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Non-gaming gaming console questions — allowed?
I don't think that this question (or questions like it) should be on Gaming stack Exchange. Are these questions OK to ask?
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10What kind of questions? Why? Explain yourself. (Do it by editing the question, please.) In general, questions about consoles are on topic.– badp ModCommented Dec 4, 2011 at 22:41
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@badp wrong, only gaming questions about consoles. please read the FAQ or see that question is closed.– IAdapterCommented Dec 5, 2011 at 15:16
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3@IAdapter the FAQ does not say that. Questions about watching Netflix on the PS3 are on-topic.– badp ModCommented Dec 5, 2011 at 15:41
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2@NickT Considering that question is over a year old, I don't see the problem with revisiting the discussion with a new meta post to see if the opinion of the community has changed.– Wipqozn ModCommented Dec 5, 2011 at 17:13
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@Wipqozn this post doesn't present an argument either way, simply asks if this is on-topic. As it is now, this is an exact duplicate. If edited to argue against the status quo, sure, it's novel.– Nick TCommented Dec 5, 2011 at 17:15
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@NickT Good point.– Wipqozn ModCommented Dec 5, 2011 at 17:21
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1I've brought this up on SuperUser: meta.superuser.com/questions/3804/…– Matthew ReadCommented Dec 5, 2011 at 21:02
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I answered the question, and I felt it was on-topic. Console modding has been discussed in the past, and allowed. This is just an extension of that. The real question he was asking was along the lines of:
"Can I modify or install different software on my PS3 than what it came with?"
which I think is a valid console-mod related question. It's also part of what the PS3 was designed to do when it was first built. Sadly, the functionality was removed.
Had he been asking:
"I installed linux on my PS3 and I'm having problem xyz"
that might be a better question for another site, one that deals with Linux installs and debugging. But there is at least one other question on this site that covers a very similar topic and was answered + left open:
