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But N64 was a more expensive design, and also came almost 2 years later, and from an architectural standpoint it also had significant issues (e.g.: the texture cache size that someone said above).

This is why I said considering the constraints, I find the first PlayStation to be impressive.

> you'll see that the design of a 3D-capable console in the 90s was a significant challenge for every company.

While this is true, I still think that the PlayStation had the most interesting and forwarding looking design of its generation, especially considering the constraints. The design is significantly cheaper than both Saturn and Nintendo 64, it was fully 3D (compared to Saturn for example), using CD as media was spot-on and also having the MJPEG decoder (that allowed PlayStation to have not only significantly higher video quality than its rivals, but also allowed video to be used for backgrounds for much better quality graphics, see for example Resident Evil or Final Fantasy series).

I really wanted to see a design inspired in the first PlayStation with more memory (since the low memory compared to its rivals was an issue it seemed, especially in e.g.: 2D fighting games where the amount of animations had to be cut a lot compared to Saturn) and maybe some more hardware accelators to help fix some of the issues that plagued the platform.

> There's technically no reason OpenSSHd can't also be used in this context.

For initrd you generally prefer static binaries. Not saying that OpenSSHd doesn't build statically, but having less code and dependencies makes it easier to statically compile.

But yes, technically there is no reason to not use OpenSSHd, but in practice having a smaller and more self contained binary helps considering that you would want the bare minimum during initrd.

I am fine with this behavior as long as I can disable it. Yes, I also use NixOS and don't like when things download random binaries, but I can understand there is demand for things that just work TM.

2 liters of soda everyday is huge. If it was sometimes (in a party, etc) it would be fine, but I can't imagine drinking close to that amount everyday.

I am sure that people do even worse, but at that point you're in a bad situation if you drink normal (e.g.: the amount of sugar) or diet soda.

Since my Chromebook is not really powerful, yes, Firefox feels like a second class citizen. But I imagine in a better Chromebook it should work better.

This is a welcome addition for Chromebooks, because now you can install latest Firefox (not ESR) in Crostini without using Flatpak.

Sadly Mozilla still doesn't offer `aarch64-linux` builds for Firefox in their official channels, so for those that have a ARM64 Chromebook will still need to use something else to get Firefox running (I use Nix, but it needs some complicated setup to work with hardware acceleration, for example, using nixGL).

The title is bad, this only affects Firefox mobile that AFAIK has a really low amount of users (BTW, I am one of them).

Not saying that they shouldn't have detected this (i.e.: where is the automated testing for those things?), but I don't think this is Google screwing up Firefox on purpose.

And if Google really wanted to screw up Firefox, they would probably do a better job than User-Agent sniffing. Firefox already has an internal list where it applies fixes for websites (e.g.: setting a custom User-Agent), and the bug report actually comes from it. You can see it by going to `about:compat` page in Firefox.

> Most Linux installers already had a good GUI installer on the Live CD at that point.

Yes, I think between the end of Windows XP and start of Windows Vista era is interesting because it is by that era when Linux installers got really good (they're full graphical and would be really easy, most times just pressing Next->Next->Finish) while Windows still had its ugly TUI installer.

Also, Windows at that time didn't ship with as many drivers as today, and also we didn't have as fast internet and Windows Update still did a poor job for installing drivers from random devices, so most of time after installing Windows you had a pretty poor installation with broken internet/audio/graphics and also possibly weirdly slow (because missing chipset drivers would make the system slow depending on the hardware). While Linux if you had reasonably supported hardware it would just work.

Not that this really matters. Installation of a new OS is something that was and still is mostly done by knowledge people, and generally those people can install either Windows or Linux regardless.

Maybe an issue with patents? All the formats there are open source with the exception of MP3, that from what I remember had its patents expired a few years ago.

> Probably you are just not kicked out because staff is not noticing or apathetic.

Or you know, they don't care as long you're a paid customer.

BTW, I didn't say anything about restaurants. Coffee shop in general have much more of a lax atmosphere, so they generally don't care too much.

Interesting that in Mac with Apple chips (M1 Pro) it seems both Chrome and Firefox report them as Intel:

    Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.15; rv:120.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/120.0

    Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/120.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Edit: even Safari itself:

    Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/17.1.2 Safari/605.1.15