But you still have to know about it.

Whereas the Steam Maclhine - like a Playstation, Xbox, or Nintendo - just plugs into the TV and works.

Plug in the power, run the HDMI cable to the and log into the wifi after powering it on.

It may not he for you, but there’s a huge potential audience. Somebody who is used to the console experience and wants that simplicity for playing on the couch, but wants access to PC gaming platforms like Steam.

I like tinkering with my PC, but a lot of people don’t. They like consoles because they can pick up the controller, push a button, and it powers on and works, and they never have to worry if a game will run. If it’s released on the console, it should work.

Yeah, there’s 1001 ways to get a PC running on the TV, but none of them are as dumb-simple as turning on an Xbox. This device solves that issue.

I always thought of her as a treasure hunter more than an archeologist.

Yes, a pencil almarknhas width. That’s why you choose a side of the line to cut. I’ve been woodworking for decades, and nobody ever needs more precision than a pencil because wood’s movement and change over time is enough to erase that extra precision.

The series was a solidly decent story, but the production was spectacular. The practical puppet effects are mind-boggling.

Not as specific as it should be. They’re all insane with the tools and materials these days.

Let’s make a box for Amazon deliveries.

We’ll start by breaking down this $300/sheet plywood with my $1500 festool track saw setup plugged into my $1,000 festool vacuum.

Have you tried [insert meal delivery plan subscription]? Sign up for a 5 percent discount at the link below.

Now, before we actually start cutting, let’s measure and square everything up with this $150 Woodpeckers square and a $60 knife I use for some reason instead of a fucking pencil…

Yep. And since I carry 3 laptops in my backpack (2 for work and one personal), it’s a problem.

Though I will say the fact that all 3 can be powered by Type-C cables has been since huge life improvement since i don’t need to carry around 3 different charging bricks.

Getting it to display on a screen is gonna cost enough to kill any value proposition.

How many people in 2025 are still going to be using a display with vintage inputs?

Can they fix the “randomly turn itself back on and drain the battery while in its bag so that it’s always dead when you actually need to use it on the go” problem?

Because that’s been a problem for like 20 years at this point and means I have to treat my laptops as if they don’t actually have batteries because it’s schrodinger’s power any time I pull one out to work.

I was at a conference this week, and half the attendees were huddled in the cafeteria the whole time because there were some tables on one wall with outlets.

The city is buying me like 15 grand in new software licenses this year, but I can’t convince them to spend another 2 grand on a new fucking computer because mine is “supposed” to be good for 2 more years.

My work laptop was upgraded to Windows 11 and performance has severely suffered.

As someone who usually uses 3 monitors (sometimes 4) and does GIS, it’s an issue.

Seems like as good a place as any to say I did a photoshoot of an underwater poker game a few years back for the Underwater Photography class I teach at a local university.

All the really good shots had students in them, so I can’t share. I’ll check the PC later to see if I have any decent shots without people.

It was so scraped up people probably assumed it was a Dakota.

I had a friend in high school who’s father was an alcoholic attorney, and he’d have his kids pass the breathalyzer for him every morning.

I actually bought a user 2001 S10 off them in 2004 with like 25k miles on it for only 3 grand because he’d keep rubbing along the side of in the driveway pulling in and out drunk, so it had a bunch of cosmetic damage that I didn’t care about at all.

I drove that truck for 11 years.

Actually, a lot of the difficulty comes from regulations put in place because carriers were shit.

In one of the first cases involving Net Neutrality, the Madison River Telephone Company (now CenturyLink or whatever they’ve changed their name to this month) started blocking Caller ID from VOIP sevices, and eventually blocked Vonage outright.

The FCC came down hard on them, and in the aftermath one of the things they did was essentially prohibit carriers from blocking CallerID spoofing, because there’s a lot of legitimate uses for it.

For instance, when I can load up the VOIP client on my cell phone to make a work call, I need the CID to show my office number. Or if someone works at a call center, their PC dials out with a phone number that’s the switchboard number for the center.

And that last bit is wild because the one that doesn’t require Windows for PC gamers is the one owned by Microsoft.

Throw in another leap day every 12 years and we’ve got a system.

Dude had 60 eggs every morning. That means there’s basically an entire henhouse dedicated to his breakfast.

Meanwhile, in town there’s a woman panicking to get just a few eggs, and the rest of the food in town seems overpriced.

Gaston was wrecking the local economy with his appetite.

We also had the food pyramid, which said we should eat tons and tons of bread and grain.

I’m just saying that I’m heavily armed even for a Texan. Do with that information what you will.