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What works: everything. Everything I tried. What did I try? All the parts of the game listed above, plus 20-30 plugins, including one obscure library plugin that's not on Nexus. Used Mod Organizer2, IIRC. No problems. Worked great. Know what's amazing? No crashes. Not. A. Single. One. Anyone who played Morrowind back in the day remembers all the crashes. So many, even with stability mods and later versions of the game. This? Rock solid.
What doesn't: plugins that patch or wrap the Morrowind .exe file. That's about it. Oh well.
Bonus round: you can crank up the view distance to fairly high levels on even a medium-good rig, much farther than in the original game. Definitely improves it.
PHP's weird half-assed copy of the sigil system ($ only, for everything) is one of my least-favorite things about it (but I don't really hate PHP the way some people do, so that may not be saying much).
$, %, and @ are why using complex multi-dimensional arrays & associative arrays in Perl is non-crazymaking. You can at least state the kind of thing you're intending to use at each layer of the array, and have that intention readable even when syntax highlighting isn't available, which is a lot better than nothing.
Ukraine is contributing to this attitude, I expect. Western states at least want to project the image that they would, given enough pushing from Russia and others, intervene, in order to (they hope) make them think twice about further expansion. Exercises aren't just about actual preparation, but about sending messages. The intended audience may be domestic and foreign, and in this case they seem to be pretty up-front about some of the intended recipients.
More directly, I don't think it's true that there's no possible level of aggression from certain states that wouldn't draw an actual military response from France, even well into Eastern Europe, the Near East, and North/West Africa (and, in such a case, almost certainly some of France's allies would be involved as well, outside smaller conflicts in West Africa particularly). Exercises and public statements about their purpose may be designed to make potential adversaries less certain about just how far they can go without crossing that line, while also providing actual preparation should a conflict happen. They're saying (bluffing, or not) that they're preparing for exactly the kind of greater intervention you're talking about. That's why they'd hold exercises like this and make the statements they have about them.
This and my earlier posts are an explanation for why France would, very publicly, hold exercises with the stated purpose that they did. Obviously they know Turkey and North African states aren't going to invade France herself. They're not preparing for an invasion by Tunisia. They're sending a message about the regions they will defend (claim they will defend, of course—the seriousness of this posturing is untested, but the new stance seems to promote the idea that they are now more serious), and which states they want to know they're concerned about—apparently Turkey, and with Turkey, implicitly, Russia, either defending them from Russia or defending against a Russia-aligned Turkey, which relationship is seemingly going to continue being a major component of European politics indefinitely, as it has been the last couple centuries.
Maybe it won't be this year, but I 100% expect to see widespread AR glasses becoming the next smartphone revolution before 2030, if only because so many big tech companies seem to be betting big bucks on it. Certainly seems more attainable than self-driving cars.
France still has a top-10 military and maybe the most effective overseas force projection capabilities outside the US and Great Britain (maybe China, we'll see how effective their navy is, sooner or later). Not to mention a long-standing nuclear arsenal. If Europe—any of it, at least in the EU or NATO—is attacked from the East, the French will be on the front lines, and landing on beaches. Turkey, on its own or as a puppet of (probably—god, they've wanted it for like 200+ years at this point) Russia, is increasingly a realistic threat. Plus Russia itself.
Like other major European former-colonizer states, France maintains strong ties to many parts of the world and is relied on, or considers itself responsible for, security in those regions. Algeria is attacked? France will surely show up to the party. Algeria decides to take some kind of Cuba-like action against French property? France will likely be there, in a very different capacity. They have strong interest in Lebanon (threatened, potentially, by Syria and Turkey, among others) and much of West Africa, as well, where, if you follow international news, their foreign legion and special forces are often deployed and quite active.
Sidebar: They're also possibly the most experienced torturers in the West. You see them called in for it sometimes, if you read between the lines a bit. Yikes.
See also: Libya, and Italy's leadership there (for better or worse). France has similar ties to a dozen or more countries in Africa and the Levant. Warranted or not from some broader perspective, they'll tend to see intervention in conflicts there as obligatory and desirable.
Add in that Boomers skew much richer at the same stage in life as later generations, and that they're a large chunk of retired people, and yeah, "1 in 25 households are millionaires" just means half or 1/3 of retired people aren't living on cat food, and were actually able to retire. Hooray.
Lots of enterprise UI is like that for me, actually, including most PM software more complex than GH issues + boards. I find them extremely uncomfortable to use because I'm never confident I'm doing the right thing, or that what I'm doing is safe to do, or whether I'll be able to find the things I need again.
Slack is heading that way with some of their changes (the way drafts and threads are handled is juuuuust on the edge of putting it in that territory) but I still never feel "lost" for long, on there.
- What a filesystem is.
- How directories, files, and filesystems relate to one another.
- What a server is/does.
- How any kind of raw text whatsoever relates to what the computer "actually is" (the GUI)
- When or how or under what circumstances a program might read a file (say, re-reading a config file)
- What all that prompt noise means.
- Why some things they type on the command line work and why others don't—they don't understand that the things they're running are discrete programs and not somehow built in to the terminal or the OS, and they certainly don't understand the concept of a PATH.
- All kinds of magical bullshit you need to just know (or spend time finding out then internalizing) to use a command line (what the fuck is ".."? Why do I need to put "-" before things seemingly at random, but other times that breaks stuff? Et c., et c.)
- What they can even expect to be able to do on the command line (change permissions on files? Is that a thing you can do? Oh now you're going to need to learn how your OS permissions system works on a lower level than you've ever needed to know before, or else just blindly copy-paste from the Web and hope for the best)
And that list is far from comprehensive.
Flash was still big enough that there's no possible way they didn't know they were crashing with it. Zero chance no-one at Canonical had tried it, and discovered the problem. Released it anyway.
2) Most other solutions don't present as much system-config stuff as well as they (or Windows, or macOS) do in the GUI, so you're in for more mucking about in config files, writing scripts, et c. with any of the many window managers (not "desktop environments" like Gnome or MATE or KDE)
The farther away I get from "fresh CS grad", actually, the less I give a shit about catering to the person writing the code and helping them express themselves optimally, and the more I care about how much hair I'll lose trying to figure out someone's meta programming or shoehorned-in-because-it's-fashionable functional crap. Either of which I can write just fine, thank you very much, but god knows I'm sick of inheriting such codebases, to the point that these days I basically just won't do that anymore.
You have a Rails "app" that's been through three development teams? Cool, good luck with that, next opportunity, thanks. You're not only using React, but your codebase is purely functional (I mean, your functions are objects, you know, but that's quibbling, OK, sure, it's purely functional conceptually-speaking) top-to-bottom and you've got all kinds of supporting libraries to make Javascript contort into kinda-halfway working for this pattern? And you're thinking about porting to Purescript so you can better express yourselves with types? That sounds very nice, but I'm sure it's just too smart for me, thanks for the offer.
You're using Go, Typescript where you have to, and your mobile apps are boring, straightforward native code? Oh thank god. When do I start?
If anyone could provide web views they'd be practically useless, as they'd just be a constant source of bugs, and everyone would simply start embedding a browser engine instead.