Any way to do that other than backing them up to another machine/USB drive is too risky IMO.

The vast majority of people use smartphones for music.

Wow, that activated some seriously ancient neurons… I just looked up some of the models it supports and surprisingly they were made within the last decade. For some reason there’s still a market for cheap dedicated MP3 players.

I guess they cost basically nothing to manufacture and some people might need them…

They’re being tactful. It’s clearly a reference to Waiting for Godot. They even said so.

The name “Godot” was chosen in reference to Samuel Beckett’s play Waiting for Godot, as it represents the never-ending wish of adding new features in the engine, which would get it closer to an exhaustive product, but never will.

Ok so if I’m understanding correctly Hyperlight lets you sandbox components of your embedded system using hypervisor/VMs. Hyperlight WASM is an alternative sandbox that uses WASM for sandboxing instead.

I guess if you only have WASM there would not be much need for Hyperlight at all, but if you have a mix of WASM and non-WASM code this would be useful.

It is definitely a silent t. They’ve just misread it.

I agree, it’s really annoying.

I don’t agree with everything Israel does but you have to consider the environment they’re in. They may be aggressive and racist but they’re not terrorists.

WPRS uses the term rootless like this. I didn’t come up with it. But I agree it is not a great term. If you can think of a better one I will happily use it. Parallels calls it “coherence mode”, which also isn’t great.

Actually Xprs uses “seamless mode” which is probably better.

Yeah it’s more complex. I don’t think there’s any more overhead though, and there’s no reason it will be slow.

Can’t you just run it locally?

No, unfortunately not.

Isn’t it just basic X forwarding?

Yeah true. It definitely has downsides. But so does begging corporations for money…

but there are literally dozens of strategies you probably don’t know about

Oh please tell me, wise old man! You can’t be talking about garbage collection, reference counting, smart pointers, never-free, arenas, defer, or god forbid, the “I am perfect and can do it manually and never make mistakes” method. Because I know about all of those methods.

What are these other dozens of methods that I don’t know about that mean Rust is unnecessary? 🙄

Sorry I misread, VNC is slow. RDP is a lot better. Does not appear to be rootless though, even though IIRC the RDP protocol does support that? I might have misremembered.

Yeah MJPEG isn’t going to cut it, and as you say it’s not rootless.

I mean it’s totally possible in theory. Do you just mean nobody has actually written something that does this?

You have to launch an app, log in twice and then you get an annoying VNC-style remote desktop, not native windows. Also it doesn’t run at all on Wayland. Apart from that it works pretty well - fast, and stuff like copy/paste works. I would just like something that is as convenient as remote X, but not dog slow.

See my edit to the post. I probably should have clarified that.

Pretty unclear if this has any actual teeth - if you don’t pay it says “don’t create issues” etc. but is anyone going to stop you?

But let’s assume that it did stop you. I’m going to give a dissenting opinion - I don’t think it’s a necessarily bad idea. Phabricator had that business model for years; without paying you got zero support. No ability to open issues, etc.

My company ended up paying for support… so that we could get support. There’s absolutely no way they would have paid if it was a standard license and you could just open a GitHub issue, even if the issues were ignored.

Annoying for non-corporate users though I guess.

Don’t tease gossip? Either say “I’m quitting due to personal reasons” or give actual details “I’m quitting because I received ongoing abuse about being trans on X from several users and I’m fed up with it” (or whatever the reason was; I just guessed that).

Sorry rootless in this context means it doesn’t have a big window showing the whole remote desktop, instead each remote window shows up as if it were a local window. Nothing to do with the root account. Kind of confusing, sorry!