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I think it's safe to say that Sega wasn't doing anything with Dreamcast in 2012, ten years after it was discontinued.

“That great poets imitate and improve, whereas small ones steal and spoil.” -Alfred Tennyson

"Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal" -T. S. Eliot

“A good composer does not imitate; he steals.” -Igor Stravinsky

"I mean, Picasso had a saying, he said, "Good artists copy, great artists steal." And we have always been shameless about stealing great ideas." -Steve Jobs

"I'm going to destroy Android, because it's a stolen product. I'm willing to go thermonuclear war on this." -also Steve Jobs

I always suspected that the "no mixing wool and linen" verses in the Bible were due to miniature lightning striking (heh) the fear of God into the ancients.

Where I am in the US, there's no longer Drivers' Ed. class in public schools, and DMV road tests are so far behind that you have to schedule your test appointment two years in advance.

I'm sorry, what were the links? Are librewolf dot net or lemmy dot ml slash c slash librewolf just Reddit?

I just recently played through Terranigma! It's the third of a unofficial trilogy of similar Enix titles that I played as a child: SoulBlazer and Illusion of Gaia. Terranigma didn't make it to the USA for some reason.

I think I still have the disk for this, but sadly no box. We bought it at Fleet Farm! 😂

LibreWolf. Cut out the Mozilla spying, too.

lemmy.ml/c/librewolf

I swore I would never buy a car with a touchscreen, but I ended up with a Toyota with no noticable touch lag and physical controls for everything important. The steering wheel buttons also replicate all phone- and radio-related functions that are on the touchscreen.

The wife's Honda (a few years older) has too many physical controls. For example, I'm fairly certain you could turn on heat for the driver and rear passenger-side, and air conditioning for the passenger and rear driver-side, if you really wanted to.

10th enemy has the bomb

They're explaining how enemy's loot isn't totally random. If you kill nine enemies without getting hit and kill the tenth enemy with a bomb, you are guaranteed to receive more bombs from it.

09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0

Salmon is a type of ghoti.

The real combat is handling the hours of screen swirls and camera flying uselessly around the battlefield along the way. Otherwise, it would be a fantastic game.

NVIDIA card?

"Wall warts" AKA AC-to-DC adapters do draw a small amount of electricity as long as they are plugged in. Unplug them when not in use.

As for the consoles, capacitors dry out and go bad even when not in use. If you power up the console at least once every few years, it is possible for the caps to "re-form" and stay useful before needing replacement.

Sadly, my previously working PS2 no longer outputs audio or video after being in storage for a few years. I haven't had time to investigate it further, but I have had several other pieces of quality Japanese electronics go bad after their supercapacitors leaked.

Random breakage and weird behavior is why I stopped using Windows at home. On so many machines, I've seen the Start menu just stop functioning... or what's up with the system trying to update the video drivers to the version dated 1968 (the year of Intel's founding)? Nagging me (again?!) to change my web browser to Edge... Is your browser compliant to web standards this time, Microsoft? I still don't want to use it.

Users are taught to fear Linux "because you might have to use the command line!" when in Windows you need to use brain-melting Powershell commands like

Get-AppXPackage -AllUsers | Foreach {Add-AppxPackage -DisableDevelopmentMode -Register "$($_.InstallLocation)\AppXManifest.xml"}

just to get a functional OS back.

You pay for Windows, but the privacy terms make it clear that it's Microsoft's computer, not yours, yet you have to fix it yourself when things spontaneously break. If I manage to break Linux (by my own actions), at least I feel like I'm learning a bit in the process of fixing it.

Redreader works, but internal Reddit changes still apply; for example, you can no longer see NSFW subreddits without a verified account.