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ikidd, to linux in KDE's Nate Graham On X11 Being A Bad Platform & The Wayland Future
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Wayland has fixed so many head-scratching issues I would get running 6 monitors on 2 GPUs under X11. I’d often end up with missing monitors, placed in wrong spots that I’d have to rearrange every reboot until an update would come through that would fix it again for a few months, then all over again.

Since I moved to wayland, everything just works. When it doesn’t, it’s not a display server issue, it’s something physical. I just had a couple monitors fail to show up and thought “oh hell, it’s back to this, eh”. But I open the tower, seat the offending GPU better, and everything comes up like normal, and all the screens are in the right position, it just remembers.

Anyone that thinks X11 is still superior probably runs on a laptop with a single screen.

ikidd, to memes in Aaaaaand it's over
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So every person I see talking like this seems to do it at twice the volume than if they put it to their ear, and then you get the added bonus of listening to the other idiot on the call as well, again, at twice the volume that it needs to be.

It seems more like performative art than a phone call at that point.

ikidd, to linuxmemes in Oh no ...
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You forgot “Lemmy is developed by tankies so someone that isn’t me should fork it and work their asses off so I feel more comfortable for some reason.”

ikidd, (edited ) to piracy in Once a pirate, always a pirate
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I’m well over 25 years of sailing now (40 if you count games for early PCs), and they’ll pry the sabre out of my cold, dead hands. I’ve made not watching ads a lifestyle and piracy is so much easier than dealing with the bullshit interfaces of streaming companies.

If I have a way of directly donating to creators and not via their shitty production companies, I’ll take it. Podcasts have it right, I can send money to creators and get an ad-free stream. If I can’t, I don’t donate and I don’t listen to their work.

In the end, me avoiding ads isn’t costing anyone anything, because if I hear an ad, I likely avoid that product going forward. They have at best zero effect on my buying decisions, if not a negative one.

ikidd, to piracy in Visits to piracy websites have increased 12% in the past four years
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Don’t forget ads.

I’d happily pay for anything I consume if it were convenient, private, and no ads. Since I can’t get that anymore, well, it’s the high seas for me. I pay as much for high seas related services as I would for the official streamers, but the experience is 10x better.

ikidd, to memes in $1 grilled cheese
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I’d probably double that menu to include coffee.

No cream.

No sugar.

Take your coffee and grilled cheese sandwich and fuck off over thereabouts

ikidd, to linux in Linux reaches new high 3.82%
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Open office is a dead project, avoid at all costs. LibreOffice or OnlyOffice are active.

ikidd, to memes in Target Acquired
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Buy 2 seats, 1 behind the other, for $550 then walk in there with a toolbox and yeet that seat out through the emergency door onto the tarmac. You get more than a few inches and it only cost twice as much.

ikidd, to risa in The Department of Temporal Investigations is on the case
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I want to see the “bring out your dead” cart guy from The Holy Grail.

ikidd, to piracy in Streaming Pirates Are Hollywood’s New Villains - Illegal subscription services that steal films or TV shows bring in $2 billion a year in ads and subscriber fees.
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“If buying is not owning, then piracy is not stealing.”

ikidd, to linux in TIL that operating system Linux is an example of anarcho-communism
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Oh, Robert, there’s some lovely filth over here…

ikidd, to linuxmemes in I found it! The manual! I'm not sure it's helping me though...
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Well, you see, the internet is a series of tubes…

ikidd, to linux in KDE's Nate Graham On X11 Being A Bad Platform & The Wayland Future
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That’s less about Wayland than it is about shortfalls in nVidia driver development. Exactly like Nate’s example in the blog post.

ikidd, to historyporn in Newfangled washing machine with family, Ohio, USA, 1911
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I like that the photographer caught the moment that the dog decided to lick his balls.

ikidd, (edited ) to selfhosted in So SBCs are shit now? Anything I can do with my collection of Pis and old routers?
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I’m just going to say, I shit on them all along. ARM is relatively expensive, bespoke and difficult to compile for because of that. Anyone can puke out a binary for amd64 that works everywhere. And way, way faster than some sad little SOC. Especially weird is spending $1000 on a clusterboard with CMs that had half of the power of a 5 year old X86 SFF desktop you could pick up for $75 and attach some actual storage to.

Maybe RISC-V will change all that, but I doubt it. Sure hope so though. The price factor has already leaned the right way to make it worthwhile.

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