m0xEE @m0xee@librem.one

@newt
I personally doubt that it even uses any directly, I think it just relies on what Wayland provides.
> how is the bestest terminal today better than urxvt from 2003
Well, at least it can render colour emojis that do not leave traces when you're scrolling. Some can do neat shit like inline images with sixel — and it doesn't make the terminal slow.
@nik @scathach

@newt
I'm using Alacritty with Sway only — if your hardware isn't capable of EGL, you'd certainly experience issues earlier than opening the term.
> how does rendering your terminal on a GPU improve things?
I don't know, I've never ever done a side by side comparison myself, it just feels fast and I stumble upon reports of it being fast online all the time — and it is attributed to GPU acceleration.
@nik @scathach

@newt
Agreed! I'm fine with both (and you're using Nix 😜), but we aren't picking darlings here, right?
I's probably add P9 and LFS to replace Nix and Gentoo and… I dunno, dwm — in addition to i3, to replace Sway.
@prahou @ammoniumperchlorate@rheinneckar.social

@newt @nik @scathach
> A GPU is absolutely required to render this
Of course it isn't, man! I could run GLQuake on my 486 machine with Mesa's software rendering — one (!) frame per 6 seconds 😅
But if that hardware is there anyway — in absolute most of today's machines it is, why not use it?

@anathema @kirby
I wake up 🔁 there is another psyo^W^W^W^Wnew instance gets defederated

@newt @nik @scathach
Font rendering in modern terminal is order of magnitude more complex than it was back in rxvt days, when it was about displaying rows and columns of monospaced characters. Alacritty is both GPU-accelerated and in Rust, and I just don't see how it takes insane amount of time to "initialise the GL context", it opens the instant I release the keys bound to opening a new terminal 🤷

@newt @prahou @ammoniumperchlorate@rheinneckar.social
Okay, buzzkill, Gentoo, Graphene and Nix too 😏

@romin
The next one will be a reboot instead of a sequel, so we can reset the counter.

@romin
So no one ever asks: "If Kirby was so good, why isn't there Kirby 2?" 😂

@prahou
"I don't even know what Touhou is" holds true even for those who post "mainline" Cirlou 🤣

@romin
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@eal @kaia
I somewhat disagree about the font — had everything else been executed differently, it might've worked. But everything else is spot on!

@fell @kaia
Is this only true for group calls? Because with 1 on 1 calls my impressions are mostly good — even with video. It's all the same WebRTC, but things are probably more complex with more participants 🤔

@catto
Check if it has Internet recovery option though — try booting with Option key pressed and see if there is such an option, there use to be possible to connect to a wireless network from this EFI shell even, I'm just not sure if its present on your particular MBP.
Or… keep using Linux indeed — might make more sense than using no longer supported release of Mac OS X, I use Void on my still (barely) alive 17" MBP, it's one hell of a machine!

@peteriskrisjanis @fringemagnet
They've played us into believing that it's even possible to figure it all out 😅

@GeriAQuin
This Jerry Mandering I keep hearing about sure seems to be nasty fella 🤨