It’s a six year old system. Optimistically you’ll be able to salvage the PSU, case and storage. Whether you should salvage the PSU and case is up to you, prebuilts aren’t known for picking the best of these.

Personally I’d use the machine for something else (or sell it to someone for $300-400) and build what you want. (Edit: I’ve had good results moving the core system components into a USFF or NAS case and repurposing as a home server. That’s a pretty typical end of lifecycle role for an aging gaming desktop.)

Apple brandy would like a word. One of my favorite liquors, it’s fantastic.

With Google’s new “don’t be paying for anything someone else will do for free” MO I’m doubtful

There should be no bailouts without an equivalent equity transfer from the bailee to the government

I liked the whole “send cheaters to their own server shard with other cheaters” approach that showed up a while back

The only controller I’ve ever really enjoyed using is the steam controller. Just about everything else felt worse than playing using a mouse and keyboard. To each their own though, if you like controllers then more power to you.

Incoming FOX “we’re just an entertainment network” defense in 3, 2, 1

I’m surprised they’re not pursuing govt grants and trust/foundation funding like a terrier. There has to be money out there for digital preservation work.

Some things are but the labelling is stupid and tiny. Many laptop ports are labeled but people aren’t familiar with the icons (and the icons are often confusingly similar)

Just throw some backpack straps on that and off you go

So you plug an A to C cable into them (or hang an A to C dongle off the end of your usual cable) and charge from them.

Sure he will, right after infrastructure week, his health care plan and after he releases his tax returns

OP you appear to be committed to (not) dying on this hill and I applaud you

It took me years to find gaming buddies who aren’t racist shitbags and we still have to punt the occasional edgelord who decides to get up in someone’s face with that shit. Not a single one of my remaining discord communities is gaming focused, those all ended up being Superfund levels of toxic. Hobby and tech communities though? Plenty of good friends there that I play games with occasionally.

Why are we tolerating this criminal behavior by corporations?

Because it’s done in the open and it’s accepted as part of the cost of the device. This is an expected consequence of our adtech surveillance economy, we’ve been screaming about it since the late 90s and consumers have just blithered right along with every new and creepy intrusion and so … Here we are.

I’m just waiting for them to add a sideband channel to some LoRa network so they can exfiltrate data even when their devices are “offline”

The energize to ID change is a great one, it really makes alchemy much more accessible (especially given the increased energy costs after the catalyst changes and the following balance tweaks.)

It will sooner or later but what we really should be pressuring them for is a stable API

Even being able to generate enough lift to send a payload into orbit would be an amazing advancement. We can solve propelling craft out of the solar system later, first we need an economical way to get off planet that isn’t just burning fuel to lift fuel.

The neoliberals of the 13th and 14th century