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by DCKing 6y ago
This goes for every hardware platform doesn't it? The Raspberry Pi foundation could decide to have Raspberry Pi systems boot only Windows 10 IOT only starting tomorrow. But they don't have any interest to do so. Apple went out of
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by DCKing 6y ago
The Amlogic S905X3/4 are "jelly bean" chips under this definition - you can buy full computers with those including a motherboard of sorts, RAM and standard USB/HDMI/Ethernet/eMMC/Wifi for under $30 bulk i
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by DCKing 6y ago
There's been a bunch of quality of life improvements over the years. Dark mode, file renaming by clicking the window title, Mission Control is more feature rich than Exposé, Desktop Stacks, native notifications come to mind. There&#x27
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by DCKing 6y ago
I'm curious what the technical solution is you're proposing. I was considering OP's context of a technical solution that's "clearing your cookies regularly". Surely that's both not sufficient (not by a lon
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by DCKing 6y ago
We'll probably disagree on this, but I think we're well past the point where this is "absolutely necessary". Some of best engineering talent in the world is spent on engineering the internet to 1) misuse human psychologi
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by DCKing 6y ago
This is not productive to this conversation. Please don't propose technical solutions for things that should be solved by law. Protection should be the default, and not up to your own cleverness vs. the cleverness of trillion dollar in
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by DCKing 6y ago
> You're dancing around the problem Please be a little bit more charitable: I'm very candid about the usability problems on the Linux desktop, I'm just telling people where they need to send their time, money and concerns
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by DCKing 6y ago
Since the startx command starts the X11 client and server maintained more or less straight from the X.org project, and the sway command does not start any code that came from the Wayland project, I'd say that counts as "switching
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by DCKing 6y ago
Right, I agree that differences of opinions between implementations is probably not productive. I was responding to the notion that this situation is somehow directly attributable to Wayland's design, which is bogus. The current situat
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by DCKing 6y ago
I would say that's a fair summary. On Linux, there's X11 based desktops and "post-X11" desktops. "Post-X11" would involve implementations of Wayland and Freedesktop Portals [1], using libinput [2] - and some ot
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by DCKing 6y ago
I would agree here, if you could make a reasonable case that the problems trace back the protocol. But my point here is that practically all issues at hand happen outside of what Wayland is used for. Wayland is a display protocol. Practic
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by DCKing 6y ago
> While technically true, that is a bit of deflection. In some cases none of the compositors have implemented certain things yet. Deflection is entirely my point here :) These things are real problems, but they should be fixed in Gnome&
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by DCKing 6y ago
I honestly think this complaint is completely bogus. This is not something conceptual about Wayland, or intrinsic to it. Any display protocol can have multiple client/server implementations. It just so happens that most of the free des
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by DCKing 6y ago
People use the name "Wayland" as an umbrella term for "the entire effort on the Linux desktop get rid of X11". I'd generally agree that there aren't any desktops that flawlessly replace X11 [1], but I don'
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by DCKing 6y ago
Because if what's bothering you is the implementation and not the protocol, you should be talking about fixing the implementation instead of diverting attention to the protocol? I might not understand your question here.
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by DCKing 6y ago
Maybe, but I think it matters when discussing it. If we talk about it like this, it seems that Wayland is to blame. But there's nothing wrong with Wayland [1]. Wayland here ends up often being the scapegoat of a Linux community that lo
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by DCKing 6y ago
I'm beating a dead horse at this point, but there's no such thing as "switching to Wayland". What most people mean when they "switch to Wayland" is that they're switching from Gnome on X11 to a "pure
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by DCKing 6y ago
Maybe. Certainly people within Apple would have thought about Linux for this. But Apple would need to provide some form of mechanism for unlocked bootloaders anyway to facilitate kernel/driver developers and security researchers, so I&
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by DCKing 6y ago
> Microsoft would never do that unless their hands were forced. Too much potential business with them. The upside of Microsoft's acquisition of GitHub (and the entire strategy that resulted in the acquisition) is that Microsoft has
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by DCKing 6y ago
For that list of systems, the Nintendo New 2/3DS models are probably the best choice. They require some softmodding [1], but after that can natively play DS [2] and GBA [3] [4]. The New 3DS also has great emulators available for NES, S
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by DCKing 6y ago
> Wine doesn't work on ARM. You'll be delighted to hear that that's not entirely true - there is a Linux x86-on-ARM emulator Box86 [1] that allows you to run Wine apps [2]. While your expectations should be realistic, it
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by DCKing 6y ago
> Why not show off more legitimate ways of playing games on it? While emulation gets a bad rap because of rampant piracy involved with it for most people, it's the piracy that makes it illegitimate and not emulation itself. There&#x
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macOS 11.2 Beta 2 reallows Lulu and others to monitor Apple's core services(patreon.com)
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by DCKing 6y ago
> Apples old hardware isn't all that closed - most models have enough exploits it's very possible to get your own low level code running. This might be semantics, but the fact that unlocking the bootloader or running code with
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by DCKing 6y ago
I have a 2012 Macbook Air that's still a great piece of hardware. Still great for light tasks and actually not too bad for heavier ones. It has very few moving/active parts - just a CPU fan and battery - so it doesn't require
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by DCKing 6y ago
It's worth noting that the M1 does not use EFI like Intel Macs do, so the kernel would still need to boot on this proprietary new mechanism. Apple previously indicated that the M1 Macs boot using a derivative of the iPhone/iPad bo
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by DCKing 6y ago
It doesn't have much significance. Apple does this for all (major) macOS releases. macOS and iOS are built off of open source components, for which Apple releases the source code now and then. It's a courtesy for the most part - m
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by DCKing 6y ago
> If they still get people to buy and developers to develop? Well they won't get away with that at all, especially not in the long run as people abandon ship to platforms that do allow free development and tinkering. Apple is still
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by DCKing 6y ago
> Surely that's the whole point of a trap? I mean, this is exactly the bad faith argument I was talking about right here. If you want to view this as smoke and mirrors until they "trap" you by all means go ahead, but it do
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by DCKing 6y ago
The only driver Apples needed to develop for Windows are Mac specifics though, like the stuff that was managed by the T1. Not trivial, but not the end of the world to have to make. Things like wifi drivers and especially the graphics driver

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