The PS2 is one of those consoles that had fairly bizarre hardware architecture compared to say, a PC for example.
Developers took a few years to figure out the hardware and really learn how to take advantage of it. They didn't get much or any pre-release dev time, so they were learning how to use it while gamers were just getting their hands on it. Thus, the better titles came later in the consoles life.
Terms which should be void as this update was pushed to systems that explicitly disabled automatic updates.
Companies were literally raped by Crowdstrike.
/edit Sauce (bottom paragraph)
I'm getting real sick of companies acting like rapists and society just accepting it, if not justifying it for them.
No means no. Plain and simple.
As if the borked update wasn't bad enough, it was also forced on users that explicitly said not to install it.
CrowdStrike’s channel file updates were pushed to computers regardless of any settings meant to prevent such automatic updates
There's not exactly a whole lot of options...
They shelter in designated spaces built to withstand fire longer, typically stairwells, and fire departments rescue them.
90% of photos of this thing, I can't tell if they're real, or AI renders.
Like someone turned the graphics settings to minimum and it just decided textures/reflections aren't needed anymore; mono-colour flat polygons is the best we can do...
That's fair.
I still think some capacitors or a rechargeable coin cell + a solar cell to keep either one charged would be better.
I can't see how it would be cost prohibitive to put a solar cell in a remote that comes with a tv worth several hundred dollars, but not in a 10$ calculator.
Adding Solar to More Devices
I never understood why this wasn't more common already. Most calculators I've run into are solar powered; but I've almost never seen tv remotes, timers, thermometers/humidity meters, or other similar devices with solar cells powering them.
Why not? Seems like an obvious solution...
I specify my LAN DNS servers (2 pihole instances, main + a backup for redundancy) in my routers DHCP settings, so they are the DNS servers handed out to all LAN clients; then I have an iptables rule on the router blocking all port 53 traffic from leaving the network unless it came from those LAN DNS servers. This means only the piholes can reach external dns; everything else is required to use the LAN DNS servers or receive no response. Then the piholes have full control over what can and cannot resolve to an IP.
I haven't found a device that doesn't work with this setup. I used to have a couple google homes before I wised up, they worked fine behind this setup.