Too bad if you need to download something from the saxonica website, because you happen to need an xpath 3.0 capable xml parser.

I must be missing the point here, because the Saxonica website works perfectly for me (on Debian/Firefox 142). Is there a bit of it that's broken on Firefox? I tried it on Chrome too, but it's identical.

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I do remember enjoying Command & Conquer back in 1995, but I don't think I got truly hooked on the genre until Total Annihilation launched in 1997, and the graphics in this feel very "early C&C" to me.

Then, the marvellous RTS pinnacle, Battle Zone, arrived in 1998. That was an incredible period in my life, as I'd just started at the firm I still work at today, 30 years later! Good memories playing these games, along with Doom, Quake, Descent and Crusader: No Remorse!

It was a special moment in Battle Zone to finally create your first massive Walker unit and hearing the pilot rumble "For God and Country" as it stopped off to demolish whatever poor target you'd highlighted!

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Wow, the animations in this are top-drawer, really impressive. I have fond memories of Alien:Fireteam, and while this is single-player, I'm still sold. It's been ages since a good Alien-franchise game landed!

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I'm sticking with Firefox, been using it for about 3 or 4 years now. I think the AI features arrived in 135, and I'm on 142 now, and other than a pop up asking me if I wanted AI engines added to my search bar (I didn't), I don't see any hints of AI elsewhere. Provided I can turn that absolutely shitfuckery off, I'm happy to stay on Firefox.

I've been testing out ProtonMail to replace Gmail and ProtonCalendar to replace Google Calendar. I'm already using Firefox instead of Chrome, and I've also updated my home screen and search bar to use DuckDuckGo. But I still use Android, and particularly rely on Google Maps, so there's still work to be done.

Goddamit. I used to love Google products. I still feel sore about Reader and that was 2013! What the hell happened to this company??

Edit to add: Just have to share this video of Meta's AI in action. https://www.youtube.com/shorts/0Ee8IYGKjTQ [External Link]

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This is purely about AI, a bubble I wish would just hurry up and burst already. There will be no focus on desktop builds, only data centre. Any benefits to desktop will be incidental.

If Valve use an Intel/Nvidia SOC in their next SteamDeck I doubt I'd buy one. I really do hate AI that much, and I just don't have any enthusiasm for supporting NVidia, a company dedicated to burning the planet for the benefit of AI - going so far this week to announce that green energy can't support their ambition and fossil fuel reactors and nuclear power are the only option.

I don't even consider myself particularly green, but that's a new low.

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I was quite looking forward to this, but didn't realise it's single player. The only way/time I'll play a racing game is with one of my two online groups of pals, so I'll give this a miss, I'm afraid.

Looks great though. If I had more enthusiasm for racing games, I'd be pleased this existed, since many of the more recent options are just incredibly technical.

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For some reason I'm getting a Gunpoint vibe from this, which is definitely a good thing.

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Pretty sure this is the second time Valve have had to fix Dune's shitty launcher complaining about GPU drivers.

Launchers should just be banned on Steam.

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I'd have bought this in a heartbeat. But Denuvo strikes again.

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Every necromancer ever. Every turret. Every mobility summon in open-game worlds. Any form of tower-defence summon.

Wild. Nintendo really are the fucking worst.

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