Use your imagination more. If you want the circle to grow, turn it into a cylinder. Eventually, you could call it a silo, and pay for it by shooting a TV series in it :)

Microsoft can't figure out a way to market/sell this so they're resorting to astroturfing

Strange that they can't figure this out. Have they asked their AI how to solve this problem? I assume it's as simple as creating an AI to simulate an influencer, that can influence people to use AI more regularly. No brainer, really. Does Microsoft even have any interns left who could be tasked with this?

Your negativity is why you've never been, and never will be, truly rich. This setback is only a failure of imagination! Time to tap a billionaire with a lot of tariff earnings he doesn't know what to do with, this ship of the desert will right itself up in no time!

This is what happens when you give savages an infinite supply of money from the fossil fuel subsidies our corporate-owned governments have provided for decades in order to secure access to Middle East oil. And that's not counting the cost in blood and treasure of military support for a bunch of Middle East client states that hate our guts, but love our money.

If we had spent even a small fraction of those hard-earned taxpayer dollars spent on developing solar, wind, tidal and even next-gen nuclear power, we could have just walked away and left the whole godforsaken lot of them to engage in the war of mutual extermination they've craved for millennia. And there's the added benefit of not leaving an environmental mess for our kids and grandkids to clean up.

This just leaves more product for other countries that run by morons, probably reducing prices worldwide. This is why much of Africa had 5G wireless before the US did.

For WinG, there's a "Its pretty much dead Jim" component from the WINE project, called WINEVDM

https://github.com/otya128/win...

You can use it to run win16 applications on modern windows. (with lots of warts. Caveat emptor)

It can also run win16 applications inside WINE. (same caveats apply)

For old DX versions, I'd suggest stringing DGVoodoo2 together with VKD3D in a proton container. Essentially wraps those old APIs over DX12, which is provided by VKD3D over Vulkan, and has quite a few options you can fiddle with about color depth support reporting, and options to force upscale (useful for those 640x480@8bit DX5 games, since modern monitors dont like those legacy modes).

Bonus, is that it also functions as a glide wrapper.

 

You can do this right now.

Use DGVoodoo2 with VKD3D.
https://dege.freeweb.hu/dgVood...

VKD3D provides DX11 and DX12 over Vulkan.
DGVoodoo2 wraps DX1 through DX9 over DX12 api. (which will functionally pipe it through Vulkan on Linux)

Your wine / proton prefix will need to be set to use native DLLs, but it totally works.

That you don't self-identify as a racist, doesn't mean that you're not one. You insist that members of a certain race should have benefits above others, for no reason relevant to the people concerned.

Should I assume you need to eat the whole breakfast in order to figure out that the eggs are rotten?

I'm certainly capable of that, but I've learned when not to waste my time. Your statement is pretentious nonsense, and I treated it as such.

Oh my poor innocent sweet summer consumer...

You actually think HR has anything to do with helping workers. No, misguided one

No, no, no.

HR exists to protect the company _from_ it's employees. If US companies are expanding their HR, then they're preparing for war with their own employees.

It's pretty clear you don't understand vertical integration, and how easy it is to show a small net profit at any stage of the stack you want to.

One of my relatives was around at the dawn of HR at a major multi-national corporation. She was head of their Salary Payroll division. She always told us that the company put their hard-to-fire f^ckups in HR, because it was an area that had little impact on the actual operation of stuff that mattered. Department heads could always hire who they wanted, and tell HR to approve it or else. Over the years, of course, that has changed...with predictable results.

Yes. It's avoiding NoScript, too. I have UBlock Origin as well, and no better luck with it.

Bullshit.