Thanks, I hate it

That would make it the most precise military strike of all time.

Pretty sure that honor still goes to the R9X Slap Chop. The pager explosions, on the other hand, injured thousands.

Any aggregate rating of the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine is going to basically be useless

The whole damn bot is useless spam for Ground News, which sells paid subscriptions. I'm still not convinced they aren't paying off the admins.

I feel like this belongs here.

Is Pushbullet still a thing?

Like many other pieces of functionality, Google could surely push this out in a Google Play Services update.

At least until they cancel it later.

It's a wonder that someone hasn't implemented a similar wrapper for WDDM. I suppose they'd rather force the vendors to play nicely.

Works great under the nails though

This thing costs about the same as one good set of nails

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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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.