I remember growing up with the earlier Search engine and then Google game along.

Google had massive selling points at the time: a clean interface that was quick to load (remember it was dial up era for most people!), unobtrusive text ads (most engines were filled with images pop ups and pop unders like the worst ad filled sites of today without ad blockers) and the key was tge search results were good. Pretty much ever search, you’d find something useful on the first page if not the first result. It was SO much easier than the other engines where you had trawl hard and keep changing your search terms.

Google made search easy and unobtrusive. I used to use AltaVista, Lycos, Yahoo and AskJeeves before google. Once google arrived I literally just used google - I didnt need to use 3 or 4 engines to get what I wanted.

The other search portals tried the trick of bundling email and chat clients and news etc. Google was just search, and then eventually an unobtrusive news tab. And when gmail launched email, they promised 1GB storage for free and forever increasing in size, with a clean interface.

Google won because they offered people what they wanted, without the in your face ads. And they really got in the background that the user is the product and monetized all our data - without us realising.

And they used their success to establish dominance, buying ad providers, veonf aggressive in selling ads, and crucially being successful in click throughs. People ignore colourful picture ads, theyre just annoying, but they click through sponsored search results.

Others have tried to copy the formula - look at Bing - but its hard to displace an encumbant. And the old guard like Yahoo and Lycos etc didnt adapt fast enough, or made huge mistakes in using google search themselves and just trying to be portals. People cut out those middle men fast.

Seems the original game art was in mixed English and Japanese, and Dead of the Brain is the official title. Both that and Dead of Brain are odd in English though, so maybe natural to misremember the “the”?

Victoria, Australia. Not UK news.

Just as I dont take medical advice off social media, I won’t be taking medical advice off gizmodo.

Yeah I dont see this succeeding. Making browsers is very complex and needs a big team to work on it to keep it secure and up to date.

Konqueror and Gnome Web are both WebKit browsers, and both have infrequent updates. A third WebKit browser without a substantial project isn’t going to get far.

For all its problems, Mozilla is a big organisation supporting the development of Firefox and Gecko. Chromium is forever compromised by Google, but is a well funded project.

WebKit itself is well maintained by Apple and the other co sponsors. But a browser isn’t just sticking a GUI around an engine. There is much more to it than that, and it requires a decent team to keep it secure and ahead of bad actors.

Fireforx and Chromium and all their downstream projects are constantly pushing updates not because they want to, but because they have to. Konqueror and Gnome Web are not because they are small teams that don’t have the resources to push updates as rapidly as the big projects.

Unless Orion is adopted by a big organisation and funded, it’s dead in the water. There is not an infinite supply of technically capable and interested people in the browser space nor open source generally, and I really dont see there being a big group of people willing to work on something like this as a passion project for free. Downstream forks of Firefox and Chromium are far easier to maintain and even those are huge amounts of effort.

So yeah, good on Kagi for open sourcing it rather than just letting it die completely on Linux and Windows. I’m doubtful Orion is well placed to survive.

If youre willing to pay for a browser, donate that money to an OSS project that creates an actual private & secure browser.

It is insane to give money to a company like Brave for a browser that removes the stuff they deliberately packed in to their core browser to track people and make money.

At best what Brave are showing is that privately owned companies can’t make private secure browsers because they are profit motivated. The only way privacy can happen is to remove the profit motive entirely.

In fairness magazines have long been slop for boomers. The magazine market is pretty much dead for anyone under 60.

Yeah I only use windows at work now, ditched it at home. The start menu takes over a minute to open, and then when it does it ignores clicks for another minute.

Then whenever I want to run outlook I have to search because the start menu doesnt let me set favourites. And I have to wait when I type in Outlook because the first search brings the crappy built in version of outlook (which I have clicked on more than once to be immensely frustrated to see it open) and then wait until “Outlook (classic)” appears and click that.

I discovered some of my less technically able colleagues gave up on Outlook because they assumed it wasn’t installed and use the web interface instead. And that is just one of numerous daily frustrations I get with Windows.

