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  • tensortoGaming*Permanently Deleted*
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    4 years ago

    My favorite is Battle for Wesnoth. Everything is so well put together. Story, graphics, soundtracks, tools to create user content, saving multiplayer games at any time to resume later, stability and reliability.

    After that I also like Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup and then SNES games. Most ROMs I played are very buggy and needed custom patches.

    Minetest is fun too, but public servers are chaotic and your area will 100% be vandalized if you don’t protect it.

    My hardware is too old to play modern 3D games so I don’t keep pace with them anymore.




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    4 years ago

    This doesn’t seem to affect GNU/Linux as the Linux driver is free, upstreamed and community maintained (LinuxWacom project). The author implies that he is using the Wacom-provided driver, and while he doesn’t mention the OS I assume from the screenshots it’s OS X.

    There’s no “FOSS drawing tablet” because the tablets themselves are not running software, or at least should not. The only software part are the drivers and they are free in Linux.

    Edit: Adding a note that some Huion tablets and other manufacturers are supported by the DIGImend project. DIGImend is a community supported driver project for many generic graphics tablets other than Wacom’s.










  • It is easy to detect from the user agent what type of device the incoming request comes from.

    Since nobody mentioned any specific measurement, I will use as an example the ones from StatCounter. They analyze user agent data from page hits in a couple million websites. If you go to their GlobalStats subdomain you see browser market share in a time series graph. Overall or platform-specific, that is already accounted. Even tablets are separate from phones despite running the same OS.

    Firefox on the desktop has a global market share of 10% according to GlobalStats, while on the average between all devices it’s only 4%.

    That data is flawed based on the fact that not data from the entire web is being collected (though 3 million common pages is a large enough sample size) and that absolute page hits are accounted rather than unique visitors. But, there is no reason that users of one browser would hit pages more often than users of the others. Anyways, those are the 2 facts that come to my head right now that may distort the true data.

    And, as you can expect, you can’t reliably measure ‘market share’ of things that are not in the ‘market’.



  • tensortoLibre Culture*Permanently Deleted*
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    5 years ago

    Hey, glad I could help.

    For an extra, you probably know this already, but there’s a quick syntax reference here. In case anyone out there is new to Searx, here are some tricks.

    If you are only using DDG but want to temporarily enable another engine (say bing) for a query: ?bi query (this adds bing results to your query alongside the default engines).

    To search only on bing temporarily, replace ? for !.

    To search only Yahoo News in German for news about Bolivia: :de !yhn bolivia. Keep in mind that not all engines support custom languages.

    To search only arXiv and OpenAIRE for publications citing solar flares: !arx ?oap solar flare. Or search in the science category with !science.

    You can mix categories in the same result page. To search for general information, images and OSM points of Burger King: ?bii ?osm burger king.

    It’s very easy to toggle engines in the query.

    See all the shortcuts here or in the preferences.


  • tensortoLibre Culture*Permanently Deleted*
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    5 years ago

    The searx.info instance has been working fine for a while using the default settings.You can disable google and bing to avoid the blockage. If, for example, you enable only DDG, it should work as a DDG proxy to avoid running their proprietary code in your browser. Of course, you can also self-host to control the uptime, at the expense of anonymity.