"I'm sorry, we only have Bing, is that ok?" /sigh "ok, I guess".

And without an NDA /really/ all sorted out, considering Musk's prior use of Twitter, he'd be blaring that info out on Twitter in revenge/screw the stock price/something else moronic. No, seems like Twitter played the "look, you agreed to skip all this stuff before, you even bragged about clearing the bots before even looking the data, and NOW you're starting to do due diligence?"

Aye, this is the sort of stuff that should be sorted out in wood paneled rooms, not on twitter itself. Twitter would be within it's rights to cause havoc to the SEC for Musk trying to reduce the share price in this manner one would think, it's not something everyone can do (and I thought there were gag orders/things to stop exactly this? NOTHING can be said, good or bad at certain times).

Found a CD (from Walnut Creek as another poster just reminded me) at some charity jumble sale thing. "what the... for a tenner? Might as well...".

At the time, we were using SCO Unix(and a bit of Xenix), and paying a fortune for licensing. Creating a 40mb partition just for this, gave it a go and was blown away with what it could do, heck, it even /looked/ better (console!) than the work system. Dragged PC to work to show them as they didn't believe me, after playing with... hmm. MK Unix? Can't remember, something for 90 quid that we'd tried and not much worked.

Anyway, setting up the machine, powering on, and even on my low end desktop, it felt snappier than the Compaq server we were using. "ok, ok, lets see if it'll run our software." one tar(cpio?) to a floppy, and extracting on my machine, ran Make, and... everything worked. Boss "and how much is this?" "free, zero cost" "hmm, it can't be any good, can it? there's a trick to it" "if there is, I've no idea what it is". Now, in the end, they decided to stick with what they had, to be fair, the SCO Unix stuff /was/ well supported on the hardware, but still having that as a backup, every coder in the company ended up installing slakware on their home machines because it did work.
A year, maybe 2 later, running support at the local college in a room with 100+ win3 machines, turning on, they'd immediately copy an image local, boot from that, and it worked great, even if it was heavily limited on what it could do. But that one machine, right near the entrance, behind the pillar so was THE only machine in the entire room the helpdesk couldn't see the screen of, happened to get a dual boot system. Mash... ALT? down as it booted up, et voila, booted into Slackware. And I got so much work done on that machine. As the windows partitions would be cleared/wiped routinely, that machine got me through a 2 year course, having a full dev environment running so I could get work done.

Dabbled with a few (lots) different versions of Linux, but Slakware just 'felt right', it had everything in the right place (same as SCO unix that I was familiar with).

Glad it's still getting updated.

A 512mb image to quickly launch in a VM would be useful. Somewhere around here, we've got an XP image with some old dev tools we have to keep around, just in case. But the devs keep commenting on those odd moments they have to fire it up to check something "hey, this runs really fast" "well, yeah, it's only got vb6/.net 1.1 something on" "no, I mean, like, it's faster to start the VM, get all the dev tools up and running/find what we need, done. I'd be waiting for the latest 3gb Visual Studio/.net patch to be 'preparing' on our recent stuff". Then we all start moaning about how quick it was to bang out a VB UI with a button for someone to press to... do something. (management love the 'press button to run report' programs), and how you could have VB5 spit out a working exe in a few hundred kb. Oh well. Nostalgia.

And an updated version of VB6 that easily works on Win10 please!

Got mine found purely by my wife bugging me to get it done after her dad died. I felt fine, no pain/blood/any symptoms, thought it was all a waste of time at my age too. Woke up to the doc doing that 'concerned frown' look they do so well. After a lot of docs wanting samples of what they took out, found out the type I had (ileocecal valve) doesn't get found too often at that stage, well, at least from anyone that survives, so there were a LOT of docs wanting me to let them play with it. It's so high up, without being in the small intestines, that any blood loss from from it would get reabsorbed in the large sphincter. So many docs asked me why I got a colonoscopy at that age, with no symptoms, and all of them then said "your wife saved your life". Get your butt's checked, peeps.

So, what should/could Stadia do? There appears to be glitches in some games that people are noticing (what started the investigation), and those problems aren't occurring on other platforms. Is this something Google needs to fix with their dev tools? To scan all the code to ensure the wrong type of locks aren't being used and show what needs changing/where? Can it be fixed with a recompile? Or will Google's Stadia servers need something tweaked? I just hope the original problem gets fixed.

Which also becomes a useful method of detection of a robbery about to occur. Have detectors at the entrance, if someone enters WITHOUT a phone, alert security to at least be aware there might be an issue. If 3 guys walk in and none of them have phones, silent alarm. Far less intrusive than a walk through metal detector, embedded in door frames to cover doors on either side/one detector aimed at main entrance.

Arrrgh! The timing...
3 days ago the first of the new regular roof tiles were delivered to be installed. We waited 2 (3 now?) years for him to get his act together, typical it was the week after we started with the regular roof replacement.
Hopefully in 25 years when it's time to replace them again, they're actually available.

After working with various MS mobile/handheld platforms over the years...
MS never got it. Ever.
Every time there was a new version, that was supposedly THE version that was going to be lightweight, for mobile devices (and far, far later Phones), it was always a reskinned Windows CE type thing.
First time I held a PalmPilot and started using it, it felt right. The task buttons helped, sure, but it was the /really/ simple launcher, highly focused apps to do basic stuff and well. Then back to Windows... ugh. Clicking the start menu, squinting/trying to scroll using a stylus, then getting strange errors so needing to shut down other apps because memory was running tight, and just horrendous lag/painful screen refresh. Back to the PalmPilot... "this gets it, it does what I want it to do". That's the moment MS lost the next battle, trying to shoehorn as much of Windows into a mobile platform as possible. I get why, they wanted to offer a device developers could instantly throw apps at, but if they'd said "this IS a new platform, from us, you can't run full windows programs on these devices, it'd be silly to even try, but anything you write for THIS platform can work as apps/applets on regular windows." They may have pre-empted Treo/Blackberry/Symbian/ios/Android.
But every single time. "it's got to be a near full windows because that's what our users really want, with the ability to run a full version of word and excel and powerpoint etc."