Honestly, Windows is now a big steaming pile of crap. All my home devices are on Linux, and I only use Windows at work because I have no choice.

Christ it’d be funny if it wasn’t so stupid.

Nvidia’s share price can’t possible fall because its supposed to grow and grow to keep the band Eagan rolling.

OK strange problem.

Few suggestions:

1. Try disabling the KDE virtual keyboard (should be in settings --> keyboard). There is apparently some know issues with the virtual keyboard interfering with physical keyboards on Wayland at present (KDE 6.7) but I can’t see reports that say its causing this specific issue on searching

2. Double check you dont have multiple keyboard layouts set up and a shortcut key bound to alt tab or caps lock that triggers it? Even if not, this could still be a broader issue with something else also accidentally bound to alt-tab. Alt tab isn’t restricted as shortcut for switching tasks to my knowledge, you can change it and also set other things to be triggered by it so its worth checking in settings what is bound to it

3. Do you have any custom tools installed & running which may have their own keyboard shortcuts that are getting triggered when you alt tab?

4. To test things you may also want to try switch between x11 and Wayland to see if the problem is Wayland specific. That may mean installing the x11 stack though, which may be annoying if you dont have it be default in Nobara?

5. There is a terminal tool “wev” that basically shows all events associated with the Wayland shell. So it should show you what keyboard strokes Wayland is receiving when you get the problems. That might help localise the problem - if wev is seeing the right keys its a KDE issue, if not it may be more fundamental back to USB / kernel?

Hope that helps get a bit further to a fix. Sorry if its not helpful at all!

A broken clock is correct twice a day as they say. I’m no fan of Blair but he has been consistent in being pro EU and was one of the few voices in Labour after the referendum who actually said remainers shouldn’t give up and we should campaign to rejoin.

That said, now is not the time. What we should be doing is rejoining the customs union which will undo some damage and out us back on a course to rejoin. But even that seems out of reach because politicians seem terrified of giving Farrage anything to campaign on rather than confronting him head on.

Just to say, its minimal effort to set up. Its the kind of annoyance ypu get scratching an itch - a momentary effort for long term relief.

Strange to have women’s and men’s categories in Rubik’s Cube solving?

Lollipop man or lady is what’s its always be known as. It is dignified as people are very grateful to the people who do these jobs and its an affectionate name.

Crossing Guard sounds american, and a bit hostile to be honest. Lollipop man sounds warm and kind, which is also nice for children. The official UK government name is “School Crossing Patrol Officer” - no thanks.

Edit: also Lollipop lady/man is also used in Ireland, Australia and New Zealand apparently.

I really dont understand how the copyright laws can be so aggressive as to pursue individuals downloading songs or movies, but totally ineffectual against companies stealing huge volumes of data from all over the place, and repackaging it in LLMs etc. So bizarre.

Well Gavin Newsome effectively saying he wouldn’t run against Kamala sounds like theyre trying to stitch up the primaries with 1 candidste.

Its like they’ve learnt nothing from Hilary Clinton, Joe Biden or Kamala Harris. They also learnt nothing from Bill Clinton and Barack Obama - both candidates that emerged as outside chances from a more open primary process. Stiching up the last few primaries has been disaster after disaster for the Democrats. Even Bidens win may have been at the expense of a younger candidate that may have more effectively beaten Trump and prevented 2.0.

Honestly the US is so crazily stupid now. And that cones from someone who lived through Brexit and Boris Johnson as prime minister of the UK.

We are living in the stupidest timeline.

I’d say as an Index owner, hold off. The frame is expensive and there still isn’t a big library of must have VR games. The frame makes a bit more sense if you dont have a steam deck I guess but not much more at this price point. If youre just buying it for the VR experience then it may be a disappointment at the moment and at that price.

Sadly I thibk PC VR will continue to grow slowly as the Frame is too expensive to really expand the market. The AI tech bubble really sucks.

The plan was likely cheaper but component prices are mad currently. It makes sense to launch but the price means it won’t hit sales targets. Hopefully if the AI bubble bursts, component prices will drop and the Frame price will drop. But looks doubtful in the next year at least.