There's no need whatsoever for a password to access files or check battery health on most computers, unless the data is encrypted and / or there's a bios password set that prevents booting from a live cd / usb drive.
Just boot any linux live system and you can check battery health through /sys/class/power_adapter/BAT* (not all bioses report battery health). Incidentally, you can also stealthily copy user data without even mounting the filesystem (dd, ddrescue, testdisk...)

Do you mean the kernel of the kernel ?

BURN !!!

Yeah, it's pity no one's kept an illegally downloaded copy on their drive.

Funnily, setting Firefox as the default browser in win10 has become a very complicated process.
Also funny is how the elevated privileges pop-up remains in the background when installing FF.

In fear of the virus, middle-class people now have their own physicians at home.

and didn't know it.

The funny thing is that the French government are planning to test ONLY those showing symptoms. That is, when we have enough tests -- we're still waiting. Some celebrities and politicians get tested, though.

should keep you pretty safe.

"[T]he words "Hey Google," [...] are supposed to be the device's listening trigger."
It's all said there. How can the device NOT be listening all the time ??

So Siri started speaking in a weird, high-pitched voice ?

Nope, though we might see some dwarf-tossing again. (sigh)

not to plug usb-sticks-found-in-the-street into my computer.

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I know vi is a powerful tool, but I had no idea one could edit pictures with it.