Leather can last for many decades if treated well. Vegan leather aka plastic lasts a few years tops.

I have lost like two dozen DRM free games because the hard drive they were archived on died. There are also some DVDs filled with DRM free games, that are somewhere in my closet. I don’t even have a DVD drive anymore.

When Steam started getting popular, I resisted it for years. Instead getting DRM free Indie games and lots of Humble Bundles. At some point there was one game I could get on Steam, so I started using it.

My old Steam games are easy and fast to access, install, and play again. Far easier than rummaging through my own archive. I don’t need to configure or install Proton to play games on Linux either.

The lack of DRM on my older games hasn’t provided me any actual real life benefit. The fears pandered about by opponents of Steam haven’t materialized in more than a decade. If anything, the advantages of Steam have become more apparent.

Jupiter contains lots and lots of Helium that just needs to scooped up from the atmosphere.

In practice having a game on Steam is even superior to having a DRM free copy. My DRM free copies of games are on some old hard drive in a drawer. My steam library is right there. Removing and installing games is super straightforward.

Sensible regulation would target the network effect. That’s the barrier you identified. For example make it possible to use your Steam friends with GOG. Or have some kind of interoperability or standard.

Yes, easy gun availability makes gun crime more likely. If you think your victim might have a gun, you want to use a gun to rob them. Knives are very deadly weapons as well and very hard to regulate.

In many European countries it’s easier to get a gun illegally than legally.

Are you sure? Action Retro built a software RAID from 30 floppy drives connected over USB.

Interesting idea

A valid concern.

A gun registry wouldn’t list if people are trans or not though. A list of trans people you would get through healthcare and insurance. Changes of a legal name is probably registered somewhere as well. So they would need to cross reference.

If they want to go after trans people individually, they would go for leaders and activists first. They are easily found on social media nowadays. Then go after organized groups.

An individual armed trans person is much less of a concern, than organized groups armed or not.

The worse the military, the better the propaganda. Is a rule of thumb at least.

Very true. People have all kinds of stuff they don’t actually need, but just like having.

I’m not sure the number of guns someone owns makes a difference regarding public safety and gun crime.

I support stricter gun laws in the US, registered ownership, some kind of license, sales only through licenses dealers, restricted advertising, waiting times, safe storage requirements, etc. A lot of gun regulations in the US are not very effective and more symbolic. Bothering legal owners more doesn’t necessarily help with violent crimes using firearms.

Fundamentally the main reasons for gun crime are social and can improved without changing gun regulations.

Propaganda is always important. This is to be shared among Americans to further weaken support of Trump’s war in Iran. They did a pretty good job with this.

Besides security professionals and sports shooters, hunters are a pretty big group of gun owners. If you live in the countryside and own some land, you might want a gun for pest control i.e. hunting.

I also think there’s a big difference between carrying and using a gun on your own property and carrying it in public. If you live somewhere far away from any police, having a means to self defense als has some merit.

Are you from Czechia? Australia of course.

Czechia and Austria are also worth putting on this chart.

Some people are collectors, but a lot of people just have some old guns around.

Also if guns are a hobby or interest of yours, you are likely to own several. Just like people who are into headphones, mechanical keyboards, vintage gaming consoles, bicycles, etc.

It makes a lot of sense to own more than one gun. For self defense you might own one shotgun, one handgun, and a smaller handgun for concealed carry. If you’re a hunter, you likely want two rifles in different calibers, a shotgun, and a hand gun. In addition to that you might have an old gun laying around or grandpa’s old hunting gun, a range toy, some historic gun you like for some reason. Sport target shooters will have a few different guns, depending on what disciplines they shoot. Then there are also more serious collectors who might have dozens or hundreds of different firearms.

Anker

I still use a Brother laser printers, that’s at least 15 years old. Got it for free a decade ago. It just keeps printing.

Color laser printers have been around for a while. Color quality is worse than an ink jet. So if you’re printing high quality photos, it’s not ideal. It’s good enough though and the other advantages of laser remain.

I used a VGA cable just last week to attach a screen to an HP micro server.