What a great article. I want to make my own cardboard cabinet for the upcoming street fighter movie. This gives some great ideas on process.

At what point past the official support window are they required to make updates?

I have a bunch of software that I have bought licenses to over the decades. At around a decade if a company is still supporting a product it seems like going above and beyond.

I’d been able to get support from adobe on photoshop 6 about 12 years after it was released and that seemed pretty extra.

The stand alone versions of office(2021 and 2024) that are under support are being updated and work. So this isn't directly targeted to end all standalone support.

It's nothing special to Microsoft and is more an issue with vintage software. Early security models require some level of cracking to install vintage software even on vintage hardware with a vintage OS.

The hardware it was made for has almost rolled off processor support.

If you can find an official release tagged back to the publisher on archive.org your going to have to put some work in. https://archive.org/details/Office-2019-Collection

While people are piling on Microsoft, I have had issues with older software needing workarounds for certificates. Especially on the Mac OsX.

How is this anything other than a basic security cert issue?

I have never seen that happen. I have only seen companies get bailed out. It’s been decades since a giant insolvent company was split apart and sold for pennies on the dollar. They just enough money to buy financially solvent competition

They did a better job by offering an unsustainable variety of programming from all the studios in one place at the same time. All of the competitors at the time only offered financially viable services.

I believe in ai now because I looked at the Netflix balance sheet and thought. “There is NO WAY they could become profitable they are spending wayyy to much money and have way to much debt. It’s financially impossible to get out of this hole”

I understand how it worked and how it could not have. There are a lot of ways this could fail on AI but there are some real ways forward. AI has a similar application reach as the internet. It’s world changing.

I see why meta and google are going in hard. They lived though the rise and fall of blockbuster. They saw Sony release 3 different steaming services before after and during Netflix. This is the disruption for the current generation of tech and their revenue model.

Someone is going to ‘Win’ AI and a lot of others will loose.

I’m not sure but some how I get shown a lot of feeds of people with less than 100 subs. I remember commenting on some guys video and him being so excited he was recommended on search.

Do you spend time with and interact with smaller channels as a significant portion of your time on youtube? Do you subscribe to them?

I’m almost invisible to the larger channels.

I usually find new channels by looking at the sidebar recommendations on subscribed channels.

I also only view my subscriptions page and turned off YouTube history.

When I run out of YouTube content I just stop watching. I am also old.

Wow that makes so much sense it’s crazy.

Catholics are up soon. Evangelicals will flat out try and convert them since they are not Christians.

Well the best way to do that properly is to separate out the rice into smaller containers so it cools fast enough for food safety,. I've seen this attitude that 'proper' Asian food can't be made with 'Western' food safety standards. As if modern restaurants in Asian countries use some lesser cleanliness and safety standards.