It's usually very effective unless the amount of connections is too much for one machine anyways. Along with bandwidth shaping and connection throttling it can fend off smaller attacks.
A huge botnet would bring down a single proxy instance in any case, true.
There are many protection modules for most reverse proxies that provide basic (limiting) or sophisticated (captcha, calculation challenge, etc) DDoS protection. HAProxy is just a very powerful and easily extensible proxy.
Works great here with KeePass2Android on Android 12. If for some reason automatic filling doesn't work switching to the KP2A Keyboard and filling the username and password takes about 5 seconds.
I have also used Ubuntu when they sent out those free CDs. And for work when they had the Unity desktop (12.04 LTS). It was a good distro once.
I am pretty happy with the Arch (btw) I installed as a VM on Ubuntu 12.04 and then used as my main OS on the new work PC since 2017.
Considering "faster engine" means different tune on the exact same engine nowadays: not much has changed.
Fuck morons who pay this so the corps will continue to do this. They wouldn't even consider it if people with more money than sense didn't pay for it. Everything is enshittified until we live in Idiocracy.
It's not comparable to a flagship phone. But considering the price I am still quite satisfied.
Only thing missing is the gyro for accurate tracking in AR stuff. I think the Doogee Pro versions with the fingerprint scanner have one. But they cost about twice as much.
I recently got a cheap Doogee X97 as a backup phone. It was pretty much AOSP except for the launcher and 2 extra apps. I was impressed by the value of the $60 phone. 16 GB flash was too little for me though. I handed it to a friend and got the sturdier, waterproof S51.
No holes in my screen, 5 days of daily use battery and 4GB/64GB + dual SIM + NFC + microSD + headphone jack for $100 is pretty sweet. Also OEM unlock is possible from the dev menu without extra steps. Firmware is available as a zip from their forums.
I think the only thing they make that is competent are their SSDs. Stay away from their batteries and phones. Also their "smart" TVs become slower and more ad infested with every update.
Never had any of their appliances, so can't comment on those. The exploding washing machine story doesn't inspire confidence though. My 80s Samsung AM/FM/cassette boom box is great though and still works.
I like KVIrc. Works on all major OSes. Was part of KDE once. Is really fast and incredibly feature rich.