A tale as old as mankind. Like 20 years ago I saw a movie. Some indie thing from France or Spain. The kind of shit that gets highly acclaimed at the Cannes film festival. In one scene there was a bricklayer reciting a poem (from the top of my head and loosely translated from German):

My grandfather was a bricklayer. My father was a bricklayer. I am a bricklayer, too. But, tell me, where is my house?

That allways stuck with me.

Hätten sie lieber die Spanische Inquisition?

What about trick implies treat?

This doesn't look like fabricated evidence at all. I am very happy with the fact checking of our media.

Be pro meatgrinder or we send you to the meatgrinder.

It's a classic: https://archive.ph/dRsjY

"Oh, move over," Hermione snarled. She grabbed Harry's wang, tapped the lock, and whispered, 'Alohomora!"

Yah, or maybe because it smells like bullshit. All data is based on surveys from "normal" people (non-scientists), on a topic that is highly politicized, and by practitioners of one side often followed with what looks like religious fervor. The participants distribution is neither 50/50 for the compared options nor representative for the general populace of cat owners. It is pretty safe to assume bias in the reporting. Not a single cat was actually examined by the "researchers". This has almost all the hallmarks of bad science. That it is published in a purportedly peer reviewed magazine, does not reflect well on that magazine.

I saw so many of those on my last visit to croatia. Here's a pic I took:

Our host told us about the psychedelic effect they can have. I wasn't sure if he was bullshitting us ... guess he was not :)

I did some brain jogging and I think in German it went like this:

Mein Vater war ein Maurer. Sein Vater war ein Maurer. Auch ich mauere Tag ein Tag aus. Doch sag mir, wo steht mein Haus?

Which would translate to

My father was a bricklayer. His father was a bricklayer. I, too, wall up day in and day out. But tell me, where is my house?

But I can't figure out what the movie was.

Don't bother, that's normal /sssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss

Wat? Kaum drei Haare auf'm Sack und schon ein' auf dicke Hose machen hier, wie?

The only thing that bothers me about terms like "trans rights", "women rights", ... is that there should be no need to prefix "rights" with anything but "human". And human rights should apply to all humans indiscriminately, obviating the need to label any subset of human rights that shouldn't exist. In my book, the slice of bread should read:

Humans have human rights. Trans people are humans.

And in a better world every bit of that should be so obvious that it wouldn't need mentioning at all.

I think you're missing the compost part. Wood will break down in a compost, yet you can build houses from it. Indoor furniture made from wood will happily serve you for decades. Same with this biodegradable plastic: It'll have a shelf life of decades or even centuries. When shredded and composted it will break down. This material is likely not a good candidate for the wheel housing on your car, but there's no reason not to use it, for example, for a car's interior.

[...] the lead dev seems to be a fucking idiot.

How so? I mean, I am tempted to agree. Reaching out to that unofficial community to improve their conduct instead of just ignoring them is pretty idiotic. But, are you sure you've read the linked page and understood its content?

I didn't pay attention when reading the linked page. Its author is/was the creator of wlroots, not hyprland. He reached out to the lead dev of hyprland which is very much associated with the discord community. I got so much wrong reading that ...

Sorry for being contrarian.

If you use plain C and only the part of the Win32 API that has been availlable since 95 that should be doable. No modern toolkit/SDK will likely enable you to do that. The problem will be finding downloads/sources for OS, SDK, and IDE old enough to target Windows 95. You might be able to use DirectX 8, but it will require installing DirectX 9 on newer versions of Windows as a dependency (DX10+ is not backwards compatible with DX8 and DX8 is the latest you get for Windows 95, DX9 is still availlable for Windows 11). Your game will have to be offline only or rely on insecure network stack because hardware old enough to run 95 does not have CPU instruction sets required by implementations for modern SSL.

would this greatly affect the development process at all?

Well, take the information I provided and have a guess ;-)

Na ist doch klar: Die Wahrscheinlichkeiten sind ein rotstel, ein blaustel, ein violettstel, ein pinkstel, ein gelbstel und ein grünstel.

Das violettstel wird offensichtlich am häufigsten gewürfelt.

That isn't guaranteed, though. The other day I wanted to create a new community and was browsing instances on join-lemmy.org/instances for an instance that was compatible rulewise. The one I picked evidently wasn't a good pick (burggit.moe). Trying to advertise my new community, I found out it was defederated from beehaw (and likely others) and got insulted as a pedophilia sympathizer ...

Randomly assigning new users to instances would make a substantial fraction of people very unhappy.

You forgot some categories.

Let me tell you about our Lord and savior Elon Musk ...

Punktabzug weil kein Stör.

No USB passthrough in VirtualBox without the extension pack. And unless you have a paid version it is a license violation to use the extension pack in a commercial setting. Take that with a grain of salt: it's from the top of my head and it has been a while (years) since I touched VirtualBox. Since you are concerned about privacy, I'd suggest not touching closed proprietary software, like VirtualBox, at all whenever possible. Luckily, for virtualization in linux, that is perfectly possible. What you will want to look at is kvm/qemu. And maybe a handy UI to that like (qt-) virt-manager or gnome Boxes.