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a bit of the problem is that modern elements like display + touch screen require a lot more bandwidth than 3110 - for example the displays require ridiculous bandwidth in comparison to the nokia, like 10 gigabit/s for Samsung Galaxy S25 (basic model, not plus/ultra), plus connectors for the cameras.

At the very least you can't really make the screen soldered-on, and the simple connectors used in Nokia might not work out for such high bandwidth use case. Same with cameras.

Thin ribbon connectors are one of the hardest things to automate from what I remember regarding Sony's efforts to automate PS5 manufacture.


looks like gateway address between SMTP and X.400


Before Phusion Passenger and Mongrel it was common in Rails world too.


Also the set of supported/accelerated operations in the fastest path is different no matter whether you use 8, 16, or 32bit floats, thus the common use of "TOPS" as benchmark number recently.


TSA including all of its security theatre was on life support because of insurance premiums - it allowed some creative actuarial accounting that shifted responsibilities and reduced insurance costs for airlines in post-9/11 insanity


Yeah, recent news are essentially raising this from "crossing US border is dangerous, prepare yourself" to "US border guards got a quota of terror to inflict, do you really want to gamble?"


They should consider that it's playing against fines of up to 20m EUR or 4% turnover (not income)


Remember that there aren't as many drivers in VMS core as in Linux (were just amd DRM driver dwarfs some older kernel versions), and ACPI for all its complexity also handles as portability layer between a lot of differences that in VMS' past involved having to release an entire special release of the system just to get it to boot, now covered by ACPI support.

Also, we don't know how much of that is test code, samples (for testing, for example)


And the defaults system is just registry by another name


Not really, defaults are stored in per-application plist files rather than in a singular database.


And what difference to end user it makes where exactly the key/value data is stored? No real difference whether the data is HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\MyAppName or com.my.app when you're trying to coerce some internals whose configuration is not exposed because you're not worthy of it


It was common in the Windows 9x days for the two Registry Hives (SYSTEM.DAT and USER.DAT) to get corrupted leading to an unbootable system or to get fragmented and/or full of disused values from poorly-uninstalled software leading to increased memory usage.

Here are some KB articles to check out for context:

- https://helparchive.huntertur.net/document/105563

- https://helparchive.huntertur.net/document/89799

- https://helparchive.huntertur.net/document/89794


Been there, know the pain, still not actually a big difference to the question of modifying "unexported" settings


I’d say that a quick defaults command is probably on the whole more friendly than trawling around in the arcane mess that is the Windows registry. It’s not as friendly as it could be, but at least it’s a somewhat human readable one liner.

It’s also reasonable to back up plists and/or sync them between machines like some users do with their dotfiles, because they’re just files.


Registry settings can be modified via CLI, too. Windows users are just far more averse to the command line.


I have never seen anyone backup defaults database between macs[1], I have seen a lot of scripts calling setting by setting instead.

Which has direct equivalent in "reg" files, to be quite honest.

[1] Other than restoring time machine backup to another system or similar cloning setups


It’s not a database, they’re individual files. Most are even plain XML that can be hand written and edited with a text editor.


This is not a gotcha, really. An XML file can be considered database just as well (similarly, part of registry on NT is portable between machines).


There is - removing a wonk preference namespace is as easy as `rm ~/Library/Preferences/com.cheapskatesoftware.wonko.plist`. Whereas the Windows Registry is a monolithic piece of gunk you need a Microsoft editor for to zap something


Considering the day I once spent hunting for all possible plist locations of a single program, I'd rate it about same for registry and plists


Office 2013, last non Click2Run version, worked wonderfully on Wine few years ago


When I did my tests, Office 2007 and 2010 were the most stable

I will try Office 2013 (I'd like a version that works well in wine64!)


I don't have the specific setup archived, but I believe my basis for it was a script included in winetricks at the time which installed Office 2013 professional based on offline 2013 proplus 32bit iso.

WineHQ reports that installer for 2013 64bit is "gold", but apps required few tweaks to be applied and Access sometimes failed.

Generally seems 2013-2016 era works on wine per few applications I checked


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