Steam isn’t the one delisting the games, that’s still up to Sony.
Also creating a PSN account as a citizen of an unsupported country by VPNning or fake addressing your way to it is against terms of service, and can result in your account getting disabled.
Piracy is unfortunately the best option here by far.
Just don’t go all the way cold. Both SSDs and HDDs need to be regularly powered to retain the data stored on them over a span of years. As long as you occasionally access the storage volume, you’re good, but if you’re planning on leaving a drive untouched and unpowered for more than five years, the data might not survive even if the drive does.
For that kind of long term resilience, there’s really only tape drives and optical.
Unfortunately firmware-related problems especially is something regulatory bodies haven’t kept up with. They’ll test the device, sure. But not necessarily every line of code that might ever interact with it.
Overall they are operating under outdated levels of complexity while medical device manufacturers are running ahead with wireless functionality, mobile apps, over the air updates, etc.
I love how whenever you advocate for this kind of improvement, someone always feels the need to try and dismiss you because “it still won’t mean the world is perfect”.
You assume I’m under some delusion that if only enough people were allowed to check, every mistake would be caught every time.
You can run checks and fence it in with traditional software, you can train it more narrowly…
I haven’t seen anything that suggests AI hallucinations are actually a solvable problem, because they stem from the fact that these models don’t actually think, or know anything.
They’re only useful when their output is vetted before use, because training a model that gets things 100% right 100% of the time, is like capturing lightning in a bottle.
It’s the 90/90 problem. Except with AI it’s looking more and more like a 90/99.99999999 problem.
Exec, as he swallows the last bite, of the last liver, of the last goose: “yeah that’s a fun analogy, but sometimes there’s nothing quite like a good foie gras”
“hello, I would like to inspect the firmware of the insulin pump/pacemaker/artificial heart that keeps me alive, can I have the copy of the source code?”
“no? it’s proprietary? well golly! guess I’ll trust ya in blind faith then!”