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The difference, unlike a Playstation console, is that you also control the hardware and OS on a PC (mostly, and for now, at least; they're working on fixing that)

This means that you don't need to "jailbreak" it with a modchip to gain access to basic functionality like simply deciding to make backups and other copies for yourself or to simply not to run the DRM requirement since you don't want to run that on your hardware that you own and you should not be obligated to. They call this piracy and cracking and say it's illegal, but I say it's a fundamental right. When it's convenient they'll tell you that you own the games, and when it's inconvenient they'll tell you you don't own them and they decide what you can do with them. It's like saying I can't photocopy pages from or write in the margins of a book I bought and own, whether it's digital or not. I reject that principle and refuse to abide by it, and you should too, and PC allows you to. Playstation does not, at least not with a nontrivial amount of work and a lot of penalties. It only requires a trivial amount of work on PC and generally will not allow the enforcement of any penalties (it shouldn't require any work and shouldn't enforce any penalties, but DRM and laws and always-online content are doing their best to make it difficult as much as they can)

The reality of the encroaching enshittification is real, but that is still the fundamental difference that a PC gives you, and I suspect it will always remain so. Never give up on this platform, defend it like a fortress and do not let anyone entice you away from it, only suffering leads down those paths.

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