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Comment Re:Too bad Wayland ruined Linux (Score 1) 67

Wayland may be technically superior but the maintainers seem less inclined to solve problems people have and chase ideals they have.

A common complaint which completely misses the point. The ideals exist to prevent Wayland turning into X11. A lot of the things given the WONTFIX treatment are precisely the things that architecturally were intended to be omitted from the compositor.

Comment Re:Too bad Wayland ruined Linux (Score 1) 67

If you need XDMCP then by all means use the software that suits you, but the rest of your points are utter crap. Let's address them:

** You don't agree Wayland is stable? I've never had it crash once. Actually switching to Wayland when X.org was the default in Ubuntu solved a monitor resolution issue I had.
** Wayland supports all chipsets and systems I care about too. What are you are specifically missing? Saying something works as intended isn't a counter claim to something else.
** Wayland breaking apps is by design. Many of the apps that were "broken" required nasty workarounds to get them running on X.org. The overwhelming majority of apps don't care what system you run them on. DEs may care, all major ones have adopted Wayland. Again this was by design. The whole purpose of Wayland was to cut ties with the cruft of the past. This was a very welcome changed pushed forward by the very people who wrote the original libraries (much of the Wayland development team are ex-X11 developers).
** What are you missing in the app world that needs to be Wayland friendly? I have not come across a single app that hasn't worked on Wayland. Not one. Not now, not 5 years ago. I'm sure you have one, but really it's not a scenario common to computing.
** That guy's blog is a good one. It summarises why there are problems with porting and why they were the result of X11's legacy cruft. There are no problems with porting. There's just adapting to simpler ways of doing things, and removing functionality from compositors into external libraries and the DE which never belonged in the compositor in the first place. That blog even talks about how this is all a good thing.
** What needle did you want Wayland to move? It's the default on many major Linux distros and seemingly just works. Personally I'm tired of X11 fanbois who stuck their head in the sand because someone moved their cheese. The X11 people are completely obnoxious thinking that their way is the only true way of doing things, and pretend like the replacement system isn't already more performant while at the same time actively bitching about the very elegance that Wayland brought (just like you did in this post now).

*yawn* okay boomer. - Am I obnoxious? Yes, I treat people with the respect they treat others, and this is all the respect you deserve.

Comment What is this ignorant bullshit (Score 3, Funny) 67

No Windows 11 does not "now" come with adware. That feature is old. It predates Windows 11 itself. Even Windows 10 was putting recommended apps (ads) in the start menu. And the toggle to turn it off and on dates from Windows 10 and was brought over in Windows 11.

I can't wait for the writer to go outside when it's raining and declare "after 40 years in journalism I just discovered water makes things wet!"

Comment Re:Serious question (Score 1) 112

Yes. It's 9420 USD. Free shipping in US.

It's not particularly special. It's just a low end robot dog with a low end gasoline electric flamethrower attached on top. It costs as much to refuel as gasoline costs at your location. You can also mix it with some diesel if you want a slightly smaller and longer burning flame. Mix needs to be gasoline rich enough to ignite with a plasma arc through, manufacturer recommends no more than 50:50 mix.

It's all on product page and in the manual linked on it: https://throwflame.com/product...

Comment Re:RTOS (Score 2) 44

The point of RTOS is not about time taken to compute, it's about certainty in the computational outcome. It's about knowing that your entire logic processing will take 75 milliseconds and will consistently be 75milliseconds every 75milliseconds for the entire operational life of that device.

Your airbag is an ASIL-D certified device. It has multiple microcontrollers processing in parallel in realtime and is programmed in a language that ensure the defined state of your system is known at every point in its operation (e.g. SysML). You definitely want this to be an RTOS, it's almost a requirement to implement the level of redundancy given in the architectural requirements of the standard.

Comment Re:This is not surprising (Score 1) 122

Useless is the word. You can see the difference in approach from Apple vs Meta in their product announcements.
Apple: spent 45min on the hardware and 10min showing things which are better done on a screen, and 5minutes showing new and novel ideas (albeit with a lack of content).
Meta: spent 5 minutes on the hardware and 55minutes on a gaming showcase.

Content matters. No one puts on a VR headset because they want to feel the warmth of a screen close to their eyes.

Comment Re:Another one down (Score 2) 122

The cheaper ones might sell well, but they still sit on a shelf collecting dust. I got a Quest for free from my work as a gift, and I used it for a while, played some cool games, but lost interest after about 6 months.

Congrats? For every one of you I know I know many other people who don't have it sitting on their shelf. You're not an industry trend.

Yeah, it's still a pain to strap the thing on for any length of time

You have a Quest. It is widely known to be one of the least comfortable headsets on the market. Replace the strap and you can happily wear it for hours with zero discomfort (and given that after market straps sell really well - the BOBO VR S3 is sold out *AGAIN* - it shows that there are plenty of people who use their Quests for an extended period of time).

I'm certainly not going to be spending money on another one

I just sold my Quest because I bought a Quest 3. If you want to upgrade to a better headset at any point you can get second hand Quest 2s on the market from people who also upgraded. The fact that you didn't appreciate / like something you got as a gift to stay interested in it, doesn't mean anything for the rest of the market. VR is a niche, but it's not remotely dead like the Virtualboy.

and I certainly don't really need it

That's a good point. This isn't a need. It's a want. It was given to you, you found it a novelty. In other news many people do not have high end gaming PCs. No one *needs* those either. Many people do not have hometheater systems we don't *need* those. This is a want. You not wanting it doesn't mean anything in the grand scheme of things.

/ Posted from a Windows PC. I have a Linux machine but never use it. The difference between you and me is I don't pretend that Linux is therefore useless.

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