And as said, no-way would MS have given away Windows Mobile to people, heck, they'd have insisted on WinMobile+WinMobileOffice most likely.

Project Stream worked though. Assassin's Creed looked and played beautiful.

Bouncing cats, with wide circular eyes, all in css!

I wondered at the time if the initial volley of Apple to Samsung was a negotiation tactic to get the components down in price to improve profits. Spend a few million, get Samsung to say "ok, we'll bang down the chips/screen/ram/storage down (x%)" but of course it all went a bit pear shaped. It's strange how much Apple seems to sue their own suppliers. This appears to be another situation where it's all gone non-according to plan.

Get help, at that stage, with your experience, become the 'wise mentor' and start 'nudging' the young 'uns around. Giving time to focus on one task at a time in more depth? Become a 2nd tier support where you can get more indepth with a problem when others are stuck?

Is that something that'd be viable where you are?

But... I hear ya. Pretty much in the same situation age wise, and have never had problems instantly recalling the sort of knowledge no-one else wanted to learn in the first place, 30 years later "ooo! dos 4.something and no-one knows why it's suddenly stopped working, but is essential to get the big machine thing next to it working? let me rummage around in my "BOX OF STUFF THAT WILL BECOME USEFUL ONE DAY" and see if... yes! a (maybe) working HD, let me copy stuff across, get it working, edit the config.sys, the autoexec.bat and... we're up and running again, no, wait, hmm, let me recall the serial port settings, hang on, think it's the cable, let me run up a new one, set it up, and... done. suck it youngsters". Really, soon as the keyboard's in front of me, it's near muscle memory to get old arcane command line switches recalled, to pop over to some SCO boxen that needs something sorted because the tape backup's not working for some reason etc.. Phone call out of the blue "do you by any chance remember the default password on that machine? the guy running it died and we can't figure out what it was, and we know you set it up, and maybe he never changed it" "ok, try..." "no" "in that case... wait, is this the one where the guy renamed admin to be adminlord?" "I don't know..." "ok, make the username 'adminlord' and the password 'BAABAAF1BF1BF00F00 (zeros, not 'ohs')" "IT WORKED! THANK YOU".

Then I got cancer last year, and the chemo... knocked me out, physically and mentally. The instant memory recall to anything disappeared, and /really/ worried me. "oh, it might come back, or not, but you're ok?" "not if I can't remember anything important, well, rather everything non-important to everyone else". It's one year after I finished treatment and... I'm 90-95%, it HAS returned, but things are still really hard. It doesn't come instantly without much effort, I have to concentrate for certain things to come to the forefront (anyone else who has high recall memory, uses 'mental models' to remember things, imagine being in your mind museum, knowing what it is you want, you go to the right aisle, find the shelf, take out the box. You can see the 'thing', all the attributes about it, you could DRAW the thing, and describe every single thing about it very clearly. But the name plate on the 'thing' is blank).

This really, really scared me, that so much of everything I do is remembering that I'd written the code to do that thing 15 years ago, or I read a magazine about that thing 5 years ago, the article was after the ad with the dell laptop, had a spelling mistake in the first sentence, but was a good article and I could quote the last paragraph.
But that wasn't working anymore. Then, back at work, tech support problems, code to fix. Was taking me a day wading through code I'd written 3 months ago to figure out what was going on, was incredibly slow work (and was still needing multiple naps a day as the chemo had really weakened me). Then, my boss sold a mockup of a prototype of a smoke and mirrors product to a client and I had to suddenly hit the ground running.
Would have been hard in my early 20's to get upto speed, the way I was feeling, I was fumbling around just getting the development tools knocked into shape where I could do anything, let alone code.
but, bit by bit, things started coming back, the numbness in my fingertips started to fade over a few weeks enough to get back to usual typing speed/accuracy. The feeling of "oh, I've written something like this before somewhere" was there, it just took a bit longer to hunt through old code to find it, whereas in the past it'd have been instantaneous to navigate down to the source code to copy/paste it as needed.
So, late 40's, I've just been dropped in the deep end with Android/Cloud development, and... I got there in the end. It was just harder work than before. But perhaps at 20, picking it up easier, I'd not have written code that'd work as well? With decades of experience, I know the pitfalls to avoid, the likely user requests later to allow me to leave hooks in for later when they ask for it, and the main thing that got me feeling better/more positive... 2 week holiday.

Spoke to boss, stood up and said "I appreciate the time I've had for the ops/chemo and all that, but I've not /really/ taken time off to recover/rest up, I need to get away for 2 week (yeah yeah, will have the laptop /just in case/ but it had better be 'the system won't start' not 'it's a vital bug, drop everything, I want the change the header graphic on the login screen'), and... it helped the reboot of my brain.
I see many friends in the industry, also getting a bit long in the tooth, and seems to be a common thing, the "am I getting too old for this? why are users still this stupid" rants. They've been under pressure, it's killing them, they need time off, to decompress.
take that time, figure things out, speak to family, speak to management, take it from there. If you can't do it anymore, get out as fast as possible without burning bridges, train others behind you, go for a beer with a decent boss and ask advice.
Good luck