That’s what I did as well.
Voting with one’s wallet is often the only voice that gets heard and listened to, which is why my cancellation was accompanied by an explanation.

That’s good to know.
Thank you confirming what I was hoping for.

In my book it is.
It’s still bad and a reason to strive for the ability to fully own games.
But Steam’s fault? Nah.

I’m not aware of Steam ever having removed a purchased game from a library.
If you have a reliable source that says otherwise please link it.

Technically they could do that of course.
But it would be bad for their business and have people do more business with gog.com.
Steam gets chosen over gog.com for convenience.
If purchased games disappear that will be even more inconvenient.

edit: I mean “Steam ever having removed a purchased game from a library” in the sense of for no good reason.
Following legal requirements or being dependent on external resources (e.g. game servers) outside the responsibility of Steam are different things and I wouldn’t blame Steam for it.
There’s a reason for the trust people have in Steam.
And there are plenty of reasons for not having trust in Sony.

People voting with their wallet will decide how this ends.

If it were closed and susidized, you’d have to try “opening” the hardware before installing any other operating system.

The instant messengers on the smart phones might have played a critical role. Whatsapp started in 2009.
Texting and driving is a thing, so there’s a way to derive causation and not only correlation from that.
…it triggers a certain kind of rage/hate in me when I spot people texting and driving, which I usually do several times each day.

The rise of smartphones with instant messengers might have contributed to that.
Texting and driving is a thing…
…which triggers a certain kind of rage/hate in me when I spot people doing that, which I usually do several times each day.

I love your posts/articles/reports 🤗

Disgusting.
I wouldn’t understand that position if she were male and unserstand it even less so.

So better make sure there are no survivors.
Message understood.
Playing fair in a rigged game is a sure way to lose.

My thought exacty.

If you can’t get convicted by a national court because of international waters, sink the next ship that gets caught doing shenenigans and see how no conviction is possible.
They can’t have it both ways.

Do you have links for these claims?
Not saying I don’t believe it, I just want to read about it myself.
Btw. I think you used sea mile as reference when converting miles into kilomeres. 1 million milles would be more like 1.6 million kilometres.

You understand correctly.

Are you sure about hard drives at $1 per meg at that time?
It sounds way to cheap.

It can go higher than the 8 watts, though.
The 8 watts are with rather low CPU load, but with 1 SATA SSD and 1 NVMe SSD.
At full CPU load I expect it to be closer to 15 watts. With what the device is runningn high load happens rarely and not for long.

As others mentioned used SFF PCs, here’s my recommendation based on my own experience.

I bought several used Dell Wyse 5070. The 5070 was announced in May 2018 and used as thin client.
They’re tiny, silent (no fan) and you can fit a NVMe SSD via adapter (PCIe A/E key -> M key) in the WiFi card slot next to a SATA SSD. I picked the ones with Intel Celeron J4105 (Quad Core) with 1.5GHz, up to 2.5GHz burst and put 32 GB RAM in one of them (that was before prices went nuts).
Beware, only if you pick the right dual ranked RAM modules (e.g. Patriot PSD416G26662S), you can have a max. of 2x16 GB. To start your journey, 4 or 8 GB might just be enough and don’t cost an arm and a leg.
Now I have a PVE (Proxmox Virtual Environment) running with several virtual servers and lxc, one 5070 hosts a PBS (Proxmox Backup Server) and both devices are far from their limit. In case of hardware failure I have spare 5070s.
Each 5070 cost around $65 and runs at around 8 watts at average. Dunno about current prices though.

It fits my needs and will continue to do so for the foreseeable future.
Maybe it fits your needs as well?

If they give all land including Crimea back and pay sufficient reparations, Ukraine might agree.

I’m afraid you’re right.
My comment was meant to sound tongue-in-cheek.