Neither. One of the things being glossed over or ignored by most of the discussion here is that Mir is working absolutely fine (including with multiple monitors). The issue causing them to "undefault" Mir is that XMir is not as complete and stable as they would like when apps that require X11 try to operate in multi-monitor mode (XMir is a compatibility layer between Mir and X).

In other words, the "weirdness sometimes experience in that area with classic X" in fact IS the problem, or at least the major contributing factor. Their compatibility layer isn't handling all the weirdness edge-cases.

So if you have a single monitor, or don't plan on using any X apps across monitors, feel free to install Mir/XMir and move on. It's being made optional, not going away.

I'm not going to judge you, be kind, everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle. My heart goes out to you.

I don't have a phone recommendation for you, but something to think about - does it actually need phone service? Or could you get by with a wifi-only device, with Groove or whatever for phone calls, etc.?

And if so, I think you could hit focalprice.com for a cheapo Android handset, put a custom mod on it, and rig it for remote access, so you could maintain it.

As to custom controls for kids, the only device I've heard of with controls that sound like they might meet your use case is the Kindle. Could you consider a Kindle tablet, with again, wifi VOIP for phoning? I'm not as clear on what the remote-control options would be for such, to allow you to maintain it for the kinder.

Good luck!

I meant "moat", obviously - don't know why the title got cutoff.

... doesn't mean you don't rebuild it!! http://youtu.be/g3YiPC91QUk?t=23s

With all due respect to your low /. id#, why do you say that? A type 2 hypervisor - are there no good type 2 hv offerings on BSD today? Are there specific production uses for FreeBSD that you think have been forestalled to date, that this opens up? Or is there something about bhyve that sets it apart from the existing options?

Intel heavily supports Wayland, including employing the primary developer. Isn't this move on their part simply saying, we're dogfooding Wayland, and Canonical needs to handle XMir itself? Snark aside, doesn't that seem like a reasonable move on their part?

NSA as Batman, wanting to use the cellphone technology to locate the Joker. Lucius Fox as the engineers who created the internet.

Bruce Schneier will no doubt be played by Morgan Freeman in the inevitable movie version of this whole saga.

In most cases like this I turn to St. Hanlon, who wisely advises: "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity." But in this case, I think Grey's Corollary kicks in: "Any sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice."

Of course, it can be debated if the Nokia epic crash-and-burn is adequately explained by stupidity. Just ask Tomi Ahonen.

He says so himself (see quote below) - his thinking was, give it a few years for MS to transition to a devices/services company. But something convinced him instead that that transition needs a new CEO right from the start. That's not the kind of conclusion you come to on your own - and clearly inconsistent with several weeks ago, when he gave himself an enhanced role in the related organizational change (with more key direct-reports). He may or may not have been strong-armed - but clearly there was some "persuasion" involved.

From the chair-thrower's mouth: "My original thoughts on timing would have had my retirement happen in the middle of our company’s transformation to a devices and services company. We need a CEO who will be here longer term for this new direction." - Steve Ballmer

Yes, Google benefits. The point is, they aren't worried about if others do as well - get people connected, FTW (and some of that win is Google's, sure). That's abundance thinking. FB, on the other hand, may very well be focusing on things that will specifically put more people on their social network, without driving general capability.(a lower-data format that they will dovetail with their development efforts for a low-bandwidth client).

Interesting contrast between Facebook and Google here - Facebook wants to organize all these companies and NGOs (each of which will have an agenda), where Google says (with Project Loon, http://www.google.com/loon/), let's just get them access and not try to overprescribe how it evolves or what they do with it - continuing with their "a rising tide lifts all boats", abundance mentality.

If you were going to move your high-profile website that deals with controversies concerning personal privacy and liberties to a darknet, would you advertise that fact? What communication would you issue?

I would suggest the communication you would issue would look very like PJ's.

Then you can whine if Google won't let you build a real youtube app for Metro. Karma, dudes.

They're required, by law, not to mislead people as to the financials associated with major product lines. They "discover" suddenly that their inventory of one of the most important products they've ever made, key to their future, is worth $1B less than they claimed a couple months ago. The evidence is that they clearly knew that to be the case in time to have reported it in the quarter-ending statements Mar 31 (since basically even those without access to the sales data suspected so). They continued to put lipstick on the pig in public statements all the way to the day they declared they'd just lost $1B, oops.

Why shouldn't they be held accountable?

All this sturm und drang over it changing from opt-out to opt-in. Hmm ....