I dont know, I would like to have a an HTML page back as an option. Active Desktop was removed after Windows XP. I ran a simple web server which monitored my backup jobs for servers I administered, listed all services and hosts, some loading time statistics, and had links to view drill-down statistics. I also had some utilization graphs. Lastly, I had a security camera that took a picture every minute overlooking the view to the ocean (in San Diego where I was) that refreshed the image on a corner of my "dashboard" wallpaper. It was so nice. Whenever I wanted to check on anything, I simply minimized my windows and looked at all the green signals, and if anything was yellow, or red, it was what I paid attention to. Otherwise, I could see out the building's roof, at the beautiful ocean and skyline.

I wish they would bring a modern Active Desktop back. If they want a video, you could just run an RTSP stream or an embedded video in a web page. I miss that.

Once you realize it is the governments of the world that cause tribalism, and pit us against each other, you will realize what a folly it was to go to war so some politicians and can win over some other politicians. Sorry if that upsets you, but the stupidest thing you can be is patriotic. Even in America, we are far from free, and far from the sort of men who went to war over a 1% tax on tea. Our governments own us. They are in control, and we cant do shit about it. They are evil, regardless of which side of the aisle you think your side has the moral high ground. You are wrong. No peoples want to harm you, no peoples want to take what is yours. Just governments do (unless you are Palestinian, and there are Israelis around). I commend your bravery for going to fight, just not the wits you used to decide to do it for some shitty politicians. They are all shitty. All of them.

MS knew about it on July 14, the CVE came out on Sept 4. They were trying to save face.

It's not the fault of EVs but the fault of Regulators giving electricity generating and transmission companies what they want. In California (the canary in the proverbial coal mine for the rest of the country, just you wait), the CPUC (California Public Utilities Commission) hamstrung solar, by getting rid of net energy metering (NEM 2.0 here), and ushering in "net energy metering", (Nem 3.0) which makes solar name almost no sense, unless you can perfectly predict your usage and can spend a fortune in batteries.

They sell you power at $0.28/kw but but it back from you between $0.06- $0.08 which means you have to produce 4x what you need to have a 0 bill, unless you can store all you need at night, when base-load is cheap for them to produce anyway. If they wanted cheap electricity, they would encourage solar deployments everywhere, charge people for grid-connections at a size (200A @240V for example), and just charge people for the delta they consume. They would still make money, and the deployment of solar wouldn't have been halted. Batteries to some degree (1x your solar production maybe) should be mandatory but no, they screwed it all up, making the worst possible solution. Solar is no longer worth it, and the grid is only more expensive. We are idiots, governed by fools.

They got what they wanted, union dues. The companies were strong armed by California, which used Insurance requirements that were absurd to force the companies to agree to unionize the drivers, the unions got the dues which they spend on non-union supporting things like political activity, and the democrats gain more union dollars and more union voters. Welcome to Commiefornia.

This may be a stupid question, but why not print them in place at the connecting point of the rotor? Seems like a 3d printer should be able to lift itself along the shaft, and print the blade going down, one at a time?

What I do not understand is why the government can commit violence in protecting the property rights of a movie studio, but I can not protecting my home? The gun charge aside, he was sentenced to jail for copyright infringement. That means if he resisted, violence would be used to coerce him into prison. If he continued to resist, he could end up killed for it. So to protect the property of corporations violence can be used. But to protect my own property, such as if there was a burglar, I cant use violence? Make it make sense.

Just curious, why are eSims a downgrade in any way from a SIM card? From my understanding, the SIM card is only useful as an identifier, which the Secure Element in an iPhone should be able to secure just as easily? SIM cards do not play a role in antenna function, as one person I knew thought they did back in the day, when the whole NANO-SIM thing came out. Why are eSims worse than SIM cards, since they dont take any space and that space can be used to make the phone battery bigger, or improve in the IP rating for water or dust intrusion?

I dont know about you but I would happily trade south Florida for the continent of Antartica. It was once a forest and to think it wont be again is to ignore what science is actually telling us about the equilibrium state of the Earth.

Everyone in my household can buy on my Prime account, by sending me links to what they want and Apple Paying me whatever it is. The shitty thing is I ship a lot of goods to my office, and to Vegas where my Colo is. That is going to be shitty. Might find another solution than Amazon.

This is why I have a MASSIVE pirated video library that is well organized. I have an array of 12x 20TB drives in my network closet. I also run a wireguard VPN so I can access it when I travel. I made myself a tiny router that works with dual wifi out of a raspberry Pi on top of an Apple TV, so wherever I go, I am "home". This works great for Spotify too as so many songs can be listened to when abroad. It sucks. I have a headless blu-ray ripper I made off an old Mac mini with a USB bluray drive. It was awesome. I even had a script to find and download cover art, metadata, and it used subler for subtitles, and converted video for DAYS and DAYS.

I dont have to worry about losing access to my media. I also don't have to worry about losing access to media that is changed for political correctness after the fact (my copy of The Dambusters still has the dog named Ni**er). I give very close friends and family a login to stream from it over the web. I lastly, use the wifi of a public building near by enough to torrent. It isnt the fastest, but I bought a directional Wifi adapter and change my MAC daily and just torrent through that. Why??

I would love to pay artists for their work, and I have the means and am willing to. I would gladly pay Apple or someone $150 a month or so to have access to all media ever made, like how Spotify does it for music. But I can not. I also can not guarantee it wont be taken away. So, I have to go through all this trouble. It wouldn't work globally, which I travel to a few times a year abroad, and it wouldn't be unedited in original, and wouldn't be comprehensive. There would be several James Bonds missing, and the Godfather wouldn't be streamable. Fuck all that. Pirating is a result of over-eager licensing companies. Nothing more.

since this developer cant "lose" the code, why doesn't anyone else with one just do so? I don't have one or I would, and I would release it. Fuck them.

The "Terms of use" and the legal concept of a "license" enter the room....

I don't have one but it probably isn't super difficult with some tinkering and know how. If I was this developer, I would just make an anonymous account on some random site and post it. Why? Because fuck the government and its corporate cronyism, that's why. And fuck the court systems for not fucking Echelon hard, and up the ass, throwing some execs in 6 month jail terms for pulling this crap and changing the conditions of use after the fact.

A tree was felled, and killed a man. Since 1980, 18,000,000,000 trees were felled. Ergo, 18,000,000,000 men were killed by deforestation.