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by vetinari 3y ago
With perpetual license, they were getting some money from me for each major release. With subscription, they are going to get exactly 0.
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by vetinari 3y ago
Be careful with exfat and macos, the macos driver is known to be able to damage the fs.
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by vetinari 3y ago
That's how subvolumes work; not just on btrfs, but on zfs as well. The non-footgun way is to have several subvolumes (@root, @boot, @home for btrfs, rpool/ROOT/system_instance and rpool/USERDATA for zfs), and nothing in
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by vetinari 3y ago
The only issue I've seen is, that some apps -- Proxmox, Jitsi Meet (via jitsi-openid) -- fail to authenticate against Keycloak. Sometimes. Sometimes clearing cookies helps; sometimes not. But the weird thing is that this failure happen
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by vetinari 3y ago
1) They will anyway, see below: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39728575 2) Only if they use server-side decorations only. In Wayland, client-side is mandatory and server-side optional. So if they do not have decoratio
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by vetinari 3y ago
See the answer above: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39728575
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by vetinari 3y ago
Basically two: 1) Synchronization: when you are rendering decorations in a different process that the window content, you never get frame perfect. You can't synchronize both processes for each frame. 2) When painting using two processe
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by vetinari 3y ago
They did that for a reason. Rendering decorations server-side is a really bad idea. Just because X11 did it is not a reason to repeat the mistake. If other compositors want to do it, they have their optional extension for that. Eventually,
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by vetinari 3y ago
200 GB in 6 hours is too slow for wifi, too. dd doesn't skip empty blocks, like clonezilla would do.
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by vetinari 3y ago
They would receive APIPA (169.254.0.0/16) address for IPv4 and link-local for IPv6, if the interface would be brought up. Now, that second part is a question; windows would do it, but linux probably not.
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by vetinari 3y ago
To quote the Intel docs: > Plane scaling is [sic] supports both linear and non-linear scaling modes. The scaling mode is programmed in the PS_CTRL. In HDR mode, scaling and blending operations are generally performed in linear mode. To b
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by vetinari 3y ago
Do you know, that with a good font (properly hinted, or with good autohinter), you can have identical results as with bitmap fonts? Antialiasing is not mandatory for scaled fonts, and snapping to grid is the raison d'etre of hinting. I
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by vetinari 3y ago
> If every widget supports fractional DPI correctly That is a big if. > the output will be bit-for-bit identical between the two different approaches. It won't be identical. When you do it on widget-by-widget basis, you eventuall
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by vetinari 3y ago
It is much more crispy for general graphics, with much less problem handling rounding errors and getting lost in antialiasing and fractions that you don't have a place to put into, since hardware does that for you globally for the enti
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by vetinari 3y ago
Both variants had their fans and anti-fans. Apple rendering was shape-preserving but blurry, Microsoft's shape-deforming but crisp. I personally like the Apple rendering, but I realize that many people around me don't. In the end,
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by vetinari 3y ago
The thing is, just grabbing the root window didn't work for 100% either. Outside of the permission problem, there were others: at first, people noticed, that the mouse cursor is missing, so the screen grabbing apps had to handle that a
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by vetinari 3y ago
There's no native Teams for Linux anymore, only the browser version. Browsers have no issue working with Wayland/pipewire.
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by vetinari 3y ago
Apple also avoids the issue by always working with integer scale in software. For a fractional scale, it is downscaled by hardware. They also do not have exact percentage scale (for example: their 175% is actually 177.7778%, because it bett
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by vetinari 3y ago
Tech people are those, who have to fix everything once SHTF. Business people are those, who get to go to nice trips and dinners for their "right" decision. Any other questions?
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by vetinari 3y ago
Those are Debian's (or Redhat's, or Fedora's) builds. Oracle ones are exactly as layer8 wrote. Moreso, if you also need windows or macos build; there's no Debian or Redhat then.
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by vetinari 3y ago
Ubuntu LTS has point releases that come with additional hardware enablement. Is it still an issue with 22.04.4, or was it issue with the original, now two years old 22.04 release?
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by vetinari 3y ago
Debian and RHEL have classic GNU userland (thus, GNU/Linux), Android does not. With normal Linux, it has only common kernel (even though heavily modified) and maybe musl (as an alternative libc).
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by vetinari 3y ago
It was never JVM. Converting to dex happens on developer side, and that severs anything JVM-like.
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by vetinari 3y ago
Zoom and friends didn't work, because they thought they can grab root window content and run with it. By a chance it did work in X11 due to how PC hardware worked and thus Xorg organized it's framebuffer, but doesn't neither
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by vetinari 3y ago
> I think they all talk about that move but i make a bet no one will actually do it. RHEL 10 is going to be Wayland only. You will be able to run X11 apps via Xwayland, but not full-blown Xorg server and X11-only session.
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by vetinari 3y ago
I would argue, that the dividing line lies elsewhere: between creation and consumption. The average person does not create much, so for consumption, mobile devices are fine (though it is amazing, what a teenager can do to the photos with ju
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by vetinari 3y ago
Planting more trees and removing space for vehicles are two different things; it is not necessary to make them dependent. Those who do, usually do it for their anti-vehicle agenda, and planting green is only an excuse / a tool, not the
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by vetinari 3y ago
You think that 460 EUR per 1 TB of flash is a fair price?
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by vetinari 3y ago
Under the hood, macOS changes things (and break them) so fast, that Linux distros blush with envy, while they figure out, how to change something in 5 years that macOS does in 1.
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by vetinari 3y ago
It is not safe. Few years ago (around ~2016-17), there was that Nvidia driver update, that killed Xorg during the process. Yes, I was running the update in the gnome-terminal, and it didn't end up well, I spent next few hours piecing t

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