Well it was Black Friday when I went, it was absolutely packed with people. I already bought a PS5 months earlier because I didn’t want to wait for a sale, otherwise I probably would have picked that up too lol

I agree with most of what you’re saying, I disagree with the last part of what you’re saying.

The self-host movement is about taking control away from companies, and running web services locally instead of having to rely on companies for them and pay for them. Most things you can run locally without needing a server, but there are absolutely good use cases for server-based services. Some great examples of this are cloud storage, code repositories, and chat servers. You could run each of those things locally, but they are each improved by running them on a dedicated server designed for 24/7 uptime and centralized access.

It’s not just media that doesn’t feed recommendation algorithms - I actually like recommendation algorithms (Jellyseerr does a pretty great job with this), it’s more about having control over my media and it not being taken away randomly. So many times an older show I would want to watch would no longer be “available” so I’d have to download it anyway, with no option of paying to watch for it.

Well yeah, it’s expensive and they didn’t put it on sale. This was obviously going to happen.

When I picked mine up (I knew I’d get one eventually and didn’t want to risk the prices going up like they did for other consoles), I saw 5 people walking out of BestBuy with a PS5 for every Switch 2 that sold, and the numbers seem to support that the PS5 outsold the Switch 2 over the holiday period.

USA is cooked, man. It’s no longer a free country. Party of no censorship and free speech, yeah right.

Actually that’s just true lmao

This seems like a good thing to me. Good news seems so rare these days.

What OS and remote are you going to use for that, though?

FWIW, I get like, maybe 14ms latency with Steam Link and that’s just over WiFi, it’s shockingly usable.

There’s something to be said about the convenience that off-the-shelf solutions provide over custom solutions, and that’s coming from someone who typically always opts for custom solutions.

It is a fantasy because unfortunately it’s not a large enough market for any company to care about.

This is true, but if you want 120Hz Steam Link on your TV, it’s usually the only way to achieve that.

Never ask a white supremacist the race of their girlfriend.

I think it’s unfortunately a good sign of just how many dumb Americans there are, and that the stereotype unfortunately exists for a reason. They voted for this. This is their president, who they want representing them and leading them. SAD.

It’s so hilarious. Everyone knows who is actually the most divisive president splitting up the people and turning them against each other. Incredible.

Actually, I have bad news for you… prices are likely going to go up from the AI bubble plus the upcoming RAM shortage.

Meanwhile I bought an Xbox Series S and PS5 and a Switch 2 plus a bunch of SSDs all in November lol

Having a knee injury plus not much else to do plus a 75 inch TV I bought back in September will do that for you lol

It’s worse, it’s forced ads and enshitification. Old is gold, after all.

Why does the bottle of water have to be scanned with the rest of your luggage? Could it not simply be separated from the rest of your luggage?

Why can’t the liquid be allowed on the plane after the rest of your luggage is scanned then?

Yep, it’s good for your health in moderation. As long as it’s not taking over your life to the point where it’s interfering with your normal life, it’s perfectly healthy and nothing to be ashamed about.

It’s really awful because unlike smoking or cocaine or anything else, you can’t just quit food. You need it to live, without it, you will die. Having too much of it permanently alters your hunger levels which makes you require more of it, it’s an endless feedback loop that scientists haven’t figured out yet.

It does seem like they might be making some progress on it with weight loss medicine, if it doesn’t outright cause cancer or other bad side effects. I guess we’ll see.