Pro you can pirate almost every game for the PS1/PS2/PS3/PSN/PSP on one machine. (PS2 is better if your PS3 is one of the full BC units.)
Pro you can use the wonderful Showtime media player and stream from any windows based PC on your network with very little effort along with many other sources via plugins and I believe it is compatible with FTP and other servers? (Not sure what else it supports since I was able to just right click share folders and it auto picked up in Showtime.)
Pro Emulation is getting much better on the PS3 (Still not as polished as it is on the Wii in my opinion but it works very well none the less.)
Downside is trying to figure out how to set all that stuff up in the fist place and you of course cannot go on PSN with you already mention.
If you don't care about going on PSN for multi player there really isn't any real downsides for you. (Maybe if you want to use Netflix? Supposedly you can still go on Netflix but I have blocked all PSN access at my router for the PS3 and Netflix will get to where its about to start streaming my movie and it kicks me off... very annoying.)
Edit: I forgot to add that depending on your CFW you can also do some really neat things like disabling Cinavia... lol
Is gameplay encrypted on the PS3? I honestly don't know as I have never once tried to record anything from it... lol my experience with recording game play video's ended with the NES or SNES on a VCR... back when I used to record hard parts in games and watch them to see what I was doing wrong after I had calmed down a bit.
Is gameplay encrypted on the PS3? I honestly don't know as I have never once tried to record anything from it... lol my experience with recording game play video's ended with the NES or SNES on a VCR... back when I used to record hard parts in games and watch them to see what I was doing wrong after I had calmed down a bit.
Homebrew, and there's plenty of it. Emulators, applications, homebrew games - you name it
OtherOS++, if you're in any way interested in running a Linux distribution on your system
Ripping software allows for putting your games on an HDD, meaning you preserve your original discs, the laser lens and cut down on loading times
Custom PS2 classics injectors allow for playing PS2 games which aren't available on PSN. If you have PS2 titles you'd like to play on the PS3, this is the answer to your problems
PSP game compatibility via PSP injectors, so that you can enjoy all those portable games on the big screen
Con's:
Risky PSN functionality which you don't care about anyways
In other words, you lose nothing and you gain so, so much.
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I got the Google Pixel Pro buds, they're good enough for when I need portable audio. And some really cheap IEMs that Dankpods recommends, I think the KZ ZSN Pro
I'd stick with cheapo Chinese $10 ones quality is actually becoming on pair with name brand since name Brand usually quads the price up anyway loose one bud that's another $200
My Pixel Pro buds shit the bed a month or two ago. My wireless charger (which they do support Qi charging) absolutely COOKED them. Caused some problem that caused the case to heat up to 180F+
They were like 9 months out of warranty but I hit up Google support anyway and told them how hot they were getting and they replaced them with new ones because they wanted these for failure analysis lol
@Xdqwerty, power through a coil of wire causes an electromagnetic field to be generated. Another coil of wire can be set up to harness the power from that electromagnetic field and turn it into usable energy for charging a device