Chances are it wasn't shoddy, it was likely identical equipment from the same factory just without the huge cisco markup.
The same thing happens with "counterfeit" fashion. These good are made in third world countries at a low cost and then the brand add a huge markup. But those same third world factories can continue making the same goods and sell them to anyone, likely at a higher wholesale cost but a lower final retail cost because the middle man distributor takes a much smaller cut.

As far as I know, the software you'd want is 'Audacious', which has a 'Winamp Classic Interface' mode that can load the skins.

Unfortunately, in Winamp classic interface, it's all bitmap based so with high DPI displays it's either tiny or very awkwardly scaled. I'd also love something honoring the "Winamp form factor" but with more modern UI design, maybe with vector instead of bitmap if wanting to do the skins.

I appreciate the "library management" sort of view when actively dealing with the music in interesting ways, but wish more would have a "make a player focused window" for being present, but "ambient".

"Gitlab has yet another severe security vulnerability" is barely "news" at this point, it happens so often.

Gitlab is one of those software that puts a reasably nice looking "box" around dubious chunks of code vaguely duct taped toogether. You can do an easy deployment that nicely seems to work, but if you look a little harder, you can see a bunch of complex hard to debug interactions that you just have to hope never goes wrong.

With predictable implications for security, where vulnerabilities love overly complex interactions where it's likely that no one in the world actually properly understands the overall picture.

So it doesn't work fine.

The reason doesn't matter, what matters is that applications that use DX12 and Vulkan generally can't work in Windows 7 (with some select exceptions). From a technology standpoint, they could have given Windows 7 all the features, but logistically, they didn't.

His comment answered the 'why not port it?' by mentioning Windows 7. Going to Qt6 prevents it from going with Windows 7.

On one hand, I get it, Windows 7 was the last edition before the platform agenda shifted to be all about cloud accounts, telemetry, and being an ad platform. So if you are a Windows die-hard but can't get on board with that BS, then Windows 7 is it.

On the other hand, Windows 7 is being left behind by Microsoft and a bunch of applications. Chrome has left it behind. Firefox has mostly left it behind, and ESR will finally leave it behind by end of this year. Many games left Windows 7 behind (Vulkan and DirectX 12 are generally non-starters in Windows 7). One music player won't balance out the fact you will not be able to run most new games and can't run new versions of browsers.

So ultimately, it's time to leave Windows 7 behind. If you can't get behind the new Windows, then buy a Mac or run Linux. At this point, Wine on Linux might be able to run a broader number of Windows applications than Windows 7, since it does support DirectX 12 and implements other Windows APIs up through Windows 11.

This was gitlab, not github.

Half truth.

A stronger FM signal will almost completely block a weaker FM signal; this is related to the "capture ratio" specification sometimes seen on FM tuners.

With AM, the audio from 2 signals at the same carrier frequency will be proportional to each of the signals' received sidebands' strengths. Much like listening to 2 people talking at the same time.

With digital, it's complicated.

I have some trane zwavw thermostats and a zwave dongle, and it's never given me trouble. I know that the set up, as is, can continue indefinitely.

I think nowadays Zigbee might be a better path, but at the time that was the best path. I do also have wifi devices, but I have to be careful to check if they demand Internet or not (e.g. I've been happy with my OpenGarage, which is wifi based)

There is but one audio emoji and it is typed as Control G.

Unless you're on a real VT100 (not an emulator) in which case there is also ESC [145q (which would turn on the 145th keyboard LED but instead does something else, as there are only two keyboard LEDs).

I don't need to uninstall this "feature", but I do need to mute it. Permanently.

Does it say what kind of VPNs are affected? MS has some built in VPN functionality, but then third party clients can do all kinds of random things including loading their own kernel drivers and trying to transparently hijack traffic rather than creating a logical routed interface etc.
VPN clients that operate this way can be quite fragile so it's not surprising to see them break after updates, the same thing can happen on other platforms too.

General purpose computers are going back to being niche tools for geeks.
Having a complex general purpose computer is a terrible idea for most people, they have no idea how to manage it, keep it secure, safely install software etc. The average user is much better with an appliance that provides specific functionality. People who want to play games can buy a console, watch movies on a smart tv, browse websites on a tablet etc.

This... The Apple touchpads are the only ones even remotely usable, you'd have thought other manufacturers would have caught up by now but even modern laptops seem to have much worse touchpads than 10 year old macbooks.

Debt as a fraction of GDP went from 50% to 75%!

Hardly relevant, since that's down to where the previous administration left things. When Cameron became PM in 2010, government net borrowing was over 10% of GDP; you can't turn that around overnight, so of course net debt went up. But net borrowing decreased significantly every single year of his administration, down to 2.7% of GDP in 2016, and if that trajectory had continued we would have been a couple of years away from running a surplus.

Which is irrelevant to the main point that austerity makes you unpopular.