I think the Carrie Fisher thing is a little different case though. The footage of her in "Rise of Skywalker" was largely shot before her death and the script reworked to fit what they had, with some CGI cleanup and a flashback scene filmed with her actual daughter (Billie Lourd). The CGI version of Leia in Rogue One was something she was aware of and had actually seen. It's a lot different than totally creating footage that was never shot or making a digital puppet of someone say things they never said or "do" things they never did.

2017 GLE 350, there is a control dial that rotates through things on the screen and physical controls for everything else. The screen itself isn't a touch screen. The wheel control is easy to use and there are no fingerprints all over a screen. It even works great with CarPlay.

The new ones have a trackpad instead of the wheel, mine actually has both but I have the trackpad disabled because it's in a somewhat awkward place. The new ones put it where the wheel is on mine so that isn't as much of an issue.

when the future is clearly meant to be families handing down jobs from generation to generation working in buggy whip factories or mining beautiful clean coal

I'm not sure I understand Microsoft's Ukrainian centric tactic, but we'll see if it pays off.

Software has moved on. Is there anything that Winamp is good at that VLC can't do better already? Winamp isn't just old, it is completely irrelevant. There are newer better products. Work done on Winamp would not improve it over other products; at best, it would help them catch-up, slowly, while they continue to improve.

Just let it die, and focus energy on existing, better products.

if you're really into tinkering with stuff, sure you can build your own and you will have fun doing that. Most people don't need ridiculous spec hardware at home, you are not running data center storage loads and your network speed is likely to be slower than anything the NAS itself can do internally anyway.

I'm not really into tinkering at that level anymore and so I just use a synology NAS that backs up to backblaze B2. It's all automated, works great. I have a small VM that I use to collect logs and do a couple other minor things that I can run on it, it has Surveillance Station which I can use for cameras, etc. It's been a great way to combine a few utility devices into one central thing that has vendor support if I need it. The offsite backup works perfectly and is very fast over residential gigabit fiber.

The main downside I've found is replacing disks to increase volume size can be kind of a slow process depending on how full your NAS is and how large the disks are that you're replacing, so if you plan to replace smaller disks with larger ones you need to plan for about 1 day between disks with about 5 minutes of actual work per day to hot swap them. But this is a pretty infrequent activity for most people.

Prior to that I had used Drobo (RIP but also for fairly good reason) and sorta cobbled together stuff. Synology works better and has been more reliable than either one for me.