Roku was recently bought by Fox Corporation, so Roku is even more trash than their usual "Roku is trash".

Press the ' key on the keyboard

I don't use ChatGPT or any other LLM/GenAI stuff, but I have had to dial back on em dash usage.

I liked doing an em dash here and there (pre ChatGPT) but now it's a target to getting accused of slop.

You own a physical disc, which is likely required as proof of having purchased the license to access the software (game).

IMO it's from the point that when home console games shifted from a "the run is running off the disc/cartridge" approach to the "the game is installed from the disc onto the console's own storage" during the a vague point somewhere between the PS3/Xbox 360 PS4 / Xbox One generations that physical media ceased to be nothing more than a physical object for a DRM check.

Easier to maintain the illusion of owning a game, when the game data on physical disc or cart was being read in realtime. For the SNES having a cart with additional processors required to run the game made that sense of ownership even more tangible.

When MS can ban your Xbox 360 from Xbox online servers, which prevented any "install physical 360 game to HDD" action, that was the beginning of the end for physical games. When online DRM / etc started to affect the sense of ownership.

Also installing a game from disc to a HDD (or now SSD) now makes the game act like a "digital copy". Some physical game discs ship with an out-of-date version of the game at launch that even installing the game from disc is more "from disc" as the game is likel yjust downloaded in-full from the servers.

That reminds me to check out a new webring Warp Point for games (etc?)

https://hackaday.com/2026/07/0...

Sell the data to anyone that wants it.

A town/city could make a more apparent innocent use-case for it, and it actually would be used for that, but the real money that the company(s) behind it would be seeking to monetise it in ways that would really piss off people if it was the primary "yeah we are going to use it to spy on everyone" sort of use-case.

Illegal parking, stolen or "stolen" (falsely-flagged as stolen) cars, go after cars with expired rego details, sell access to the local police to use for whatever usage, sell access to Federal agencies, sell the data to other businesses for geo/map stuff, etc.

Assuming a weekly rubbish pick-up, and 360 degree cameras, you could build up a massive database for use/abuse.

I would semi-seriously recommend "invest in a stacked tower of old Dell OptiPlex computers" but the eWaste industry appears to have been partially cooked by the pandemic lockdowns and now the used Ram/SSD price madness on new components spilling into the used markets.

A bit too much "no lowballz, I know what I got" on 4GB DDR4 sticks and ~128GB SSDs shucked from ex lease PCs.

If I had a huge pile of money to burn, and wanted to be more of a AI goblin than a tech bro, I'd scan only golden and silver age Science Fiction novels, novellas, short stories, etc, and feed it into a LLM... to do something. Maybe try to get it licensed and implemented into work software (or would it be "platforms"? big tech love their "platforms" these days)

Isaac Asimov's "The Feeling of Power" has felt so much more realistic these days. A couple of decades ago I would have gone that the scenario was very speculative science fiction, but these days it feels like we are a quarter already there.

The phrase "There's a sucker born every minute" would be apt for this.

Scams / snake oil / etc have been around since before recorded Human history, and will never stop being a thing.

For every person living their own personal "hindsight is 20/20" moment falling for a scam, learning to be careful next time, you get more than one person being born and not knowing of the lesson.

Your are likely correct: Windows emulation.

8 to 16GB of RAM is recommended, but apparently some games would really like even more than 16GB.

Next, allow me to toggle Shorts on or off in the subscription part of the mobile app.

And allow me to turn off community posts from people in the community pages of youtube channels. I don't want that cluttering up my phone or tablet.

And it did not kill creativity or play.

https://bricksfanz.com/a-look-...

I had the helicopter and it was a interesting system how they did it with special brick parts that could act as "wires".

Chicken tacos?

I was being sarcastic.

Not going to say that it's impossible, but ignoring that their name has been reported on in the news and just focusing on the people in academia: it can be a very close-knit community.

I know of a case of a doctoral student getting kicked out their doctoral programme, and given the boot from their university because they failed to disclose a previously attempted doctoral programme at another university in another country. I don't know the details but former doctoral supervisor and current supervisor were in contact/communication and the current university found out that they'd bombed/exited out of the previously-attempted PhD programme.

Wouldn't be surprised if it could have been sniffed out even without any communication in some fields of stud due to how specific and unique the research focus has to be for a PhD.