I understand why they want it to be needed but it absolutely is not. Casting exists because the complex handoff scheme enables them to weaponize the system against the owner of the devices. Plain streaming with a source and playback destination is massively simpler and no handoff needed and most of all no DRM to weaponize against the owners.

It absolutely is useless technology. There is simpler and faster technology that cannot be weaponized against the owner of the device. That technology is direct streaming from a source. The complex handoff that takes place in casting is idiotic and unnecessary and again only exists because it is weaponized against the owner of the devices.

Casting always was a technology that was never needed. Streaming from device to device is simpler in every way, but does not allow big media the control they insist on. Casting and the entire mechanism of having the device being casted to have to have direct access to the media source is idiotic and only exists because they insist on a extra level of weaponizing devices against the owners and policing what you can do with your own devices.

SpaceX can probably accelerate their flight schedule to accommodate Russian crew needs. There's the question of if Russia is able/willing to pay nearly $100m per seat. Their flights on Crew Dragon are currently paid through NASA in a seat exchange program where they provide flights from this site on Soyuz for US astronauts. They don't actually pony up the cash.

This launch site is also essential to attitude control of ISS. To refuel the ISS stabilizer thrusters and hold it steady while the gyroscopes are relieved periodically requires Progress modules launched from there. There isn't currently a backup plan for those services.

It's great to see the old Zorks released under a good license, but it's unfortunate that Jason Scott, an internet troll, is at all involved in the process. Best to completely avoid anything to do with that guy.

Latin may be useful. Cursive is worthless.

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.

Are you sure about that? I heard MBS through a Canadian wealth management firm.

There is no way to fix something that is flawed in concept. Everything about unity is screwed up right down to the intended design. Touch centric interfaces have no place in real computing for real work. Touch is acceptable only on consumption only devices. The massive romper room icons, the inability to handle multi-screen in certain configs (like over and under) and so many more usability nightmares that just cant be fixed because its broken to its core. Phone interfaces don't belong on real desktops.

Are they not doing music anymore for each release?

Hanford announced last week that their spent fuel vitrification plant is officially in operation, converting nuclear waste into glass ingots that can be safely stored for millenia. If they keep going for about a century they might be able to vitrify the spent fuel we already have. But we still have no place to store the ingots.

All these small modular reactors have the same deficits. They require high assay low enriched uranium (HALEU) produced only in Russia. They're a proliferation risk. They require a substantial footprint with passive and active defenses, 24/7 armed security, security clearances for all the highly paid professionals involved. They're slow to approve, finance, build. They're more costly even than classic nuclear reactors to build and operate, and those are the slowest building and most costly form of energy which means high energy costs when (if) they are finally built. Traditional nuclear reactor projects have a 95% failure rate from proposal to generation so 19 times of 20 they never deliver a single watt hour. Those times the money is just spent and lost. The one time in 20 that the generation comes online to produce the world's most costly power doesn't even include those costs.

At Hanford cold war nuclear waste continues to seep gradually toward the mighty Columbia river. Inch by inch.

Somewhere in America just now a homeowner just plugged his DIY solar panels into the inverter and battery he bought on Amazon for the first time. It will give power 24/7 for 30 years at no additional cost. It was quick and cheap. He didn't even need permission. It won't kill his family, nor yours, nor mine. There is no chance that his solar panels will result in radioactive salmon or other seafood.

With atomic packaging systems, I feel like computing is in a weird place where it has taken on all of the bad characteristics that are both a step backwards towards the days of DLL hell and a step forwards to today where there is almost no tweaking and debloat attempted by devs because powerful hardware and memory make it unnecessary in their eyes.

I don't WANT 53 copies of the same library on my system. I don't want slow startup because applications to have to be unpacked before they can be used. I don't want applications that make it difficult or impossible to share data between applications. I don't want applications that don't theme properly. I don't want applications that weaponize themselves against the owner of the machine and try to dictate how the app is used like Windows apps do.

I simply do not want atomic packaging systems. I want traditionally installed apps that only put one copy of the library on my system and I want to be able to share data between apps easily and efficiently without having to install additional apps from the same package manager to be able to use them... for example for gaming, If you want to use Lutris and choose the version that comes from an atomic package manager, you also have to install a SECOND version of all your 3d libraries for your video card that are available to the atomic Lutris. Fuck that, fuck the entire idea of that type of system.

For most bands the exact same sound from recorded is impossible because there are usually fewer musicians involved in the live act. Less or no backup singers. Recorded music frequently has overdubs of the lead singer basically singing their own backup. Patently impossible for live music. I don't go to see them play, I listen to the music. I couldn't care less about the visual aspect of a band.

Ah... so Van Halen, Manchester Orchestra and others are shitty bands... I just hate live music because it will never sound as good as the recorded music. I listen to music for the sound, not the show. Bands travel with fewer musicians that are typically on the recorded tracks. Many bands even overdub their own lead singer multiple times, completely impossible in a live environment and I hate the music when it doesn't sound EXACTLY like the music I fall in love with. That is not due to a bad band.