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Looks promising, but it's only available for OSX and Windows. Will we be seeing a Linux release soon?

On all new and old versions of all major operative systems out there you'll be able to plug in any standard USB keyboard, and it'll start working automatically.

That's exactly what's happening there, but the "keyboard" is pre-programmed to enter keys presses automatically in a way that makes a website pop up.

If the cost of labour is what makes local recycling impossible, wouldn't automation with AI and robots (or maybe something like plastic-eating bacteria?) be the only possible solution?

Of course bypassing the problem by reducing plastic waste is always preferred and so much more elegant a solution, but provided that would need to be done across all the globe, including so many different cultures and governments, and with such poor inherent economic incentives (plastic is still too cheap), I'm not really confident that'd be possible within a reasonable time-frame, or at all.

I feel like a breakthrough in recycling technology by a small team and some investors would be much easier to achieve than global alignment in law making and enforcement. Is there anyone achieving significant progress in that area?

AppImage only needs a shell script, which you can use to run whatever you throw at it (native, python, perl, ruby, java, wine, qemu...), the only difference seems to be it will use a compressed ISO instead of squashfs to pack the directory and later mount it with fuse.

Additionally and optionally you can setup a small .desktop file to provide some convenience metadata what will be useful to pack the app easily, and an icon file.

Not exactly: An AppImage file packs a Linux app as a compressed ISO image with an ELF preamble that is able to access the contents of the ISO image without unpacking, so you can just double click the package and run the app without ever unpacking it.

Lots of government websites in Spain, for instance.

> Discussing where I want to go is a fruitless exercise.

In my experience, it's neither silly nor fruitless, but you can't expect solid results either, your interests are not the only factor at play.

As a manager, I'm genuinely interested in my team's personal growth, but that needs to be balanced with business needs. I'll always try to match business needs with each team member's personal interests and not just skills, because that'll render a much more motivated (thus productive) work environment, but sometimes it's just not possible, and uninteresting work will just have to be dealt with to keep the paychecks coming until something more interesting shows up.

Bear in mind AppImages are not Java, they run only on Linux, not on OSX or Windows.

Anyway, I'm using Qt5+QtSerialPort myself inside AppImages, and works beautifully.