What’s interesting is that we sort of have a counterpoint already with The Orville’s Moclans, who have interpreted their warrior culture fixation as mandating force-transition to suppress females. This results in an interesting cameo by Dolly Parton playing her own hologram. The Klingons are at least more progressive there.

He’s so cute! He can monitor me any day!

Aren’t most miners running ASICs that are pretty much only useful for mining specific coins? I was hoping we were past the last “people are buying off-the-shelves GPUs for crypto” bubble.

Thwn I’d expect higher figures for musicians, swayed by the top .01% that suck up all the fame and royalties.

Make something unmarketsble.

My big hobby project was software for 30-year-old computers, not a big market.

I always figured they should have gone towards custom architecture as a product.

This would have dovetailed well with the Itanium-driven extinction of a lot of high-end architectures. If you can get one more generational upgrade for some bespoke platform running MIPS or M88k or whatever, you might pay $10k per chip instead of conpeting with commodity x86.

The new solution has a chatbot delving into whipping strategy and toadying the whippers.

Carry slot limits annoy me more.

Weight makes sense from a story perspective. Even a top-spec fighter can’t carry four zweihanders and 500 food rations.

But even the 1-STR mage who might have a legitimate carry weight limit of 2kg, should not be told “you can only carry 3 different types of 10-gram herb.” Especially if he’s allowed to carry 200 units of any one of the types. Give me anything resembling a viable story-based reason for that.

But selling a solution to that is a very popular monetization paradigm for MMOs, so it stays.

Invite your friends for “bonus” resources, or even worse, to unlock progression.

If you want to incentivize me to growthhack your product, let’s talk dollars, not Mystic Sunshine Gems.

Use MCUs that can be programmed over straight USB.

On a high level, you can get a cleaner like Deoxit D5 in a spray bottle. Most pots have a slit in them so you can spray into them, then turn the pot through its range a bunch of times. It’s worth a try as a start. Obviously do it while the unit is unplugged.

If you want to consider a more aggressive rebuild, like a capacitor replacement, maybe find a cheap old amplifier at the thrift shop to use as practice for desoldering/resoldering.

You might be able to connect the BT to one input on the amp, like the tape input, and the CD to another.

The Orville has a great take on it too.

There’s an episode where they bring in someone from a scarcity-era planet and she’s freaking out about how they have replicators and future medical tech, and the crew explains to her that if the technology were airdropped on her world, thry wouldn’t be socially ready for it and it would just become a means of further stratification.

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.

We have an entire universe (from snaps up to univere-scale k8s setups) derived from “it works on my machine, so we’ll ship my machine”.

How much bad software isn’t being shook out because it’s kept alive in a container with just the right dependencies to prevent it from activating bugs and bad assertions?

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

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

So some domestic firm with a terrible, non competitive product fellated him. Did we see a pressboard trophy to go with Apple’s glass one?

I’m amused that it was also worth individually weiging and pricing them. Couldn’t possibly sell a 14p banana for 13, eh?