m0xEE @m0xee@librem.one

@kirby @romin
I remained unsure for an hour or so, but then I knew it was you.

@kirby @romin
I wake up 🔁 Another Kirby alt
🤣

@splitshockvirus
Do you take any supplements to help the joints?

@newt
I agree, there is nothing that would make me choose Alacritty over everything else at all costs, it was the first Wayland-capable term I tried, it was good enough and I stuck with it.
But again, it already exists, it's in Rust, it's "GPU-accelerated", and it's marginally faster — why not?
@nik @scathach

@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

@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
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!