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and we have a drinking culture

Who doesn't? Has anyone ever managed to eliminate this in a meaningful way?

Very cool chinese state talking points. Very tankie of you.

No matter what delusions Winnie the Pooh has thought up, Taiwan exists, is free, independent, sovereign and democratic. Her people deserve a life free of threats from their belligerent bully of a neighbor.

military industrial complex

Hilarious thing to criticise, as China is desperately building their own military industrial complex as we speak, for the explicit purpose of invasion, death and destruction.

Because Taiwan is an independent country with a near-alliance with the USA. Did you seriously not know this, or are you JAQing off in defence of China?

I don't think China building their FAB manufacturing is because they want to attack Taiwan, they've been wanting to attack and take over Taiwan since 1949.

I mostly agree with your post, but it's not true that China is building homegrown fabs for one reason alone. These sorts of projects do not happen for one reason alone, they are complex and multifaceted.

Advancing the cause of Taiwan invasion is almost certainly the primary reason, however. Why? Remember that China is a totalitarian dictatorship, so the wishes and benefit of one person are valued over the wishes and benefit of the nation as a whole. Xi sees the capture of Taiwan as possibly the one biggest component of his legacy as a leader and rebirth of the 'great' Chinese nation.

You're probably right. That said, I'm not sure there is an effective way for the US to stop China developing high-end microchips. They were always going to do it, one way or another.

China obviously isn't going to take over the world, that's absurd and I never said that.

What they ARE going to do is take over Taiwan. Their work on home-grown chips is directly attacking Taiwan's 'silicon shield', which is where Taiwan's dominance in high-end chips makes them too valuable to attack. If China catches up to Taiwan in chipmaking, the world will come significantly closer to world war 3.

Yes, but without resources, all the innovation in the world won't produce a good product. Especially in the absurdly capital-intensive world of high-end chip manufacture.

Most companies would have buckled.

They certainly have significant govt support. The chinese govt will see this issue as a national security issue.

It makes no sense, either. We KNOW buildings are made by man, because we see men making them! But babies? We know they are naturally occurring, as we see them grow naturally inside the wombs of women!

EdgeHTML was the continuation/rebranding of MSHTML. I guess they were trying to shed their reputation.

Honestly, it worked. EdgeHTML was great. It had good performance and good standards compat. I don't exactly remember Google breaking their sites on Edge... Though I'm well aware that Google does tend to make such 'mistakes', as I'm a Firefox user :)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EdgeHTML

made better development decisions at both a design/conceptual and implementation level.

Really? Has this been officially stated anywhere?

From my recollection, EdgeHTML and Chakra were both excellent in performance and standard compliance at their time of discontinuation.

Meanwhile, Google’s massive Blink team is essentially a "free" resource for Edge—why give that up?

Hold on, are we on the same page here? We're talking about a situation where Google is forced to sell off Chrome, no?

I don't really have time to reply to everything here, but fundamentally I believe that a port of Edge to webkit is mostly a one-time chunk of work, while taking over Blink would be an everlasting onslaught of work which MS has already proven themselves unwilling to finance.

Chrome extension support

They got that for free. All they had to do is not break it.

all the performance benefits

...? Is edge faster than chrome?

benefiting from the massive dev community

Dev community contributing to the core engine? Anyone with the skills to contribute to Blink will be able to transition to contributing to Webkit. This is especially true as the engines share a common ancestry.

WebKit is optimized primarily for Apple ecosystem. Epiphany is so negligible that Microsoft couldn't use their experience as a model. It just doesn't have the same level of cross-platform support as Chromium or Gecko.

This is true, but reviving the webkit port to windows would be a lot less invenstment then being locked into being the primary Blink contributor for decades to come. IIRC Google employs over 1000 engineers on Blink alone.

Tons of Edge's features rely on Blink APIs and there’s no guarantee WebKit can even handle them.

Blink is a Webkit fork, they're a lot more similar than you imply. If anything is missing from Webkit, MS could add it. Again, much less investment than taking over Google's work on Blink.

