The term customer is used in regards to the ISP who are supposed to track traffic. For the servers it refers to users, not customers. There does not seem to be any differentiation with regards to the type of data, so yes even CSS or plain text would count (though they obviously would be too small of a quantity to matter).

The US originally also charged per minute for dial-up connections. Dial-up after all was making phone calls (even on ISDN).

They did get flat fee models while still in dial-up probably due to earlier adoption thus earlier competition than in EU countries.

Optical disk supply is also getting shrunk, probably more than ROM chips.

It would require a complete redesign of the console. Optical media are more fragile, cumbersome and read data slower and more unreliably. The drive would reduce battery time.

Nintendo ain't going to turn to optical media.

A game can be "Steam Deck Verified" by Valve without the publisher making a request. In fact request by the publisher is the last option after automatic heuristics and Valve identifying a game as improtant.

Is nix a source-distribution distro? Does it compile C packages locally as well or just rust?

In any case discord is going to provide binaries only.

.... Are you shoving your hand between your butt and the toilet seat to wipe?

Standing up does not require sliding on the toilet seat.

Never heard of the term seven summits but the Olympic flag has five rings for the five inhabited contingents.

Yes, Lula is the one who will bring out the tanks. Not the son of an ex-military officer that is in prison for a coup attempt.

Nazi scum.

My comment on old consoles not preventing you from playing physical games was only in regards to originals, not pirated ones.

I am well aware that physical media actually provides more ways for vendors to limit control of software/games by the users. Both practical and even legal hurdles.

I agree that physical media won't last forever and even when they do the hardware that runs them might not work anymore.

That's true for games not on physical media as well.

So what makes a game on a disk that does not require internet connection to run/activate better than a game distributed GOG style where once you get the game it also no longer requires an internet connection?

Physical media alone does not guarantee that. You need a legal framework that forbids mandatory online activation. Actually better forbid them from binding a physical game at all cause or you should never connect your console to the internet.

But if we manage to get those rights we can also get the right to transferable software in general.