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Re:MS Teams channels cannot contain MS-DOS device names by cogman10 on Thursday August 10, 2023 @02:38PM (#37080009)
Wine is nearly as old as linux. First released in 1993.

I had some awkward conversations with my parents as a teenage nerd looking into "winehq". They didn't believe me that it had nothing to do with alcohol.

Re:MS Teams channels cannot contain MS-DOS device names by FirmwareBurner on Thursday August 10, 2023 @03:40PM (#37080761)
Your parent being concerned about you browsing something about wine? You're definitely not be French/European.
Re:MS Teams channels cannot contain MS-DOS device names by cogman10 on Thursday August 10, 2023 @03:49PM (#37080862)
mormon family.
Re:MS Teams channels cannot contain MS-DOS device names by FirmwareBurner on Thursday August 10, 2023 @03:51PM (#37080892)
Thanks, Mormons are some of the most nicest and chill Americans I've met in Europe. No idea alcohol is taboo.
Re:MS Teams channels cannot contain MS-DOS device names by astrange on Thursday August 10, 2023 @05:37PM (#37082124)
They're also good at getting security clearances since they never do anything, so those might've been CIA agents.
Re:MS Teams channels cannot contain MS-DOS device names by FirmwareBurner on Thursday August 10, 2023 @05:43PM (#37082180)
>They're also good at getting security clearances since they never do anything

I never understood why you should mass deny security clearances to people who like to "party".

Re:MS Teams channels cannot contain MS-DOS device names by TazeTSchnitzel on Thursday August 10, 2023 @06:06PM (#37082382)
They don't want people who might have done something embarrassing in their past, because foreign adversaries might try to blackmail them with that.
Re:MS Teams channels cannot contain MS-DOS device names by stouset on Friday August 11, 2023 @02:11AM (#37085629)
On the flip side, those are the exact people who often wouldn’t be embarrassed or ashamed of that kind of behavior. I’ve done a lot of things, and I’d openly admit just about all of it if anyone asked.

On the other hand if you do find a Mormon who took some liberties in an earlier time in their life…

Re:MS Teams channels cannot contain MS-DOS device names by astrange on Friday August 11, 2023 @02:07PM (#37091854)
As well as admitting everything, it's easier to get a government job if you never did drugs, seeing as they're illegal.
Re:MS Teams channels cannot contain MS-DOS device names by boffinAudio on Friday August 11, 2023 @04:59AM (#37086574)
They're good at being CIA agents because they are supple and compliant and the CIA has tools to make that compliance into nationalistic zealotry that rivals the capabilities of most religions, having refined it through operations such as paperclip, etc..
Re:MS Teams channels cannot contain MS-DOS device names by astrange on Friday August 11, 2023 @02:06PM (#37091823)
They were already nationalistic, that's another part of being Mormons.
Re:MS Teams channels cannot contain MS-DOS device names by saghm on Thursday August 10, 2023 @05:08PM (#37081824)
Even today, Blizzard games tend to run pretty easily on Wine. I always attributed it to them using a fairly old tech stack, but maybe it's the reverse and Wine development has just continued to go above and beyond for those games.
Re:MS Teams channels cannot contain MS-DOS device names by kcb on Thursday August 10, 2023 @05:26PM (#37082005)
I know WoW is aware that's it's running in Wine. There are some setting greyed out in game with a message of not compatible when running in Wine.
Re:MS Teams channels cannot contain MS-DOS device names by neurocline on Friday August 11, 2023 @01:59AM (#37085561)
It was mostly on purpose, that Blizzard games worked well in Wine. We even fixed a few things in our code from time to time that accidentally made Wine emulation hard.
Re:MS Teams channels cannot contain MS-DOS device names by mananaysiempre on Friday August 11, 2023 @12:20PM (#37090469)
For me a more interesting way of putting it is that Wine is nearly as old as Windows NT whose usermode architecture it’s copying—first shipped 1993 as well! Even if development began around 1989 that and preliminary versions of various kinds were available from about 1991.