What kind of games are you looking for?

There are several high profile gaming classics on archive.org:

Here are several Valve games:

https://archive.org/search?query=creator%3A"Valve+Corporation"

Here you have some Bioshock releases:

https://archive.org/search?query=bioshock&tab=software

I read that Epic released Unreal Tournament 2004 on Archive.org a few years ago shortly after they killed the master server:

https://archive.org/search?tab=software&query=unreal+tournament

There are plenty more to find over there

Are you Icelandic?

Yes.

Wasn’t there a huge fallout from them changing the license a few years back?

Have they changed their license back to Open Source?

Don’t care, they like all smart glasses they have a face mounted recording suite.

So we should support these camera glasses just because they are not Meta or Google?

Nah mate, they are still a creepy recording device.

Or you can just keep your card in your wallet, like you have done for decades

My dad travelled a lot in Asia during the 90s, we had plenty of VHS tapes where the box art only covered half of the case.

Holy shit I misread “outlined” as “outlived” and had a mini panic attack until I reread the sentence.

You must have a pretty specific workflow that fails so completely using Microsoft Office.

The second point is that as has already been mentioned, you can keep using the computer after the software support ends, that doesn’t really work for most subscription software.

That was exactly my point.

Ok, so students can select either:

1. A computer that they can study, work, (light) game, edit photos, and do much more on, without a digital use by date.
2. An admittedly excellent office suite, a collection of games, for a limited time, and an Xbox controller, but only if they buy a specific computer.

Yeah, nah Microsoft, nah.

There was an old virus that would copy your FAT table to ram, erase it from disk, and preset you with a slot machine UI where you would gamble to get the FAT back, if you won, great, the virus would write the FAT back to the drive, if not, you lost everything.

Rebooting without playing meant loosing everything.

I treat AI just as I treat gambling, I mostly avoid it completely, or if I have to use it, I do so with a lot of caution and skepticism.

Excellent, remember that after 64 times booting the system there will be a mandatory test on 16 random boot up messages.

Fail, and the system refuses to start.

Few Linux users have ever successfully beaten it…

…mostly because they never had to reboot their system 64 times before getting a new machine.

The issue I have with GUI and wrapper tools on Linux is that I don’t know how they have implemented the standards, I know several tools that only deals with the basic stuff and leave you high and dry for the advanced stuff.

Which I feel is missing the point, if you have a gui it should support advanced stuff as well as the basic stuff, else you will train your self wrong, and have to unlearn a lot of crap

You can get the following games for €50:

• Turbo Overkill
• Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy
• The Orange Box
• Bioshock
• Bioshock 2
• Exo One
• PAC-MAN Championship Edition DX+
• Dishonored
• Red Faction Guerilla Re-Mars-tered

This list is a good mix of awesome games, currently the total price for this looks like €49,88 in Sweden, this is amazing value!

Turbo Overkill - A fun and fast paced arcade FPS in a dystopic 80s futuristic setting.

Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy - one of the best platformers I know, amazing soundtrack, super frustrating at times, but soo much fun!

The Orange Box - Needs no introduction, one sale for €3.90, increadible value.

Bioshock snd Bioshock 2 - Absolute gaming classics, and that is for a very good reason.

Exo One - A bit weird sci-fi game, beautiful and very engaging.

PAC-MAN Championship Edition - Take Pacman, Neon colours, fast synth beat, challenges and an online leaderbord, when these combine you get this super fun game.

Dishonored - A great game, a stealth game with magic powers, a classic!

Red Faction Guerilla Re-Mars-Tered edition - Do you like destruction physics? Then this game is for you!

Pioneer is a well known Japanese electronics company, they are still going strong, but have exited the optical disc drive business.

So no, Pioneer has not gone out of business, they have however changed focus from optical drives.

Simple, since the system knows the VIN of every car, it knows who to send the bill to.

You could even have a Terminal at the entrence of the facility for those who want to prepay.