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Comment Re:duckduckgo (Score 2) 327

DDG's search has become very close in quality to Google's these days, so whatever the reality of their privacy protection claims at least they no longer have reduced functionality compared to the market leader.

They are a worthy competitor on the merits now in a way they were not even 1 year ago.

Comment Re:they are thinking Google has them by the balls (Score 1) 327

I also don't WANT to die

Firefox existed before it was a huge business and it will still exist if the huge business aspect falls apart.

I don't think it's controversial to ask if all those Google millions really made the program's development arc better than it was in the more fallow old days.

Comment Re: "Approacheable FPS" (Score 1) 183

Indeed. The RPG elements and the emphasis on co-op rather than competitive have given this game way more lifetime for me than any other shooters.

Unfortunately this game does not have mod support... which is made all the worse by the large number of questionable game mechanics (mainly seen end-game) that a community patching effort could fix.

Comment Re:Chrome is crap now. Switched to opera. (Score 1) 55

Opera uses Blink just as Chrome does.

On 12 February 2013, Opera announced it would drop its own Presto engine in favour of WebKit as implemented by Google's Chrome browser, using code from the Chromium project. Opera Software also planned to contribute code to WebKit. On 3 April 2013, Google announced that it would fork components from WebKit to form a new rendering engine known as Blink; the same day, Opera confirmed that it would follow Google in implementing Blink.

Comment Re:Until recently Linux kernel supported 80386 (Score 1) 554

Pre-Pentium IV hardware is useless for desktop usage today when considering the requirement of the modern web. Additionally, very old hardware is often weaker than you might expect on Linux because the graphics drivers are hacked together. Pre-open source Intel drivers really blow on Linux.

Every pre-Core destkop should be retired at this point. Early Core computer can be found for literally free on Craigslist.

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