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Do you mean you had your Windows computer directly connected to the internet and RDP activated? In my eyes that's disaster waiting to happen. There apparently is a big market for RDP addressee and accounts and they are even cheap (Heise online had an article on that today (in. German).)

There's a reason this site exists https://git-man-page-generator.lokaltog.net/ 😉

Maybe you shouldn't have let that guy with the strange English accent from "Microsoft Support" help you with you "PC problem" Speaking of sleeping right at night; This thread was actually the topic on my dreams (yes, it was a nightmare) last night: I watched in horror as all my systems were being encrypted before my eyes. Somehow the hacker had so much control over my system that it kept on running even after I pulled the plug. Completely unrelated , but the first thing I did this morning was to run a compete scan on my system.

Premature optimisation

I never use IDE global path, nor library folder. All my project have explicit paths (always relative) to everything, except components delivered with Delphi. All my components and all 3rd party components I use are all explicitly added to all projects they are used in. And I always recompile everything, never use a prebuilt dcu, obj or package. This way I'm always sure to have everything required to build an application. On the computer I use, it takes only a few seconds to compile hundreds of thousands code line. I use Delphi since version 1 (25 years ago) for almost full time. I wrote hundreds of applications, some of which are very large. I have always had great success. I will not change the way I work.

Famous last words. I hear the NSA is very fond of hardware firewalls. The firmware is often very old.

That's fine if you only work with projects where only one version of the components are ever used at the same time across projects or branches. If you have to maintain multiple versions or branches of a project then you will potentially have to recompile the packages every time you change the branch you work on. It's a significant effort to have to babysit every commit made by unaware developers because they save forms with component properties that doesn't exist in the version of the components the application will be built with. Compiles and runs fine on their system but breaks at run time when built on the build server. If Embarcadero dog-fooded Delphi on something other that Delphi itself then I'm pretty sure they would have solved this problem a long time ago.

Oh Emm Gee - that was scary 😄

Slightly OT: dhsPinger has an ominous ring to it. Pinging the DHS sounds like something you should not do lightheartedly.

Did you already see the new comments to this one? https://quality.embarcadero.com/browse/RSP-28780 They indicate that TChart works in release configuration!

Delphi MM (FastMM4) is just a wrapper around the OS API for big blocks. No benefit of calling direclty the OS function, which is system-specific, and unsafe. Just use getmem/fremem/reallocmem everywhere.

That's me The only times I've had to use Git from the command line is when Git has f*cked something up (yes, I blame it on Git ). Git is a powerful tool but when you shoot yourself in the foot with it it leaves a rather large hole. I can recommend the Atlassian Git tutorials even for those not using Atlassian tools. Most of the tutorials are tool agnostic. https://www.atlassian.com/git

If you use interposers then you don't need all that. You just declare the interposer and use the unit where it's declared (or declare it in the unit where you use it). That's the point of it: You don't need to change the existing forms and often not even the code. When I use interposers to fix bugs in existing components (mostly VCL), or alter their behavior, I place the interposer in a separate unit and use that. When I need to alter a few controls on a single form I just declare the interposer in that forms unit. Problem solved, next case. I'm not saying one shouldn't use proper design-time registered components, I still consider interposers somewhat of a hack, but given the hassle of maintaining design-time packages across multiple projects and versions, interposers are a blessing. In order to remove the need for interposer classes Delphi would need: A package management system that allowed us the define per project design-time packages. The current project package configuration doesn't work. It still operate on a global package list. A mechanism to redirect the class resolver when forms are streamed. Since it already uses a global class registry when streaming a form it shouldn't be that hard to implement. I do wish the VCL had an official mechanism to solve the same problems that interposer does - but it doesn't.

For those struggling with the git commandline, this is a good intro using it Also, Using windows terminal with powershell core makes it so much nicer https://www.hanselman.com/blog/HowToMakeAPrettyPromptInWindowsTerminalWithPowerlineNerdFontsCascadiaCodeWSLAndOhmyposh.aspx