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Comment Re:Wayland? Who cares. (Score 1) 44

Wayland's relative lack of portability compared to X is now an advantage of Wayland? No, Wayland does NOT have a standard method of control. Compositors to be ported to non Linux systems have been written using other input mechanisms.

What non-linux system does not support libinput? It's supported on BSD, and linux. Wouldn't be surprised if there was a functional Windows port as well.

There's middle ground to be had here-
X.org is likely to have support for more input drivers than any particular Wayland compositor- I agree with that statement.
However, Wayland compositors have absolutely standardized on libinput as their input driver, and it does have very extensive support- to the point of being the only input driver used on most linux systems today.

Yeah your opinions aren't facts, buck-o. And it is indicative of a weakness of thinking that you persist in believing that.

Of course they aren't. Neither are yours, and yet you did the same.
However, I can at least say I'm coming at it from the direction of a software engineer with a bachelor of science degree in computer science, and your opinion is simply one I do not see among my peers anymore. Not since the early 2000s, really.

Why not? It's perfectly cromulent

Sure. So is using réaumur for temperature.

and used across most of engineering for dynamic range.

It's used anywhere you need a logarithmic ratio.
However, in optics, stops are used.

A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. Stops is a valid unit. It is no more or less proper than db. Dynamic range is just a ratio.

Stops is indeed more proper than db. If you had said, "no more or less valid", then I'd have agreed with you.
But since we're talking about propriety, you are flat out wrong.
Stops is the proper unit. Any ratio will work, but you will not be speaking the same language with a domain expert.

So... standard is 6 and high is 13. Generally "high" means higher than standard.

Yes. Is 13 not higher than 6?
X11 can only ever have the 6 of a standard display, period, with its current architecture.
It lacks support for a non-gamma transfer function.
This isn't an intractable problem by any means- but it is one that has simply had no motion, and like it or not, HDR is in demand for linux desktops.

I'm not, it just looks that way from where you are.

Entirely possible. But I will point out your random shift key antics.
This interaction was far more reasonable.

Comment Re:Not Taiwan, China Cries Censorship (Score 1) 38

It's more complex than that. I think a majority of people under 40 probably do favour eventual independence at this point, but they don't necessarily see a viable path to achieving that. Overt moves towards independence risk upsetting the PRC and making the situation worse. Maintaining the status quo is seen as the low risk option.

Eh.
On one hand, you're probably right.
On the other, it doesn't show up in polling- and polling generally includes the option "maintain the status quo with an eventual goal of independence". This is generally the least supported of the popular options.
I do not think there is good evidence that independence is supported by a majority of young people.

But more generally, most of the people commenting here have no clue about Taiwan, only western propaganda on the topic. They don't know that the ROC was a single-party system until the late '80s. They don't know the ROC had martial law in effect in Taiwan from the end of the second world war until 1986. They don't know that the ROC claimed the entire extent of Ming China as their territory (more area than the PRC). They don't know that the ROC claimed Mongolia as part of their territory until 2002. People are shocked when you explain the history of Taiwan to them.

I know. I pointed that out elsewhere.
They also don't understand that the PRC is ROC's largest trading partner, and primary source of tourism. The economic and personal connection between the 2 nations is extremely tight.
While being invaded is definitely something they want to avoid- even if the risk of invasion were nil, there is still not a consensus on even hurting relations with PRC.

Comment Re: We'll see (Score 1) 51

ARM (short for Acorn RISC Machine or Advanced RISC Machine) is an acronym, and all letters are capitalized. Arm is something attached to your torso.

ARM, the acronym has not existed for a very long time now.
Arm has been the correct usage in the official architectural documentation, and has been for a long time.
If you need to see it with your own eyes.
Strike 1.

I'm not saying Apple Silicon isn't better than the competition — it is — but that's not a fair comparison. Raspberry Pi's performance is largely because they use Broadcom chips, which stay several generations behind the state of the art. For example, the Raspberry Pi 5 (released in 2023) was designed around the Cortex A76 CPU (released in 2018).

Oh, I agree it's not a fair comparison. I felt that they're the one that made it, not me.
But the claim was "Arm desktop". Are there non-Apple Silicon arm desktops out there that aren't a raspberry pi, or equivalent performance?

Disagree. They put blazingly fast single-core performance and roughly half the speed of a workstation-class laptop in the power envelope of a netbook.

Oh boy.

