@gadgetboy It's the same for phone reviewers. They seem to think the public wants phones that weigh less than a sheet of paper with batteries that last 2.5 seconds. My ideal phone only needs to be charged once a month and can be thrown through a window with a note tied to it as a threat. It should be held together with drywall screws and replacement parts should be available at Lowe's.
So I'm sitting here trying to figure out how to tell if a particular app is running in Wayland or XWayland.
This is the answer I get off Stack Overflow. I'm thinking… No. No, that's too silly. It can't be the best way.
I keep researching. It's the best way.
You run xeyes.
Wayland has security that keeps windows from knowing about mouse events in other windows. XWayland doesn't.
Xeyes will track your cursor whenever you're over an XWayland window, then stop if you pass over anything else.
The six million dollar man, but decades later when he’s living with crippling implant rejection, firmware updates that slow him to an overheating crawl, ads directly into his visual cortex, incompatible new battery cells, not being able to log in to his brain without a facebook account, and occasionally corrupted mbr
A little something different from my #NerdStitch archives. Prince of Persia from the Apple II, I recreated the main character running animation in 8 frames of cross stitch and then attached them to a hand crank flip book kit to make it go.
@kirjoittaessani Bei mir läuft ein ftp-Server auf dem Rechner. Auf Android nutze ich FtpCafe. USB sollte aber eigentlich auch funktionieren.
hey look, an actually useful orange-site comment, about HP ink cartridge hardware hacking
"Put a resistor, about 1kohm, in the power line to the security chip on the cartridge.
Now, whenever the printer tries to read data from the chip, it works. Whenever it tries to record data to the chip (for example, marking the cartridge as empty), that uses more power, and the memory chip doesn't respond.
Amazingly, the whole setup just works and prints forever, saying the cartridges are always full... "
Heads up 99%.
Whenever someone from a think tank talks about “the economy”, mentally insert the words “rich people’s yacht money” into the sentence.
We can’t provide free healthcare, because it might harm rich people’s yacht money.
Nurses are going to have to feed themselves from food banks in order to protect rich people’s yacht money.
We’ve decided to let kids work in slaughter houses to help boost rich people’s yacht money.
It works every time. Give it a try.
English has two different terms for words that come into English from other languages. A 'calque' is translated from the source language. (E.g., flea market, beer garden, paper tiger) A 'loanword' is ported in its original form. (E.g., cafe, bazaar, kindergarten) Perhaps ironically, the word 'calque' is a loanword, while 'loanword' is a calque (from Ger. 'lehnwort').
When a #RIFA cap feels threatened, it fans out it's plumage to make itself look bigger.
@FediThing @StevenCapsuto That doesn't seem right. The latest commit to youtube-dl is just a week ago. Maybe you meant youtube-dlc which was a fork of youtube-dl itself?
@kirjoittaessani Ja, das ist ein bekanntes Problem. Ich kann auch nicht nachvollziehen, warum das IMMER NOCH Ärger macht. Ich glaube, die Zahl der Abstraktionsebenen fällt uns mittlerweile einfach auf die Füße.
In 1985, Digital Research released their GEM desktop for PCs and the Atari ST. Apple didn't like that, claiming that it was a bit too close in look-and-feel to their operating system. Trouble is, they'd taken inspiration from someone else... Story time!
For all you non-native English speakers out there, “read” is pronounced like “lead”, and “read” is pronounced like “lead”.
1990s web experience
- Open site in browser
- Watch framework of site gradually appear
- Start reading site text
- View images once they load
- Click a hyperlink to more information on the thing you're looking for
2020s web experience
- Open site in browser
- Wait for Cloudflare to verify you aren't a bot
- Wait for background movie to load
- Dismiss cookie popup
- Decline to subscribe to their mailing list
- Decline to speak to a chatbot that promises it's a human
- Scroll infinitely looking for the information you want that's probably not there since it's all generated text intended for other robots to read anyway
It was pretty obvious, that this would be but just noting that the Fediverse outlived the Metaverse.
Even with untold billions of dollars and multiple big tech entities pushing it, the Metaverse didn't live much past 3 years old.
At least in this incarnation.