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In the west, Riichi Mahjong seems to be the most well-known form of Mahjong. After living in China, I started to notice that the most popular form of Mahjong here is called "Sichuan Bloody Rules". It is completely different from other forms of Mahjong:

1. The game doesn't end after the first person finishes

2. Many tiles like flowers and wind directions are removed from the game

3. At the start of the game you have to decide one color which you ban from your hand. Your final hand isn't allowed to have a tile of this color inside.

4. You are not allowed to 吃 chi from players

5. There is a pretty complex scoring system

I have the impression that this form of Mahjong is the most unique one. The rules are very different than most other forms of Mahjong, including Riichi Mahjong, and make for really interesting games. So if you're interested in Mahjong feel free to try it out.

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I don't get what the big deal is. Does Linux add support for newer Intel and AMD chips in old kernels? No. Does Apple add support for newer Intel and AMD chips in older versions of Mac OS? I'm sure no. So why does Microsoft have to do something the other companies aren't doing either? I mean it's not like they actively prevent older Windows versions on running on these chips, it's just that they don't add support for the newest chip features.

Sometimes when I see these newspapers bashing Microsoft I question whether they even think about what they are writing before pressing the publish button. Headline: Microsoft is doing what all other OS companies are doing too.

Depends on what kind of production you mean. In your own projects you should set the C++ standard yourself anyway so this is a non-issue. If you are a distribution maintainer, it probably means you have to patch some makefiles that assume that gcc always compiles with c++98

This depends on the distribution. Fedora for example has GPU switching using PRIME working fairly well and automatically disabled the dGPU by default.

This is just a mirror and not the repo the devs actually work on, so I don't think it's very taxing on the resources.

What also hinders open Wi-Fi adoption in Germany is a law called "Störerhaftung", which basically states that the owner of the Wi-Fi is liable for all damages that users of his Wi-Fi do, for example filesharing, hacking, whatever. Keeping track of all users is not an option that all free Wi-Fi operators have. I'm sure other countries have similar laws. Do The Netherlands not have such a law?

Microcode is not written to the CPU, it gets loaded on every boot. This can happen during the BIOS POST, during the OS bootloader or even while the OS is booting. Therefore, yes its possible to run older microcode (at least on Linux), since you just have to not write the newer version on boot. If the BIOS contains the new microcode, you can flash the previous version of the BIOS.

CPUs are complicated pieces of technology. During the manufacturing process, some parts have a better quality grade than others. The better quality parts allow some overclocking without producing errors and therefore they get put into the overclockable K-processors. The worse parts get put into non-overclockable processors and run fine using the default voltage.

Some of the non-overclockable cpus might work fine after overclocking, some might not. Intel definitely doesn't want the negative press when some kids decides to overclock their non-K CPU and break it during the process. So I understand the decision.

Well, a theoretical attack is worse than no theoretical attack. Especially if there are perfectly fine protocols available that are IND-CCA2 secure.

Xiaomi only sells them in their online shop and only in specific regions like China, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Singapore and I believe India. There are no retailers of Xiaomi phones and everybody buys them online at their shop.

There are some grey market importers for other countries, but even those originally have to buy them online at their shop in a country where Xiaomi sells.

CyanogenMod has something equal to f.lux already built in. It's called LiveDisplay.

I'm also a long time arch user, who switched to fedora half a year ago. All in all both distributions are great, but one area where fedora has an edge is selinux support and delta updates. One area where arch has an edge is better font rendering using infinality-bundle by bohoomil.

.kdb and .kdbx are two totally different formats. .kdb is used by KeePass and KeePassX, .kdbx is used by KeePass 2 and KeePassX 2.0 (currently Beta).