Re: New? Bwahaha!
Yet in a large screened room, when mobile phones came in, it was found that they worked inside. Not that they were allowed when operational of course, but it just shows ...
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As I read the first few words I thought it was going to suggest using comms satellites that are already in orbit. At any given time there must be plenty that are chunky enough, (?) The existing station-keeping systems would no doubt be slower that a custom-build, but would have a head start by comparison.
I see lots of over-saturated pictures on-line, and not necessarily people's phone holiday snaps, but obviously carefully framed pictures of, say, a picturesque Cotswold village or cathedral.
For me it's the cheapo but adequate pocket phone for every-day impromptu use. If I want to take a planned picture, I'll use a classic, no electronics, 6x9 film camera.
I'm a happy Wine user for programs that will work on it. These tend to be legacy software, sometimes dating back to the 1990s. In some such cases it can be easier than trying to 'run as' them on more 'modern' Windows.
I have XP and W7 VMs for other cases, and W7 to boot from the metal if necessary.
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I have a few old Windows programs that work well on Wine, also Kindle-for-PC. Individual installations (like Crossover does 'user-friendly' using GUI with Bottles) ,tar-balled for transportability between OS migrations, backup, whatever.
Otherwise, using VM goes for some of the rest. Direct running on Windows 7 as a last resort.
KDE’s Plasma desktop has had a fundamental change since the mindset of KDE 3 days, when it was considered bloated and heavy
I stuck with KDE 3 in the form of the Trinity (TDE) fork. Gives me a well-featured 'classic' GUI that's not at all too heavy for my >10yrs old workstation and normal laptops. XFCE for Virtual Machines or more feeble hardware.