Great, now that the shareholders are out of the picture, I'm sure they release a fully fledged Linux client and keep doing their thing best as they can. I just hope he has the patience and energy to see this through.

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Quoting: chickenb00Yep this was a shareware title I played many happy hours of as a wee kid in the golden 90s.

By "shareware" do you mean the cover disk demo (or xmas version), or a pirated game? Because CF was never shareware.

(I'm not judging, I had a pirated version, because in PL we had no access to original games until late 90s - there was no IP law until mid 1994 and only after that the shops slowly started selling original games, but even then games from abroad were not widely circulated because of the prices - Cannon Fodder at launch would cost 7% of the average monthly salary, and that's before any import costs.)

(Completely off-topic, I think that's one of the reasons for GOG popularity in Poland - lots of people always wanted to buy the original versions of the games they loved as kids but never had any means of supporting their developers - not that it's a big support to buy the game right now, but it's a kind of paying off the debt [and yes, I bought both CF and CF2 at GOG]. BTW the company who launched GOG, that is CD Projekt, was the largest shop with original games in the 90s, but they never sold Amiga games, just PC-CD games - they were not widely available from pirates because of the size - and anyway they founded the company with the money made on selling pirated software before 1994; they knew exactly what they were doing launching GOG, maybe it was a kind of redemption for them as well?)

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I have 95% on Linux and 5% on SteamDeck. Notably, I also played some hours through GFN, both on PC and SD, I wonder if they filtered it out or if they are now able to tell the device behind the GFN, because I know for sure it counted as playing on Windows in the past.

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Quoting: CreepioI wanted a browser that has feature parity with regular Firefox, but doesn't add a crap ton of unnecessary extras. I just want Firefox, but without the crap.

it still has the tabs on top, though ;p

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Quoting: snowI installed Librefow a few months ago in my main pc

Librefowl is a much better name than Librewolf ngl

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I turned it off as soon as it appeared, hopefully they won't try to turn it back on (or add more AI settings that are on by default) in future updates.

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Imagine being a "superfan" of a company...

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> pre-pre-production

they're probably assessing genAI models

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Quoting: JahimselfThen if AAA can steal from anyone, anyone should be able to steal from Tim Sweeney and major company having the same philosophy.

The ultimate irony, companies who were shouting the loudest about software piracy are now the quickest to embrace blatant IP theft where it suits them.

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Quoting: Nezchan

The speed gain ends up being negligible, and comes at the price of creativity, originality and doing work I actually enjoy instead of painstakingly fixing the mistakes of an algorithm.

The ultimate promise of AI is freeing us from the drudgery of work we enjoy so we can focus on tedious editing and error-checking at intern rates.

The assumption of AI replacing jobs was based on the premise that for the majority of population, a sloppy product is acceptable, which I think is unfortunately quite correct and the CEOs know that. Some will be willing to abandon the more demanding part of their clientele if the company ends up with a net gain from cutting down the costs of actual human input and QA of the AI-produced slop. Others will see an opportunity in entering the newly created niche. This will ultimately create a polarized market, not unlike the current distinction between mainstream and luxury goods. The question remains, how many companies will be successful in navigating the middle ground...

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