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Have you tried running the CCTV software in Wine? It doesn't sound like it's likely to be a particularly complicated bit of software, so hopefully Wine will have it running with a couple of clicks.

Unless I'm much mistaken, Windows 10 EOL isn't until 2025, so two years left to run.

AI image processing could do the job in two minutes with no skill, whereas manual image editing (even crappily) takes skill and time.

Why assume someone handcrafted it when there's no evidence?

I'm not sure I'd want my small electronics dropped onto tarmac from 12 feet up. I don't care how much bubble wrap you use, that does not sound ideal.

Four nice sturdy nails placed strategically, pointy end up, immediately behind each tyre. Be content to know that justice will come when the time is right.

Zip has a worse compression ratio than 7z, and that's a disadvantage for the average user (for example, a user with an email attachment size limit that they need to stay under).

If Windows natively supports one of the better alternatives, there's no reason to keep using zip. It's a 30 year old format, and it's something that regular users will happily just go with whatever's default.

The Intel HD Graphics block inside a Core i5 is very architecturally different from an Intel Arc GPU.

Both Intel Arc and the integrated SOC GPUs use Intel's Xe architecture. There are obviously big differences between integrated and discrete GPUs, but they're largely implementation rather than base architecture. Implementing something on-die is a different task than implementing something on its own wafer, but that's not where the serious design legwork goes.

I don't know about Proton, but Crossover for Mac still exists, and according to the programme database on their website seems to have a decent hit rate for games.

Crossover is made by Codeweavers, who are the main contractor for Proton and the biggest contributor to Wine.

I bet it's arch (btw).

If you count integrated GPUs (which still absolutely dominate the non-specialist PC and laptop market), Intel are hardly a newcomer. Their foray into discrete GPUs is new, but the distinction is fairly arbitrary from a technical perspective.

You don't really need the majority of the market to have moved before things start to get tricky for Intel. They're a very much non-diversified company; the entire house is bet on x86. They've only just started dabbling in discrete GPUs, despite having made integrated GPU SOCs for years. Other than a bit of contract fabbing, almost every penny they make is from x86.

If ARM starts to make inroads into the laptop/desktop space and RISC-V starts to take a chunk of the server market, the bottom could fall out of Intel's business model fast.

Sold on his very own special X boxes.