M5 PassMark CPU Mark: (28561 multi / 6001 single)
Intel Core Ultra 9 275HX top-end laptop chip (56007 multi / 4745 single)
i9-14900KS top-end desktop chip (60511 multi / 4828 single)

Did you seriously just compare the bottom line Apple Silicon part with the top-end Intel part?
Like, seriously?
Fucking absurd.
Since we don't have an M5 Max or M5 Ultra yet, we'll have to use the M4 Max, and the M3 Ultra.

M4 Max: (43995 multi / 4582 single)
M3 Ultra: (74152 multi / 5119 single)

If we want to amuse ourselves, we can point out that the 20% lower multi-core performance of the previous-generation architecture top end vs. current top end intel architecture comes at a 62% reduction in power during full load.
Expect to see the M5 Max lay fucking waste again, as the M4 Max did.

You really can make the comparison. Which one is best depends on the workload.

That's true of any thing. That's like saying, "you can compare a shovel to a machine gun, because which one is best depends on the workload".
Very insightful of you.

Yeah, that's about right. But Apple also uses those chips in desktop, where the comparison is not nearly as rosy.

See above. What the hell are you talking about?
The 2-generation old Ultra chip handily lays low today's top end Intel desktop, at a quarter of its power usage.

Comment Re:We'll see (Score 1) 51

Better summary:

When I moved to Macs, there was nothing in the PC space that compared. Nothing. Not even close. The decision to move was obvious. Market share growth values reflected I wasn't alone here, as Mac laptops exploded in sales while everyone else lost them.

Now, there is comparable hardware. I shop for PC laptops now, because frankly, I'd love to get back to linux on my laptop. I'm very much not a macOS fan.

Comment Re:We'll see (Score 1) 51

It hasn't though because it's limited to macs only. Unless someone specifically wants a mac, which are something like 10% of the market, it's made absolutely no difference whatsoever. Don't get me wrong it's a very good chip, but I still see a whole hell of a lot of thinkpads out there, and I still use thinkpads.

That's just it- the side effects to the market as a whole were a benefit. PC battery lifetimes have flown through the roof.
AMD provides some very good CPUs in the high-performance, low-power space . They're not Apple Silicon level, but they're not like the delta was when the Apple Silicon bomb dropped.
Note, I didn't say "Apple Silicon" was revolutionary. Just it in laptops. It crushed the mold for Apple laptops, and that always cross-pollinates with PCs.

Also it turns out that a USB-A port (and ethernet lol!) is of more value to me in my current job than 2x the battery life. Because motherfuckers always lose the fucking dongles and in the lab the Apple users seem to spend half their time searching for them rather than doing actual work.

I brought all of my gear in a work backpack long before I moved to macs, so it wasn't an additional complication for me.
I already had multiple serial dongles, ethernet dongles (in my line of work, one ethernet interface is for kids), and docks.
I do agree that for someone who was not similarly outfitted, who a machine had ever existed for that could work for them without dongles, not having dongles would be valuable as hell.

Comment Re:Does not require the pentagon to sign up for it (Score 1) 79

ICE agents have not been prosecuted even once and are completely above the law. Anything they do can not be reviewed.

That is simply untrue.
Their actions are completely open to review.

It is true that they are protected in the case that they are "doing their job in good faith".
If they are not, they are wide open to State prosecution.
This has always been the case for police brutality- the difference between now and then, is that courts grant that protection (accept the good faith argument) less and less.

It is simply a fact that court tolerance of police shooting civilians is the lowest it has ever been.
Brutality at the hands of Federal authorities is a new problem to tackle, but rest assured, it will be.

Comment Re:Beijing, KMT vs Taiwan (Score 1) 38

No, I'm not. From what I saw in the last election, there's at least 15 million of me ;)
I'm not the one who's tense. Those losing their shit over politics, doomers, protofascists worrying about the country being invaded by... fucking Central and South Americans- these people are tense.
The group now inventing fantasies of stolen elections to explain my group, and the group that did it the election before that- they're the tense ones.

I have no intention of fixing it all. I have every intention of pointing out you morons for what you are.

Comment Re:look at Ukraine battlefield (Score 1) 79

The battlefield between two crumbling post-soviet republics has told us that drones and piecemeal mashups have made big materiel almost obsolete.

Not remotely.
It has shown us that 2 parties, with no real ability to strategically stop the other's war effort will devolve into a modern version of trench warfare.

Because the number of the drones is not important. The survivability of the target, and cost of the drones versus the cost of the target is.

Wrong again.
War isn't accounting, and your capacity to build more drones is not limited by money.

