I believe Thunderbird is K9’s current beta, rebranded.

I was expecting idiotic rules screaming “bureaucratic muppets don’t know what they’re legislating on”, but instead what I’m seeing is surprisingly sane and sensible

NIST knows what they’re doing. It’s getting organizations to adapt that’s hard. NIST has recommended against expiring passwords for like a decade already, for example, yet pretty much every IT dept still has passwords expiring at least once a year.

They don’t mention what the offer is. Very easily could be a stock-based deal where Intel stockholders get a portion of the combined company. That’s how T-Mobile bought Sprint.

NetSurf is a very barebones browser. It can fill a niche, but is not a daily driver where other options are available.

Firefox everywhere. It’s not perfect, but is still the closest a browser gets.

Unless I need a PWA on desktop, then Edge (windows) or ungoogled chromium (linux).

There are, unfortunately, some features banks make mobile app exclusive (e.g. Zelle sometimes, check deposit).

I have a spare phone I keep in my drawer for when I really need a banking app.

In general — yes. Most of the time they do so by subjecting their eyeballs or ears to ads. Do you think it’s a good idea to flood AI models with ads as well?

Isn’t the formula for Roman concrete unknown?

Yes, though a lot of research has been done to figure out its most important properties. A secret of its durability was just figured out last year. https://news.mit.edu/2023/roman-concrete-durability-lime-casts-0106

1. PPA doesn’t make Mozilla money.
2. Firefox is developed by Mozilla Corp, which can’t take donations. Mozilla Foundation does do fundraising drives, but that’s mostly for their public advocacy (which, ironically, may be where the idea for PPA originated).
3. PPA has a checkbox in about:preferences.

Pixels have had large camera bumps for several iterations, fold or not, like pretty much every phone.

Google can’t operate Play Store in China because it closed its Chinese offices in response to China attempting to hack them (and several other corporations) back in 2010 (Operation Aurora).

It’s just a writer seeking to vary their language a bit. It’s a trick to keep themselves from repeating “Microsoft” quite so many times in a short span, as too much word repetition can cause readers to “tune out”.

Best of luck, I guess, but seems like a doomed project to me. Forking WebKit, Gecko, or even Servo would seem much more reasonable, and even that is a huge undertaking.

Dishonored is the closest Deus Ex successor in my mind. Harvey Smith in the level design DNA.

many (if not still most) games with Linux builds run better through proton than the native build

This is probably only true for Nvidia GPU systems.

GNOME Web (Epiphany) should be a decent Safari stand-in.

I believe Apple still has the power to block third party store apps based on signature. It’s a security thing to be able clean malware.

Anyone used Beagleboards?

Libre Computer itself is a Chinese company, though, no?

South Park was right all along. Those time travelers really are taking our jobs.