> Of course, now I wonder how to quickly express "change within 2nd text delimited by ..."

c2i"

That's because the abject nerds are busy creating value for the company while the "cool people" plan their holiday during work time.

Nope, not even close to true in my experience. Almost all of the high performers I know have a huge social network they can tap into and you can't finger them as SWEs from a mile away.

Do these high performers also cast their colleagues with tasteful adjectives such as "abject"? Must be a bunch of very interesting people indeed.

> I like being able to run a Linux desktop in a VM on windows and "extend" to another monitor with VM X apps rendering to a Cygwin Xorg instance. Wayland can't do that.

This should be possible with virtio-wayland:

https://alyssa.is/using-virtio-wl/

It's pretty new and not used outside of Chrome OS (to run Linux apps) at the moment though.

You cannot assume that any remote storage provider will respect your privacy. So you will need to encrypt on your end.

With that in mind, borg backup does a great job at archiving/compressing/encrypting. Then you can sync to GDrive or any other service using e.g. rclone.

... and even there you were using a graphics api, provided by your video card's bios and compatible across various manufacturers.

Not really - you'd be mostly just writing into the video buffer.

int10h is the API (BIOS)... that just causes the mode switch. What he really meant (direct RAM access):

   void putpixel_13h(int x, int y, int color)
   {
      _farpokeb(_dos_ds, 0xA0000+y*320+x, color);
   }

Yeah, but nobody does that.