A STRANGE GAME.

THE ONLY WINNING MOVE IS

NOT TO PLAY.

Yes, I am indeed my mommy’s baby.

My boy!

Which is why so many emulators require you to somehow acquire the console’s actual BIOS binary yourself (manually dumping it from your own hardware, of course, and by no other means at all) and dropping it into a file folder for the emulator to use.

I live in a major city that’s been carved up by the local monopolists like a turkey, and none of them have even installed coverage in all the areas they’ve claimed and which their “competitors” won’t touch. Some people just can’t have a good connection because of their address.

It must me noted that Big Tech is currently engaged in artificially forcing hardware prices upward, along with Microsoft’s constant attempts to deprecate old hardware by forcing new versions of their OS out of compatibility with it.

There are so many ways they’re actively screwing their customers by making things tangibly worse, and then conveniently showing up to “help” by selling us more of their shit.

Among other things I’m an audio editor and producer, and badly-done audio really grates on my brain. When clips have been poorly chopped together, when a character running away from a monster screams the exact same scream twice, when statements are clearly frankenclips made of fuck knows how many different recordings, my brain raises the alarm.

This is especially rough when reality TV competition shows are on. I like Drag Race, for example, but RuPaul is employing some idiots hacking at spools of worn-out tape with rusty knives or something.

“I’m _having trouble with ^this challenge!”

That prospect becomes less and less likely the more government is bought and paid for by Big Tech.

To answer your question we’ll need to conduct a series of electrical tests on your left ball. Please report to the lab as soon as possible, and wear loose pants.

As posted at this new instance which appears to be trying to fill the void (heh) left by lemmyNSFW:

Xaeg/Yay was the owner of LemmyNSFW, and he had access to and paid for the domain, server, and everything else related to the site. He has been AWOL for about 6 months now, and suddenly this month, the server and the domain stopped being paid for. I have no access to the server to get the database.

Because of this LemmyNSFW as it was, and all the content on it, much to my dismay, seems to have died.

The straw I’m grasping at in this example is a reasonably well-accepted scientific consensus, but you do you.

Our microorganism ancestors also did all those things, and they were far beyond anything an LLM can do. Turning words into numbers, doing a string of math to those numbers, and turning the resulting numbers back into words is not consciousness or wisdom and never will be.

LLMs are not children. Children can have experiences, learn things, know things, and grow. Spicy autocomplete will never actually do any of these things.

Thank you! You’re nice.

IPA is either isopropyl alcohol or India pale ale. Best to be sure of which alcohol-relevant situation you are in before deciding which to apply.

When I used to do computer repair for work I had a hard limit against working on stuff from a smoker’s household or office. Not only am I too asthmatic to enjoy spending time in such a place, but the thick sticky crud in every nook and cranny of the machine made any hardware job far more trouble than it was worth to me.

I’m still willing to occasionally be the “computer guy” for certain friends and family, but smokers can figure something else out because I’m not touching it. (And yes, weed smoke counts.)

Snatch.

Whatever people in power try to stir up about this, it’s literally impossible to legislate and block shapes from being 3D-printed. Any attempts to do so are a fool’s errand, and/or just being used to justify misguided (and doomed) attempts to lock down 3DP technology for other reasons (read DRM/copyright forces in big business.) Blocking parts that might be for a gun from being printed simply cannot be done.

https://blog.adafruit.com/2026/02/04/what-a-load-of-filament-the-case-against-3d-printer-gun-detection/

https://michaelweinberg.org/blog/2026/02/04/3d-printer-gun-screen/

You can remap that key on a hardware level with a little flathead screwdriver. 🪛 🗑️