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.

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

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.

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

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.”

Direct control over productive assets maybe?

If the state owns and operates farms and hospitals, they can implement policies that ensure access.

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.

What problem does CSD solve? I’d think “some apps look and work differently” is a pretty bad tradeoff for “I want to cram custom stuff in the title bar which was more or less universally treated as owned-by-the-system for the first 35 years of GUIs at least?”

GTK/GNOME seem to be making themselves actively hostile towards customization, which seems a great way to lose enthusiasts.

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.

Void with X11 (fvwm3). The fussier games tend to be online live-service titles; every new release Genshin Impact does a new weird.

I am disappointed it’s not a VLIW platform.

The Internet boom didn’t have the weird you’re-holding-it-wrong vibe too. Legit “It doesn’t help with my use case concerns” seem to all too often get answered with choruses of “but have you tried this week’s model? Have you spent enough time trying to play with it and tweak it to get something more like you want?” Don’t admit limits to the tech, just keep hitting the gacha.

I’ve had people say I’m not approaching AI in “good faith”. I say that you didn’t need “good faith” to see that Lotus 1-2-3 was more flexible and faster than tallying up inventory on paper, or that AltaVista was faster than browsing a card catalog.

I have to think that most people won’t want to do local training.

It’s like Gentoo Linux. Yeah, you can compile everything with the exact optimal set of options for your kit, but at huge inefficiency when most use cases might be mostly served by two or three pre built options.

If you’re just running pre-made models, plenty of them will run on a 6900XT or whatever.