I think we're getting pretty close to the point where hardware manufacturers can find a niche use case for these OS's - I put ReactOS and Haiku in this set - and build custom hardware just for these OS's.

I mean, I'm pretty sure there is a market for OS's that have not, yet, been encumbered with AI/Ads/spyware/etc.

Yes, there is an issue with exploration lights effecting native life.

Recent attempts to capture a giant squid on video were only realized when they switched the lights off.

They're mining them now. They weren't then.

They aren't. It's still being looked into.

I think that we are entering a new golden age of language, personally.

It has never been easier for a human being to take a corpus and refactor it in a fashion that they can understand it without making an energetic investment in constructing a new ontology; or that is to say, humans can use AI now to grasp text and words - language, specifically - in extraordinarily industrious, productive ways.

I know it is a crackpot event horizon, but I truly wonder if Szukalskis’ Protong isn’t just waiting there, tip of the iceberg, to be discovered. Seriously.

As a lover of both pho and ramen I feel I can compel with you on the crispy factor - like pho is more for a jungle - and also on the food coma factor of ramen - a meal for the monsoons, perhaps - but nevertheless need to point out to you that there are also crispy ramens, with sprouts/lime/mint/japaleno, too.

In fact there is no ‘one ramen’, it has to be said; there are regional variants where the “scrap food” of the area is used as the decoration to the base, where a noodle and boiled-meat leftover soups/stock are combined …

I have very sleepy pho’s in my neighborhood, also .. just sayin’. Both are great, you’re right, they are a wonderful branch of food.

Had plenty of online friends come and go. What I found is that it usually took online relationships longer to get to know each other in some ways, and quicker in other ways.

It was no fun realizing after a few IRL visits that we really just didn't like each other unless careful email communications was our primary means of interaction.

With some folks the time it takes to write an email is all the filter is needed. Sometimes, though, it only takes 5 minutes IRL to realize that you only like the persons email - not the person, themselves.

All game engines eventually become an OS. All OS's eventually become game engines.

Name a game engine that became an OS, and name an OS that became a game engine.

Unreal Engine. Microsoft Windows.

Unreal engine isn't an OS. It is installed and run on a computer already running an OS.

Windows is not a game engine. Being able to play games on Windows doesn't make it a game engine.

Unreal Engine allows the widespread deployment of applications catering to a tightly bound framework - a system, upon which standard operations can be completed. It functions standardly, independently of any OS upon which it is hosted. There is no distinction between an OS hosted on another OS, nor is there a requirement that for an OS to be considered an operating system, no other operating system can be involved.

Windows is a game engine because you can write standard games for it, standardly, and its base SDK’s support game development, natively - it also of course supports other game engines, which eventually become capable of hosting applications (and are thus OS’s), because: Windows is an OS and it is a game engine…

>Unreal Engine allows the widespread deployment of applications catering to a tightly bound framework - a system, upon which standard operations can be completed.

This isn't the definition of an OS, it's the definition of literally all software - a "system" upon which "operations" are performed.

But the purpose of Unreal Engine isn't to manage a computer's hardware and software resources, user access, etc. It isn't an operating system. It doesn't operate the system. An operating system hosted by an OS still serves the purpose of an operating system. The actual purpose of the software matters.

>Windows is a game engine because you can write standard games for it, standardly, and its base SDK’s support game development, natively - it also of course supports other game engines, which eventually become capable of hosting applications (and are thus OS’s), because: Windows is an OS and it is a game engine…

Windows is not a game engine because its purpose is not creating games. The fact that it can run applications, some of which may happen to be game engines, does not make it a game engine. The fact that it has graphics and sound APIs that game engines can access doesn't make it a game engine.

Sorry, I don't find this profound or interesting. Windows has not become a game engine, and Unreal has not become an operating system. Your argument basically boils down to semantics and only makes sense if you ignore the actual context and purpose of what we're talking about and why the distinctions matter.

>a "system" upon which "operations" are performed.

Indeed, that is the point entirely. The distinction is arbitrary.

> But the purpose of Unreal Engine isn't to manage a computer's hardware and software resources, user access, etc.

Oh no, that is absolutely the purpose of Unreal Engine - to manager the computers available hardware, software resources, user permissions in such a way that - across a very wide variety of different hardware configurations - the hosted applications run standardly and consistently.

That it fulfills this purpose as a system of operating hardware resources in order to provide standard game applications their own hosting surface, across a wider variety of host OS’s, demonstrates that in fact, an OS does not become an OS just because it is the first thing to boot the hardware.

By that reasoning, the BIOS is an operating system and Windows is just an application which runs on it, with a very large percentage of users doing so only to play games …

> Windows is not a game engine because its purpose is not creating games.

I think there is a billion dollar department at Microsoft with is at odds with your view entirely. Microsoft has spent a lot of resources making Windows into a game engine which can fulfill the purpose.

> Sorry, I don't find this profound or interesting

Give it time. You will see the fallacy in your arbitrary definitions.

> Semantics

Actually, I’m arguing from a great deal of experience as a systems analyst.

This doesn't do anything that an empty document window in SublimeText doesn't also do.

Sometimes the best tool for the job is the one you already have - not the one you feel like making.

PROSECUTE ALL WAR CRIMINALS.

But, start with YOUR OWN FIRST.

Only then will you have the moral altitude to "go after theirs".

Not until WE have prosecuted OUR war criminals, will we have the precedent to prosecute any other nations' war criminals [1].

So, get on with it, citizen. Hold your government accountable. The people always get the governments they deserve.

[1] - No, "the West" is not morally capable of going after Putin, Netanyahu, etc. Not until we start prosecuting our own war criminals with real, effective results.