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ysjet ,

That definitely sounds like you just made that up, considering I was around then.

ysjet ,

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_electronic_color_code_mnemonics

Pretty much everywhere has cracked down on that kind of thing for a while.

ysjet ,

I can assure you, the multi-million dollar organization does not need your defense of them.

ysjet ,

The problem here is "reasonable court." One party in the US has spent decades stacking the courts with unreasonable judges who will agree to anything a corporation hands them.

ysjet ,

Possibly, but I'll just transcribe it here for screenreaders and people who can't see through the pixelation:

Linux Error Messages That Go Hard Starter Pack

ERROR: Failed to mount the real root device.
Bailing out, you are on your own. Good luck.

WARNING: The following essential packages will be removed.
This should NOT be done unless you know exactly what you are doing!
   sysvinit initscripts (due to sysvinit) sysv-rc (due to sysvinit) util-linux
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 198 to remove and 3 not upgraded
You are about to do something potentially harmful.
To continue type in the phrase 'Yes, do as I say!'
 ?] 

(12/19) upgrading linux-raspberrypi
WARNING: /boot appears to be a seperate partition but is not mounted.
         You probably just broke your system. Congratulations.
>>> Updating module dependencies. Please wait...

[   0.895799] ---[ end Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs 
on unknown block(0,0)

  _______________________________
< Your System ate a SPARC! Gah! >
  ------------------------------
            \    ^__^
              \  (xx)\_________
                 (__)\         )\/\
                  U   ||-----w |
                      ||      ||

Out of memory: Kill process 15745 (postgres) score 10 or sacrifice child

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    ysjet ,

    The funny thing is, their fees aren't high. You just got duped by Epic's propaganda that 30% was high.

    In fact, it's vastly lower than the previous alternative, which was in store and took almost twice as much more of the cut.

    Even today, 30% is standard for a digital eshop (Nintendo, Sony, Microsoft, Apple), except Valve offers more services and benefits than all of them combined.

    ysjet ,

    Because they can use the phone company records to say "We think you were here when this "violent riot" happened (actually just a protest that police started shooting at protestors because they know they'll get away with it), you're arrested".
    And cops don't care if you're recording, they'll either break your phone or shoot you anyway and then claim it was self defense.

    ysjet ,

    Because the entire design of it is to mathematically prevent you from having the option to hack or block the ads. THe way to get around it is to... not use chrome.

    ysjet ,

    You... can? That's been a thing for ages. Windows has literally been taking queues from Linux on how to makes installing packages and apps easier.

    ysjet ,

    There's GUI front-ends for things like apt that are pre-installed on many Linux distros, e.g. Ubuntu. And windows has been moving towards trying to have the same thing. And yes, also they've got an apt of their own.

    ysjet , (edited )

    Something wayland lacks but Xorg has?

    Basic functionality. Anyone that actually thinks Wayland is ready either doesn't use it or is just straight coping. Maybe it'll get there, but... honestly, probably not.

    Come back to me when I don't need to treat wayland like a bethesda game and install a bunch of mods, plugins, packages, and do a bunch of other crap just to get basic functionality.

    ysjet ,

    screen recording/sharing, automation, it's inherant fragmentation because it decided that basic window server functionality should be implemented on the DE, basically every driver but a super small subset of drivers for devices the devs care about which do not include nvidia drivers which are a huge portion of the userbase, the absolutely ridiculous architectural choices that intentionally blocks basic functionality, and furthermore causes a crash to completely freeze your computer which forces restart, a complete failure to understand standard monitor EDID, and a refusal to allow you to set them yourself (to this day my monitor, a bog standard 144hz 1440p LG monitor, is not supported by wayland), no global hotkeys, broken sleep mode, breaks appimages entirely, no redshift, the developers made sweeping design decisions that don't work and then get pissy and throw temper tantrums in the mailing lists when people point out that they don't work, heavily moving away from portability and modularity (the devs think nobody uses BSD?!), windows can't raise themselves or keep themselves raised, or absolutely position themselves, so toolbars/utilities/etc can just go fuck themselves, sudo gets broken and has to pipe passwords everywhere as a workaround which means sudo has increased attack surface on wayland, and color management is non-existent.

    And this is just shit I have personally ran into the last time I tried it, which was about 4 months ago.

    ysjet ,

    Ubuntu Gnome on AMD, actually.

    ysjet ,

    The reason I care about the technical implementation shortcomings is because they don't go away. They don't magically fix themselves over time, they snowball, especially when the maintainers refuse to admit they're shortcomings and insist on doubling down on them.

    As time goes on, new functionality and technologies are going to emerge, and you need to be able to fold those, cleanly and reliably, into your codebase. And frankly, wayland's devs are having trouble getting past and even current technologies implemented cleanly into their codebase, because they're made architectural decisions that exclude those technologies. This is just going to be more and more of a problem as time goes on, imo.

    • Screen recording CAN work... if client devs go out of their way to work around wayland, like OBS did. That is not a long term solution, or even a solution we should be encouraging.
    • yes
    • personally I have crashes on wayland, none on X11. even when x11 does crash though, you just drop to terminal. Whatever is locking your system up, it might not actually be X11 itself. Wayland, you do actually have to reboot, it's a standing architectural issue.
    • nice
    • I'm on ubuntu gnome w/ AMD gpu, and they straight up do not work. You can set a global hotkey for the OS/wayland itself, but there is no way to set a global hotkey for/from a program, e.g. set a key combo for 'clip last 30 seconds' like I can in X11. Again, conscious design decision by wayland devs that breaks a lot of use cases. I think there's some third party plugin for wayland that fixes this, but I shouldn't need the wayland equivalent of nexusmods to get my window manager working. This ain't skyrim. :P
    • sleep and hibernate are pretty close to the same thing- sleep mode saves your current state to RAM, hibernate stores it to disk. hibernate uses less power draw and recovers cleanly from power loss. These days I think most front-ends call 'hibernate' sleep, and don't actually provide sleep as an option, because it's imo better. I meant hibernate, and I should have clarified, because linux does actually allow you to pick and choose.
    • some appimages work, but it's because they work around wayland. These days there's a package you can include in your app image to hep with that iirc, but again that's kind of dumb.
    • redshift is f.lux. Basically, eye strain relief.
    • toolbars, utilities, etc. For example, I have a program that adds an overlay to my screen for discord, so when someone talks in discord their avatar pops up on the left side of my primary screen. This not only doesn't work in wayland, it can never work in wayland, because it intentionally refuses to allow programs to set their own screen position, control whether they appear over other things, or even know where on the screen they are on the screen.
    • GUI applications with sudo, yes. Basically, in wayland sudo has to pipe the password arround because it doesn't support SUDO_ASKPASS, so they work around it by piping it around with a generated shell. This vastly increases the attack surface of sudo: https://github.com/linuxhw/hw-probe-pyqt5-gui/commit/eb2d6e5145fb8571414bda57676084b7f13b94e5#diff-23cb15995f1502beebb38433bfa83204a5f45b376eaf88e2e41a0d8a1cd44722R290
    ysjet ,

    Wow, it's almost like that's why they said you didn't need a graphics card, instead of saying you didn't need a GPU!

    ysjet ,

    Yes, and it's you. Fuck off and go away.

    ysjet ,

    Whoever made this comic has never actually seen millennials and zoomers interact. We all cool.

    ysjet ,

    If they knew their history, they wouldn't be repeating it.

    ysjet ,

    Then buy a fucking maintenance contract, just like landlords do.

    ysjet ,

    A maintenance company is not a home warranty company.

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