After I set up the Fire TV Stick to fix YouTube, I had a thought. This runs Android. Android runs emulators. And I still have every console I grew up with.

An hour later my 6-year-old was playing Super Mario Bros. 3.

The Setup

RetroArch is a free, open source app that plays classic games. I …

I handed my kid the remote and he pulled up a Minecraft build video. Twenty minutes later I walked back in and he was watching something that made no sense — some AI-generated fever dream that technically passes YouTube’s content filters but exists only to farm clicks from children.

Every …