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Accurate, I’ve broken my system config in so many ridiculous ways over the years. A few months ago I was messing around in dconf and managed to break my ability to create custom keyboard shortcuts, and I couldn’t even fix it by rolling things back in Timeshift. Ended up having to reset dconf entirely.

@jgillich @galdor especially the newer version where a lot of the bizarre gotchas were cut out. Not that many parsers support it lol

But besides that I often use YAML and recently had to quote “no” in the list of nordic countries. Funny stupid gotcha but easy to remember, beats quoting everything including identifiers in JSON.

@progo I know, but for us in all of the other countries that use gregorian calendar it is 9/11 so we might as well post related memes.

@bersl2 Sure. But with the *nix focus on modularity instead of a giant overarching server, the thing we’d end up with would be wayland with a mustache and a fake nose. Cutting out everything except the protocol between the “server” that displays windows and “client” windows is the correct approach, leaving the server implementation and everything else modular. Restricting the ability for one program to snoop on another requiring building up other APIs (as protocol extensions or otherwise) for that is also correct imo.

This doesn’t mean that we can’t have a unified server module using common APIs for things traditionally handled by X and its extensions either, a lot of wayland compositors are built on wlroots and alike, which is functionally the equivalent of leaving everything except the WM and compositing to the common server, like in X. The only thing we lose is time required to adapt to this new standard and build up the ecosystem of protocol extensions and tools we’ve grown used to.

@icedquinn seems about right, no support means you can’t use a controller at all and having sensible bindings is full support, so it makes sense that badly emulating a mouse would count as partial support. On the worse end, but still.

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@coolboymew @apropos while mulling over the possible existence of dot matrix displays with scanning flip bits, I encountered an unrelated more explainable bug:
Google rewrites queries, associated "dot matrix display" -> "microcontrollers" -> "MCU" -> "Marvel Cinematic Universe" (and yes this was page 1)

uspol 

It’s honestly hard to believe the events of 2020 in the US actually happened. It’s like a fever dream.

@IceWolf @foone yeah, let’s all continue to use an eldritch abomination of a server and protocol to run all WMs, using more extensions than years since it went into maintenance mode so that it can at least pretend to function like a modern compositor, just because some DEs haven’t yet fully agreed on protocols outside its scope.

Why stop there, let’s force everyone to write programs to run under some shitty pre-defined runtime from the ’80s because heavens forbid some may have different APIs and certainly won’t agree on them ever.

@IceWolf @foone the year is 2030, people are still whining that Wayland is non-functional by design because some aspect of X11 that isn’t even in the scope of the protocol doesn’t work like in the old days. Meanwhile the rest of the population uses Wayland-based WMs.

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CPU with 18 logical cores

in theory:
:blobcathyper: :blobcathyper: :blobcathyper: :blobcathyper: :blobcathyper: :blobcathyper: :blobcathyper: :blobcathyper: :blobcathyper: :blobcathyper: :blobcathyper: :blobcathyper: :blobcathyper: :blobcathyper: :blobcathyper: :blobcathyper: :blobcathyper:

[operation done in 3 minutes]

in reality:
:blobcathyper: :blobcathmpf: :blobcathmpf: :blobcathmpf: :blobcathmpf: :blobcatsleep2:
:blobcatsleep2: :blobcatsleep2: :blobcatsleep2: :blobcathuggies: :blobcatgamer: :blobcatsleep2:

@blake @whynothugo from what I’ve seen they forked Synapse away from the Matrix foundation’s version to do that, this has nothing to do with the protocol itself.

js horrors 

@heatdeath is that recent jobs list written in Javascript perchance?

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thought our envelope printer had stopped being able to store jobs when i tell it to, but it turns out the recent jobs list just stops working in october because, obviously, month 10 starts with a 1 and must therefore come before month 9

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E-mail would have really had what it takes to be an alternative to letters, but no! You have to make the login so complicated and then there are thousands of providers and you have to decide on one AT THE BEGINNING...

.. and with that they have already squandered their chance. In my environment, e-mail was too complicated for most people (with the providers and then looking for e-mail addresses, etc.) Today, none of them use it anymore. Me neither. Hope for fax now.

rant about English 

I like to laugh at americans that they’re worse at writing in their language than non-native speakers, but English itself is at least as much at fault as their poor education system. Why would you have “than” and “then” that are spoken exactly the same but have different meanings? I don’t think there are many languages that would be worse as an international standard than that randomly mixed inbred dumpster fire for which the relation between written characters and phonemes they represent is a vague suggestion at best.

@caekislove @Moon it’s been painfully obvious ever since they lost a war against a much smaller bunch of rice farmers running around the jungle with AKs. I don’t think they’re even close to Russia’s level of delusion to believe otherwise. Though this only applies to aggression, it seems that no current major power can win a conventional aggressive war against any other, they all can defend themselves.

@coolboymew we’re slowly approaching the point at which CGI in anime is net positive. Only took like 20 years.

@Linux_in_a_Bit there absolutely is “viral” on the Fediverse. The same it was before algorithmic content selection. The term originally meant something spreading like wildfire due to being exponentially shared between people and that’s how viral posts on the fedi work.

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