Everything starts with what my family needs/uses. Jellyfin for media. Grocy to track which kid has done their chores. Home assistant to make a nice dashboard in the kitchen to see the family calendar (still on google) and the chores. I’ve tried a few other things, but those are the ones important to me.

I only have leagally owned movies. I’m technically violating some law but since I can show the judge the originals and they are not available outside myhome they won’t dare go after me - a jury won’t convict and even if one would I’m a perfect ‘normal man’ who proved the law is unjust. I won’t be as well known as Rosa Parks in history but I’d be a perfect story to rally around to get the las changed and they won’t risk that

My supply managemet reys know that, I just know they talk about it is a routine thing and the suppliers salesmen act like it is normal. I’m not in those conversations often but I’ve heard them.

I don’t understand why legitmate companies are not in arms over this. When that many ads are scams your customers will learn that facebook ads are scams and not buy from you either. Fool me once…

There is no reason consumers cannot demand this even though they haven’t. There is no reason the law cannot demand it even though it hasn’t.

The important part is that the idea exists and is common enough in OTHER situations. When you ask for it there will be people who know what this means and there is a whole industry of “we escrow your code for you” that can handle the details. If you make a new law you have plenty of examples to look at and so are much less likely to accidentally create some unintended consequence that is worse than the current situation.

That always worked - on a minority of women. There are only a few men willing to descend to those disgusting levels so it worked out for them. (if it was any more society as we know it would break down).

The men who did it crossed the political spectrum trying to blame people you don’t like for everything does your side no favors.

Every time I look all options are crazy. Some might be slightly less crazy, but all are crazy in some way.

Districts with the freaks that drive cars in NYC voted more against Mamdani and everyone else for Mamdani.

This is uncalled for. People who are different are not freaks and need to be thought of as humans who are different.

District is a poor measure - others have pointed out already there was a close split, but you can abuse statistics to make them show any division you want.

Not really - they are paying a lot for their car and want transit riders to take more of the share of the transit costs. If they gain more from free transit than they cost is a complex subject.

They may also understand that transit is expensive and for most the cost of transit isn’t why they wouldn’t ride in the first place and so free transit won’t make much a difference. Meanwhile charging for transit and also giving transit the money that free transit would cost would give enough money that better service could be provided and poor service (for the individual trip) is why most people don’t ride transit. (though NYC transit spends far more on better service than it should so who knows)

After verifying that OP’s intent was met I gave a more fun answer that abused the letter of what was asked.

Yes. However as others have already said odds are you don’t have the right devices. Still if you really work at it everything exists. Start by selecting one of the few TVs that support it, then get a good HDMI cable, make sure you have a video card that supports it, with drivers for the OS (you might have to write them yourself), then just setup networking. This would be an interesting hack, I’d love to see someone get it working and show their setup, but it is otherwise useless and will be a lot of work.

Consumer devices are not industry. they almost never get that treatment.

The code should go into escrow when the first game is sold. This is standard practice in industry - you don’t buy something without assurance that if the company goes under you have options.

If you don’t want to give the sever away (including the ability to use it) then don’t shut it down or otherwise make the game unplayable.

We are reasonably confident that mathematical limitations apply to both the inner and outer universe. However they don’t understand the mathematical limitations enough to understand how little they matter. Pi is pi everywhere - that doesn’t change anything.

There are truths we can’t prove true - again it doesn’t say anything about all the other trues we can prove.

Cage is not what I want from a kiosk. I want window management, I just want a few fixed windows in fixed positions. Sometimes I want to rotate between a few windows. I’m running Magicmirror now which gives what I want, but it is too slow and too locked into the everything is a web app model.

What does anything matter. If you deal with someone else at least one of you needs to learn the others systems. You and your neighbor probably speak the same language so it is easy, but the more differences the more there is to learn. You can choose to not deal with people in the US who only know US systems, or you can work with them by learning. I have no idea what your motivations are, but whatever they are they becomes your reasons to do or not do something.

I have a pi3 with a 20" touchscreen that I’m using. Raspbian booting to magic mirror. It works, but Magic Mirror is slow bloated/slow that I’m not happy with it. I’m about ready to make my own QT based signage - I suspect it will be much more performant as well as more flexible. Still it is a lot of work and so I hesitate to bother (even if version one could be done in a day - I have enough other projects).

Sigh… Everyone is used to what they have used all their life and refuse to learn anything else…

Trains are still expensive - they just have enough users that the amnortized cost is cheap.