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Comment Re:Year of the Wayland desktop... (Score 1) 66

X sucks for a modern desktop paradigm because it was created by nerds for nerds. Treating a network connection like a functional IPC mechanism sounds cool, but it just ended up being bandaids on bandaids, trying to make it more than a vga framebuffer. If a user didn't demand a 4k, composited, hardware accelerated, it would be functionally fine.
 
Wayland was a solution, but as evidence of your complaining, it wasn't quite the replacement that people hoped for.
 
However, that is the wonderful thing about open source, Linux and brethren, and your desire for something better... if you want something different, something that fits your needs better, then design and code it. Or pay someone else to do it if you don't want to. No one owes you anything here

Comment Re:Mobile Video Quality (Score 1) 41

The carriers only have a fixed amount of bandwidth to work with anyhow
 
Nowhere NEAR as limited as they have you believe. Short of the handful of assholes that would use their cell phone as a torrent seed box, everyone could have ACTUAL unlimited data without throttling and the system would not suffer

Comment Re:Or, you know, (Score 1) 185

What year do you think it is? A typical user isn't a luddite grandma that prints out emails anymore. It is full of technology competent oldheads and youngins that grew up with smartphones and the social media internet. They aren't computer braindead like older generations tended to be, and can tell quite competently the difference between different UIs and available functionality

Comment Re:"spying" (Score 1) 104

I can take a picture of a property from the street - I'm not sure why taking one from the sky is different enough to successfully put through the courts
 
Well, for one, taking imagery of a place from a public vantage, you aren't trespassing. A certain amount of sky above a property is considered part of that property, of course, to a certain point, which is trespassing. Anything above that, you have to deal with the FAA

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