8? Are there other codes for 7 & 9, that we need to be counting? What if we were sleeping and unsure of how many blasts we heard? :)

…and you think noise pollution is bad now? Just you wait.

Holy blundered brainwashing, batman!

I think he is assuming it is a google patent, from the domain name.

…or, in 20 years EVERYBODY will suddenly start doing it.

Yeah, that kinda makes me think this was a rubber-stamp management approval/deal, and not “hardware picked for linux”.

Please elaborate/link…

yadm

I kinda hate it when companies steal existing common terms (alphabet, apple, windows, meta); it’s a unilateral usurpation of everyone’s speech, and (to some degree) a violation of the their minds.

Gotta sue the alphabet, at that point.

The finale can segue into an origin story for https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thing_(The_Addams_Family)

That link does not work for me, I just get a captcha loop.

Trust is a very strong but brittle thing. Once broken it tends to shatter like glass. I’m sure this situation would feel like a sword of Damocles to anyone who has significant investment in the unity platform, and who would want to voluntarily walk into such a position now?

Remarkable 2, but the PineNote might be usable now.

your calm.

In addition to advancing freedom, it’s also genuinely advancing the technology of the human race. Both philosophically (as any other tech is simply what they PERMIT you to do), and practically… as even the worst technofacist vendor-lockin saas’ers build their empire on the backs of open source stacks.

Then you get a half-adder.

Residential hangers just look like big garages.

I wonder if the low-flow restrictions apply to the right toilet.

Hmm… so a steak is a salad, and a salad is nachos? Something screwy here…