Release controller -> people buy controller = news

I’d recommend the MinUI firmware for the Flip Mini.

As for games maybe Golden Sun for the GBA.

DoD Source and TF2 with a good community server was the best of times :(

Squad is by far the most with about 3.5k hours. I dont really like playing other games online nowadays but Squad really hits the sweet spot of 80% social 20% gameplay.

The rest of the list is probably Megadrive, N64 and Dreamcast stuff :D

90s and 00s era were pretty wild with advertising.

Do you mean meltdown as in agressive or it makes you uncomfortable when asked?

Its not really a factor for me, at the moment anyway. I never get asked for ID when buying a bottle of whatever and I haven’t bothered to give ID for “verification” to anything yet and nothing has changed.

If you have any old hardware/laptop laying around then use that until you nail down what you actually want to do and need.