I haven't seen the movie yet, but I want to. Slight spoiler warning: I watched this really cool interview with the author where he describes the worldbuilding and biology of the alien(s) in the movie: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Drive your house over sometime and you'll see why.

Pixels shmixels, what about the keyboard accelerator key for the button?

That electrification was our greatest folly. Could you imagine if all those people weren't online?

There must be REALLY bad weather coming if Ted Cruz needs to escape to space rather than Mexico to avoid it.

Whenever Tim Sweeney makes a public statement, the response should always be "Who paid you to say that?"

Firewatch isn't a game, it's a movie you watch while holding a controller.

Linus should make the next version of Linux 12 or higher, that way Microsoft shits itself and releases Windows 360 or One or some other dumb name because marketing told them consumers go with the biggest number.

I just upgraded from 9.1 to 9.2 after reading this article. I hate apps that pollute my home with config files rather than putting them in ~/.config. I deleted my ~/.vim* and started vim and it immediately made a new ~/.viminfo, what gives?!

They don't need that access and they don't ask as far as I'm aware. I think they're not asking because they're not using them.

Not sure, I can only speak from corporate experience. It may be installed by default, but it asks for permissions on first run.

For what it's worth, I do see Teams asking for OS location, camera, and mic permissions, but not other Office programs.

What the article is referring to is Microslop software. It's Microslop that does this and not many others. This is another one of the small things I love about Linux software. Users don't want these annoyances and so they don't exist. My software doesn't treat me like a retard and I appreciate that.

The sad part about all this is the kind of people that need this kind of hand-holding tutorial don't benefit from it because they just plain don't read pop ups or error messages.

It already does show ads!
"Install the latest PowerShell for new features and improvements! https://aka.ms/PSWindows"

Acrobat can do AI stuff yet Adobe can't figure out how to offer an Acrobat download that doesn't need to be updated immediately after installing! Just give us the latest version when we download it!