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Maybe it’s because I don’t use it enough but the last Sony console I bought was the absolute opposite of “no fuss”. It was nothing but mandatory unskippable updates and I constantly got signed out and had to sign in and the 2fa app kept changing names. And also all those updates and sign-ins had mandatory EULAS you had to scroll through. Such a hassle.

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LandedGentry@lemmy.zip ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
I mean if you read through EULA’s respect but they take seconds to get past. As for updates, I’m guessing you turned off auto updates and/or power your console down completely whenever you’re not playing it. Otherwise it should just be updating in the background and you never have to wait.

I’m not saying those aren’t viable decisions with their own pros, but the stuff you were encountering was completely avoidable. I never triggered 2FA on either my Xbox (one -> XSS) or PS4.

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- ayyy@sh.itjust.works ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  For the updates: I put it to sleep. However my power cuts out every now and then. When the power comes back, the ps4 turns itself back on on and makes obnoxious beeping noises, just to tell me the power was cut. The dumb thing is it will stay on that screen until manually dismissed and won’t auto-update until you dismiss that screen, with no timeout. The hassle-free appliance experience!
  
  For your claim that the eulas being easy to skip, keep in mind that sometimes there were back-to-back updates that each required me to agree to a eula. So I would babysit the thing, walk away when it was taking forever, and when I came back it wouldn’t even be ready for gaming. Even windows isn’t that obnoxious.
  
  Also my tv at the time had no way to disable CEC (my new one does, and also doesn’t crash lol).
  
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  - LandedGentry@lemmy.zip ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    
    my power cuts every now and then
    
    I mean dude that’s just a larger problem. If you were PC gaming that would be an even bigger issue.
    
    Get a surge protector with battery - APC is a very affordable brand.
    
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    ayyy@sh.itjust.works ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Yea I have one for my PC. Sony argues in court that a PlayStation is not a PC, but an appliance. I’m pointing out how untrue that is.
    
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Walican132@lemmy.today ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
As an aside. I fucking hate smart TV shit. We were gifted a like Samsung 80 inch 4K tv and I was so excited to get that as a gift. I’d never had a tv bigger than 35. But all the smart shit makes it such a miserable experience.

I’ve also decided I hate HDR. Who made the decision that the TV has its own HDR settings, the console has HDR settings, and then individual games have settings as well. I have no clue if my shit is looking the way it’s supposed to. I recently got a PS portal and on god everything looks better on it than the TV, I think because it’s preconfigured.

I miss just plugging in the game and it looking fine.

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- ayyy@sh.itjust.works ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Yea, hdr is very standardized.
  
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