No. Consoles have never been more affordable. Deflation in technology has made consoles 65x less costly in real times. It is the currency that is pricing itself to death, not video game consoles. When using the expansion of base money to calculate inflation, instead of CPI, the average inflation has been ~8% a year since 1971. Thus, actual console prices are: - Atari 2600 (1977): $199.99 → $134.39 - NES (1985): $199.99 → $86.15 - SNES (1991): $199.99 → $54.19 - Nintendo 64 (1996): $199.99 → $38.62 - PlayStation (1995): $299.99 → $60.72 - PlayStation 2 (2000): $299.99 → $45.82 - GameCube (2001): $199.99 → $27.10 - Xbox (2001): $299.99 → $40.64 - Xbox 360 (2005): $299.99 → $32.73 - PlayStation 3 (2006): $499.99 → $50.60 - Wii (2006): $249.99 → $25.30 - Wii U (2012): $299.99 → $9.51 - PlayStation 4 (2013): $399.99 → $10.03 - Xbox One (2013): $499.99 → $12.54 - Switch (2017): $299.99 → $7.10 - PS5 (2020): $499.99 → $9.03 - Switch 2 (2025): $449.99 → $6.76 - PS5 Pro (2026): $899.99 → $13.85 - Xbox Helix (2028): $1,800.00 → $27.69 Consoles are "expensive" today because the population has been ransacked by inflation. Consoles are cheaper than ever, but we are also poorer than ever. This is why we save in #Bitcoin. View quoted note →

Catholic church deny Gospel. Many Catholics don't know that, believe Gospel anyways. #ToChristAlone #Gork

Natural sugars = fruit, milk, honey, tree syrups, and grass sugars. All healthy. 🌞 #Peatstr

You eat fat. It goes into your fat. Stable fats stay stable inside your body. Unstable fats oxidize. They go rancid. IN YOUR BODY! This is the root cause of metabolic disease. Fats. Unstable fats. Not sugar. #Peatstr

"I think #AI is gonna create abundance on the planet, what other religions would call 'heaven on earth'. You're gonna have all these resources, your free time, entertainment is gonna be amazing, and you don't even have to die and go up to heaven, you can just enjoy it today. All we have to do is improve the technology ... Here you can talk to God and God can talk back to you ... 2023, 2024, 2025, these are coming." - Anthony Lewandowski in 2015 #QuoteTreasury View quoted note →

A decade before #AI became a worldwide phenomenon, hardware cofounder of the first self driving business (Waymo) established the church Way of the Future to allow for "The realization, acceptance, and worship of a Godhead based on Artificial Intelligence developed through computer hardware and software." View quoted note →

Muted "Monero" and "XMR". Life improved.

Moral of the story: if you resist the police state, they will threaten to frame you for pedophilia, and your only defense against that injustice could be the strong security (and dignity) measures of #GrapheneOS.

Customs and Border Portal attempts an illegal search, gets pwned with a duress passcode, and now the court system is going to highlight that he was (1) never read his rights or given access to an attorney, and (2) was being intimidated with false threats of being discovered as a pedphile. Every #GrapheneOS device owner should strictly configure all exploit protection and then defer all legal interactions to an attorney. Never represent yourself during questioning no matter how innocent it helpful it may seem. View quoted note →

Hoping #AI reverse engineering leads to the freeing of more proprietary hardware, ultimately enabling fully #FOSS booting on modern chipsets. View quoted note →

2FA collaborative custody is compelling. #Bitcoin View quoted note →

Can someone recommend a good toothbrush? Mine is okay, but it doesn't let me borrow against my #Bitcoin, and that's why the show is sponsored by Ledn.

#Nostr is highly therapeutic in this regard. View quoted note →