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Don;t worry, your 401k will pay for it!

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Valve lets them add DRM after launch, you buy a game and play it for months or even years and then BAM! you have online DRM or anti-tamper killing mods or a flippin rootkit for crappy cross platform multiplayer that never works, or adding a damn third party launcher along with the Ubislop levels of derp and Bamco/ATLUS inability to eveer patch anything that’s actually wrong but “fix” cracked DRM instantly…

Until I can count on Steam to let me keep what I flippin’ paid for they are beyond sus, and my (Crap, 1337, what a game count.) “Game Industry Guardian” becomes a “Meh, nah, I’ll use your forums to ask the dev if they plan a GOG release and maybe redeem some Humble keys if they’re cheap enough to consider it a demo for a GOG purchase later.”

Ah, I tend to soo all the configuring myself, half my stuff on the tablet I compiled from source.

Bazzite looked like good project, not for me as I loathe immutable distros, but I did run it via emulation and found the setup to be very straightforward and consoley. Turned me off, completely, but their attempt to simplify things and even using an immutable so it’s a lot harder to irrevocably break anything was a step in the right direction for making things “simple” for the people I can;t get to verify their chat fingerprint in Gajim.

Bazzite has an image specifically for it, and I’m running stock Debian Trixie on my ROG Flow tablet with no issues, don;t own the Ally X yet but I’m definitely looking it it over the Ally or any other as I want to run my own install not a Valve image and the Ally X uses a normal 2280 M.2 rather than the 2230 (which maxes at 2TB) my current ROG Flow or the Steam Deck does.

ASUS ROG Ally X, put Linux on it, and you get by all the horrible Windows bloat that makes it crap. It’s great hardware, just the “X-Box” branding and Microslop OS that’s a problem.

I went from buying so much Nintendo stuff to 100% piracy after my third Switch broke, I lost all my saves because they force it on internal memory and encrypt that then sue the guy who wrote code to let you back it up locally, and then I found out most of my games played better on Yuzu (and now Eden) than they did on the actual hardware.

I ordered the original one, before it was ad subsidized, and they pushed an “updating” adding them to the ad-free device I paid many times the current price for.

After that I considered them a total loss.

And they’ll likely “forget” you are lifetime as often with them as they did with us early adopters who got it for cheap.

There’s a reason I use Jellyfin, now. Well, more than one.

Plex kept trying to charge me again, and every time I looked at it there was more clutter and spam being forced in front of my face by their “partners.”

Kodi on device, great interface especially when you are using touch, if I need remote access I swap to Jellyfin. There’s even plugins to sync between the two so your stats and history don;t get messed up by using both.

There are so few sites that should leave a cookie I just set it to purge everything on browser close, and then make exceptions for the ones who actually should leave a cookie.

Pretty sure every browser now has the option to dump all the data when it closes.

Used it when WhatsApp fell apart, though they just kept making it worse, wasn;t a bad place for a while there. Enshitification abounds, though.

I finally left SnapChat after it kept popping back up, and it was a lot less invasive than any Failbook derivative.

It maxes at 4TB, same as my tablet, put the games and programs on the 2TB SSD and drop all the media on the 2TB SD, Kodi picks up the external media fine and moving all my music and videos to the card keeps the internal down.

I do need to dump a lot of stuff to put something new on, pretty much the largest I keep installed is No Man’s Sky, keep wanting to replay BG3 but haven’t because it is over 150 GB all on its own.

Seems the Linux native stuff takes a LOT less space, unless it’s an AppImage or one of those crappy Flatpaks, but even with Linux increasing in popularity not a lot of devs bother with adding a port since “Just run it through Proton” is the accepted answer now.

It still works well enough still from me helping my kid set up theirs, though I do hope they update it again, maybe with a 2280 slot for a larger storage capacity as the 2TB max of a 2230 even when you upgrade it is kinda meh for PC games that can easily break 100GB.