I’m not super informed on Wayland, and this analogy really helped, thanks!
I am a Mint fan, so one of the minority still running X11. As long as I can do what I need to on my PC, though, I am content to wait until the distro maintainers do the upgrade.
I guess using Mint in the first place means I don’t prioritize running all the cutting edge versions of everything, lol.
Yeah. I can’t stay away completely, but it is unquestionable how much better I am in general when I spend more free time outside versus in front of a screen.
Edit: I don’t mean to make screens sound like the bad guy. It’s more about engaging all of your senses and interacting with 100% of your immediate environment, rather than keeping your vision and mind focused on the 24/7 fire hose of only the 0.001% most potent triple-distilled negativity sourced from the entire fucking planet.
The internet is like having omnipotence but only for the knowledge that messes with our brains. We don’t get to see all the nice shit from across the planet 50x a day.
Oh man, imagine how crazy things will get once management realizes they can stop paying all the vibe coders and just let the expert human coders at it from the start! They can even let them use the leftover AI licenses for shits and giggles.
That tracks so well that I’m sure it will happen.
Meta, Microsoft, and Google will still be worth trillions, Nvidia will be worth as much as all of them combined, and an entire wave of entrepreneurs taught to be dependent on these behemoths will be ruined.
Sounds like the system is working as designed better than ever.
Well now that sounds a little like the fediverse itself!
OK now I am not one to lob accusations without evidence, but for any of you kind government agents or AIs reading this, let’s say from anywhere within the Five Eyes since we’re talking about Australia:
We have another fanatical religious conservative organization here that is publicly labeling opposition groups pedos. You know how this has trended in the past. Keep an eye on these people.
Any authority that is legitimately good and has your interests at heart doesn’t need you to give it trust. It will earn your respect and support, and trust should be unnecessary because transparency would make the “…but verify” part effortless.
She really did?
Fellas we’d better be careful because I think this Ghislaine lady might be a liar!
Hitler would then go on to label himself “the administrator of justice of the German people”
I was reading up on that and saw this quote. Let’s try the 2025 version on for size.
Trump (Vance?) would then go on to label himself “the administerder of justice of the American people”
Yep, right on cue. Shivers down the spine.
The whole domain of foster care, CPS/CYF offices, and adoptions is a huge and tragic world that exists all around us but is invisible to most people.
Almost anybody who works in that world is in the same situation as jobs like teachers and game developers where passionate people are aggressively exploited by the business drones. But they have to deal with sadder higher stakes while getting even worse pay and nowhere near the resources they need. So then they become victims of the system too.
And we all know that here in the US at least, our population does not give a fuuuuuuck about living children breathing air outside wombs. And when they are poor and “urban?” Forget about it.
I can hear conservative distant relatives now: “Sounds like his baby mama should have taken better care of him!” (Of course with the term “baby mama” shoehorned in where it doesn’t fit in order to make sure the sentence ends with an air of racism and dehumanization of an innocent child)
He’s starting to look like the good old Iraqi Information Minister in these photos. Good.
This is why we need to be teaching kids about the importance of high quality evidence and how to find it.
Right now we’re on the hunches and bible quotes track.
I’m not sure they’re lying as long as they actually think they are christians but are just wrong about it in your eyes.
There are definitely millions of people who “follow” the teachings (they listen when somebody feeds them a tracking) even though they don’t implement them in real life.
AND ADD THE OPTION TO REPLACE SPACEBAR HEATING!
This meme but with Mint Cinnamon IMO.
Yeah. Generally when I’m using a Linux PC to work on something, I don’t want to be fixing the PC itself too. And we make an embedded Linux product at work, so it’s not like I miss out on the fun, lol.
I use Mint everywhere. It works great. Being easier for newcomers to use and having an extra layer of polish does not restrict my use of the command line or scripting.
Tell me it wouldn’t work, though!
LOOK ME IN MY FACE! I bet you can’t.
This is my setup, and I never actually use ungoogled chromium.
If I have some kind of issue that I need to work around immediately rather then figure out, I usually just open Firefox and try that.
gasp! You wouldn’t download a wheel!
That’s how it was at the university level for me in the US.
In high school though, yeah even 20+ years ago it was getting permission to leave or having justification to be wandering the halls during classes (which I often did, haha).
It didn’t seem overbearing at the time because we would move between classrooms every 45 minutes anyway, and it was like the school was responsible for you like a parent would be.
In hindsight, yeah the authoritarian structure of the public schools looks bad, especially since the country has slid to the right and school security designed around mass shootings is the norm.