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Comment #42744564
Well, it makes sense. Canada still has a significant English-speaking majority. Even if Québec in isolation has a French-speaking majority, there's a very large incentive for Frenc…
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Comment #42690867
Several fans have created their own (unauthorized) completed versions of the Alph-Art. Most famous is Yves Rodier's version from 1991.
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Comment #42614159
It is true that the proprietary player was discontinued years ago, but it is still usable, even on Linux. I installed it through the AUR package on Arch Linux, but it can also be i…
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Comment #42347237
I think most Wine users are on Linux. If I remember correctly, Wine was actually mostly broken on macOS until Wine 9.0 last year, because it required 32bit support, which macOS got…
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Comment #42320654
Isn't the global average supposed to be exactly 100 by definition, or did I misunderstand how IQ works?
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Comment #41830904
He wouldn't be. AetherSX2 is based on LGPL-era PCSX2 code and license changes don't apply retroactively like that (otherwise, imagine if SDL changed its license to GPL and instantl…
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Comment #41791095
'Courriel' was coined by French Canadian translator André Clas, not by the Académie Française. The Office québécois de la langue française successfully promoted its usage in Quebec…
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Comment #41712371
The popular narrative seems to be that Yuzu had something to do and/or profited in some way from the Zelda Tears of the Kingdom leak, which isn't true. The Patreon-only Early Acces…
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Comment #41374353
I don't think the built-in tiling in Plasma was ever meant to go mucher deeper than what's in Windows. You're still gonna need to use extensions if you want full tiling, I think. T…
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Comment #41166187
This is not really true. The about:config flag you mentioned does add a button in the Settings page allowing the addition of custom search engines, but that's only because the inte…
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Comment #40932016
Only in some countries. It isn't taught in Canadian public schools, or at least not in my province (Québec). Education in Canada is mostly provincial, so it's possible other provin…
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Comment #40923148
In that case, could you clarify what instances of this you're referring to? The death of Citra wasn't really a deliberate action on the part of Nintendo, it was collateral damage. …
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Comment #40921931
This is mentioned later in the document: > An experimental engine Servo originally launched by Mozilla as a successor to Gecko, is implemented in Rust. It was eventually abandoned …
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Comment #40921703
Yuzu, the emulator that was sued by Nintendo, was emulating the Nintendo Switch, which is a product Nintendo does sell.
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Comment #40878483
But Babbage started in the 1830s, not the 1860s.
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Comment #40742683
Permissively licensed software is still free software. The BSD licenses are approved by the FSF as free software licenses. They're simply not copyleft.
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Comment #40570013
Well, they could build their UI using an existing toolkit, like GTK or Qt. Though, when I previously tested Ladybird it seemed to be using GTK and the current AUR package lists Qt …
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Comment #40349116
Pretty incomplete. This seems to be missing a lot of my favourites, including Open Hexagon, Minetest, TheXTech, SuperTuxKart, StepMania and osu!. Libregamewiki has a more comprehen…