The key lesson to learn from this:
Be kind and understanding when you feel ignored, it's difficult but it's important to have the self confidence to truly accept that it's not you, they're probably just busy with a million life things.
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No, it's not. Autodesk sells that software to consumers and corporations literally every single day.
Try and code a WinForms app, follow any tutorial you can, and notice that it's very possible and not that onerous.
People these days just accept the shit tech companies feed them because they're using to eating shit from them.
We're not talking about support, we're talking about not breaking the software we bought after the fact.
The question at hand is whether or not there are enough engineers to feasibly support Windows 98. Try and work on your reading comprehension.
Lots. Do you know how much corporate software is still of that vintage?
Literally like half of AutoCAD's products still use the graphics and windowing APIs from that era as one example. The WinForms API are clunky by modern standards but also relatively trivial for a programmer to pick up and code with.
I mean, there is still an industry of Cobol engineers maintaining mainframe code for banks from the 80s.
Sure if you grab a file from them snd never get a newer, more maintained version, it will play on exactly the hardware and software you had when you bought it...
That's literally the entire point.
Also, they can still offer the olde versions of the file for download.
Yes, and thats literally completely irrelevant.
The fact that their games are DRM free means that doesn't matter one iota. If you buy a game from them on a set of hardware you'll be able to play it on that hardware forever, regardless of whether their desktop client changes.
Steamdrm requires periodic online check-ins, which is the same thing for the purpose of this discussion about them forcing system upgrades.
No that perspective is what makes me understand that when corporations talk about obsceleting things for security reasons, it's almost always not actually because of security, because it would be a little less profitable to continue support.
And Valve didnt have to build a business around always checking in DRM if they didn't want to support old clients, and they have more than enough resources to continue support.
Literally any game sold that didn't include always checking in DRM through a particular desktop client. i.e. virtually every single PC game not sold through steam.
Don't buy those crappy plastic bag-clips to hold chip bags, flour bags, etc closed. They're unsatisfying, they wear out and bend, and they just add more plastic pollution to the world.
Instead buy more binder clips. They're made from spring steel, they're strong as hell, they almost never wear out, they can be used to close bags, as small clamps, as hangers for almost anything in a pinch, and they're amazing for building pillow / blanket forts.
I have some from my grandma that she bought 30 years ago and they work just as well as the ones I bought a year ago. The only risk with them ever is rust, and you can just scrub that off with vinegar, add a brush of paint and it's fixed.
Truly some of my favourite robust little items.
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Brine copickles and they're honestly way way better than Bick's. Crunchier and a more complex flavour.