I suspect it was part of some stupid copy protection scheme.

Because nothing has changed since then, except for the worse.

Buddha. I get to reach Nirvana right after this form.

Adobe has no scruples.

I used to work for a full-disk encryption vendor in the 2000s, and one customer had an issue where the machine would BSOD sometimes if both our product and Adobe Acrobat were installed. It seemed a mystery or just a red herring - what on Earth did Acrobat do that could trigger a kernel-mode crash?

Turned out that every hour or so, Acrobat would be reading and writing back the master boot record (containing the OS bootstrap code and partition table) on the primary hard drive. The bug was ours (to unlock the hard drive keys at boot we had to put different data there and redirect I/O after Windows started, and this redirection code would crash once in a blue moon), but Adobe has no business mucking about with this extremely sensitive data.

I read this from the start with the mind that it’s probably an April fool’s joke, but not once did I see any indication to exaggerate or build up to a humorous absurdness. It’s just a long article that could be true but isn’t. Stupid and a waste of time.

As if the law makes any difference.

One tribble is added to every single scene aboard the Enterprise. They do nothing. They are simply there. Occasionally one rolls across the background during a tense dialogue exchange.

Maybe the annoyance was that it wasn’t annoying enough

The universe is a chain of cause and effect, and the only way to interpret “a reason” for something without introducing artificial human constructs of morality, is “what caused it?”. The process of evolution caused this.

Sounds like something out of SNL.

I don’t think we were using the same dating apps

So… okay if it’s my sister, then?

Somewhere in here lies the psychological explanation for the Epstein files

Exactly! I’m sterilized so I don’t see an issue with dating my daughter.

I mean yeah, all romantic movies are about cheating.

Toshiba used to sell a laptop (IIRC the model name was R500) back in like 2008 that had a mirror behind the screen, meaning that bright sunlight would be reflected back through the LCD and always respond to external lighting conditions no matter how bright. The image quality and color was shitty, but you could use it in the sun. Battery time was also extremely impressive.

Yesterday you said tomorrow

There’s no “ground” with Trump. He just runs toward anything that looks shiny.

Sorry I don’t follow your point.

Typical Linux distributions are almost objectively harder to use than Android. I’d be surprised if anyone really disagrees with this. When someone complains about Linux being hard to use, it’s the POSIX-based Linux distributions that must support arbitrary hardware (often poorly so) that they refer to. I don’t need to care about installing NVidia drivers and whether they’re compatible with EFI handover when I buy an Android phone.