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@sotolf @rl_dane @thelinuxcast
I don't "keep misinterpreting" — maybe I just didn't get what you mean about being monolithic. E.g. for input there is libinput — again a separate software and Xorg can use it too. XFree86 wasn't modular either — it took a great deal of effort to make it such. I don't see anything in Wayland's design that would intrinsically make it monolithic.

@sotolf @rl_dane @thelinuxcast
And I'm not someone who uses all the latest-greatest — far from it, most of hardware I use is a decade or more older, and I've been using Linux systems when Xorg itself didn't exist. I just don't stick to my old habits and for me Wayland just works. True, it doesn't support exact window placement — but I don't use that, it might not play well with some hardware, but on the one I have and that supports it, it works fine.

@sotolf @rl_dane @thelinuxcast
Theoretically, it can be solved by using a compositor with Xorg — but it complicates things instead of making them simpler, and would probably result in performance drop.
True, Wayland solves this problem by relying on features of modern hardware instead of relying on lowest common denominator and supporting chipsets like Intel 915, but in the end it pays off.

@sotolf @rl_dane @thelinuxcast
BTW screen tearing isn't about video, it's noticeable even when scrolling the page in Firefox — I've been surprised to see it even on relatively modern hardware (modern = not two decades old in my case 😂), I've tried everything — every Xorg setting, every Firefox setting in the book and couldn't get rid of it, when I switched to sway — it's just gone! Simple as that!

@sotolf @rl_dane @thelinuxcast
Nothing monolith about it if you don't use a distro that relies of systemd, sway is a separate software, wlroots is a separate software, I think you need elogind for seat management or whatever they call it — that's about it. I hate systemd and I don't use it, but I use Void with Sway on hardware that supports it and it works perfectly.

@threat
I usually don't take boxes I use for hosting stuff, I could — these aren't big either, but there's no need to, they are pretty autonomous, the most they need is being restarted after the power outage, I can do everything else, including the filesystem repairs remotely.

@threat
You know me, I'm not very demanding in terms of computing power, any modern laptop would feel like a supercomputer to me — even quad-core i7 still feels like a decent machine for building stuff. I'm used to be on low-powered and old equipment.
I think all computers I use daily could fit in a medium-sized suitcase, in fact I sometimes do take this stuff with me when I have the opportunity to live in the country.

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@newt @kaia @hj
It means she got it from someone else before you 😜
Now that I think about it, there is something perverse in a way knowledge is transmitted the same way as… deviations induced by trauma 🤔

@snacks @flisk @lain
I've used the form thingie and went with its recommendations, it did improve things a bit, but it still didn't make running Pemorla butter-smooth…
Maybe old PowerPC Mac Mini with only a gigabyte of RAM and an HDD just isn't the perfect hardware for it 😜

@icedquinn @volpeon
I really want to get myself one of those robot vacuum cleaners, but every time I realize what amount of work it is to root one and make it usable with something like Valetudo, I'm get like: "A-ah, fuck it!"

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Russia ditching its flat income tax feels like streaming services morphing back into traditional cable networks in the sense that it’s a real incentive to return to old illegal habits (tax evasion / copyright piracy).

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@spoofy @lcamtuf
Yep, and they use fuzzing: if you can keep feeding it with random bullshit and it keeps running for days — it's good!
"Results? What the fuck is that? 🤔"

@wyatt8740 @unnick
I've seen Fortran actually being used in a couple of projects where I didn't expect it to be, but those projects did use some advanced math — not advanced enough to truly justify it, but those pieces of software were relatively old, so it likely was there historically — maybe no one cared enough to reimplement those parts as you usually get a Fortran compiler with gcc anyway 🤷

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NEW ACCOUNT WHO THIS?

So our instance shat itself, we had to start over.
Please, boost this message and help me find my old friends that I couldn't retrieve, it would mean a lot to me!

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