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  • I watch a Rerez video where he looks at force feedback flightsticks. These sticks came out around the year 2000, and use ports that modern PCs just don’t have.

    He tried plugging one made by microsoft into windows 11. This stick was made 26 years ago. It just worked. No setup. No drivers. Just, 26 year old stick.

    The reason? They’re still including drivers from Windows ME into Windows 11.

    This is one very niche example, but the 300kb or whatever a driver size is, is being preinstalled in all windows 11 instalations. And Windows 10, and Windows 8, Windows 7, and Windows Vista, and Windows XP.

    I’m gonna guess you can count on one hand the number of people using this flight stick on Windows 11. It only works with a handful of games, because it only ever worked on a handful of games.

    Why would this be included by default on Vista or later?

    Imagine how many thousands of other files are like this. Taking up space, without a reason.





  • I wish I could favorite one of my own comments, and instantly link to it.

    I have had an analogy that I’m sick of typing, over and over and over. I came up with it in 2020 to teach people why the democrats don’t make actual progress.

    And now, here, you’ve essentially summerized my analogy without even having read it. I wish I could just press 2 buttons and show you. But it’s like 5 paragraphs long. And I just typed it up again about a week ago when that algae thing went down.

    I don’t know if it’s possible to search a users comment history by keyword, but I’d search mine for “paint, republicans, democrats, home depot” that should do it.


  • Gamestop knows they serve no purpose in the gaming world anymore. What’s the point of buying physical, when it’s just a disc with the game version 1.0, and manditory day 1 updates? It makes it essentially a digital download with ewaste.

    Ebay on the other hand has a future still existing.

    Right now gamestop is a glorified novelty shop with a video games and pop culture theme. They know that business plan won’t last.

    Ebay on the other hand, I can’t see any reason why they would be interested in anyway in this lowball offer.