I’m giving your upvote to @ickplant

Are we one of them? 🥺

Google only checked out and cashed in after getting a monopoly. Mozilla let themselves fade into irrelevance.

Nice

Yes and no. It would solve some problems, but because it has no (non-hacky) graphics acceleration, most DEs wouldn’t use it anyway. The biggest benefit would be from not having to use a DE in some circumstances where it’s currently required.

Businesses doing April Fools was fun until every gigantic corporation started doing it. Now it’s just bland, thinly-veiled marketing.

Each monitor should have its own framebuffer device rather than only one app controlling all monitors at any time and needing each app to implement its own multi-monitor support. I know fbdev is an inefficient, un-accelerated wrapper of the DRI, but it’s so easy to use!

Want to draw something on a particular monitor? Write to its framebuffer file. Want to run multiple apps on multiple screens without needing your DE to launch everything? Give each app write access to a single fbdev. Want multi-seat support without needing multiple GPUs? Same thing.

Right now, each GPU only gets 1 fbdev and it has the resolution of the smallest monitor plugged into that GPU. Its contents are then mirrored to every monitor, even though they all have their own framebuffers on a hardware level.

My thermodynamics professor made so approximations in his derivations that all of his equations had an “O” term to represent the inaccuracy. Every time he made another approximation he’d say “and, of course, the O sucks up the error”.

My high school English teacher still has night terrors about me starting sentences with conjunctions. And that was the least of their problems.

Edit: kind of unrelated, but that song about conjunctions is now stuck in my head. 🎶Conjunction junction, what’s your function? 🎶

The trick is to round everything. Pi? Basically 3.

People are going to start asking AI to rotate PDFs for them, just like people started asking ChatGPT to do math; it’s a terrible idea but will probably work 80% of the time, and that’ll be good enough for most people.

You can make commits on your system without pushing them to the remote server, and that’s the default behavior.

Nope

These days I go 50/50 on Reddit and Lemmy. I know it’s a chicken and egg problem for content, but hopefully 50% usage is enough to change things over time.

Haven’t you heard? It’s the year of the Linux desktop.

I’m not saying it’s not awful, but I still think that publicly telling everyone is inappropriate. Derek basically did the same thing as them.

Tell those particular people. Maybe screenshot those particular messages as proof. But don’t publicly share everything.

How would you feel if you invited a few people to your home and then found out one of them secretly recorded audio the entire time? That’s the equivalent of screenshotting messages in a small group chat.

Unless you were literally planning crimes, the actual content of the conversation is irrelevant to the principle.

We’re not assuming, we’re speculating.

Only half?