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gvs (gvs@rebelbase.site)'s status on Monday, 18-Nov-2024 20:26:37 JST gvs And supports things like fractional scaling. Which is another thing that we didn't so much need 30 years ago. My 32inch curved 4K monitor is not fine with the same settings as a full HD panel on the connected laptop. -
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gvs (gvs@rebelbase.site)'s status on Monday, 18-Nov-2024 20:23:21 JST gvs > I'm not sure what you're doing comparing OS's to a display protocol.
Because each of these OS's has their own graphics layer... Mac basically is modified FreeBSD with a custom graphical stack and desktop. Parts of those OS's compare to X11
> Xorg is simply fast enough not to slow the user down
Is a bad argument. It has noticeable latency and for some applications or graphical effects, that matters. -
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gvs (gvs@rebelbase.site)'s status on Monday, 18-Nov-2024 20:14:08 JST gvs I am talking about X11 the protocol, not Xorg the implementation of it.
You keeping hearing the same points because they are true. X11 has never been ahead of Windows nor Mac in performance. I'm curious where you got the proof that it was (and is) faster then those or Wayland. Your counter argument also consists of 0 facts, just jpgs and gifs. -
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gvs (gvs@rebelbase.site)'s status on Monday, 18-Nov-2024 19:58:53 JST gvs Yes and no. The Linux kernel evolved (and replaced systems that no longer aligned with modern hardware), X11 is basically the same as it was 30 years ago and that's not so much the problem but it cannot keep up with the possibilties of modern graphic cards making it laggy. Also, since I started on Linux in 1997, X11 had been a sore regarding security, Wayland's architecture is better in that respect to -
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gvs (gvs@rebelbase.site)'s status on Monday, 18-Nov-2024 19:51:34 JST gvs Sorry, I don't think you explained what you think you can't do with a modern Linux distribution. I haven't used wine in at least a decade, neither do any of my family. We all use native Linux apps AND the browser, much the same as on Windows. -
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gvs (gvs@rebelbase.site)'s status on Monday, 18-Nov-2024 19:51:32 JST gvs I agree about the purge of the Russian devs, though I think they had little choice since that is mandated by the government...
I disagree about Wayland though. The technology behind X11 is ancient and it makes it hard to do modern things that MacOS can do, I think the slow rollout combined with compatibility layers is a good way to do a transition that does benefit users in the end. -
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gvs (gvs@rebelbase.site)'s status on Monday, 18-Nov-2024 19:39:25 JST gvs How so? I've been using Linux since 1997 and it has never been easier now that most technology evolved to work in browser. There aren't many things I cannot do on Linux without jumping through any hoops. In fact, most of my kids had never used Windows befor they where required to in school. -
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gvs (gvs@rebelbase.site)'s status on Sunday, 20-Oct-2024 18:36:02 JST gvs @Humpleupagus
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gvs (gvs@rebelbase.site)'s status on Wednesday, 07-Aug-2024 17:15:59 JST gvs I read the first sentence as your reply, I see now it was Jan's.
@jan why not, running a graphics layer that the closed source driver producer just now starts to offer limited support for is a recipe for disaster. That is the fault of said manufacturer who knew Wayland was going to replace X for many years in advance. We can't hold back new technology because their support is lagging. -
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gvs (gvs@rebelbase.site)'s status on Wednesday, 07-Aug-2024 16:36:56 JST gvs @Humpleupagus @jan I don't have a problem either 😁
And Wayland works fine on Intel cards. It has benefits over X -
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gvs (gvs@rebelbase.site)'s status on Wednesday, 07-Aug-2024 16:26:28 JST gvs What distribution are you running?
I had that ages ago when I still had a desktop and Nvidia card, but not a single time in the past 10 years on integrated graphics -
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gvs (gvs@rebelbase.site)'s status on Wednesday, 07-Aug-2024 16:26:26 JST gvs I run Ubuntu flavors on my desktops/laptops, but I do understand this remains an issue with Nvidia's drivers and from what I read, it is their bugs -
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gvs (gvs@rebelbase.site)'s status on Monday, 15-Apr-2024 23:36:16 JST gvs Can, yes, but the kid will not have a dad when it still needs one if you wait to long. I had my eldest at 27, my youngest at 39 -
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gvs (gvs@rebelbase.site)'s status on Monday, 15-Apr-2024 22:06:56 JST gvs Hi @eb, I think you missed a detail in your post about Truth Social and the AGPL. Soapbox author, @alex was part of Truth Social until not so long ago, so at least that part would be legally OK I think. Their modifications to Mastodon are a different matter -
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gvs (gvs@rebelbase.site)'s status on Thursday, 01-Feb-2024 00:42:09 JST gvs Can pronoun support be disabled? If not now, will that be an option? -
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gvs (gvs@rebelbase.site)'s status on Monday, 15-Jan-2024 02:55:38 JST gvs Conversations has a very dated UI. I agree Telegram looks good, even if it is the worst at security. -
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gvs (gvs@rebelbase.site)'s status on Saturday, 13-Jan-2024 04:31:22 JST gvs Agreed and I told them that too. UI sucks but the tech is really interesting, the servers can be self hosted (like matrix) but know little about the users. And I like the no phone number (or username) -
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gvs (gvs@rebelbase.site)'s status on Saturday, 13-Jan-2024 04:12:20 JST gvs For small groups, the approach by Simplex works quite well too (and V2 will improve that). I read an analysis of private groups on signal that Amazon where Signal is hosted can identify which ips are in connected groups. Not sure if I saved the link somewhere but it is really interesting. Sealed sender is broken this way too -
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gvs (gvs@rebelbase.site)'s status on Saturday, 13-Jan-2024 02:46:57 JST gvs Agreed, that is my conclusion as well. Encrypting rooms with hundreds if not thousands of users is very, very difficult and the gains are marginal. -
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gvs (gvs@rebelbase.site)'s status on Friday, 05-Jan-2024 04:37:50 JST gvs This is in Ditto?