I've not personally used it, but there's a fork that adds NSIS decompilation back in: https://github.com/myfreeer/7z-build-nsis

You could try Nuitka [1], but I don't have enough experience with it to say if it's any less brittle than PyInstaller.

[1]: https://nuitka.net/

As someone with ADHD, being able to have an assistant with perfect memory that I can ask extremely vague questions to about things I'm pretty sure I did some time between last week and 5 years ago sounds amazing. I'm skeptical Recall will actually be able to do that. I doubt its usefulness outweighs the legal and social concerns. But I can absolutely see the use.

Yes that’s exactly my situation and why I was looking forward to trying out for myself

Microsoft isn't the company to bring what you're picturing here into reality. Honestly what you really want is a journaling software like Obsidian.

This is honestly exactly why I'm (cautiously) optimistic about Recall.

It also usually only gets one release per upstream major version (and sometimes not even that), meaning a lot of Chromium security fixes can take several weeks to show up in a Thorium release. I appreciate the author's effort, but it's definitely riskier than normal Chrome/Chromium.

They started deleting repos a couple of minutes ago. I checked a lot of links and they were in the Internet Archive. I'm sure there are plenty of forks of the main repo.

FWIW, this works for me with Python 3.12 from Homebrew, but not Python 3.12 from python.org. _sqlite3.cpython-312-darwin.so in Homebrew's Python appears to dynamically link /opt/homebrew/opt/sqlite/lib/libsqlite3.0.dylib, but the version in python.org's Python statically links the sqlite3 library.

EDIT: Python 3.9.6 from Xcode doesn't work either. It has _sqlite3.cpython-39-darwin.so which dynamically links /usr/lib/libsqlite3.dylib, but that dylib doesn't exist on my system, and I don't know enough about macOS internals to tell where it's coming from. The _sqlite3 so doesn't seem big enough to have it statically linked.

EDIT2: Xcode's Python works when launching via the real path instead of using the /usr/bin/python3 alias, I assume because /usr/bin is SIP-protected or something.

Thanks for that, I'll add a note to my TIL.

Genshin Impact is (potentially) an interesting case - the iOS version has supported game controllers for almost 3 years now, but there's been no hint of support coming for Android. There's definitely some suspicion in the Genshin community that Apple has an understanding or agreement with Hoyoverse to keep iOS the premier mobile platform.

Would it be legal under US law for Apple to make payments to Genshin to keep iOS as the premier mobile platform? Related: Similar question if Sony wanted to guarantee Final Fantasy was always better on their platforms.

I tried AoC for the first time last year, and that was pretty much my experience. A week or so of easy problems, then 1 or 2 that were still pretty straightforward but a bit more tedious, then 1 that was a lot more work because you were supposed to derive some of the rules from the example. I don't think it would've been too hard, but like you said, it was starting to feel like a chore at that point, so I stopped.

It's a nice quality of life improvement. Most other languages I've used with some form of string interpolation allow quotes in nested expressions to be the same as the quotes on the top-level string, and this has IMO been a weird wart in Python. I'm happy to see it fixed.

I unfortunately can't find references at the moment, but I've heard that some/most of this is done with nVidia Shield TV boxes which have the same Tegra X1 security flaws used to exploit the early Nintendo Switches.