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  • Yes, that is for X11. Now find one that works on all Wayland compositors, that doesn't require root permissions.

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  • I also switched to use different Wayland compositors many years ago for my main systems, but there are also still reasons to use X11. These are mine:

    • X11 forwarding, with that you can connect to another system via SSH (e.g. via ssh -Y) and just start a GUI app, and the window appears on your screen.
    • Sharing individual windows via WebRTC, with Wayland compositors you can normally only share full screens. Xserver allows applications to directly capture the window content of others.
    • Easily mirroring screens for presentations, with some Wayland compositors you have to capture one screen and then play it back on another screen, with X11 that is integrated into the xserver.
    • Automation and keyboard macros, with X11 it is much easier to automate keyboard macros and customize keyboard mapping than on Wayland. See Xmodmap, etc. Same for mouse input. That is also a reason why implementing remote control software is more difficult with Wayland, see for instance RustDesk support for Wayland (works now, but still a bit experimental).

    There might be some Wayland compositors that worked around that, but on X11 this was standard. But generally X11 provides these features for all WMs, and in Wayland they have to be implemented individually.

    And some just are not supposed to work, for security reasons.

    But all of this depends on your use-case. I sometimes even (can or have to) go without a Wayland compositor or X11 and render GUI directly via KMS/DRM.

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  • Well, it just depends on your use-case. Sometimes new games or applications require newer drivers or directly a newer Windows version. This is something you just have to be aware of.

    At least that was a reason I switched LTSC Windows over to Enterprise for some people.

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  • You might likely run into issues with GPU (and other) windows drivers, which might stop supporting old windows 10 versions. At least that happened already with LTSC/LTSB. I expect this to happen especially when ordinary windows 10 EOL is reached.

  • Quick everyone, prevent a warning text or something

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  • Yes, currently Valve is mostly interesting in a base system that just runs Steam and games, not a general Linux desktop. Commercial Linux distributions are more about servers and professional workstations.

    We either need PC hardware manufacturers or public funding to push Linux desktop, since I don't think that normal users would pay directly for a Linux system.

    PC hardware manufacturers however are more about selling the next device that constantly improving a system non-customers could also use for free, so I doubt they would commit to it fully, and instead use it for marketing.

    So all that is left is public funding.

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  • I don't think that there is any one issue that hurts the Linux desktop, I think it is more a matter of death by a thousand cuts.

    I think for the Linux desktop to be (more) successful we need dedicated QA teams, with a direct connection to usability developers that constantly test and write automated tests for the whole integration on different hardware, and fix any issue as well.

  • More than 1,000 classic RPGs, strategy games, and horror greats are wildly cheap in GOG's "Classics" PC sale, and are we OK with Skyrim officially being labeled an "old game?"

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  • What? P2P is more hackable? Hacking just one central server is more difficult than hacking multiple P2P clients that check each other? That seems like strange reasoning. This really depends on the implementation, sure you can make it insecure, but you can also make it more secure.

    And why wouldn't you want to host your own games when you want to play them together with others?

    Hosting your own games also gives you much more power over it, you can mod it more easily etc.

    IMO game developers of multiplayer games should also have to release dedicated servers to anyone that buys their game, so that they are still able to play the game, even if the game developer shuts the servers down, or their country is embargoed by the country where the game developer is located.

  • More than 1,000 classic RPGs, strategy games, and horror greats are wildly cheap in GOG's "Classics" PC sale, and are we OK with Skyrim officially being labeled an "old game?"

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  • You are inverting the logic there, all games on GoG are DRM free, but not all DRM free games are on GoG.

  • Facebook Pushes Its Llama 4 AI Model to the Right, Wants to Present “Both Sides”

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  • That is true, but it also isn't a counter argument to what I said.

    Just because the right-wing people are crazy and do not argue based on logic, but on confirmation-bias and personal preconceptions, doesn't mean that the reality itself has liberal bias. There are other ideologies that argue based on logic and observable facts, but are not 'liberal', many social-democrates (or democratic-socialists) for instance, IMO.

