A few thousand people paying $5 per year is not enough to replace hundreds of millions.
...people or dollars? 'Cos i don't think "hundreds of millions" of people are chippin' in, it's Google that's financing "hundreds of millions" of dollars...
But yeah, that target audience is a bubble, normies don't care.
used chromium as the page rendering engine.
I believe WebKit is Chromium's rendering engine, as is Gecko for Firefox.
Opera used to have their own but now they're just rebranded Chromium.
There was a poll a while back on mastodon and the majority answered they'd be ok with 5$/year to support Firefox.
The fact that the founder commented in approval is gold.
From a recent search i made, with similar purpose, these may support x86 and are based on either Debian or Ubuntu: antiX, Q4OS, Slax; Zorin Lite, LXLE.
(I haven't combed through the results yet so YMMV and there may be cadavers.)
Serial numbers are hardly covert though... but yeah.
Unsung heroes.
Yes MS intentionally implements it inconsistently and yes that's why i meant whichever format is open.
Missing /s there...
OMFG they actually said that...