How the Xbox 360 knows if your hard drive is genuine
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How the Xbox 360 knows if your hard drive is genuine
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Re: How the Xbox 360 knows if your hard drive is genuine
#2I will never understand why people buy that locked down, proprietary, DRM infested shit (gaming consoles, "smart" appliances, smartphones, apple stuff etc.) in the first place. .. I would rather have nothing.
Re: How the Xbox 360 knows if your hard drive is genuine
#3I will never understand why people buy that locked down, proprietary, DRM infested shit (gaming consoles, "smart" appliances, smartphones, apple stuff etc.) in the first place. .. I would rather have nothing.
What's the alternative? Rub sticks together?
Re: How the Xbox 360 knows if your hard drive is genuine
#4I will never understand why people buy that locked down, proprietary, DRM infested shit (gaming consoles, "smart" appliances, smartphones, apple stuff etc.) in the first place. .. I would rather have nothing.
What's the alternative? Rub sticks together?
I honestly prefer banging rocks together vs sticks but that's just my opinion.
Re: How the Xbox 360 knows if your hard drive is genuine
#5I will never understand why people buy that locked down, proprietary, DRM infested shit (gaming consoles, "smart" appliances, smartphones, apple stuff etc.) in the first place. .. I would rather have nothing.
If only every child would rather have nothing than a "locked down" Xbox. When I was 13 I didn't really care if it was locked down, but as an adult it matters a bit more.
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#6I wonder what would have happened if someone tried using antitrust laws to defeat this. Seems like there was a quite alive market for "third-party HDDs compatible with Xbox 360s" and Microsoft effectively tried to monopolize it. Plus, it seems to me like it could have passed the test of the modern Sherman Act interpretation. MS's actions directly reduced output and increased prices.
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#7I will never understand why people buy that locked down, proprietary, DRM infested shit (gaming consoles, "smart" appliances, smartphones, apple stuff etc.) in the first place. .. I would rather have nothing.
Life is too short to not enjoy things. Sure I can choose to have nothing either but personally to me that's not fun.
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#8I will never understand why people buy that locked down, proprietary, DRM infested shit (gaming consoles, "smart" appliances, smartphones, apple stuff etc.) in the first place. .. I would rather have nothing.
People want products that "just work" and I don't think it is fair to blame them for that. The problems mainly arise when the locked down stuff breaks or treats the user badly in some way, but even if stuff were not locked down the average person would just sell or throw out their device when it no pleased them anyways.
Re: How the Xbox 360 knows if your hard drive is genuine
#9I will never understand why people buy that locked down, proprietary, DRM infested shit (gaming consoles, "smart" appliances, smartphones, apple stuff etc.) in the first place. .. I would rather have nothing.
The irony of your username isn't lost on me.
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#10stuff like this is outrageous. i got a steam deck a few weeks ago and decided to grab the base model and an $80 512GB NVMe drive on newegg. the install was easy and i saved a ton of money. that's how hardware should work, especially stuff as easy as drives/RAM.