In IOT, the “s” stands for security.

That’s normal. The idea is you buy the house with a mortgage to then lease (let) out to tenants. The tenants then pay you rent equal to the mortgage plus a bit extra on top, which you use to pay the mortgage and make a profit.

I think some of them are pretty good! My favorites are the Ciaphas Cain series and Eisenhorn series. Gaunts Ghosts is also good if you want a more serious military read. If you want non-humans, check out “The Infinite and the Divine”. It’s about necrons (highly advanced ancient space robots/terminators).

I think he might be referencing those “I’m a Mac. And I’m a PC” commercials

I think you’re confusing training it with running it. After it’s trained, you can run it on much weaker hardware.

Did you check the actual TV settings? Some of them let you adjust where picture is displayed iirc.

Likely a typo for smh, which essentially means “shaking my head”.

If it’s carbonated.

Isn’t what you’re describing about baseball just called stealing a base and in the rules?