For an ideologue, my outlook on Google vs Firefox is oddly nut-and-bolts. I use Chrome or, at home, Chromium, sometimes because these days Firefox just won't render some websites properly, or occasionally at all. But I use Firefox most of the time because I like the way a few of its features that I use a lot are done better than how they're done in Chrome (notably full screen), and lately because Chrome has gotten weird about remembering stuff, as in it doesn't. So I'll go to a website, enter a password, Chrome says "Do you want me to remember that password?" I say "sure!" . . . next time, I enter the password because Chrome has no idea, and it says "Do you want me to remember that password?" and I'm like "Dude, don't even bother." And at work, Firefox at different workstations pretty much remembers my bookmarks, tabs and stuff, while Chrome is all "I have never seen you before, including last time you were at this workstation when you set up a few bookmarks". It's OK at my own personal desk, but when I'm at the library front counter I just try to avoid even opening up Chrome. Now probably that's just because Chrome wants me to put all that information in their cloud so they can use it against me synch up my stuff at every computer I go to, and I haven't, and Google is downplaying other ways for the browser to keep track, so if I played along it would work better. But I don't want that information in their cloud (and I don't want the exact same bookmarks at work and at home, either).

So long story short, I would prefer if Firefox didn't die because I want to keep using it, totally aside from my suspicions about monopolies and Google hoovering up my info.

This particular announcement, though, seems OK. And if it's really because Google is getting the screws turned on them by antitrust enforcement, that's great!.

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I'm in pretty much the same boat as Philadelphus, interested but not quite enough to plonk down the big bucks right away.

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@kerossin Probably that second thing, whether deliberately or not. Carbon credits are generally pretty scammy. Even if the Raspberry Pi people are in good faith, whoever they're buying from probably isn't.

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There's definitely something Pac-man-esque about it.

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Do we know it now? Technically he just said he'd like to tell us that, not that he actually did tell us that.

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@R Daneel Olivaw " I CANNOT WAIT for this ai bubble to burst."

I mean, I agree wholeheartedly, but it sounds strange coming from a robot. :grin:

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Ah, no, this is a multi-year graph so the growth for the year is just from a bit under 2%. I'll still take it.

And I'd say not all the last bump up can be explained by simplified Chinese . . . with a drop of 3.53% I think for Linux to gain .29% from that, Linux would have to be at near 10% outside China, but then the overall % would have to be higher. Of course the rest could be noisy data, as usual we don't know much about Valve's sampling. But anyway, good.

If China ever get serious about security from or trade war with the US, that Linux % could rise significantly . . .

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Merry Christmas to all and to all some good games!

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Nice they support the space bar now, I would have missed that. :grin:

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Quoting: Caldathras

Quoting: Jarmer110 gb patch. That's just absurd, are you basically just redownloading the entire game?

My thoughts, exactly.

Even there, I think the idea of a 110 gb game is ridiculous. Maybe I just don't play AAA games.

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