  • Facebook Pushes Its Llama 4 AI Model to the Right, Wants to Present “Both Sides”

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  • Good code documentation describes why something is done, and no just what or how.

    To answer why you have to understand the context, and often, you have to be there when the code was written and went through the various iterations.

    LLMs might be able to explain what is done, with some margin of error, but why something is done, I would be very surprised.

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  • Nah, reality doesn't have a liberal bias. "Liberal" is something that humans invented, and not something that comes from reality or some intrinsic part of nature.

    LLMs are trained on past written stuff by humans, and humans for a long time have not been ridiculously right wing as the current political climate of the US.

    If you train a model on only right wing propaganda, it will not miraculously turn "liberal", it will be right wing. LLMs also argue not more logical than any propagandist, if they were fed by only propaganda.

    I dislike it immensely when people argue that LLMs are truthful, unbiased, or somehow "know" or can create more that what was put into them. And connecting them with fundamental reality seems even more tech-bro-brained.

    Arguing that "reality" is this or that is also very annoying, because reality doesn't have any intrisic morales or politics that can be measured by logic or science. So many people argue that their morales are better then someone else's, because they where given by god, or by science, this is bullshit. They are all derived by human society, and the same is true by whatever "liberal" means.

    And lastly, assuming that some system somehow is "built into reality" shuts down any critique of the system. And critiquing any system in order to improve it is essential for any improvements, which should be part of any progressive thought.

  • China launches HDMI and DisplayPort alternative — GPMI boasts up to 192 Gbps bandwidth, 480W power delivery

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  • I think you are mixing up SFP and optical fiber. SFP modules with copper wires exist, and are common. (e.g. SFP 1000base-T modules)

    You can also use optical fiber without SFP, like the toslink connection.

    Optical fiber also has issues with requiring a larger minimal bend radius, because they easily break. So you have to handle them more carefully.

  • China launches HDMI and DisplayPort alternative — GPMI boasts up to 192 Gbps bandwidth, 480W power delivery

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  • SFP? You mean the every device has slots to plug in different transceiver modules? I guess that would make it more future proof, but I think that will raise the cost, and might confuse ordinary people.

    You have to think about the slot-transceiver compatibility and transceiver-medium compatibility then. Hmm... but I guess that would make it more transparent what is going on than having those chips embedded inside the cables, but not sure if we can leave them out, and require the end users to take care of thinking of all these compatibilities themselves or risk fire hazards.

  • What Drove You to Madness?

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  • The text is hiding a lot of details, but the nurse is pushing a normal chair, as if it was a wheelchair.

    And the composition gives AI vibes as well. But all of that could also just be because the photo is poorly staged.

  • What Drove You to Madness?

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  • I know this post is more about the committing on LLM "fixes", but find the other reasons more interesting.

    Similar to the date & time library there are a couple of other things that look easy at a first glance, but get complicated very quickly, because it has so many special cases:

    • lexicographic sorting (different languages sort things differently)
    • Postal address formatting (different standards in different countries, with many different context sensitive rules)
    • string handling
    • ...

  • Trump Has Already Botched His Own Bad Tariff Plan

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  • He is not only attacking the US, he wants to breakup democracies world wide and through causing international crisis and turmoil, push all countries into becoming authoritarian regimes, controlled by oligarchs and one-party systems.

    That is the actual goal, and he is doing that while trying to maintain plausible deniability, by staging himself as an incompetent and incoherent buffoon.

    And even if he is a real buffoon and doesn't understand the end goal, he has a lot of more intelligent antidemocratic advisors around him that do. This is not coming out of nowhere.

  • Fear that Trump tariffs will spark recession wipes out more than $2 trillion in value from US stocks

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  • I understand that perfectly, they like the crisis situation because they hope to acquire more, and maybe even loose a couple of aspirant mill- or billionaires on the way.

    They do see it as a game, and thus big disruptions create great new chances for them to gain even more.

  • Fear that Trump tariffs will spark recession wipes out more than $2 trillion in value from US stocks

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  • Nah. Rich people profit from recessions and other crisis. They have enough money to buy everything and then are even richer afterwards.

    That is why everyone lets Trump do whatever he likes.