Give someone a fish and you feed them for a day, teach them to fish and you feed them for a lifetime, but sell them a license for fishing software and they will forever depend on you for their fish because they never learned to make their own fishing software and the software and hardware architecture of contemporary computers is so complex that to learn to automate something in them is an incredibly lengthy process.
So, here is my plan to become the ultimate pirate! I'm gonna make a little device with an FPGA and a screen. The FPGA will output every possible number in order as RGB images on the screen. This will theoretically create every frame of every movie ever made or ever to be made or never made, doesn't matter, it will output it. Also every page of every book. This will hopefully shake my relatively boring life as I will have to constantly run from the cops to evade theoretically infinite years in prison.
if you need binders/breast forms/makeup/etc but donβt want your parents to know, now is the best time to get it.
you can order whatever it is online and when the package comes in if the ask what it is you can say something like βitβs a secret!β or even just sssh them. theyβll assume itβs a present for whatever holiday you celebrate and probably wonβt press the issue."
"So i just came out to my dad abt being #nb, and he said something really wise about names, i think.
He said βGifts are not obligations. You give things to people, and you hope they like them. And your name was a gift from us to you. If it doesnβt work for you anymore, youβre not obligated to keep it.β
and i just thought maybe other people could use hearing something like that."