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CopperWing

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    Comment #46825827

    Which ones? Honest question. I only remember games for which GOG apologizes in their store page for missing cosmetics or extra features because originally tied to online services (…

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    Comment #46822745

    As far as I remember, the only games which optionally need Galaxy running are those will online multiplayer, and only if you want to play online. This is because the original devel…

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    Comment #46072686

    No more: https://www.qualcomm.com/developer/blog/2025/05/introducing-...

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    Comment #44377097

    For sure all the mobile gaming based on microtransactions, collectibles, the Skinner box principle and other dark patterns leading to addition.

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    Comment #43049260

    https://youtu.be/nLdexZlVkAY?feature=shared

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    Comment #42973483

    The DMA subsystem maintainer has some reasons: at this time you can disable all rust drivers when building the Linux kernel but you cannot disable rust wrappers to C language APIs.…

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    Comment #38630917

    Nintendo chose Nvidia Tegra X1 when its previous design based on another custom ARM-based SoC failed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZzXidHVvJU

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    Comment #30322053

    Suse/openSuse comes with Ruby pre-installed because Yast, their distinctive system manager tool, is written in Ruby.

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    Comment #29706221

    > The question may be silly, but how does GOG handle multiplayer ? It depends: some games implement multiplayer through their publisher's private servers (e.g. Paradox games) so us…

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    Comment #18520902

    In C++, nullptr.

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    Comment #13913011

    Signatures were introduced in git as part of the response to the kernel.org hack in 2011.

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    Comment #12415701

    As far as the Wikipedia definition of it goes, yes it is a "weak copyleft", but that basically means that the license on code and patents is liberal, while license on trademarks is…

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    Comment #12415014

    Well, LibreOffice is not "copyleft" licensed. It is distributed under a joint of licenses: GNU Lesser GPL v3+ and Mozilla Public License v2. The latter is not "copyleft".

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    Comment #12414827

    OpenOffice and LibreOffice are already "merged". In fact in the past years, after the fork, LibreOffice developers regularly tracked OpenOffice source code repository and merged al…

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    Comment #9044244

    They already discussed about this few years ago, but they decided against a date-based versioning because that would have meant breaking a lot of scripts and programs doing kernel …

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    Comment #7639231

    OpenSSL package maintainer for SUSE says openSUSE/SLES will stay with OpenSSL (plus handpicked commits from LibreSSL repo), because of missing FIPS and other questionable commits i…

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    Comment #7210533

    Lot's of FUD there on ewontfix.com. A better source of information: https://wiki.debian.org/Debate/initsystem/systemd