The original Xbox was my absolute favorite. Still old enough to have the classic memory cards and weird console ports, but new enough that its all actually just reskinned pc hardware. The UI was simple but easy and had this fantastic early 2k style. I didn't even care that it was disgustingly green.

On top of all that, it was an era where basically everything could get greenlit. Shrek sequel game? Do it. Bounty hunter in a batshit crazy world using bigs as bullets? Knock yourself out. Love letter to golden eye, even if we can't get the rights? You bet! What if I wanna watch softcore porn with the bros but justify it by saying we're gaming? That's fucking weird, but have at it. Literally anything could get a game.

This is one of those quotes that is constantly taken out if context by entitled dicks.

Sam Walton, founder of Walmart coined the phrase and it was actually an insightful stance on consumer trending. What it actually means is that it doesn't matter how you feel or what your data shows about a product, if customers don't buy it you can't do shit about it. In practice, tofu is a healthier, more sustainable, less expensive, more versatile option than traditional meat, but if my butcher shop moves to tofu because I wholly believe it's far better fit everyone, I'll go out of business regardless. The customer wants steak and even if the customer is making a choice I don't agree with, the customer will always win that argument by simply shipping elsewhere.

Hey that's me! I actually specifically bought a 2019 kia because it has less digital controls than the 2021 they had for the same price.

I recently found out that you can soft hack them really easily, literally drag and drop onto a flashdrive and plug it in. If you ever find the time you should definitely try.

Recently I've taken to modding consoles. Turns out a 360 can play every game made for the entire original Xbox line as well as its own and that's not mentioning emulating older things like the n64 and it's predecessors. Between that and a modded ps4, you'll never run out of games to play.

After that, it's 3d printing every board game.

That's not an animal it's an upset sphere.

"Temporary fad" really undersells just how deep the rot actually goes in our society. Trump isn't a freak happenstance, pedophile is baked into our culture and the actual crime is making other's hear about it.

Yeah, I bought my current pc for that price in 2018. The steam machine is a step up in every department and comes preset to play games. At that price I'd get one for each member of my family so we could game together.

I'll turn to burgling data centers before I turn to steaming my pc.

This kind of data recognition is wasted on sports. I'd kill to have a commentary recognizing a player's top deck:whiff ratio during a mid game dig in commander. I don't care about optimized turns to win, I wanna see storm/cascade failure rate and scoop on sight %.

I'd say for the better but it appears they all have jobs in the government now. I miss when they were busy complaining about women having personality in green text...

If the moment can be ruined by something little, it was going to be ruined to begin with.

Honesty yeah, if I ever become professional enough to have a private practice I'm going to have a print of this in the lobby.

That's great, what do I have to do to make mine do that?

Jokes aside, I watched a documentary yesterday about a study where they used sensors and electrodes on the motor cortex of a subject. They found it took 55microseconds between when he thought about moving his finger and when of actually moved.

They then interrupted his attempt to move his finger by using the electrode to move the finger instead. They then did series where he was told to move his finger and the computer either would or wouldn't randomly stimulate the movement first and he had to report whether he felt like it wad him or the computer doing it.

Subjects disproportionately attributed the motion to the computer even in events where the computer didn't cause any movement. Suggesting that the subjects had a dramatic reduction in feelings of agency when even the suggestion of outside control was present.

I cannot, in any way, shape, or form, justify that kind of money on what you just said. Our grocery pickup to get us the next two weeks was $132 and we were being generous this time.

I'm not sure how to tell? It happens with any media I move, either on my computer or through sftp.

https://youtu.be/J9-Ov-_KcWk

I believe it was part of this.

I'd like to see the data for that 49% of adults. It feels high and I wouldn't put it past some companies to report mandatory AI bots as increased use by customers. I know Amazon requires it to do returns now, and I've had more than one site bring up the chat bot if you wanted access to content.

Dang! Honestly, I can't get over the fact that we haven't made a way to passively cool cars when they're not running. Just a one way valve in the doors would do it.

I'd suggest ditching them fast just to maximize your ability to continue. If you've got a good handle on getting them stealthily, I would put that towards placing them visibly in the garbage or on the property of people or organizations that support this regime.

The solar panels should be easy enough to wire up and mpunt for personal use, just destroy any branding and make a plausible scenario for where you got them.

It depends on the specs of the batteries. If you can repurpose them to make rechargable power banks, battery packs, or maybe even power a decent rc. Alternatively, a cardboard drone isn't a hard build. Or if you're really after that super villain vibe, liions tend to burst and catch fire when punctured. An egg timer, a mouse trap, some nails and some hot glue and you'll have yourself a time delayed fire starter. I'm sure there's plenty of useful things that can be done with that.