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I have been sort of following Wayland’s development for over 10 years now. I have been using Wayland for over 2 years now. I have been reading and watching various lengthy arguments online for and against it. I still don’t feel like I actually know it even is, not beyond some handwavey superficialities. Definitely not to the extent and depth I could understand what X11 was and how to actually work with it, troubleshoot it when necessary and achieve something slightly unusual with it. I feel like, these days, you are either getting superficial marketing materials, ELI5 approaches that seem to be suited at best to pacify a nosy child without giving them anything to actually work with, or reference manuals full of unexplained jargon for people who already know how it works and just need to look up some details now and then…
Maybe I’m getting old. I used to like Linux because I could actually understand what was going on…
13·3 months agoThe KDE team has already determined that this is not a bug and that both you and me must just be imagining it:
20·4 months agoAw, too bad, they were working so hard on bankrupting themselves in defiance of that endless money cheat code they’ve got…
It’s a lot better than the system that just randomly throws in your USB drives with your SCSI/SAS/SATA/PATA drives. Or the systems that calls everything a SCSI drive when it usually isn’t a SCSI drive.
Floating Point Unit. The thing that does mathematical operations on floating point numbers. It used come separately from the CPU as an add-on chip, but around the 486 era, manufacturers started integrating it on the same die as the CPU. Of course, as these things go, from the system programmers point of view, there is still no difference between an add-on FPU and an integrated one.
The one pictured here is an add-on FPU for an Intel 80386 CPU.
3351·5 months agoAbout 20 years ago, Microsoft was found guilty and convicted, because they forced their browser on their users, driving out competitors by abusing their de facto monopoly on PC operating systems. These days, they are doing the exact same thing again, just on an even broader base. I don’t even understand how this verdict took so long.
3·5 months agoBut this is about companies, not products or brand names.
WhatsApp is not its own company, it belongs to Facebook/Meta.
Also, on that topic, you could do the same thing you did with X/Twitter to Meta/Facebook.
*edit: Oh, and of course Alphabet/Google. Curious how many big tech companies seem keen on obfuscating their own name these days…
Smartctl works on nvme drives. Use it.
btop for bling
htop for practical utility
top for minimalism, availability, reliability
Well, yeah, dividing something by 0.5 is the same thing as multiplying it by 2…
Top Left – More or less the default position, sensible enough, if a bit naive. Nothing wrong with this.
Top Right – Having knowledge is a good thing, and so is making decisions based on sound risk-benefit analysis.
Bottom Right – Well, at least it’s an informed decision. Just don’t try to pass off the risk on someone else if it backfires.
Bottom Left – Oooouuuuh, you don’t want to be in this quadrant, trust me…
Batteries take “rare earth metals” like cobalt.
Some Lithium-Ion batteries use Cobalt, but many don’t. Lithium-Iron-Phosphate, for example, is a popular variant without any Cobalt. There is a push going on to move to battery chemistries without Cobalt or to reduce the actual amount of Cobalt where it is still required.
“The Pianist” (2002), btw. In case anyone didn’t know and was wondering.
77·7 months ago50 Euros a day is insane. That’s a good portion of what I pay for a whole month.
Sometimes circumstances leave you little choice…
I get the joke, but in contrast to heating, you can easily just… not run demanding games while the electricity is insanely expensive for a day.
Have you tried it? There is wlrandr, and at least according to how the command line looks, it could be supported.
This is something that has been occasionally happening in Europe (at least in Germany, don’t know about France) for well over 10 years now. Probably more like 15.
What’s sorely needed at this point is much more storage to make this energy available when it is needed instead of when it isn’t. Before that happens, you cannot really decommission any gas or coal power plants, because you still need them during times of much less renewable production.