That reminds me, 09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0.

A STRANGE GAME.

THE ONLY WINNING MOVE IS

NOT TO PLAY.

My boy!

Which is why so many emulators require you to somehow acquire the console’s actual BIOS binary yourself (by manually dumping it from your own hardware, of course, and by no other means at all) and drop 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 be noted that Big Tech is currently engaged in artificially forcing hardware prices upward, and that’s going on while Microsoft continues their generations-long quest 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.

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 a given list of 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.

Or, they could have reached out to indie bands in their genre of choice. I’ve no doubt there are tons of small bands out there who would love having their work used in the Olympics, it’d be one of the rare “do it free/cheap for the exposure” deals that might be actually worth it.

But that’d take a little bit more work than jerking off the theft slop machine, so fuck it, right? /s

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. 🪛 🗑️

No kidding, we’ve had 16K since the 1980s.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IagZIM9MtLo

Maybe they’re talking about the TV walls in “Fifteen Million Merits.”

I heard if you play the record backwards it boots you into Windows ME.

It’s a product of Vista-era Microsoft which is also current Windows-Recall-era Microsoft.