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Author here. >so he writes an article about people being assholes about him not writing free extra stuff I did write that extra free stuff, and I'm arguing th

Author here. >so he writes an article about people being assholes about him not writing free extra stuff I did write that extra free stuff, and I'm arguing that some people are being assholes because they perpetuate the lie that I didn't do the free work, and because feature "foo" doesn't work, project bar must be bad. But feature "foo" does work, and using that falsehood to say project "bar" is bad is a dick move. This is the "horseshit" that's pissing me off. The Nvidia issue is different: Nvidia goes out of their way to prevent their hardware from being used for this purpose. For example, they use signed firmwares that we simply cannot use for implementing the features we need, relying on cryptography to lock us out of their platform unless we use their driver. Then that driver doesn't support what we need. Nvidia deliberately prevents us from putting in the effort. They have created an artificial monpoloy on the required labor, then refuse to do it.

6gvONxR4sf7o 6y ago
You and I are reading the criticism differently. There’s genuine assholery, 100%. You’re entirely right that those people just make everything worse, and I’m sorry let you have to deal with them. The other side of things is what I see differently. When folks are saying wayland isn’t ready, or even that it sucks, I mostly see them as referring to the ecosystem, not wayland itself. It’s an unfortunate quirk of language. Because foo doesn’t work, the bar ecosystem is currently bad. On the nvidia side, I’m not going to engage further with you on that because you called me a shitty consumer and that pisses me off. Fuck me, you don’t want me in your userbase anyways, right?
- ddevault 6y ago
  >I’m out going to engage further with you on that because you called me a shitty consumer and that pisses me off. Fuck me, you don’t want me in your userbase anyways, right? Yeah. Nvidia is engaging in shitty behavior, and I've outlined my argument for this. It's shitty to reward this behavior by buying their thousand-dollar GPUs. And, yes, I think that doing so anyway makes you a shitty consumer. And, yes, I don't want you in my userbase if you've made that decision. It's not my problem when shit breaks for you because of that.
  - 6gvONxR4sf7o 6y ago
    Good luck, and I wish you users with the same understanding and respect for your choices. I hope nobody calls you a shitty developer because you made choices they don’t appreciate.

6gvONxR4sf7o 6y ago

You and I are reading the criticism differently. There’s genuine assholery, 100%. You’re entirely right that those people just make everything worse, and I’m sorry let you have to deal with them. The other side of things is what I see differently. When folks are saying wayland isn’t ready, or even that it sucks, I mostly see them as referring to the ecosystem, not wayland itself. It’s an unfortunate quirk of language. Because foo doesn’t work, the bar ecosystem is currently bad. On the nvidia side, I’m not going to engage further with you on that because you called me a shitty consumer and that pisses me off. Fuck me, you don’t want me in your userbase anyways, right?

ddevault 6y ago
>I’m out going to engage further with you on that because you called me a shitty consumer and that pisses me off. Fuck me, you don’t want me in your userbase anyways, right? Yeah. Nvidia is engaging in shitty behavior, and I've outlined my argument for this. It's shitty to reward this behavior by buying their thousand-dollar GPUs. And, yes, I think that doing so anyway makes you a shitty consumer. And, yes, I don't want you in my userbase if you've made that decision. It's not my problem when shit breaks for you because of that.
- 6gvONxR4sf7o 6y ago
  Good luck, and I wish you users with the same understanding and respect for your choices. I hope nobody calls you a shitty developer because you made choices they don’t appreciate.