So I’ll just give friends a copy instead. Oh that is so much worse than having to share a DVD around…

GOG has been so much better than optical media for well over a decade at this point. You can’t easily backup your physical games. I can backup my game installers, not just GOG either but they are the most popular IIRC. But I got Factorio DRM free directly from Wube.

TIL Sid Meier’s Pirates was released on Wii.

Aren’t old games pretty small though? It’s new ones that you may need a huge volume to store many of them. Depends how much we are talking of course. 2TB or 50TB?

Well let’s start with how much you need.

Then we can all cry. Currently looking at replacing HDDs with SSDs and significantly cutting down on my data storage requirements - basically uninstalling all those games I haven’t played in a long time and probably won’t. Plus it’s easier to avoid getting sucked into playing ESO and wasting money on it if it’s behind a 100+ GB download. Majority of games I actually play are under 5GB so I could go pretty heavy. Couple second hand 512GB SSDs perhaps? Under £100…

Second hand SSDs are getting kinda tempting tbh. But even they have seen their prices rise. Wish I bought all of the 512GB ones I saw for £10 each now. Got plenty of SATA ports, why shouldn’t I use them?

After walking through CEX on the weekend I don’t know if you will beat second hand laptop pricing. The significantly higher availability of laptops seems to make them prices that just can’t be beaten.

Unless you can get away running a pi zero of course. Sorta tempted to get one but not sure how much I could get it to do. Would do data storage just fine, depending on how much space you need.

Years ago I was tempted to get a 4TB SSD for data storage as prices were getting reasonable and I just kept thinking wait for it to drop a bit more. Now 4TB HDDs are pushing the same price SSDs were back then. Fuck.

My PC is currently 512GB SSD boot drive and 3TB LVM from a 1/2TB HDD. Those HDDs are getting pretty old now so I probably should replace them at some point but I resent having to pay the prices they ask right now. Maybe I should just uninstall half of my steam library that I realistically won’t play any time in years or ever again. Reduce my storage needs. Data backups only take like 50GB or so.

Like suncream

Depends how you apply it. I smear it on like butter.

No request for me and I am not logged into a Google account. Using duckduckgo browser on a Fairphone.

Time to do some crime. Let’s go to a remote location. Turns router on, does crimes, turns it off. Goes home.

Where I live is very flat, the steepest hill is in an area they dug a bunch of clay out the ground to make a hospital.

For a few people maybe, but that wouldn’t explain the extreme difference in population densities over such a small distance. Also there is a smooth path to walk along to go left/right along the beach, its only the beach its self that is uneven terrain.

You do realise I can see them right? Many have not. You don’t really need to bring that much with you anyway.

5 mins? 15 seconds of walking out in either direction is enough for it to start noticeably thinning out.

I cycle to work and never get lunch from the restaurants nearby. Can I WFH then?

I did quit my last job a few days after they required me to do a multi hour train commute on a regular basis. Fuck that. If I can’t walk/ride I don’t want it. I do feel a little bad for the dev who is still there, I was the only one keeping a wave of stupid 1st line questions going his way each day.

Oh well, new job pays more and I can cycle to work easily. Better work environment too.

I just walk 100m along the beach and can’t hear them anymore. Most people are too lazy to walk more than that distance from the car park. A fact that is very obvious when I kayak past the coast here and can use the dense clusters of people on the beach as landmarks with almost no one between them. First cluster is the lifeboat station, second and third are cafes, fourth has ice cream.

So it’s easy to find me living at home doing nothing, and hard to track a determined criminal who would just move it when doing crimes?

I can pay for internet in cash and the only details I gave them are fake and a random username. 4G internet isn’t even tied to the same location as I can move freely.

As I’m not bothered about doing cybercrimes I don’t bother doing that much about security though.