I was mostly disappointed Lord Harkon wasn’t.

I see a Roadmaster wagon. To the used-games store!

It can’t be a real “as seen on TV” product because they didn’t use the phrase “in the palm of your hand”.

One day they’ll need to sell a larger product and be forced to hire actors with freakishly gigantic hands.

Some mainboards have very few PCI-e slots.

I ended up with a similar adapter because the onboard SATA on my board was flaky with optical drives and I rip CDs.

From what I understand, some modern drives effectively encrypt everything at rest, but have the key on file internally so it decrypts transparently. This allows for a fast “wipe” where it just destroys the key instead of having to overwrite terabytes.

It’s fun. I saw it in the weird $3.50 cutrate cinema the local real estate tycoon runs as hobby business and there were like 9 people in the hall.

Some of the old hardware forms, Gideontech and Pimprig/PCApex.

There were some experiments where currency was actually denominated in hours, usually as part of a co-op system where you were literally trading for hours of labour.

I think the most famous one was in Ithaca, NY.

A Greaseweazle mihht be another angle; you could image discs at lest.

There’s also a longevity mismatch. The streaming device goes obsolete much faster than the display. At worst, you’ve got a bunch of buttons snd icons for dead services or “your device is no longer supported” tutning your home theatre into a dead mall.

It’s sort of like when they used to make low-end TVs with VCRs and DVD players built in. Nobody was doing that on top of the line sets because you wanted to keep it for 10 years, and the DVD player would give out much sooner.

I think one brand tried to make a modular component to allow for smart upgrades, but without industry standards, it was a predestined dead end. Thry should have just out a slot in the cabinet sized to fit a Roku/Fire stick and let customers swap them every few years.

While there’s some far-end “let’s eliminate cash” sentiments, a lot of the selling point of a CBDC is simply faster, cheaper settlement than current private platforms, so there’s a nonmalovent position.

Many central banks are pushing for the CBDC as a commercial or interbank-only thing in large part because if end consumers could just have an CBDC demand account with the Federal Reserve/Bank of England/ECB, it would squeeze out commercial banks.

Sitcom style fun punishment?

“You did something stupid, but took the responsible approach when you realized. You’re going to have to spend all Saturday afternoon with your Dad, shopping for some nice sterile, hypoallergenic piercings.”

I want to see the camera that will stop white-collar crime.

Genshin Impact.

Yes it’s a crappy casino for horny teenage boys, but damn if they didn’t put a surprisingly decent game on the ground floor of said casino.

I’m surprised there isn’t more of a crowdsourced solution-- community maintained block/allow lists and pluggable tools.

Part of the reason filters suck right now is that they’re sold to turboprudes and people pushing compliance solutions that will placate litigious turboprudes. So you get blocking all of Wikipedia and .edu/.gov because three pages have an anatomical diagram of a breast. The kids are frustrated, normal parents have to keep unblocking legit stuff, and nobody wins.

If you could pick from easily managed lists sponsored by groups you personally trusted, with responsive appeals systems, people might be more willing to use them.

The ad-blocker ecosystem has a lot of precedent for how to work this stuff.

We need to reframe the discussion from “it’s for the children” to “it’s for lazy parents”.

People are keen to scapegoat parents, and here it’s the truth. They don’t want to use existing opt-in controls, or put the damn computer where they can keep an eye on Little Timmy while he uses it. Make the entirery of the legal system do it for you!

IMO, the real use case for PayPal was really on the seller side.

When it was 2002 and you weren’t a major business but just wanted to sell three old CDs on eBay or offer dog haberdashery online, it was by far the simplest way to accept a credit-card funded transaction.

We’re still not a lot better there in 2025. Even with more modern platforms, you can’t really get from zero to accepting cards directly in 15 minutes.

It’s clearly DisplayPort.

It’s a remarkable entitlement.

Let’s say I’ve never dealt with your restaurant before. Why would I start my relationship with you by installing your lowest-bid spyware on my personal device? You have yet to even convince me I’ll ever want a Quesachalupa Wrap Crunch Bellgrande (the same as “taco, add tomatoes”, but $3.72 more) again.

At the current rate, within 6 months, the average stint for a high-level federal officer will be measured in seconds. Eventually, the entire American populace will be shuffled through these roles, being sacked before the welcome email can even escape the spam filter.

I’m going to ask if I can get my shot as the director of the Federal Railroad Administration.