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Ah yes, the Bobby Tables approach.

Not the guy you're replying to, but I have been using Thorium for the past couple of weeks. It's pretty nice, kinda like what Edge was before going to shit for the past year or so. But being a Chromium browser, it eventually will be hit with the ManifestV2-no-more hammer. The maintainer said the best he'll be able to do is use some patches to keep ManifestV2 active through enterprise group policies, but it's expected google will eventually remove the ManifestV2 code entirely, at which point he said he's not going to be able to maintain a fork to keep ManifestV2 in.

I dislike Brave for some of its sketchyness in the past, and the other Chromium forks haven't made clear guidelines on what they're going to do when ManifestV3 is made the default, so I'm bracing because I think I'm going to be forced to go back to Firefox because of AdBlock shenanigans.

there's almost nobody with 3 legs

Hol up there, tell me about those people with 3 legs!

I mean, it was groundbreaking for its time and it redefined the genre and a lot of moviemaking in general, but it really didn't age well as far as moviemaking goes. Yeah, it has severe pacing issues, is undeservedly way too long and it got way too trippy and abstract by the end. Frankly a whole lot of it feels like Kubrick masturbating over how great he is, with a lot of scenes being way too long and serving no real or useful purpose on on the movie.

I could say pretty much the same about Solaris too (the original Tarkovsky version which cinephiles always rave about, not Soderbergh"s, which I actually prefer), and if rumors are true, apparently Kubrick took a lot of ideas from it.

And I say all that as an avid sci-fi fan. The books from Arthur C. Clarke are more enjoyable.

Or... you know, maybe because of that little gadget that Valve has been selling like hotcakes?

Actually, we just entered spring, on late September. And we did so in the midst of a heatwave that broke heat records for this year - we had days with 37C, which is high even for summer, and it won't be summer here until December.

Yes, I'm scared af as well. My family is sort of ignoring my warnings and actually planning to move to the coast (Santos), which is even hotter.

Some guys here in the comments said about migrating to the north, and that's something that has been on my mind as well as a long term plan, although I find it unlikely I can move to North America in the short term, so I'm thinking more realistically maybe southern Argentina?

I think there's more to the coin ship, that unfortunately isn't covered in the article. I know for a fact that the hammer bro on the World 1 map turns into a coin ship if you finish 1-1 with 55 coins AND end the level with time remaining being an odd number.

Yes, and you have to remember that the situation there is so volatile due to the factors involved.

Just FYI, Barrier has been abandoned / unsupported for awhile. Although the last release mostly works, don't expect future support.

Its successor is https://github.com/input-leap/input-leap, and although there have been some coy maintainance on it, they have yet to provide an installable release, due to "reasons".

I use Synergy myself, which is the ancestor of both of the above. Although it started as open source, it has been turned into a commercial product a long time ago, which is why I'm not providing the link here. It's still maintained, for better or for worse, but in the latest release-to-be they revamped the UI and for some reason I couldn't get it to work at all on my setup - it seems to rely on some auto configuration / autodetection gimmickry which simply is not working here. To make matters worse, the new UI is essentially an electron app, which means it has become a lot more bloated. And then there's also the telemetry thing. I've been using the old 1.1 legacy version, holding out hope that input-leap eventually lifts off.

If Signal didn't alienate a large number of users by removing SMS maybe switching would be more viable.

This. I hate Whatsapp, but I have to use it because that's what everybody else (where I live) uses, so either I cave, or be Incommunicable by everyone and get used to explaining why while sounding like a dork.

I used Signal because, although a very small set of friends used it, I had an excuse to keep it because it handled SMS, and so I could keep it in the hopes that eventually WA would shoot itself in the foot and people would finally migrate, but since they removed SMS, why the hell would I hold on to it if I'd have no reason to other that I like it?

Hold on, is that for real? Like, for Unity games developed years (maybe over a decade) ago, developers would need to start to pony up if they're installed now? I thought that pay by install thing was just for licensing contracts from now on (not that this isn't bullshit too, but at least people could just move on to another engine).

