Except there are lots of good reasons to hate HDMI.

So reluctantly using HDMI is more appropriate.

20 percent? That sounds like 100 percent people don’t want to pay for it anymore.

Interesting. Its been awhile since I played it, but I recall that it didn’t have a rate limit. So the CPU would simply go to max all the time. Maybe it was causing the system to get too hot?

I got the original from gog and had no issues running it on linux.

somebody needs to figure out how to extract it and patch out the check, and it’s playable again.

Maybe. There are sometimes system calls and graphics optimizations that wont work, it isnt always just a patch out the check to fix situation.

I am not sure if you would even be able to get the system to install the software until the patch was implemented, which means you would have to extract the full disc in the first place and then be able to write a new one, and hope the machine would read it.

Read what they wrote. These things have happened:

You buy a physical disc. It will not play until you update the console. This is a hard coded minimum version that is on the disc.

This has also happened in the reverse: a physical disc quit working after a firmware update, but the digital version worked fine, meaning the license transferred to the digital version after the update. Would the physical disc keep working? only if the dev thought it should.

The only answer is: you dont own the hardware. You have no control digital or not. Do not buy hardware you cant own.

They have had amazing free marketing and they still want to sue people.

It even made me a bit curious and I think GTA is dead to me after San Andreas, and Rockstar can go fuck themselves because every game they make just feels janky.

I mentioned the key as a tool in general, not necessarily related to the PSP. Just all devices. Or even updates that could change the way a game worked, making it not work anymore.

Lets look at the license from Sony:

Here is my license agreement from my PS1:

“The Software is licensed to you, not sold. You are granted a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, and personal license to play or use the Software for your private, non-commercial use on the system or device it was intended for.”

And their current agreement with a PS5:

“The Software is licensed to you, not sold. You are granted a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, and personal license to play or use the Software for your private, non-commercial use on the system or device it was intended for.”

30 years and its almost exactly the same.

That is what I said. Nothing changed.

You are wanting to talk about physical vs digital ownership, but I already said I wasnt talking about that, but it also didn’t change, as they had exactly the same words during the PS1, you just didnt see it because you were not a developer. You were not allowed to share, transfer, use anything digitally transferred.

Yet there is a history of nothing changing for the consumer as well:

By the time the PS2 came out, in Japan they were selling online games. As well as the PS3 and even the PSP GO. All with non transferable licenses.

So even in those cases, its been constant and nothing changed today that hasnt been around for a very long time.

Now lets talk about software promised and removed, and this is one example, but it is sony and was huge:

Sony sold the PS3 with Linux support. Sony said I could put another OS on it, or I could get Yellow Dog Linux. There was a presentation that said I could watch movies, program the ps3, listen to music, view photos, etc.

Then they updated the firmware and took that away. They mandated the update, and broke the software, even when I owned the Disc it was on.

Same as it ever was: if you have an online device they can screw you. Its a hardware issue, you have no control over that so, as it has been since the ps3: never buy sony.

Sigh. Whatever.

The license doesn’t change. You are arguing about the ability to revoke it by taking it from you physically. That is two very different things.

The license did not change. If you download a game and turn off the internet, guess what, it isnt going away. If you clone the drive and restore it, it isnt going away.

These are just weird semantics. There is no reason (and it has happened before) that the same thing couldnt happen with a physical device as long as you connect it to the internet. They could revoke the key from a physical disc just as easily by banning it from the device if they wanted to.

But that has nothing to do with anything. The license is still the same.

What the US should prioritize is opportunity, education, corporate regulation, housing affordability, justice and dealing with corruption.

Gee, then they wouldn’t need the surveillance state.

Except it’s always been this way?

I am more inclined to use a VPN if I want government ibfornation. And that is really disappointing.

Fortunately I rarely have to interact with a government website for anything.

It is so much worse now. Look at the former career employees that abandoned ship. Or the current head prosecutor.

It is so much worse.

This is really true. Pick a blog, video, or what ever lawyer you want making comment on the state of the federal justice system right now. It’s a mess and a shit show.

It’s already installed? It’s a weird question because why would I even try bazzite?

Skeptical that the books being destroyed are rare.

Wasn’t a thing originally, they added it later. But it’s habit, I never leave lithium battery devices plugged in. I have a laptop from 2011 that still holds over 90 percent storage.

Yeah it really is. So was Amazon bulk printing pulp.

Its almost like maybe amazon wasn’t the place to get random books.

Of course not. Wasn’t my point.