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boybdon Temperature changes around the world – 1901-2018

Seems particularly manipulative to only show the last 100 years. How about the last 1000 or 2000 years instead?

boybdon Valve looking to drop support for Ubuntu 19.10 due to Canonical 32-bit decision

Why use Snap and not one of the 19385791058 competing standards?

What else is there? Bitcoin is an investment, so this is important in the same way that the price of gold climbing like this would be important.

boybdon You Can Now Download the New Open Source Windows Terminal

I see. Well I'll stick to other emulators.

boybdon You Can Now Download the New Open Source Windows Terminal

Eh... Microsoft Store? So no new terminal for LTSB?

boybdon Is Firefox better than Chrome? It comes down to privacy

If you close the tabs and Firefox keeps using CPU, how's that Google's fault? Or are you suggesting that Google is exploiting some bug in Firefox to have it use CPU time even when the tab is closed?

boybdon “Banclist.com is probably the most lucrative direct messaging platform”

https://banclist.com/?=PHPB8B5F2A0-3C92-11d3-A3A9-4C7B08C100...

Heh, no joke :P

boybdon Is Firefox better than Chrome? It comes down to privacy

That's true, it comes down to privacy. Firefox sent the full URL history of some users to a third party, an advertising company: https://blog.mozilla.org/press-uk/2017/10/06/testing-cliqz-i...

Take this into account if you're considering moving to Firefox to get more "privacy".

boybdon Wine Developers Concerned with Ubuntu Dropping 32-Bit Support

If ReactOS ever reaches the point where it can be used instead of Wine, I might as well just boot ReactOS and drop Linux completely.

I like Windows but I don't like the way it's heading. A perpetual XP/7 would be great.

boybdon Wine Developers Concerned with Ubuntu Dropping 32-Bit Support

Actually no, I play DX9 games from 15 years ago and they are still, well, not there yet.

boybdon Wine Developers Concerned with Ubuntu Dropping 32-Bit Support

15 years ago I considered switching to Linux. I depend on some Windows applications and, above all, I want to play games. Wine looked like it was almost there, so I intended to give it another try next year.

Year by year I've been trying Wine again and again. As of today, it's still almost there. So, maybe in 2030? By now, I'll stay using Windows.

boybdon Walmart Pleads Guilty After a Decade of Bribes

Sounds like Tanzania from post history.