transfer them over to the internal drive, and they work. Even without internet.

That might work for some games, but there’s an increasing number of games requiring you to establish some sort of connection to the internet even for single player or mostly single player games (Lego Horizon for instance).

Try to transfer one of those and load it up on a new console without an internet connection.

Sure, your “home console” might work for some games for now. But in 10-15 years when Sony is trying to sell you the PS8, they’re going to be cutting off service to the PS5. What happens when you have to take that device in for maintenance and they need to do a factory reset? You need to log in again to activate it, except now it’s a brick that might only be able to play a few games on physical media. Anything downloaded/backed up would likely require that specific account.

That makes four of us… at least.

Can’t take that away from me.

Well, if it was taken away, it wouldn’t be the first time that a lifetime pass was pulled from all customers:

• https://www.wired.com/story/vpnsecure-canceled-all-lifetime-subscriptions-claiming-it-didnt-know-about-them/

Or the second, or the third, or the fourth… https://dev.to/productimpossible/lifetime-subscriptions-dont-mean-what-you-think-they-mean-1hg7

But, at least Plex has honored their lifetime pass for now. That’s a good deal you got there.

The condition doesn’t appear in some countries, but that doesn’t mean that they won’t eventually expand it:

Notably, the clause is conspicuously absent from terms governing Mexico, the United States, and several other regions, meaning players there are not currently subject to the policy. By contrast, the provision has been enforceable in the United Kingdom and various European countries for years, though it largely escaped public notice until the recent physical-format debate brought renewed scrutiny to Sony’s digital practices.

I’m in the same boat, I’ve played all of the older GTAs, but I never played GTA5. I even got the game for free from Epic… Maybe I’ll try it out eventually.

I’m not very interested in buying GTA6, but I’ll probably check out some gameplay/highlight videos to see if there’s any new/interesting tech in it.

The article never mentioned LLMs. LLMs only make up a small part of all AI tools. The AI in this sense is referring to machine learning models used to help digitally unroll the scroll and then another machine learning model that’s used to detect the letters.

Looks like an interesting article, but this feels more like “News” material, rather than “Technology” material.

As far as where theyve chosen to post instead (from the article):

Starting July 6, City of Waterloo announcements will be communicated on municipal websites and other social media already used by city hall such as Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, YouTube and Vimeo.

City hall will maintain an X account but only to direct people elsewhere, Abbott said.

[…]

The city does not plan at this time to communicate on alternate platforms that have been established as alternatives to X.

AI is the larger umbrella term. LLMs, Machine Learning, CNNs, DNNs, RNNs, etc. all fall under that umbrella “AI” term.

For those wondering what was exposed:

The Model Capability Initiative, which was implemented in April and strongly opposed by staff, has been paused following an incident in which employee data became accessible to the entire company.

[…]

Citing an internal security notice and information from three Meta employees, Wired reported that private conversations, prompts, transcriptions and performance reviews were exposed to “anyone inside the company.”

Thanks! I didn’t realize we could change that.

Mine as well.

What kind of apps were you using that didn’t work very well?

Username checks out.

Congrats! However, it’s worth pointing out that gas prices affect the cost of pretty much everything in the end; transportation/logistics, electricity, etc.

These scams can get fairly complex. Sometimes they even employ models to video chat to make the whole thing seem legitimate.

Sometimes these are people who are trapped inside of a compound where they can’t leave unless they scam enough victims.

Jim Browning gives us a behind the scenes view on how these work: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vu-Y1h9rTUs

Skipping ahead to 4 minutes will show how they typically use the call/text by “accident” method.

Another good video here by Pleasant Green: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DS1ge8-31IY

Quick recap of what’s been happening recently:

• The Ryzen 7 5800X3D is one of the best performing chips for gaming on AM4 motherboards that also supports DDR4. Demand has been high for this CPU even after it ran out of stock and even used units are sold far above MSRP.
• Micron announced that they would stop providing RAM to consumers due to increasing demand for datacenters.
• RAM prices skyrocket (especially DDR5)
• Consumers turn to older DDR4 RAM since prices haven’t gone up as much as DDR5
• Demand for older Ryzen AM4 chips increases even more.

A little more context as to when the engineer declined to continue the discussion:

Kilpatrick then brought up something especially awkward. He reminded Lendacky of a comment that the engineer had made back in 2020, confirming that a Ryzen 3700X, a consumer CPU, “should support TSME.” In a later 2025 comment in the same discussion, Lendacky again recommended using TSME, while noting that the motherboard BIOS provider had to expose the option. So there it was, AMD’s own engineer, years earlier, acknowledging the feature working on exactly the kind of lower-end chip now stripped of it, proving that Ryzen support was not some fantasy users invented.

After some more back-and-forth, Kilpatrick asked bluntly whether the flag being set to FALSE on consumer chips was a silicon-level limitation or a firmware policy decision — since one is permanent and the other is potentially reversible. Limonciello’s reply effectively closed the chapter. “My apologies, but I don’t have any more information to share on this topic,” he wrote.

To be fair to AMD, there is no clear indication that the company ever publicly advertised TSME as a consumer Ryzen feature. AMD has long said that a related memory protection, Secure Memory Encryption (SME), is available only in the Pro and EPYC CPU tiers. SME is OS-managed, using a single key and allowing the OS to selectively encrypt individual memory pages. TSME, by contrast, is firmware-managed, encrypting all RAM with no OS involvement.

Sounds to me like he had originally wanted to have it enabled for consumer CPUs, but some decision was later made to make this a feature only for higher end chips, even if lower end chips could technically support it. I can’t really blame the engineer for wanting to stop the discussion at this point. He’s most likely not the one making these decisions and the questions would be best asked to someone higher up.

For Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, the OP method was to become an enchanter. Just enchant a dagger with “Weakness to magic” and some magical damage enchantment. Weakness to magic will stack, so if your dagger is enchanted with 100% weakness to magic, then the second hit multiplies the effect of their weakness to magic.

TL/DR: A dagger enchanted correctly could kill basically anything within a few hits.

There’s a furniture store near me that’s always going out of business and having closing sales (at least for the last few decades). But the name on the store always seems to change every year. I’m wondering if it’s just the same owners that shut the business down and rotate out names every now and then.

I guess that’s one way to get out of fulfilling warranties?