A couple of things to say:
1) Yesterday, I forgot to add in the news that I wouldn't be making them today. It's festive and all that so the news will move to tomorrow.
And 2) Regarding the PS5 drive and its internet connection shenanigans, I read a possible cause on a forum and founf this Wired article:
https://www.wired.com/story/copyright-law-is-bricking-your-game-console-time-to-fix-that/
At Replay’d, Harwell’s Boston repair and game shop, one out of every 10 customers brings in a console with a broken optical drive. Not only does a broken drive mean you can’t play your favorite discs, but on most Xbox and PlayStation models, a faulty DVD or Blu-ray drive will cause the whole console to stop working, even if the owner mostly plays downloaded, digital games. Harwell has hundreds of Xboxes in the shop basement that his technicians could harvest drives from, but there’s a catch—an obscure part of US copyright law makes it illegal for him to repurpose those drives. All too often, he’s had to give a hopeful child a dour prognosis: The only cost-effective way to fix their console is illegal. The only legal path requires parts so expensive that they’d be better off buying a new console (if they can find one).
The root of the problem is that Microsoft and Sony lock down the software they use to pair their disc readers with their consoles’ motherboards. Shops like Replay’d could easily replace those drives by accessing the software pairing the drives with the boards. Instead, the repair industry is cowering in fear of a relatively obscure provision of copyright law banning the removal of digital locks that’s kept everyone from gamers to farmers and hospitals from fixing the devices they own.
So maybe that's the reason for why the drive has to be linked to the console?
Please excuse my bad English.
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