Glenn Dufke

So yes, there are millions of developers out there - they are just busy writing code.

2/2, While Denmark somehow has forgotten about Delphi, other parts of the world are highly active, something which is also evident seeing how many are attending webinars, congresses and summits.

Last year Delphi Summit was a huge success.
Same goes for International Pascal Congress.

Embarcadero is a private company and thus their financials are not public.
You cannot deduce how many customers, let alone users of the CE version from that alone.

Delphi developer communities are spread across many platforms, e.g. Brazil is huge and uses Telegram.
Then there are ext forums. 1/2

I'm talking of actual and real Modern Delphi, not Free Pascal.

Millions of developers around the world are using Delphi for all kinds of things 🙂

Delphi is still going strong - and relevant!

Hoo boy - Delphi is more alive and kicking that ever and it is certainly a modern and competitive development environment and coupled with the Modern Object Pascal language you get really bang for the buck.

Also why I invest so many resources in a new compiler - the language has so much to offer.

Windows 10 Enterprise LTSC 2021 - Microsoft Lifecycle Windows 10 Enterprise LTSC 2021 follows the Fixed Lifecycle Policy.

Enterprise LTSC receives the security updates at the same time as other versions of Windows, that is, every patch Tuesday.
Longer security update cycle simply means MS supports the version with updates longer than they do with Home/Pro.
Life cycle overview: learn.microsoft.com/en-us/lifecy...

Windows Enterprise LTSC overview An overview of the Windows long-term servicing channel (LTSC).

learn.microsoft.com/en-us/window...

Enterprise LTSC (And Enterprise IoT) are special versions of Windows MS made for use cases where you need a stable environment without feature fluff and other bloat, but with a longer security update cycle.
Due to this, it isn't advertised to the public but you can buy used licenses, at least in EU.

As an aspiring immigrant in the country, I feel the climate has changed significantly... and not for the better.

AmigaDOS and Workbench was way ahead of its time, including the hardware.

I still have many fond memories of playing with the Amiga 500 my late gramps gifted me as a kid.

Haven't looked at that either.

SmartOS looks interesting though I haven't tried it yet so I can't comment whether it's good or not.

It is on my todo list though.

I've tried it in the past, but it haven't really received any updates.

If I need a Linux distro, I'll go either Devuan, Alpine or Chimera.

That's one of the things, yes 🙂

Storage, and I am a heavy user of virtual machines for my line of work 🙂

NomadBSD and GhostBSD are both excellent distros for an out of box experience.

For me though I have additional requirements which warrants an install, especially since I'm reliant on bhyve among things.

With the recent shenanigans Mozilla has pulled with FF, I've been phasing FF usage out in favor of LibreWolf.

Though I still need a Chromium enabled browser for some things, I've stuck with Vivaldi over the years which has proven to be fairly solid.

It is indeed.

Been spending significant time sifting through the Core and Scale code bases last year, there's a lot of work to be done wrt weeding out the iX specifics, moving it along to supported FBSD releases etc. but I'm confident the team behind can pull it off and make it pkg install based.

@sweordbora.hausen.com I'm sure you already know this, but I'm happy to see there's some movement with zVault.

Really excited to phase out iX soon.
www.zvault.io#roadmap

DaVinci Resolve in its free tier is more than enough for editing.

Coming from Premiere, it does take a bit to get used to as it has a different workflow, but once you get the hang of it, it is actually easier than Premiere.
I suggest looking up quick DaVinci tutorials on YT, that's how I did it.

Or, install FreeBSD.

Alternatively if you can't leave MS behind, get a used license for Windows 10 Enterprise LTSC 2021 and prolong the update cycle into 2027.

My wife @chicanddestroy.bsky.social expresses the same 😁
Though my endless barrage of dad jokes drives her nuts 😂

GitHub - tinyBigGAMES/Phinx: A High-Performance AI Inference Library for ONNX and Phi-4 A High-Performance AI Inference Library for ONNX and Phi-4 - tinyBigGAMES/Phinx

🚀 Phinx – AI Inference for ONNX & Phi-4 in Delphi! 🤖

Phinx is a Delphi-based AI inference library for running Phi-4 Multimodal ONNX, with ONNX Runtime GenAI. Optimized for Win64, no Python needed!
github.com/tinyBigGAMES...
#GameDev #IndieDev #GenAI

You're welcome

Have you considered looking at Framework too?

It is indeed terrifying.

As an immigrant, and knowing WWII history from what we were taught in school in Denmark, it boggles my mind we're heading towards this in the US.

I would strongly advice against wifi extenders and mesh systems.

If you have the ability to run some ethernet cable to strategic locations, put up a couple good GrandStream access points and you have superior coverage and solid throughput.

Brian, there's a comedian hidden in you, that was an excellent take - albeit true 😁