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  • You’re totally right, not turning it on at all would be safer. But we do need to use them so it makes sense to turn it on while in use. Security is only good up to the point of it making your machine unusable. Most of the attacks you see on running computers by happens overnight anyway, or otherwise when your machine is sitting idle not in use. Plus it gives you the opportunity to witness odd behavior if it were to happen while you’re using it.

    And no, you should never trust your LAN in the year of our lord 2025. We are well beyond that in the cybersecurity landscape and have been for 10+ years. Zero Trust is the name of the game. If a device is on, and connected to the internet, it’s a target, as are any other devices on that network. Pretend that is not the case at





  • All official game reviews are early access reviews. Whether you buy the game on day 1 or you pre order, you’re seeing the same reviews. There are also community reviews of the game, if game journalists are you issue, but more and more these days community reviews are putting out reviews early, including gameplay. It’s very rare to “go in blind” when preordering, when there is so much information prior to release. I certainly didn’t buy Cyberpunk at launch, and I didn’t need to wait two weeks to know that.

    And also it doesn’t take 2 weeks for community sentiment to form lol that’s a ludicrous thing to say. You will have full access to community sentiment on day 1. And with a full week to refund, you get an extra 6 of those days to get one. Your argument would be more at home 10-15 years ago, but certainly not today.

    There is in fact no practical reason not to pre order.







    • You get content only available if you pre order
    • You get early access to the game
    • You get some amount of later expansion content for free
    • you can preload the game so when it releases, you can just begin playing it.

    There are lots of practical reasons TO preorder something, thought it’s not always all of those things. And you can both preorder something and “Wait for reviews” because the vast majority of the time, reviews release before a game releases.

    For example, Civ 7 comes out on the 11th, if you pre order you get the benefit of getting to play it on the 6th, and the reviews for it all released today, the 3rd. That means I’ll know today if the game sucks and I can just… cancel my preorder if I wanted to. Then in a couple days I get to play the game early, so in case the reviews were all paid for I get to see for myself if I don’t like the game, and if I don’t like it, I can cancel my pre order.

    In case I don’t cancel my pre order, I also save $10 on Civ packs I would otherwise be paying for. If I waited for release day to buy it, I’d lose out on the benefits of pre ordering, but gain nothing.