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It sounds like your issue might be a bad ribbon cable, connector, or some other easy fix. Getting the display working might be doable with reasonable effort. If not, you can make it a:

Minecraft (or any game you like) server.

Steam remote play host machine. Let the laptop do the processing and send the video signal to a lower-performance client.

Load movies onto an external drive. Load emulators onto the hard drive. Use it as a media PC and emulation station.

Video editing machine.

Either way, make sure whatever screen you hook up to it has at least a 60 hertz refresh rate.

If you stream, a lot of streamers use a second machine to record, manage the stream, run the webcam, etc. allowing their main machine to prioritize rendering the game; you could use it for that.

Big 'uns

It’s not about the “spirit” of the question because there is no right/wrong answer. You’re meant to guess what 100 other people gave as their answer.

yes

I’m happy to help just for the love of the game.

The data is transmitted via a radio signal of some kind. That radio signal is created by a transmitter. Stopping the data transmission is a matter of finding and destroying the transmitter or its ability to operate.

The exact “how” depends on the make and model, but in general, removing or destroying the antenna is probably going to be the easiest way, but this usually results in destroying all the radios in the car. You’d probably still have Bluetooth, aux, CD, tape, whatever, but AM/FM, satellite, OnStar, and similar would probably be broken also.

If you don’t care about concequences, you can do that yourself with an angle grinder in a few minutes. Hopefully you don’t create any leaks you can’t fix with a tube of blue RTV (yes, color matters, blue is for marine/water).

If you’re determined to keep the other radios working, you would need to do some research to determine how your specific model “phones home”. Most commonly, this is via 3G, but other solutions exist. From there, it’s a matter of destroying, removing, or short-circuiting whatever component controls that radio.

I remember renting it as a kid and loving it, then asking around school and no one else had ever heard of it.

During those difficult moments, I still tell myself, “We are who we choose to be.”

You would have to cut the lower receiver in half before it’s in his hands.

That’s one extreme of the story. The other extreme is that he’d been doing it, along with every other business in that area, for years, because there’s nothing out there. It’s just sand and rock for miles in all directions. There’s nothing to contaminate because nothing lives there.

The only reason he got involved in anything is because he was told it wasn’t going to cost him any money. He shows up and starts filling out the paperwork and it doesn’t say what he was told; it says he has to pay (souces differ) something like $6K-20K for an easement so he can dig up city property to access the sewer line to connect to it. He doesn’t sign that paper. Instead, he gets up and walks away from the table, leaving behind the paperwork he’d already filled out, which included his application to connect to city utilities. Since he filled out the application, they file it, process it, and approve it, which is what “allows” city hall to start levying fines against him for non-compliance.

Every other business in that area continued to do the exact same thing as him, but only he was being fined for it. What’s more, if he’d just stayed home that day and never signed anything, there’d be nothing anyone could do about it.

He knew he didn’t understand the system, so he didn’t want anything to do with it. Against his better judgement, he tried to comply. He started off acting in good faith. When he found out the other party wasn’t, he walked away from the deal. He should have taken every piece of paper with his signature on it with him, but he didn’t because he didn’t understand how the system works.

He thought that since he didn’t sign everything, that meant none of it was any good. When he got the letters from city hall about the fines, he did what he’d done with all the mail from city hall for years: threw it in the trash.

A city government, trying to expand its power and control, absued the system to extort money from someone who wanted nothing to do with them. If city hall had just left him, and well enough, alone, everything that followed could have been avoided.

That movie was too far ahead of its time for its own good. I remember hating it in theaters but gave it another chance recently on a friend’s recommendation.

Holy shit. The world was not ready for that level of cinematography. The scene transition from the villain’s office to the big race is pure art. People will be studying that one in film school for decades.

Firefly. Watching Serenity, it’s pretty obvious they’re trying to hit several seasons’ worth of story beats in as little time as possible. Seeing it as intended would have been really cool.

Honorable mentions (in no particular order):

Fight Club

The Iron Giant

Grindhouse

Waterworld

I think the better point is that these criticisms could be applied to nearly any phone app.

When a host is infested by multiple parasites, the parasite which extracts the most from the host before the host dies has the greatest chance of survival.

The point is to extract as much wealth as possible so they can survive in bunkers after they’ve ruined our planet’s ability to support life our way of life as we know it.

No shade here. Mine is blue.

The Reddit API-pocalypse. I’m boycotting them until they re-enable third-party app support. If that’s never, so be it.

To clarify, if Reddit ever did allow third-party apps again, I would re-evaluate my stance. If I were to re-evaluate my stance today, however, I would choose to to return due to all of the moderators and most of the posts being bots.

It’s wild how much plastic and PFAS there is in hiking and camping gear. You’d think hikers and campers would care more about the environment, but no, having your waterproof gear be as light as possible is more important.

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If you don’t drink, don’t smoke, don’t do hard drugs, don’t eat sugar, don’t eat excessive red meat, exercise regularly, and drink mostly water, then sure, you can worry about microplastics and PFAS.

But if any of those things aren’t true, and you want to make the best use of your time, you’ll have a much greater positive impact on your health by prioritizing those other things first.

I hate it because my OS is on one drive and my games are on another, larger drive.

Some games, when you download custom maps, download them to the app data folder, which bloats my OS drive instead of filling up the drive intended for games.

Nothing says “gangster” like a 2001 Lincoln Town Car