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by sprash 5y ago
Graphics drivers is one of the rare if not the only pain point with static linking. The reason is that drivers in general should be part of the kernel but GPU drivers are running in userspace. Proprietary blobs, fast evolving hardware and
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by sprash 5y ago
The solution is very simple: static linking. Dynamic linking should be completely abolished. This would also solve the "package manger problem" immediately because there will be no dependencies.
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by sprash 5y ago
If you don't want to write a new window manager from scratch you could use icewm with the companion program icesh and implement this behavior in bash.
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by sprash 5y ago
Since the decoder complexity of flac is much lower than that of opus LossyWAV easily wins this competition at 300 kbps. I just wonder what the compression artifacts with LossyWAV would sound like if you push the bitrate down further (like e
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by sprash 5y ago
This reduces the bitrate by about 3 times. Even at the lowest bitrate at about 300 kbps I can't even hear the slightest difference to the original. Impressive, but I wonder what it would sound like when you reduce the bitrate even furt
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by sprash 5y ago
> there is independent media/press in germany Barely. Besides the obvious state controlled public broadcasting many publishing houses are owned by mainstream parties and their foundations. The biggest socialist party SPD for example
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by sprash 5y ago
The article contains no proof except for references to documents published by the same government that is producing the article itself. It's propaganda.
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by sprash 5y ago
The X11 drawing primitives have already been extended with the Xrender extension. It allows to draw textured, anti aliased trapezoids, color gradients and many composition/transparency/mask modes. If GLAMOR is enabled it is even h
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by sprash 5y ago
Many of the points of this talks are invalidated with the introduction of DRI3 others are still valid but Wayland is not a solution. The X server indeed "just transfers messages between clients" but so does a Wayland compositor.
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by sprash 5y ago
> Ncurses apps can also display GUIs Terminal applications stood the test of time as well. For everything that is not graphical in nature they are indeed good solutions. > The X server became a pretty useless middle man between client
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by sprash 5y ago
> X originates in the 80s and it's not a design that stands the test of time. Actually the fact that X11 can be used today despite the fact that we went through several cycles of vastly changing GPU hardware shows that it absolutely
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by sprash 5y ago
> but it does show how much time and energy such an endeavor takes. The reason it takes so much time is not that is requires a lot of "energy" or that the problem in general is particular hard to solve. Wayland is fundamentally
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by sprash 5y ago
GTK is a GNOME library and GNOME has shown in the past that they not only don't care about third party software but are actually extremely harmful to the community to the point that you might as well call it sabotage. The transition fr
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by sprash 5y ago
This makes the work of independent contractors more or less impossible. Only big software houses will be able to afford the insurance needed to deploy software in general.
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by sprash 5y ago
> In the long term it might be easier to terraform a planet like Venus than it is to terraform a planet like mars. One day on Venus is 224.65 Earth days. You won't be able to change that, even in the long term.
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by sprash 5y ago
> Just use Matrix instead. No just don't. Matrix exposes metadata to every connected server.
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by sprash 5y ago
The only thing that Wayland standardizes is multi process GPU memory access. Neither GNOME nor KDE (which are far more popular Wayland implementations) use any of the wlroots "standards" and thus they can not really be called as s
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by sprash 5y ago
Personally I like the modularity of X11 because it has a lot of standardized interfaces. For example, you can exchange the window manager and the compositing manager at runtime without affecting any running programs. In my opinion X12 sho
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by sprash 5y ago
> GUI isolation Just like vsync, GUI isolation is a trade-off. It comes at a cost with major inconveniences for the user and programmer. On a system running primarily trusted open source applications GUI isolation is not a priority where
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by sprash 5y ago
On a technical/conceptual level X11 can potentially be the best of both worlds and Wayland can't. In practice drivers and programs have bugs, sure. But that can not be blamed on X11 as protocol/API.
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by sprash 5y ago
> If you are fine with visual glitches There are cases where tearing is extremely distracting, like playing videos or scrolling in the browser. There are cases where tearing will not be noticed at all but low latency might be beneficial,
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by sprash 5y ago
I discussed this in past comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29017674 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29017940
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by sprash 5y ago
It is a failed attempt to replace X11. The fact that it is more than 10 years in development and Screenshot tools designed for kWin or GNOME won't work on this compositor because there is no standardized API to do such an essential thi
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by sprash 5y ago
> It tries to minify latency Quiet the opposite. Tearfree rendering, forced vsync and the completely opaque way of interacting with graphics memory in order to fulfill the "every frame is perfect" philosophy means Wayland is op
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by sprash 5y ago
History and experience tells a different story [1]. Never trust a library that is maintained by GNOME. 1.: https://github.com/thestinger/termite
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Also GTK4 means they are still at the mercy of GNOME which changes APIs often and without consideration for third parties. Wasn't the whole point of the project to emancipate themselves from GNOME? If they rely on GTK they will fail.
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by sprash 5y ago
There is no worker shortage. Otherwise wages would be increasing at a faster rate than inflation which is clearly not the case. Immigrants will destroy Europe by turining it into a generic settlement area. Nobody needs that and nobody wants
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by sprash 5y ago
Midnight Commander "mcedit" comes close to the aesthetics (blue background, grey dialogs with shadows, etc.) but is not a perfect copy. A perfect clone of the MS-DOS editor for UNIX/Linux does not exist. Maybe this is the n
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by sprash 5y ago
Seems to be not much different from zeronet. It even makes the exact same mistakes like not building in anonymization by default (preferably using i2p). Zeronet hovever is much more mature and has a very active community.
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by sprash 5y ago
Many of the features are also achievable with pure bash with ble.sh ( https://github.com/akinomyoga/ble.sh ).

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