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Hilariously, immediately after I read this, my boss sends a global message to us reminding us that we 'need to be trying to integrate copilot into our jobs.'

This is a great point that too few people think about. I like to take travel time and mandatory lunch breaks into account when I'm figuring out my 'adjusted' wage, and I use that number when thinking about getting a different job or taking time off. Your time isn't ACTUALLY worth $20/hr (or whatever), its more like 16, or less if you factor in taxes.

#blender got hit too, tho interestingly enough, not any of the sub-channels (none of which had 'libera.chat' in the topic) were hit.

This seems like it is very bad timing on the part of freenode staff... with many communities already on the knife edge about switching, this is likely to push plenty of people over.

Am I the only one who thinks its crazy it has taken them this long to do anything about this? This has been a real problem for well over 20 years.

Anyone else remember internet explorer toolbars? So many installers would include these, and avoiding installing them became progressively more difficult over time. They started with a simple checkbox that was enabled by default (bad enough if you ask me), then progressed to hiding the checkbox behind a button labeled 'Advanced Settings' or similar, then progressed to popping up another dialog that looked like another step in the install process, but required you to press 'cancel' to not install the toolbar and go back to the regular installer. There are probably many more worse examples, but this is all that springs to mind at the moment.

To an advanced user, these didn't seem like much - until you tried to use your grandma's computer and realized there were 10 toolbars installed...

Thank you for posting this! Looked into it, and on my Nissan, holding the unlock and lock buttons together for 3 seconds turned off the beep!

I had assumed that this was a 'feature' that could not be disabled, akin to 80s cars having the requirement to hold the handle up when shutting the door to keep it locked. I have a suspicion that this led to more cars being left unlocked and stolen than it saved people from locking their keys in the car.

My parents have been running Zorin OS lite for a couple years now, they have not had any problems with it. It's based on ubuntu and the lite version has xfce as the desktop. Runs great on their older computer, looks enough like windows that they jumped in without any issues, and it has a pretty basic interface.

Ah, I actually didn't know about the ctrl-tab shortcut in 2.79, tho the ctrl-1,2,3 seems nice now. And the transform orientation, you mean the alt-space in 2.79? Another bad one removed... tho looks like the shortcut is unused in 2.8, so it could be set.

What orientation controls? The numpad still behaves exactly the same as it did in 2.79.

The shortcut for poke faces seems to be removed. There have been a few irritating removals, definitely.

By default A selects, double-A deselects. You can revert it to the original behavior in the preferences under the keymaps tab.

The specials menu is now essentially the context menus, they can be opened with right click in left-click mode, or W in right-click mode.

Shift-tab used to toggle snapping and it still does...

This is a highly detailed and interesting story about what happened to the sequel. This article is almost as amazing as the original post!

Also... am I the only one who finds it amusing that essentially 'Bureaucracy' led to the demise of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy sequel? Makes me wonder if Douglas Adams specifically avoided working on the sequel just so that could be the case...

Thank you for this! I was disappointed to not even find mention of pebble on the website. Looks like this is still in the early stages, but I'll be keeping an eye on it.

Very cool, I particularly enjoyed the wormhole trip. Reminds me of 'Real Time Relativity', a fun program for exploring 3d worlds at relativistic speeds: http://realtimerelativity.org/

I'd love to contribute in some way, I have experience with 3d modeling (tho very little with characters), music composition, and some python programming... not sure how much time I would be able to contribute to it, but it sure sounds like fun!

Sounds like it would be an amazing game! I actually think it would be better off in it's own universe rather than needing to be Gotham - if it's Gotham, I'm going to expect/want Batman and the Joker, not some randomly generated heroes.

Possibly there could be the default non-affiliated game, and all various licensed city/hero/villain packs could be purchased as DLC.

An interesting article, gave me much to think about as I'm planning out a game to make.

My thought on it tho, I think the article misses a GOOD use of cutscenes: A good story is all about tension and release, and a cutscene can provide a necessary release from intense gameplay (not that it's the only way).

Am I wrong on this? I'm sure there are differing opinions on this depending on what game genres you enjoy (I'm quite a fan of traditional RPGs).

Great page, only thing that its missing is the nuke button!

Great idea! Personally I had no bias towards either font, but now discovered that I do in fact like Helvetica a bit more (12 out of 20 times). Would be interesting to be able to see a test like that with statistics on how many chose each font for each logo.

"if the next phone I get in a few years comes with the ability to dock my phone to use a full desktop, is that going to count as tethering?"

unless something changes, i have no doubt it will. i have an atrix phone on at&t, it has a 'lapdock' which turns the phone into a netbook. this lapdock is nothing more than an hdmi screen, battery, and usb mouse/keyboard - yet, at&t requires tethering to use mobile data with it...

thankfully, this can be got around by installing a custom rom that doesnt include the lapdock software (which is horribly cumbersome anyway), but it sets a rather disturbing precedent.