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I depend on this behavior frequently. It's been a thing since MS-DOS 2.0...

Why is it horrible? It's just basic and well-documented system behavior.

It's a bit hit-or-miss whether logos are skippable. Some games let you, some don't.

It's often a cover to mask loading times anyway.

Yeah, I remember DVD menus (and the rare Blu-ray that employs "interesting" menus) being fun, but even the fun ones would get in the way of actually wanting to watch the movie or TV episode at hand.

They might be bland and boring, but the menus employed today by the vast majority of discs produced are infinitely preferable in my opinion. Play Movie/Episode, Audio, Subtitles, Special Features. They're made from just a few templates and generally work the same across all discs from a studio. Doesn't bog you down with cutesy animations or wild layout choices, lets you just watch your movie in peace.

A non-scam product would probably be targeted exactly at that scenario: plug it in, run a server for a handful of friends. Likely anything more than 10 players would never depend on a product like this.

For family and friends, this should be adequate.

Roddenberry specifically wasn't needed, Rick Berman was able to learn from his vision and maintain it. After Roddenberry died, Berman was able to maintain TNG, DS9, Voyager, and Enterprise all with the Star Trek ideals that Roddenberry always fought to maintain when he was alive. Even as Deep Space Nine and Enterprise had to seemingly throw the ideals out the window temporarily, with the Dominion and Xindi arcs, just to better demonstrate why they were so badly needed in the first place.

Unfortunately, we don't have a Rick Berman, or anyone else that maintains the same ideals, at the helm anymore.

On a similar vein, Gene Roddenberry was pretty similar with Star Trek. He had a pretty big universe imagined, got the scaffolding in for it, but all the best works under the name of Star Trek were made by other people. Anything Gene Roddenberry was directly involved in as a script writer (see: many episodes of the original and first two seasons of The Next Generation) are generally the weakest and worst parts of Star Trek.

You absolutely can use "just a /docs" directory in Fossil. You can even point the web server to /doc/trunk/docs/index.md or whatever other file names you want. :-)

> - UltraSPARC was more than a decade too late to make up for SPARC falling way behind x86_64. Sun needed to give up on SPARC, but again, vendor lock-in sounds sweet but turns out to be poison.

UltraSPARC came out in 1995, and Athlon 64 in 2003. I'm confused on how it could be late?

> - The MySQL purchase. WTF, this was horrible and stupid. The only interesting effect of this was to make Sun a target of acquisition for Oracle. [..]

I disagree with this assessment strongly. I believe Oracle wanted Java and only Java. All other Sun properties were collateral damage of the acquisition. It might be weird that Oracle now owns MySQL, but Oracle never cared about it. (Of course, both your and my assessment are mere opinions.)

The thing is that Windows is actually UCS-2, a consequence of the OS predating UTF-16 by a few years, and coming into existence when Unicode originally thought 16 bits was going to be enough.

For backwards compatibility with old file systems, there's no way the OS can start enforcing surrogate codepoints as forbidden from names. You can just so happen to pretend it's UTF-16 until it's not.

Money is created all the time. It is not a zero-sum game.

Have an IPv6 connection.

Not that it counters any point you're making, but ZFS displays the number of contained entries of a directory in the directory's size field; mind that . and .. are included, so you usually need to subtract 2 to get the count you actually want. I do find it useful sometimes to know the count without getting the listing; the former is a very inexpensive operation (since ZFS is keeping track of metadata like you suggested), the latter is expensive, potentially extremely with hundreds of thousands or more of entries.

This is more-or-less unique to ZFS. Other file systems even on Linux and FreeBSD generally don't provide this behavior.