I mean, they had stopped them. For a long time, there was a deal whereby they had agreed not to make them in exchange for concessions. Then someone flipped the table.

It remains to be seen if they can keep them stopped.

If we’re discussing what’s legal it’s 100% relevant. DMCA makes circumventing a digital lock a crime in the USA.

If we’re discussing what’s moral, then talk less. Nothing about the DMCA was moral.

What Federation is being Federal to you? If it’s the USA, overriding your property rights was the whole purpose of the DMCA.

How well did that work out for Ukraine?

The realpolitik answer is always to get nukes before they can stop you. Look at how well it worked for Israel and North Korea.

A mentally handicapped person can still receive instructions from others.

Most people are concerned he’s a Russian asset because Russia has something on him. Not because he’s ideologically or philosophically aligned with them.

If you’re looking into that, it might be worth considering some of the Android portable like the AYN Thor.

While they are usually focused on console emulation, on the more powerful units you can run older windows titles on them via emulation as well as any native android stuff you feel like running. The battery life of anything ARM beats the hell out of anything x86. There are also form factors available worlds better than the Legion or Steamdeck if you actually want something you can carry around in a pocket.

The aforementioned AYN Thor is about the size and form factor of a 3DS and retails for $250 for the cheapest model. So if you’re looking for something to tide you over until you can get a full gaming PC/Gabecube/Steamdeck 2, it might be better “half measure” than a Legion or Steamdeck.

With something that old, a woodgas conversion might not be too hard. You would lose some bed space for the system, but you can run a truck like that on old pallets, junk mail, and the overabundant packaging plastered all over every kind of consumer goods.

It also has a 0% failure rate in live strikes on targets.

If it was wrong when the USA did it to civilians, it would still be wrong when someone else did it to civilians. Even American ones.

If a government’s actions can justify massacre of their civilians, why are you complaining about the USA taking justified actions against them? Governments are nearly universally terrible. Practically all targets are justified.

I left as soon as I saw something asking for age verification in the client.