Oh yes, and it is really only a business feature. It isn’t competing with Skype. It is actually hard for me to think of Teams as something non-business users are supposed to use.

Teams, as a business product, does actually offer phone service. It is a special license though and from what I hear people managing it hate it, even though users tend to like it.

There is a book, Year Zero, that covers this idea. I didn’t much care for the writing, but the plot was a fun idea. Aliens discovered Earth, and Humans had a unique talent for creating music. So the entire universe started sharing human music before they realized their mistake. Intergalactic law says they have to respect our copyright law, but they didn’t know such a crazy concept existed until they owed practically the entire universe to Earth. Some alien races decided the solution was to just blow up Earth. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_Zero_(Reid_novel)

Glad to hear it works. I know it is technically possible, but haven’t seen it in the field yet.

DisplayPort is a better system than HDMI. It even can ride piggy back on USB-C, which means a display can both power a computer on the same line as it connects to a laptop with. DisplayPort also supports daisy chaining(although it’s not a common feature on monitors), so you could potentially have a single USB-C cable going to a laptop and then have multiple monitors connected with needing a dock or anything of that sort.

To charge a subscription. I massively use Microsoft 365 for work, and they are really good at making sure they get a cut for everything you do. They also want to make sure every new Office feature is supported by their web version of office. I imagine they could run the python in a web browser, but it is easier to make it a cloud service you have to pay a subscription to. Did I say easier, I meant more profitable.

I think the thing AI can’t do is inspired delivery of lines. Mario doesn’t say much, but the way it is said is very important. I think it would be easier to replace most characters in Final Fantasy games with AI than it would Mario.

The GTA’s before 5 had solid story content released after the release of the main game. The pacing of the releases were reasonably quick between them. Then GTA Online happened, and rockstar stopped making games and started making money.

I gotta stand up for my boy TPM. I manage a lot of Windows systems, and TPM does a lot of heavy lifting. I’m an open source advocate, but I recognize that without TPM, most users wouldn’t bother with encrypting their device.

And since Microsoft has strongly integrated it in their stack, it significantly reduces the need for regular signins and user focused security. Of course, this does require you to invest in their stack. There’s little to no support for machine level authentication for Linux. But in business, it really does make a practical and useful difference in security.

I don’t know this specific case, but my guess is that damage is a set amount per frame that a collision overlap is happening. This is perfectly valid if it is biased by the delta between frames. It means things get a little wonky at low framerates, but largely work well. But if you are assuming a frame is an exact length, you save a multiplication action, but gain the problem of unlocked frame rates breaking things (and frame dipping possibly causing problems).

To be fair, that’s a real hobby. People spend a lot of their free time snapping pictures of birds.

Vampire Surviver spawned a new genre of games that are great single session games. There are a lot of variations, but the core loop of vampire survivors is similar to a rouge-like, but focuses on making each run fun and rewarding. You generally get points of some sort for a run, which you invest into a skill tree or stat points, and your next run is better as a result. Even most rouge-lites try not to give you a huge advantage with your unlocks, but Vampire Survivor and it’s ilk really focus on that. As a result, the repetition isn’t as brutal, and death doesn’t feel like a punishment.