The Houthis beat the US Navy in the Red Sea. The poorest country in the world went against the richest country in the world, and came out on top. And all of the US military aid to Ukraine has been at best unable to win the war.

You're a fucking moron.
The Houthis caused no damage, and lost a whole fucking bunch of people in retaliatory strikes. That's what's called a infinity to fucking 1 kill ratio.
If you are saying, "kept losing people and drones until we had to go resupply, since the mission didn't have logistics built in" equates to losing, then all I can say is, "lol."

This is what asymmetric warfare is. One would hope the US has learned it's lesson in the forever wars, but alas. One would hope that the US had learned it's lesson in the Millennium Challenge war games, but alas.

Calling it warfare is being too generous.
The only thing separating the Houthis from being fucking glassed is political will in the States.
In the meantime, they continue to tune our ABM, CWIS, and SAMs for us at a dollar amount relatively speaking, approaching zero.

A fpv drone is about $100, an Abrams tank about $10M. Cruise missiles cost in the $1M range, a US aircraft carrier costs about $10B. With that kind of math you can literally use thousands ofb small ones to kill a big one and still come out on top with lots to spare. Except, of course, you don't need thousands. A few drones or a few dozens of cruise missiles is all you need. And in the case of the Houthis, you don't even need to sink a target to achieve your aim.

Except... they couldn't, now could they? They tried.
I love how you think in a ground war with the US, the opposing side would have drones after day 1.
What, pray tell, was the Houthi aim? To have a bunch of people needlessly killed attacking a bear with mosquitos?

Your delusions are amusing.

Comment Re:Environmental issues are exaggerated (Score 1) 115

Another day, another google debunk failure on your part.
Not one single one of those links demonstrated that it was a serious problem.
You'd know that if you had actually read them instead of googling and copying links like a fucking dipshit.
Each one of them provides a handy number of households for impact gauging- and oh my god, I'm here to tell you that I think Arizona will survive the loss of the annual water supply of 45,000 single-family homes. Especially since it has about 1.3 fucking million of them.

We grow crops for lots of reasons other than for human consumption.

We sure do. Like your gasoline. And letting them rot. Both of which subsidized by your government. Both using many hundred times the water in question here.

You never get tired of being a failure, do you?

Comment Re: We'll see (Score 2) 51

That would be like saying when Apple switched from PowerPC to Intel CPU is was revolutionary.

No, it wouldn't.
Is that how you think analogies work?

Switching CPU architecture to a different common CPU architecture isn't what I'd call "revolutionary".

Well that depends, doesn't it?
If you put a V8 in a car, not so revolutionary. Put an RB-25 on the back of it? Pretty fucking revolutionary.
So, putting a motor in that dramatically changes the characteristics of this thing vs. what existed before- can be revolutionary, can't it?

ARM chips weren't new when they made the switch

lol. Are you trolling?
Arm (it's not capitalized) chips with power comparable (not to mention better) than any PC mobile-class chip were absolutely new when they made the switch.
Hell, they're still the only game in town, there.

other desktop OSes were already running on ARM by that point.

Oh, totally. Your shitty Raspberry Pi is completely comparable to a device that performs 14x better than it.
Come the fuck on.

Now, if they had suddenly come out with MacOS on something new like a quantum CPU, then we'd be talking.

One wonders if you know what a quantum CPU is. Given how ignorant your comment was, I'm going to go with no. I won't explain to you why there'd be nothing revolutionary about putting a quantum CPU into a computer, any more so than putting a water faucet in place of the motor in your car.

Apple Silicon CPUs in a laptop put the power of a workstation-class laptop in the power envelope of a netbook.
To this day, you cannot find a comparison of a PC and a MacBook that doesn't sacrifice every shred of intellectual honesty the person has,.
You can have better performance, if you don't mind 2 hours of battery life, and you can have half as much battery life as the MacBook, if you don't mind the performance of a Nintendo Switch.

There's upping things a notch, and then there is smashing through the glass ceiling, and that is revolutionary.

Comment Re: Does not require the pentagon to sign up for i (Score 1) 79

That one's a little tickly.
You're undeniably right that the pardon power definitely makes it so that consequences of ignoring an injunction are nil, I personally wouldn't test it to too much extent. It's basically a constitutional crisis. If the Supreme Court considers an injunction legal, then it is, by definition, legal. If the President ignores this, he is, by definition, a criminal, and has violated his oath of office. Not saying it can't technically happen- but realistically- it doesn't happen.

There's also the problem with non-Federal courts, which the Executive has no pardon power over.

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