It does when you’re collecting multiple retro consoles, all their cables, any adapters you need for modern TVs. I’ve had to make do with a Series S in dev mode running Retroarch for my retro gaming needs, and even then I can’t get it to use anything other than an Xbox controller.
It’s times like this I wish I had a bigger house. There’s so much of this old tech I just want, or at least I want to see and hold them. Basically I want a hands-on retro gaming museum.
I’m interested to see what an open source cloud standard would look like. There’s a lot of elements that share functionality between Azure and AWS, but they’re just different enough that it’s a massive pain in the arse to move from one to the other and you basically have to re-write your Terraform from scratch.
If there was something that was standard so I could write Terraform that goes “I want thirteen microservices all running in docker containers and a message bus with these types of message that lets them communicate” without specifying the exact implementation, I would be a happy camper.
I would say ‘no’ on principle. No child of mine will EVER receive virtual currency as a present for Christmas. I would sooner buy them £120 worth of games than even £5 in Robux.