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Cake day: August 19th, 2023

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  • Somebody help get my ideas straight on this one, please.

    To my knowledge, Bing and Google search engine are the default options available out there, to the point other search services relay service from those, give or take a few tweaks (DuckDuckGo, Startpage, etc).

    Now lets remove those from the picture and what is left?

    I read a post yesterday announcing Ecosia amd Qwant were joining efforts to build a fully european search engine (hopefully, yes, but I’m not holding my breath on it). Maybe that is an option. But what else?



  • At some point it just makes more sense to run emulators, like it is already done with the classic gaming consoles.

    Ideally, we would get a push to release source after a given time, in order to have true conservation efforts.

    7 Kingdoms had its source released and was almost instantly ported to run natively on Linux. And from someone who played that game as a teen and truly enjoyed it, I admit it’s not that much of a game! There are thousands of titles that deserve this attention.

    Off the top of my head I can think of:

    • Black&White
    • The Punisher (this title was even censored due to graphical content)
    • the original Starcraft and Warcraft
    • Pharaoh
    • Anno 1602 (I am aware a FOSS “clone” exists)
    • Evolva
    • Syndicate

    I could go on forever…