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GNOME 47 Can Now Be Built With X11 Support Disabled (www.phoronix.com)

For those wanting to build a Wayland-only Linux desktop experience without carrying any aging X11 baggage, GNOME 47 will be able to optionally offer Wayland-only support without carrying X11/X.Org support. This Mutter merge request landed today that allows compiling Mutter with X11 support disabled. That landed today along with...

davemeech ,

If only I wasn’t such a moron with trying to navigate around Nvidia drivers and Optimus, this sounds fantastic.

I have yet to figure all of this out and get to a smooth and stable state.

davemeech ,

Ahoy, guys.

Be the change you want to see in this world, don’t let Thomas Edison continue to shit on everything from his grave.

davemeech ,

Are we talking something like NixOS?

davemeech ,

White dude here. It’s super easy to read something like this without feeling disenfranchised or bullied. Sure we can do better to avoid it, but that should not at all be the main takeaway from this testimonial. Why aren’t you angry at the common propensity for women in places of academic and professional authority being looked down upon and disrespected like this? This is super common.

davemeech ,

I’m very sorry, but what is ITT and baww?

davemeech ,

Thanks for the clarification. This is how I find out that I’m old.

davemeech ,

Unfortunately this seems to be my experience and perspective too. White guys who think this strongly that we’re victimized or disenfranchised make me very suspicious of what the rest of their worldview entails.

'Influencer fatigue' is real and young people are getting tired of it (www.yahoo.com)

Although the spectacle of influencers flaunting their affluence has long been a staple of social media, there are signs that audiences are growing tired of it. Experts say “influencer fatigue” is wearing on young people who crave authenticity as inflation rises and achieving a stable livelihood becomes increasingly...

davemeech ,

Probably an old man yelling at cloud sentiment, but I hated them from the very beginning.

Where's Our Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League Review? (IGN denied review code) (www.ign.com)

In a bad-vibes moment, they’re denying a huge outlet like IGN a review code. No matter what I think of IGN in particular (nothing good tbh), that’s not something I can find a real explanation for other than “We made DC’s Gollum and want to avoid bad press as long as we can”.

davemeech ,

Yeah this is never a good sign.

That being said, perhaps because I got into a couple.of their podcasts, but I like a bunch of people at IGN. How come you’re not a fan?

davemeech ,

So I have YouTube premium but also have ad-blocker, for the first time yesterday I was noticing absolutely abysmal speeds on YouTube and I suspect this is why. I thought my computer was starting to shit the bed initially it was so brutal.

davemeech ,

I can’t remember what video I watched that talked about the unsustainabilty and likely the late stages of an ad revenue driven internet content model, and this situation reeks of that.

I don’t know what new paradigm might replace it if this is the case, but the current model feels like it’s absolutely failing.

davemeech ,

I know, right? But I suppose their reasoning is that my ads are also blocked across the rest of their ecosystem, my subscription isn’t covering those losses.

Still though, a model that requires that customers look at something they don’t want to nor will engage with smells like failure.

davemeech ,

One can dream.

davemeech ,

Smh my head

Over 50 per cent of users may shun social media by 2025 as misinformation, toxicity grow (www.newindianexpress.com)

Over 50 per cent of users may shun social media by 2025 as misinformation, toxicity grow::A Gartner survey found that 53 per cent of consumers believe the current state of social media has decayed compared to either the prior year or five years ago.

davemeech ,

That number is way too low, we ought to be at more than that right now.

davemeech ,

Yes, myself included.

davemeech ,

Trials and Children of Mana makes me dubious that this is going to be any good.

davemeech ,

I’m looking for a terminal like warp that’s Linux compatible and this initially looked promising but the comments on how bloated it is is discouraging.

davemeech ,

Super Mario RPG and Civ 6 still getting tons of mileage

davemeech ,

I’m about ready to hop back in and daily drive Linux again after the nightmare that was attempting debian w/KDE plasma and Wayland. I have a Nvidia GPU on my laptop and for some reason I did not have luck at all after moderate success daily driving opensuse tumbleweed and kubuntu for a while.

I’m admittedly looking to onboard myself to the gnome workflow and leave the comfort of the windows style desktop environment experience. Gnome seems a bit more polished and stable than KDE plasma but it’s interface isn’t intuitive to me yet.

Ideally I’ll be using Debian or Arch when the time comes for me to dive back into desktop Linux.

davemeech ,

This is good information.

Yeah I imagine the struggles I had with Debian had something to do with enabling proprietary drivers and firmware and leveraging those. Before getting those drivers, the default nouveau drivers were awful, the performance was comically bad.

I’m also not a Linux power user though, so for sure any or all of the above could be meatware issues.

davemeech ,

Hollow Knight for me fits this scenario to a t. I got it as part of a humble bundle, but couldn’t get into it for at least a year as the initial part felt really depressing, and didn’t at all grab me.

But once I managed to tough it through to greenpath, and started to get some power ups, it finally sunk it’s claws into me. I proceeded to nearly 100% the game.

davemeech ,

Super Mario Wonder. I got it at release as I came down with Covid and beat it 100% that weekend. Excellent experience, I just wish it was longer.

davemeech ,

Either 2 and 3 or 3 and 7.

Free gravel is fantastic, a ton of practical things to be done with it and is otherwise expensive.

Teleporting 7 inches away is enough to get you past many barriers and walls, that’s not insignificant. This seems the coolest to me.

Being able to determine if a container is empty or not seems pretty cool as well although I can’t think of a good example of how this would be useful.

The rest are hilarious.

davemeech ,

Yikes

davemeech ,

I love the idea of it, but it hasn’t clicked yet. It never occurs to me to even tag things in order to leverage my notes as a mind map/second brain.

The absence of a clean means of using it from multiple devices and syncing between them without their cloud service is kind of disappointing. The git community plugin is godawful to set up on mobile/tablet, something native that handles git behind the scenes would be excellent.

Ultimately, what I’d like is obsidian but with the interface of confluence.

davemeech ,

Stardew Valley or Terraria.

davemeech ,

Both of those were game changers for me too. I had a PlayStation 1 memory card with just Squaresoft games. Absolute golden age.

For these though, I would alter the original question to be if I could relive playing this game for the first time at the time that I did. If I tried them for the first time now I’m certain I’d find both to be antiquated.

davemeech ,

Haha, no kidding!

davemeech ,

I was admittedly on the train with Marvel until End Game and thoroughly enjoyed it. I’ve since fallen off the MCU. I’ll still catch Batman, but otherwise I’m on board with moving on.

davemeech ,

2016 US elections was a ridiculously sobering moment for realizing that we had not progressed nearly to the extent that I nievely thought.

davemeech ,

Agreed, Covid ties or is a close runner up for me as well in terms of people showing their true colors.

davemeech ,

+1 for the third party Reddit app ban.

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