You should look at the External Funds thing mentioned in the article. It gives a different spending breakdown than Purchase History.

Help > Steam support > My account > Data related to your Steam account > External funds used. (Its the 13th item on a huge page full of stuff.)

Invest!

Your profile page will say your account birthday. Float your mouse over “Years of Service”.

Meh. You were late to the party. Musta got Steam to play Half Life Episode Two or Portal.

I got Steam so I could play Half Life 2 when it was released. May 4, 2006. 153 games. $1,725 spent.

This thing about not owning the games … um … Steam is a more reliable, stable, all around better repository for my games than any device I’ve ever owned. Other than the Ubisoft games that are designed to not be re-usable (never buy Ubi again) I have access to every game I’ve bothered to spend money on for the last two decades.

UPDATE: The radio is a half homebuilt wooden box w lots of leads. It was powered, had speakers attached. There was another harness that had been cut. Its been unplugged and packed.

The antena tho … we got issues.

First, I’ve not verified that its not powered. Might need to crawl an attic. Trace some wire.

Second, this thing is a construct. Three poles w glass insulated wire strung between. One pole bolts to the house right where the power comes in. If the tree lost a branch and snagged the wire, and that bracket failed, it could take out their power.

I have some precarious work to do this summer.

Win11 is a better daily driver than any Linux system. (If it was different, I’d probly start hating Linux too.) Win11 HyperV is a well developed virtualization system. Run a VM if you need Linux. There’s also the M$ linux-on-windows thing, but I don’t enjoy having the OS and the guest mix like that, so a VM is best for me.

We might have somebody interested in the antenna. I’m going to climb up and inspect it for safety for now.

Great. I have exactly as much info as you, or I would share more. My whole interest is safety atm, so this is the info I needed.

Thanks to you and other replies. I’ll read anything else posted.

Friend, I’m gonna donate it to SurplusGizmos. I have other talents. Somebody else can do RF.