All of them have PS3 ports (God of War Collection Vol. 1+2), even the PSP games.

God of War III even got a PS4 remaster. :)

I’m having a blast with all of the old God of War games currently. 🥰

the fan might pull more electricity than a modern one

It draws 35W on full power, which isn’t that bad - and I mostly run it on the low power setting. Even modern fans use the same motor type (shaded-pole motors), they just got a bit smaller over the last 80 years.

A modern comparison would be the PHILIPS Mercury 1000 desk fans, they also draw 35 watts.

Yes, that thing is basically just a CPU, a few capacitors and a screen. Unless the CPU just dies for no reason it can run forever. Capacitors can be replaced.

The fan is grounded. I have replaced the motor wiring and used heatshrink to properly put it into the case. Even though I love my old devices, I don’t take any chances with brittle mains wiring.

The lamp does not have a ground wire, but the plug is at the top and the bulb is surrounded by non-conductive material so I’m not worried about it.

It definitely hurts, but hasn’t penetrated the skin of my fingers (yet).

Whenever some device breaks, I try to get a replacement from ancient times so I’ll never have to buy another shitty one again.

When my desk lamp broke, I got a medical lamp from the 1930s. It’s made out of steel and aluminum and will never fail.

When my fan broke, I got a desk fan from the 50’s - it needed just a few drops of oil and has been running continuously for a week during the European heatwave. Everything down to the gears that make it turn from left to right is made out of solid metal.

The next thing will be an analog scale. I have an electronic one from amazon that partly melted when it was sitting a little bit next to my stove (it didn’t even get that hot). And I secretly hope my toaster will break soon, because ancient toasters look fucking awesome and I want one.

I also have an eBook reader from 2008, when Sony went crazy for a bit and actually produced models with a metal shell. All of these things will definitely last longer than me, as it should be.

The only thing I cannot replace are my fridge and my washing machine. :( You just cannot get those old ones - and even if you do, sellers will not ship them and without a car or driving license, I simply can’t get them. But I do what I can to minimize having to spend a shit ton of money every few years to replace my failing devices.

Pay for new teeth, up my Patreon subscription for my favorite artist by factor 5 and then back some great projects made by human artists on Kickstarter.

I run a forum where the first post was started 23 years ago. Although the activity has drastically gone down during recent years, people still occasionally come by. I’m very happy I kept it up, even though a lot of people switched over to a Discord server.

Recently we had an incident where the sole admin of the Discord server was banned and the whole Discord had to be abandoned and created from scratch. People still keep using this trash! I’m not arguing with them, I’ll just keep an alternative up. One day, when Discord really enshittifies itself to a point where it becomes unuseable, people will be happy for my stubborness. I hope.

(It’s a forum for an obscure space pirate game for the PC - I-War 2. Its first post is here.)