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CodeWeavers sells app support: https://www.codeweavers.com/crossover

If you're interested in a technical solution, Amazon Kids+ on Kindle seems to enforce time limits reasonably well, except for the camera.


Thanks :) I've gone back to just being vigilant, regular parenting; often joining the games myself. I can recommend 99 Nights In the Forest, nice simple survival-style game with very little in-your-face-monetization.


Also, disabling chat is insufficient because some Roblox experiences re-implement their own chat and ignore the parental controls setting.


Serving Netflix Video at 400Gb/s on FreeBSD [pdf] (2021)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28584738

(I don't share this as "the answer" as much as one example from years past.)


To be honest, I think when I heard them speak, they're kind of saying yes, FreeBSD is awesome but that the main reason is that the early people there liked FreeBSD so they just stuck with it. And that it's a good choice, but they don't claim these are things that would be impossible to do with optimizations in Linux.


I think they used FreeBSD because they were already using FreeBSD. The article doesn't mention Linux.


Single binary deployment was a big deal when Go was young; that might be worth a few percent. Also: automatically avoiding entire categories of potential vulnerabilities due to language-level design choices and features. Not compile times though ;)


Except WinForms, spectacular for Windows-only utility GUIs.


> spectacular

Not exactly the word I'd use, since it really hasn't changed since VB4, but it's definitely reliable and stable.


WinForms came way after VB4 and it was a .Net only technology.


No kidding - kind of wild that winforms is still kind of a gold standard experience today! I actually liked VB Forms - lots of easy rapid application development was possible.


Delphi was the best RAD tool though. It was native code, not a weird interpreted or jitted app. It could also build to a single exe file. VB struggled with an unwieldy engine for most of its life.


WPF as well


I like WPF and I code with it regularly, but the drag and drop UI builder was the worst aspect of WPF and generated terrible Xaml that was almost impossible to maintain.


I was going to suggest the same, just use WinForms. It's basically feature complete, and it's going to be the last UI framework Microsoft is going to yank out from beneath you.


IIRC, because of Wine, Mono has enough of WinForms to make a few things work. But who the hell wants to distribute an application with a Wine runtime?


related on 'What Are You Working On? (Nov 2025)' at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45869146#45886256

> I'm working on a local multiplayer party game platform, a lovechild of Jackbox Games and Mario Party: https://gamingcouch.com


I actually know these guys. Definitely give their platform a look!


That's my project (and comment), thanks for the mention! Local multiplayer is simply the best, and the more options there are, the better!


Working on asking whoishiring not to forget the freelancers next month.

https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=whoishiring

Edit: oops nevermind it's a goner.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45804464


How well does change tracking work in Excel... how hard would it be to review LLM changes?

AFAIK there is no 'git for Excel to diff and undo', especially not built-in (aka 'for free' both cost-wise and add-ons/macros not allowed security-wise).

My limited experience has been that it is difficult to keep LLMs from changing random things besides what they're asked to change, which could cause big problems if unattackable in Excel.


I thought there was track changes on all office products. Most Office documents are zip files of XML files and assets, so I'd imagine it would be possible to rollback changes.


Yes a MacBook Air as remote terminal back to the beefy PC at the mothership is ideal usually even for for GUI remote desktop unless internet is already unbearable and/or pay-per-GB.

It's not going to support WiFi promiscuous mode but maybe pick up a Pi Zero 2W or similar if that's a requirement.


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