Well isn’t that just a completely stupid hot take.

Still, the BYD figure is nothing to be scoffed at.

I mean maybe? I certainly was both a PC and Console gamer for most of my life now and I’m certain there will be a percentage that will continue to do so.

Nowadays? Nah, I’m out of the console game since graphics aren’t better than the PC and the PC options for playing on a TV are numerous now.

I mean they could and it would actually hurt the PSN players more than the PC players. Of course that’s well within their right but would be pretty stupid and we all know how Sony executives are at this point.

Look, I got hit with that stupid 2011 data breach PSN had and I still get scam emails with details from that due to the unique stuff I put in my various accounts. I’m not going to try to resurrect my now defunct account or create a new one so they can do more data mining and lose more of my PII, again.

Yup, got my last two 10 TB drives from checking there. Shame all of these stores fronts are making it harder to aggregate data but they sure like to gather up ours with or without permission.

I thought about it but man that uncertainty still spooks me a bit. Plus I’m looking for larger drives at this point since my current home server is pretty full up on SATA connections and hdd drive space. Maybe one of these days when I can afford a full on rack system.

Man, this is really kind of annoying that the old price aggregate sites like Shucks.top aren’t working anymore. I did flop between pcpartpicker, disk prices, and just searching the sites directly and found a 16 and 18 TB WD drive for 219/285 respectively so ~14/16 dollars per TB respectively. Guess I’ll just have to go with the 16 because I’m cheap and need storage very soon.

I do know that Seagate announced HD price hikes because of “AI” related demand but who really knows.

How horrible. Can’t imagine what these families are going through.

At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul.

Right, I forgot that Fox News declared that racism in America is no longer a thing.

Thanks for making me aware that the situation with the racism like the Ahmaud Arbery case is in the distant, distant past and southern racism is not a thing anymore.

Appreciate you putting me into the white view of the situation.

You mean about the “Woah there , pardner?” or the overwhelming about of racism, bigotry, and homophobia?

I mean I’ve been to the South and I can confirm one of these two things.

Because it’s fucking pointless to respond when one side won’t even admit to piracy being a thing.

One person asked for evidence for piracy, which we all know happens, it’s not a minor thing but sources are all over the place, and everyone going ‘see piracy isn’t a thing’. Well proves the other side then. Prove how many people only use these devices legitimately.

You can’t. You can only say legitimate uses happen, piracy uses happen. And don’t fucking bullshit me that those rcm jigs were mostly sold for homebrew only.

It’s a pointless conversation at this point because I asked for evidence and the response is strawman, changing the topic to justification, just like the NRA does and there’s no benefit to continue and just leave it at that.

Who knows, like you said, scene groups, maybe people who just want Internet points and want to upload files, people who just want the convenience of novelty. Same, I’ve dumped my own switch games via USB so this seems very just novelty to me and maybe it’s pick it up just to have it.

But yeah, gone are the days when you’d go rent a nes, snes games into floppies and needing a external dumping equipment so I don’t really know who this device is for but it’s interesting how many people are so defensive that you point out piracy device is mainly for piracy.

What evidence do you have that most of this is used for legitimate backup purposes only?

I’ll join you in the downvotes and say I one hundred percent agree with you here.

People will go on and on about legitimate issues but downvote tooth and nail when you correctly day this was developed and sold primary for piracy.

And let’s face it, this is built and sold for mainly piracy with the very few who are using it for legitimate uses like preservation.

As a required reviewer on a lot of things, I envy that bear so, so much.

I use them in my job and I find them better than the software only solution and I like them when I have to use them for sensitive file transfers.

Which once removed and put into the recycling, the plastic bottle will then go live a long life in the landfill.