Now, what I hope doesn't happen is that the search engine becomes policed like the UK laws that affected sites like GamingOnLinux, where forums were removed and links and replies were disabled.

It doesn't matter who runs a search engine, if a political body want's to policy it, they will. So in that regard it does not matter if you use Google, Bing or a EU funded search engine. They will all be identically policed by your local political leaders because they are the ones dictating the laws.

The difference is that on e.g a EU funded search engine you will no longer be subject to the corporate policing that you are at Google and Bing.

Hopefully this project will also bring back useful searches, e.g Google have since long abandoned yielding results for you the end user and instead focused everything on yielding results that benefits their ad revenue (which is why Google is soo much more easy to spam these days).

See e.g "How Google RUINED the Internet" by Adam Conover at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7NHABs76mg [External Link]

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Too bad they didn't add the Secret Agents game, that is the best among them.

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One wonders what would happen if Microsoft ever wised up and created a version of Windows that was specifically designed for handheld PCs.

They have tried to do so several times already, from Windows CE to Windows Phone. But IMHO their major problem is that they know that the vast amount of 3d party software is their only benefit so they must create that version in a way that supports all of the existing software which ends up being something that will require mouse and keyboard and that will be completely frustrating to use on a touch screen only device.

This is probably why they have tried to move new developers to UWP for some time now, in the hope that they one day can release a good handheld version.

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Considering their anti-consumer printer business model…

Which is a valid point if you want to punish HP the company for their unethical behaviour. If it however comes to "if they do this with printers what if they do this also with the deck" then consider that HP is a massive corporation with 58k employees so things like a handheld deck and their printers are done by completely different independent divisions (just like how Sony the movie studio, Sony the amplifier company, Sony the television company and Sony the playstation company are completely different divisions).

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I think that should be in upstream, but named as futex2.

Exactly that, fsync was unofficial patches that never made it upstream. Those patches then slowly moved to what became futex2 in the kernel since v5.16 and the fsync side in proton moved over to use the new futex2 interface in the kernel if available, but for some reason kept the name fsync in proton.

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I still have an RX 470 running because to me at least it seems there has been little improvements in the bracket below 150 W. I don't need high performance, I want better efficiency. And every generation I hope there will be something worth upgrading to.

Sounds like you don't game (at least not 3d games)? Then why not simply go with an integrated GPU in the CPU? I personally went with a Ryzen 7 5700G for my workstation at work and it supports a 4K desktop perfectly fine.

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Apparently co-written by Nicolas Winding Refn. And boy did the trailer give Crysis vibes.

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It's a series of games I never got into, sadly. They have such a loyal fanbase, must be doing something right. I think it was MGS5 that I tried to play, but spent like 40 minutes watching cutscenes in a plane on the way to the first mission. I just remember thinking that I'd have been better off watching a movie instead.

There is not a single cutscene on a plane on the first mission (nor the second, nor on any mission). MGS4 on the other hand is basically a movie with some gameplay intercut (if you have played the entire series before though MGS4 is extremely enjoyable), sadly only exists for the PS3.

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What the heck? game that released 2021 on PC is getting remaster already?
whats going on in this industry. The original game looks great and performs woderfully, whats the point of remaster really.
switching to that unoptimized blurry/smeary UE5 now?

The PC version will not be remastered, it's the old PS4 version from 2019 that will be remastered for PS5.

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Never understood the complaints about the story lines in BL3, I mean the storylines in BL2 was completely horrendous and story was never a huge part of BL anyway.

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