JWBananas

I feel like this belongs here.

Moving down the stack, Unix systems have never been big on supporting arbitrary drivers: remember that Unix systems were typically coupled to specific machines and vendors. NT, on the other hand, intended to be an OS for “any” machine and was sold by a software company, so supporting drivers written by others was critical. As a result, NT came with the Network Driver Interface Specification (NDIS), an abstraction to support network card drivers with ease. To this day, manufacturer-supplied drivers are just not a thing on Linux, which leads to interesting contraptions like the ndiswrapper, a very popular shim in the early 2000s to be able to reuse Windows drivers for WiFi cards on Linux.

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I hate that this takes up space in my brain

Besides the fact that present-day battery technology makes this impossible, modern smartphones display a very obvious indicator when apps are using the microphone.

Hotword detection notwithstanding, as that happens at the hardware level.

You aren’t being downvoted “simply for bringing up points that might happen to not fit the hive mind mentality.” You’re being downvoted for making up a contrived excuse that was easily disproven by the fucking thumbnail, let alone the article, for your own titillation.

Monsters. Elmo identifies as a Monster, not a Muppet.

#🤌

Rizz is to charisma as vibes is to vibrations.

RECLAIMING MY TIME

Verbosity and hair-trigger outrage

What condescending claptrap. Get off OPs back, dingus.

The two are not mutually exclusive. The downvote button is not an “I don’t like this” button.

They were keeping their promise of 10 years of Lightning ecosystem support. Dropping the old iPod connector was highly controversial.

That makes zero sense

Purolator

TIL there is a logistics/shipping company that shares a name with an oil filter manufacturer.

It makes about as much sense as the typical ones anyway. Or, like, the output to nmap --help or something.

That’s the joke.

I hope.

Case in point.

Thanks for the alternative explanation. Completing the square never made much sense to me either, so I never would have arrived there.