I don't think this qualifies. That moment you're referring to is more a "breaking the 4th wall" situation for a sort of comic effect, which is a staple on most of the entries on the series, not an actual reversal of a failure state. Something similar happens on MGS1 on the fight with Psycho Mantis, for example.

LOL. As I was reading the summary, I thought "man, this reads like an article from The Onion". And sure enough, it is!

Until The Expanse she was more known as a dancer / singer, although even then she wasn't super famous.

Her breakout role was really in The Expanse. Until then she was most known as a dancer and singer, even though she had a few very minor roles in a few films.

Dominique Tipper in The Expanse (E: yeah, not a movie, but still an awesome experience all around)

I mean, not everyone in the community thinks much of her acting, but on Season 5 she puts out a performance that puts a lot of veteran actors to shame.

Yes, you are right, on all accounts. Pretty much all of cloud infrastructure is built on Linux, including Microsoft's Azure, except when you have apps deployed there that are based or dependent on legacy (.NET Framework and older stuff) or proprietary (AAD and stuff like that) Microsoft tech, but again, those are becoming more and more the exception rather than the rule. On-prem setups tend to be more mixed between Microsoft and "other" stacks, but Microsoft hasn't had the lead for a long time even there.

And you're absolutely right, Android runs on the Linux kernel; although the userspace is not pure GNU, the fact that Android runs on Linux is 100% relevant to the discussion since Linus is the lead maintainer and creator of the kernel.

The OC clearly has some bone to pick with Linus, I'm outta here.

Someone apparently doesn't know how Bill Gates actually got his start or how Apple started. "Money and power.". Bill Gates snuck into a library to learn about computers. Apple started with a group of people in a damn garage.

How one started is irrelevant to the discussion. A lot of big companies out there had humble beginnings. It's about what those guys turn into once they hit it big. And the thing is, Linus never really hit it big, not in the way that Jobs or Gates did, because he was always content to be the tech / architecture guy instead of moving up to more higher-level management roles, which is where the money tends to be.

For all their humble beginnings, Jobs and Gates were ruthless when they hit it big. Go read one of the biographies of Jobs - he was a notoriously difficult guy to work with, and was needlessly an asshole very often. Also remember that Apple wasn't just Jobs; at least half of its early success is due to Wozniak, who is still beloved by everyone to this day, because on top of being a brilliant hardware and software engineer, he isn't and wasn't a dick.

I'll cut some slack to Gates though - as ruthless as he was on his days as CEO, with his philanthropy on the past decade or so he has been at least trying to atone.

Apparently not good enough that Linus thought it was good enough to continue being an asshole. Pat on the back to him.

He didn't. Did you miss the part where I said he got therapy? He even went so far to apologize, which is more than you can say about most of those tone deaf, narcissistic sociopath CEO types.

Great? Ask enterprise companies and hospitals how secure and reasonable Linux seems for their business models.

I'm not even sure what's your point here. Sure Linux isn't applicable to all kinds of business or how they're built. How that invalidates what I said about the server market?

Yeah this one is a joke. Linux is far from ready for the mobile world at least for phones.

What? So you're completely ignoring that the largest mobile OS on the market is built on Linux?

The same as Steve Jobs and even Bill Gates.

In my opinion, not the same as these guys. Jobs and Gates were assholes because they got fuck you money and power, so they were assholes for being assholes' sake. Linus was an asshole, but he usually had good reasons for acting like that, usually technical, common sense and no-nonsense driven. Sometimes I miss the time before he got therapy or whatever. It was amusing and cathartic to see him roasting some guys because he was right more often than not.

Glad we can celebrate a system that just isn’t quite there yet.

What are you talking about? I mean, if you mean Linux on the Desktop, sure, but nobody who uses Linux on the IT sector cares too much about that. Linux has won on the server arena for a long time already. E: And then there's also the mobile and embedded market. If you think about it, desktop is the only part in tech that Linux has yet to gain ground.

Be sure to hear the 2000's re-record. It's one of those rare cases where the re-record blows the original (IMHO, at least)