It’s been available in Gentoo since late 2022 (Project:LoongArch at the Gentoo wiki). And in some other distros.

I disagree. Doing so reduced the amount of diversity in rendering engines and reinforced the idea that lazy site owners don’t have to test against more than one browser. That’s a loss for the Web as a whole.

I think the main problem would be the controls. I mean, you could put a tiny bridle on the rat to steer, but how do you shoot? Pull the tail? (How you avoid being bitten while pulling the rat’s tail is a separate issue.)

It’s a step up from fish playing pokemon, anyway.

It is, but it’s so divergent these days that 90% of Mozilla patches won’t even apply to the codebase (and presumably vice-versa). My conclusion is that Pale Moon and Goanna are capable of surviving if Firefox development ceases.

Rather like the proportion of spam to legitimate email.

sysklogd is still around as well.

To be exact, there is a noun “affect” whose plural would presumably be “affects”, but it’s a term of art in psychology and absolutely not the word that is wanted here.

Because they fired the QA department years ago, in favour of non-rigorous testing by users crazy enough to run whatever Microsoft’s version of a nightly build is. Because there’s no testing plan, some sets of conditions never do get tested.

The “O” word, actually: oligarchs (or their relatives or best buddies). Chances are that at least some of them are under sanction in more civilized countries.

I doubt most owners of recent-model luxury-brand cars in Russia are average joes for which this is their only transport. I therefore find my sympathy to be somewhat limited.

If that’s the reason for things freezing up, the OOM reaper will come along and sort it out eventually, although it isn’t exactly quick on its feet.

Nah, there’s plenty of variety. Keep in mind that not all distros ship with any graphical environment at all, and you’re not obliged to keep your distro’s default even if it did ship with one. Linux in general is just as happy with ratpoison as it is with KDE.

I didn’t think the horse was still intact enough that you could find any hide.

Ugh. I hope that there being a use for the little bastards now doesn’t make people breed them on purpose.

Python and Ruby have both had various repo issues too.

I’ve never heard of anything similar with Perl, but that may partly be because applications for new developers who want to join CPAN still appear to be processed by humans, with up to a couple of weeks lag. The time inefficiency plus the language being less popular probably makes it an unattractive target.

There’s nothing wrong with ARM. Qualcomm, on the other hand . . .

A quick search shows that squirrels have quite good vision at short to medium distances (up to ~10m) during daylight, with a wide field of view (common in prey animals) and excellent depth perception. Their colour vision isn’t up to human standards, however, and their night vision isn’t that great. So yeah, they’d have a clear concept of the distance and direction to the next tree branch or a nearby cat as long as the light was good.

In the worst case? On ebay, as a “For parts/not working” model with a reasonably intact exterior. Might take a bit of patience.

Actually, it’s an extinct genus of land snail. Really. Wikipedia told me so.