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Life is too short to not enjoy things. Sure I can choose to have nothing either but personally to me that's not fun.

• Lammy 4y ago
  It's possible to enjoy something like a game console while also being aware of their role in the elimination of general-purpose computing. These kind of platforms are where they farm us for technologies like hypervisors, signed-everything, e-fuses, always-online, etc. Consent is easily manufactured when enough people believe that media """needs to be protected""" to exist at all. I still love my 360 though :)
  • everyone 4y ago
    Yeah consoles indoctrinated people and opened the way for stuff like the BMW with the DRM heated seats. I think similarly, micro-transactions and DLC in games, digital goods, rare loot in WoW, led the way for stuff like bitcoin and nfts becoming relatively popular, and not just being utterly ridiculed by everyone.
• alerighi 4y ago
  The fact is that you don't enjoy these things. These things generate only frustration, its more the time you want to throw these things out of the window than the one you enjoy them. A console that you have to mod just to upgrade/replace its internal hard drive? What the hell? Just because Microsoft can sell you a normal SATA disk for double the price?
  • jaywalk 4y ago
    > The fact is that you don't enjoy these things. I definitely enjoyed my Xbox 360 and didn't give a single damn about not being able to use a non-Microsoft hard drive. I doubt I ever really thought about the fact that I couldn't, it just wasn't an issue.