Just did some reading. Apparently “Genesis” was already overloaded outside of NA and they opted to change the branding rather than possibly need to fight a legal battle.

And the Dreamcast used GD-ROMs because DVDs were open but required license fees, and the standard wasn’t fully set when it was in development. Plus they figured it would help avoid piracy using a proprietary disc format, though didn’t work out that way.

Yeah, apparently the Genesis branding was for North America while Mega Drive was outside of there.

The tower of power in North America was the SEGA Genesis paired with the SEGA CD and the 32x.

The first one was the Master System, then after the Genesis came the Saturn and Dreamcast (I think in that order but they were so close together it’s hard to tell). And there was the Game Gear portable system, simultaneously way better and worse than the GameBoy. Did any of those also have different branding outside of NA?

Was thinking it was called the SEGA Genesis one of my dumb beliefs? That was what I knew it as but both this comment and a video I watched recently about the tower of power both just called it the Mega Drive without any mention of “Genesis” in the entire video.

And it’ll be extra nice because those kits could also deshitify the car in the process. Oh, you stuck a dependency on a functional phone home system in the fuel injection loop? Who cares after I’ve removed the fuel injectors?

I think this might be one of the reasons zombie a apocalypses are so popular because it gives a plausible reason for why large groups could be just as failure prone as small groups, as well as a plausible reason as to why the survivors don’t just immediately restart society considering the infrastructure, power stations, and factories don’t just disappear but require the knowledge and logistics to run or maintain them and some essential people might have been turned into zombies, plus the risk of attacks while doing maintenance or going out to run it.

As a viewer, I find animated presentations to be gimmicky. Often feels infomercial-ish, or like a fast food version of professionalism.

For those still on windows, it’s very infuriating. For those that have made the switch, it becomes mildly amusing. Averages out to mildly infuriating.

Make one right now. Stick it on your keychain. Then you will be prepared to at least boot into Linux on a moment’s notice. Should probably also have a look around and figure out how to show a presentation on there or do whatever you might need to suddenly do there.

Hell, this is why I went out of my way to make sure I could control updates for my personal machine where the only consequences of it doing a random update would be that I can’t use it until it’s done. I didn’t even ever have it actually do an annoying update because the frustration was obvious as soon as I heard the term “automatic updates”, like this isn’t just for some program, it’s for the OS itself and will demand restarts.

And that isn’t even mentioning the undesirable updates, like the buggy ones or the ones that just enshitify your OS rather than add anything anyone wants, like all those windows 7 “get ready for windows 10” ones and apparently some people even got an automatic “7 to 10” update.

And then on Linux, every part of updating is nicer, other than the supply chain attacks (which is unfortunately serious enough I could see it threatening the entire Linux ecosystem itself).

The private table in the break room.

Tailor shop. You can try the armor shop, too, but that’s more hit or miss for cloth items.

Or, if you’re the daring type, a wizard’s tower.

Any time Lemmy.world goes down, I get reminded I should check my sh.itjust.works notifications more often when looking at months old replies to comments I made the last time it was down when I wanted to use it.

Makes sense. Get it into an adversarial kind of context and it will predict more text that goes against other rules “established” in the context.

There will be other paths to do this. Like a context where there’s a lot of suspicion for other parts of the context would be one of my top guesses. Given the way they work, you could gaslight the shit out of them, since they aren’t an entity that has any memory of its actions. You can even edit the context to modify its responses, which will affect the tokens it predicts going forward.

Though I’m curious how this will be handled by companies that expose access to claude to anonymous people on their website, like ddg.

Lol, I gotta admit that there’s something adorable about that approach to capitalism. Like they are actually adding some value in their attempt to attract sales (both this and the Michelin star system), unlike these days where it’s more of a race to the bottom and someone doing something shitty to their product is an excuse for their competition (or “competition”) to do the same rather than a chance to capitalize on having a product without that shitty aspect (or both, brag about being better while they develop the version that isn’t better and then never mention it again).

I’ve only been to one Michelin star restaurant, but it was easily one of the best meals I’ve ever had and I only ever knew about it because I decided I wanted to see if there was anything to the fuss about those stars. Though ymmv as a friend of mine who has been to a lot more of them says they can be hit or miss; better than average on average but can still have bad days.

Though what was their angle? Credibility for their advertisements or was there something else?

Oh come on now, I don’t wear wooden clogs! They are entirely inappropriate footwear for the finish on my home bowling alley!

I find the sorting works well enough that I don’t even bother with taking the basket out. Though my dishwasher and utensil drawer are just a pivot step away from each other, so ymmv.

“She took me back to the hotel” could mean two wildly different outcomes. I can’t tell if you mean she ended the date immediately or you two had sex in a hotel and then she ghosted you.

Though either way, her deciding on her own that she didn’t want anything to do with you was a bullet dodge, considering she not only used police resources to try to look you up but even scolded you about it, making it clear she either didn’t think there was any problem with it or didn’t think she’d face any consequences.

Thank you for this comment as it allowed me to upvote This is America twice.

“Pterodactyl? … Absent again!?”