Yep.

Just cause it doesnt affect you, doesnt mean it wont eventually have an effect on you.

Lots of people shrugging their shoulders and going “Why should I care about spying? I’ve got nothing to hide” are exactly why we are where we are right now.

Can achieve the same thing by just removing safety labels, lol.

No, with a VPN the only thing your ISP sees is you connecting to a VPN server IP.

But browser finger printing, on the other hand, can identify you to every website you visit, due to info your browser hands over to every website… Such as OS version, Resolution, installed Plugins, browser settings, geolocation info, etc…which is often unique enough to identify you out of the whole of the internet.

Ironically, locking your browser down with more security features/settings/plugins often makes you more identifiable. Cause capitalism is god damned sure they are gonna track you and monetize the hell out of your information, whether its via your name, your user name, or just your digital fingerprint.

https://coveryourtracks.eff.org/

Nostalgia is a hell of a drug.

You would not believe the amount of mods the GameGear has, my dude.

and they are expensive as fuck, lol

np, good luck with it, if you try to pick it up.

Its a great skillset to have, even at a basic beginner level… Once you get comfortable with a soldering iron, so many dead electronics suddenly can be repaired for cheap instead of replaced… You have no idea how many TVs I’ve saved just from the dump just with capacitor replacements alone.

I yearned for one of these TV tuners for years and never got one cause they were too expensive.

if the board is completely fucked, people have made reproduction boards to move the components to, too.

soldering isnt hard, it just takes common sense, a modicum of thought, and a little bit of patience and carefulness.

If you are on a extreme budget, try to find a used Weller soldering station at a pawn store/garage sale/thrift store/etc and just take some dead electronic device you have and practic desoldering and resoldering the components on it.

if you have a bit of money to spend, pick up a Hakko FX-888d station and beginners soldering project (You can get radios, various LED projects, and some lead solder etc etc, all for pretty cheap, and by the time you’ve done one you’ll be well on your way to basic soldering skills on most non-micro components.

the real reason it was such a bitch for power is that it had a compact flourescent tube for the backlight.

when you remove that and replace it with a LED backlight suddenly the battery life explodes.

rechargable AA’s before Eneloops were all absolute dogshit

Yeah, I know I’m not the target demographic.

That doesnt mean I dont think its an interesting piece of tech, and I would like one as a toy/curiousity… but i’d only get one if I can get it used/second hand and dirt cheap (and probably broken, so i can drive the price lower and fix it myself)

7 as well. Super nostalgia seeing that patern again… i wonder if they still sell it.

If that was the reason and logic then every store would do that.

They don’t.

Everyone on earth but this one stupid ass gas station just does the 1 dollar precharge.

If that was true the steam deck would have already done it.

Both of you guys are missing the point.

He wasnt charged 150 bucks for gas.

The gas station is using a 150 dollar pre-charge to make sure the card is good. most places only do a 1 dollar pre-charge.

150 is stupid.

What more can I say but… Neat?

Does beg the question on how radically changed computing would be today if it was released as a CPU when it first was developed.

gotta artificially maintain the scarcity so prices, and profits, stay sky high.

Which infuriates me as a LotR fan.

and also makes me side eye Chris Tolkien hard, cause he is normally very aggressive in protecting the intellectual property…

If you have to create a wikipedia alternative to stop being fact checked, then maybe you are just fuckin wrong.

Billionaires: “No, No… I can’t be wrong. I’m Rich! I’ll create a microcosm of information that warps reality to make sure I’m right!”

Conservapedia: Wait…thats what I was for… what about me?!

been playing on linux for many many years.

never once have I been stopped by kernal level anticheat.

Weird, its almost as if good games don’t use invasive spyware rootkits.