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   a kilo of saucepans (rakslice) (rakslice@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 29-Aug-2024 12:23:34 JST a kilo of saucepans (rakslice)

   here i go, i'm about to try switching to wayland from nvidia X11 to try to make an accessibility feature work properly and stop breaking other things on the system. let me place my bets:
   - it's not going to fix it, it is just another excuse in the pantheon of capricious desktop environment dev excuses (you can't report a bug on an old version not that we're saying it's fixed, we won't accept a bug report without you doing a bunch of clerical work for us you aren't equipped to do, etc) and

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     a kilo of saucepans (rakslice) (rakslice@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 29-Aug-2024 12:23:33 JST a kilo of saucepans (rakslice)

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     - the big nest of Popsicle sticks everything is made of to get basic functionality (e.g. video decode acceleration in a browser, etc.) is going to totally fall over

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     a kilo of saucepans (rakslice) (rakslice@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 29-Aug-2024 12:23:33 JST a kilo of saucepans (rakslice)

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     I didn't even get as far as trying the feature, I incidentally tried to open mpv and with the default settings it just segfaults, like you could not make this stuff up

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     a kilo of saucepans (rakslice) (rakslice@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 29-Aug-2024 12:23:33 JST a kilo of saucepans (rakslice)

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     It's like, I'm not some kind of "it should just work" absolutist, but I think it must be tractable to users such that you can get the explanation of the relevant moving parts in the faq or whatever; and like I'm a dev with lots of track record in faffing around with things to get them to work, I feel like it's fair to say I represent the high end of the spectrum on that

     Thomas 🔭🕹️ repeated this.
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     a kilo of saucepans (rakslice) (rakslice@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 29-Aug-2024 12:23:33 JST a kilo of saucepans (rakslice)

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     on the dial between "there's a useful thing in there maybe someday" and "it's wasting more time that it's ever gonna be worth, shoot it in the head twice to make sure it dies" the needle is still firmly over toward that second one imo