paying for their decisions.

They’re damned if they do because it’s too little too late and most of their carts are just a keyed license to the game and not the game itself anyways, which kinda’ begs the question why they’ll remain higher priced. They’re damned if they don’t because people don’t have as much disposable income as they used to and Nintendo is wonderful at not enticing anyone with new IPs these days anyways.

They’ve hoarded their wealth too long, and now they get to pay the price, one way or the other.

Everyone is focused on the exit, when clearly there is still a vulnerability to the entrance side. If someone is identified as a bad actor, you do not want your own personal address showing up all over in the logs of who they’ve been conversing with… Regardless of what can be proven as to the nature of conversations, you will now have eyes on you.

So yes, a VPN is useful, just not for all the reasons the comments so far are addressing.

Nice! Sound like you’re on the right track, though might want to keep a live cd image on hand in case Windows decides to take over your boot options until you can finally squash it. xP

Try out some live boot disks then. Several flavors of linux will just boot up, and give you the option to install from within the booted OS. I forget which ones lwt you change things and basically treat them like normal, but some will even carry over any made changes right through the install (if you tell it to, anyways).

Then, you’ll just have to identify any critical applications you need and see if they run on linux, or have any viable alternatives that do, or worst case try to run the windows flavor through Wine or proton or so.

If you need stability above all, I’d recommend avoiding the bleeding edge distros or the young ones that are changing a lot. It sounds odd, but I’ve been digging MX Linux a lot, and I’ve tried a good few flavors over the years. It’s based on Debian Stable, so it’s repos won’t be the bleeding edge, but it has that classic Debian “Just Works” going for it. The only bugs I’ve had have been issues from Wayland that also affect other distros.

Capitalism. Not tech.

You know why: Easy money.

If you want Debian plus some nice tools, I’d recommend MX Linux. It’s based on Debian stable and mosrly just has a few convenient extras. Like installing nvidia drivers with one click, or being able to create a bootable ISO of your exact system. It has a few other neat tools, too.

Wouldn’t be surprised if you could just nab those tools ad hoc as desired for normal Debian, though.

Fully agreed with that.

In fact, such regulations really need to go a lot further and make illegal straight up unnecessary subscriptions, too. If something doesn’t need actively maintained things outside of the actual product for it to function, then it doesn’t ‘need’ a subscription model.

I mean the question got an answer, so either feeding the trolls, or popcorn moment.

… Either way I’ve got my popcorn.

Given all the fun I’ve had over the years with far less powerful systems, it’s not exactly a deathknell to gaming if it turns out that way.

It just better be the deathknell for terrible mobile game microtransaction structures and p2w schemes if mobile devices become the new norm…

“with foresight”

My brother in christ, they put an “AI” shithead in charge. They practically by definition cannot have foresight.

Gaming is in a great place. AAA gaming is not, because of-fucking-course corpos don’t understand art.

WoW is 22 years old.