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   pistolero (p@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Thursday, 22-May-2025 23:50:42 JST pistolero
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   > AFAIR it doesn't even have hardware video acceleration outside of web browser
   
   There isn't one *in* the browser, because the browser doesn't do anything if you aren't clicking on anything.
   
   > to watch video files you have to de-multiplex them yourself and send audio and video streams to separate devices 😅
   
   This is what every video player does.
   
   > I mean one could probably make a traditional player and access the hardware directly,
   
   See presentation on GPU programming from last year's IWP9; proceedings attached. Interesting stuff going on, because it is a research OS.
   
   Contrast it with the absolute pile of shit that has been heaped onto Linux in the last decade: if you want a vision of the future, it's a YOLD, crushing a human face, forever. It's nice to have an operating system designed for computing instead of one that is forever playing catch-up with the previous version of Windows. I can sit down and hack instead of constantly dodging the most recent "innovations" and "Hey, I've decided to dump a bunch of shit in new and exciting locations because every single package added or changed at least one environment variable" and all of that. If Linux had stuck to what it was good at, we'd have workstations instead of something that usually acts like a workstation if you can find a distro that isn't desperately trying to drag you from Unix towards Kirkland Signature Windows 8. Remember when sound worked on Linux? We had a good run; I don't know why it doesn't work half the time now, I don't know who fucked up.
   
   > And yes, there are lots of people here using it for fun and who have at least tried it once, but @p is probably among the few daily driving it.
   
   Well, when I said people using it, I meant people actually using it. There are at least four people on FSE that use it. There's an instance full of Plan 9 people. I mean, if you pop in and say this kind of thing, it kind of discourages people from learning how it *actually* works. It's very interesting; it's not going to replace Linux, but a helicopter is not a replacement for a family SUV, but there's a lot of really great shit in there that makes it really nice to use.
   
   IWP9 is going on right now, I look forward to watching some of the talks and reading the papers. It'd be cool to be there. The relevant link: http://iwp9.org/ . BLS is a really cool guy, I think I will try to catch his talk instead of hearing someone shit on something cool, if I can convince Youtube to let me see a video.
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