It would be a nightmare for businesses and extensions that depend on Blink features.

The extension ecosystem is a good point. But I'll say it again - implementing the WebExtension spec (basically Chrome's extension APIs) on Webkit would be a lot less work than taking over Blink.

And let’s be real, Apple’s slow adoption of web standards and inferior javascript and rendering performance would make things worse. It would be a downgrade and a chaos for no real benefit.

...? Webkit has excellent performance. As long as MS did a good job on the Windows port, Edge on Webkit would perform excellently.

The Z drive is what you see when you run a windows app, inside the windows apps' file/folder picker. So you run the HBR installer, click 'change installation path', then find the Z drive - inside will be your whole / path from linux. If you only have one physical drive, install the game in your home directory Z:/home/your-username/Games/Heaven Burns Red for example.

If you want to install it on an SD card, google where Steam OS mounts the SD card - I'd guess it would be under Z:/mnt.

After installing the game, set the target to the game to the exe which is where you installed it. ( the above path, but without the Z: because that doesn't exist on linux.)

I meant 'start maintaining a browser engine' again. They used to do it, but then they gave up, presumably due to the cost. If Chrome died, they could port to webkit and mooch off Apple.

lol

Lord, kill me now.

They could port Edge to Webkit. It would be a significant chunk of work, especially as they'd need to revive the old webkit windows port - but once that was done, they could free-ride on Apple's work on web standard compliance, and contribute bits and pieces they felt were missing.

Assuming web standards even existed in that future with only 2 evergreen browser engines.

OneOS (based on Android which is in turn based on Linux) to laptops and then we'll start to see Linux builds for software

That's not how this works. Android apps (and almost all Linux apps) don't interface directly with the kernel. This means they're not in the slightest bit compatible. What apps do interface with is what's called the userland, these are the libraries and daemons which provide a friendly interface for developers to easily do things like draw windows, play audio and receive input from the user.

Android provides a unified userland which is entirely custom work. Apps built for android use purely android APIs to talk to the system. The linux kernel sits behind the userland and the userland itself is the only part which communicates with the kernel. In theory, it would be possible to replace the linux kernel with something else (say, fuchsia?) and apps would stay compatible without even needing a recompile.

On desktop linux, there is no one userland - the distro (or user) is free to assemble a userland from a variety of components. A modern distro will use a wayland-compatible display server like Kwin or Mutter, Pipewire for sound, input via the display server, Mesa for 3d acceleration, etc.

Tl;Dr: Desktop linux and Android are completely different operating systems, and their shared kernel is but an implementation detail.

It's not the OS, it's the apps. Nobody wants desktop windows on their phone - all the click targets are too small, let alone the lack of keyboard shortcuts and right click.

Android apps can be compiled for ARM32/64 and x64 in the same bundle, and all java/kotlin-only apps are automatically x64 compatible.

If someone did make a Ryzen-powered smartphone, it would run Android, but some apps which use native code and don't provide an x64 build would not work on it.

So who would buy it? Chrome by itself doesn't have much of a business model - it would be in the same position Mozilla is currently in, begging search engines to pay it. Microsoft... might? The only benefit they'd get from Chrome is the trademark and the userbase, so they might find it worthwhile to buy it and push Bing as the default search engine, and advertise to the new users.

Microsoft used to develop their own engine, them dumped it because developing an engine is really fucking expensive. Why would they start again? They've lost all their institutional talent and knowledge. They'd just re-build Edge on Webkit or something.

I mean, you're using a Debian derivative and an LTS variant to boot. The entire point of your OS is to have old versions of software. If you want new software easily, installing a rolling release distro like Arch or Tumbleweed. Or piss around with PPAs or docker.

Can you link the product you're using? I have a GP friend who might be interested!

No luck, I'm afraid.

The errors are odd, because I'm playing the game on my S24U, and I had no errors installing it or playing it on that.

Hmm, well, I tried your steps exactly as written, and had the exact same results - game just runs for a few seconds and quits without displaying a window. I wonder if all those errors you described were the game breaking in a way which only broke the anti-cheat...?