1000 pct. This is why emulators, and now fantastic FPGA systems like the MiSTer, exist and need to continue. It's too bad we will not have FPGA support for more recent consoles (Dreamcast, PS2/3/4/5, Xbox, NDS/N3DS) any time soon, since these more complex systems cannot be reasonably replicated on any FPGA's costing today less than many thousands of $. With recent/modern consoles, your (and my) digital purchases all have expiration dates. It's unfortunate that digital purchases are so dm convenient, because it encourages most people to buy this way, giving the game companies an excuse and a path to stopping all sales of physical games.

Super high density batteries coming real soon now to an alternate timeline. Sadly our own timeline never sees any of these super wonderful achievements and battery life keeps improving at .5% every 5 years.

Yes, the back and forth switches of various German entities between Linux and Windows have brought them huge benefits over the decades - excited mentions on the front page of an old technology blog. Always Germany for some reason - they've got the endless switcheroo news market cornered. In other irrelevant news nobody cares about who is switching to and from Linux.

Years after they finally fixed it on the laptops, they ship this "new improved" (uh) crap kbd without an inverted T, and with added insult of rounded corners on several keys making them inconsistent and weird looking. No thanks, and if their future Macs also ship with these dumb toys I'll have to keep using my decade old silver Apple keyboards.

And if the intent is performance (rather than large amounts of cheap 3.5" HDD storage), go straight to 2.5" (or M.2, or ruler) NVMe SSD drives if your motherboard/system supports them. NVMe drives read/write multiple GB's per second, do huge IOPS, and do huge amounts of parallel operations. They're hugely faster than any SATA SSD's also. SATA SSD's do a few hundred MB/sec, compared to multiple GB's/sec for NVMe SSD's. Intel, Samsung, Micron, Western Digital (HGST) etc make great NVMe SSD's (Intel's enterprise NVMe SSD's are more readily available in retail sales channels that the others).

With software raid you can grab the drives from one machine, put them in another, and work with the raid set. With hardware raid you need to worry about which controllers are compatible with each other, what if some controller is discontinued and you don't have a spare to replace it. For many years already CPU's are more than powerful enough to do any raid calculations required without working hard. The only special thing the higher end (and expensive) hardware raid controllers can claim is the optional battery backup you can add to some of them so that if the server loses power, any in-transit data can be written to the drives using the controller's own battery. In my own experience not a feature I've missed because I run servers with a UPS or data center power that very rarely fails. Software raid for the win, and would recommend sticking with raid 1 or raid 10 (mirroring) and not bothering with raid5 or raid6. With today's large drives, raid5/raid6 rebuilds can take a very long time when a drive fails, and during those rebuilds you have an increased likelihood of another drive failing and potentially losing the entire raid volume. Drives are cheap enough that raid10 with a bunch of hdd's works great and is more resillient to failure and when a drive replacement is necessary much faster to get back to fully healthy raid volume status. Various online articles talk about the dangers or raid5/6 with today's large HDD's.

My interest level in free software just shot way up, especially as regards the "Free as in beer" aspect!
Hoppy times are here again - who's pouring?