VM with a legit windows installation in it.

Mainframes peaked by the 70s. 80s bored the fruit of the standalone PC revolution.

We've been hearing this since 1999.

This Xerox Alto restoration series is a really interesting reflection on that. Here's the point in the series where they finally get it running. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9OQMhvArI9g

Yeah, Xerox made revolutionary progress. But it appears that their proximity to a viable consumer product is a bit exaggerated. It really did still take another set of eyes and minds to wrangle it in. I think if they did release it sooner, and without the leaks, the next competitor still would have seen that and soon come along and done a better enough job to nullify their first-mover advantage.

Those days were chock full of companies that ended up just contributing to the zeitgeist of computing without themselves reaping in the glory.

I think Steve Jobs' comments about what Xerox could have been... Is largely him stroking his ego that he and Apple pulled off what they couldn't.

I don't think Xerox would be the Mac of today in most timelines.

Had to stop watching when someone nearly cut their finger off feeding a 2x4 down a band saw at the 2 minute mark. (Trauma trigger)

USE A PUSH STICK!!

The headline shared is somewhat sensationalized editorialization.

"Toutes les hypothèses", dont l'instauration de l'état d'urgence, sont envisagées par l'exécutif pour "le retour de l'ordre républicain", a déclaré Elisabeth Borne vendredi 30 juin.

Note the part in quotes said by PM is "Toutes les hypothèses". The part about a state of emergency (l'état d'urgence) is added by the author of the article in between her actual quotes, with "dont", to show what the writer is implying can be included in that.

Included in "all hypothesis" I could also imply and add... well basically anything I want to.

I'm not saying there won't be state of emergency. Just making the actual context of this headline clear to non french readers.

Fact check: the French govt did not create Matrix.

Matrix is an open protocol created in 2014, for an Israel-based private company.

In 2018 the french govt decided to use a verson of that protocol in their own chatting network.

Picard left the TNG storyline state in such a decent and settled place, feels like another story would only risk ruining things. Feels like the series is already in a good-as-it-gets state and can only go down from here, unless they go for total spin-off.

But I'll still watch it even if it sucks, which the people with $$ in their eyes know so...

fighting the peace against the US

What'd you mean by this? It left a lot to the imagination.

switching to Froot Loops

I love the irony that he went with the queerest named cereal as a replacement.

TNG: Time's arrow. I loved the Guinan backstory, Mark Twain, the western setting, and especially that it was all Data centric.

You have a point about less content development time. But don't underestimate the complexity of getting the netcode right and balancing the PVP system.

It's more like trading one set of problems for another, than it is a cop-out.

Plenty of games that lack substance in any category.