It really is the killer app. Nothing like an app that implements a lockscreen to lock out a session with a password which can be bypassed by hitting ctrl + shift + backspace potentially dropping an evil-doer to a logged in console because X11/Xorg doesn't allow an app to trap keyboard inputs. #fixedbywayland.
What you doing in here? Are there no clouds outside for you to shout at? There's a reason all DEs are moving over to Wayland, Hint: They know more about this than you, and it's not just to piss you off, despite how much that would bring a smile to my face.
The reason X11 development has "stalled" is that it basically is finished and works pretty well. Do not fix what is not broken.
False. You're gaslighting the actual X developers. Developers themselves have given the reason and it is not "works well" nor that it is "finished". Rather that the foundation of it didn't make is suitable for new feature development of modern desktops. You can only put so many bandaids on something before it falls apart.
X was great for what it was and its design goal back in the day. That doesn't mean it's "finished" in terms of a modern desktop. Wayland *is* the fix for what was broken.
If X sucked as badly as its detractors claimed one would have thought that replacing it with something more functional would take less than the current 15 years, especially as work on X has more or less stalled for a decade.
It was replaced ages ago. It didn't take 15 years. Just because your favourite DE didn't jump online to support it doesn't mean it isn't functionally complete. Many people have been using Wayland for a long time now, it has been the default for Gnome for nearly a decade now.
bribed them with a new stadium
Just to emphasis how common this is, it has it's own dedicated term complete with a Wikipedia page describing where it has happened.
It is *NOT* a short list https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
EVs wear out tires two to three times faster [thedrive.com] than an ICE vehicle, and those tires cost more.
If this were a concern to everyone then Americans wouldn't drive the cars they do. I upgraded to an EV recently. The car was 230kg heavier than my old car. What is that total weight? 1102lbs (500kg) less than the average American car weight.
Yeah, it seems EV owner has always wither bought every lemon in the world, or bought into the fact that they need to take the car back to the dealer at every "scheduled maintenance".
Nah, only Fox News viewers and Daily Mail readers. No normal EV owners I know have put any maintenance on their car beyond the first roadworthy (due here after 4 years for a new car).
What does 6 oil changes (one every 3000 miles) cost you?
While your point is still quite valid, your example here is one well and truly from the 1980s. You drove your car 18000 miles? That is 0 oil changes on my 2010 era petrol car, which requires an oil change every 30,000km.
Why was your point valid? Well after the crankshaft sensor failed, the fuel pump failed, the O2 sensor failed, and along with the actual oil changes + spark plug changes + timing belt... It may not show up every 6 months, but the maintenance of a gasoline engine does add up over the life of the vehicle.
EVs have their problems too, but as various consumer organisations have noted, they are mostly issues covered under warranty.
Every driver should have to pass the driver's test every other year at a minimum, regardless of age.
To prove what? Even the alcoholic knows not to show up to DUI court drunk. The smartphone junkie will put their phone down and actually pay attention for a 10-minute driving test once a year, doesn’t mean they’re cured or you have proven roads safer.
It ain’t drunk or drugged drivers I fear on a two-lane road. It’s now every driver who can’t put their phone down and fucking drive responsibly. Only a handful (if any) of people you know drive drunk. Damn near everyone you know drives distracted to some degree. Daily.
If that's not a Mafia-style protection racket, I don't know what is.
The Mafia doesn't typically just ignore you if you don't want anything to do with them. That's the big difference. You aren't being forced to use Facebook, and anyone who signs up to Facebook is presented with the terms up front. If you were forced, *that* would a Mafia-style protection racket.
And before you say "oh but tracking pixel" the tracking pixel can't be disabled by payment because it is an incredibly dumb and basic means of tracking people around the internet, it can't tell if you're a paying customer or not.
It would be interesting to know what this decision means for YouTube.
None. Youtube do not offer you a lack of tracking for payment. They offer you a lack of ads (among other things), those are two very different things. Meta's product is one that removes tracking, tracking is not allowed to be conditional on payment and actually should be optional under the GDPR.
and the light pole installers knew going in it was gonna be a dicey job to begin with.
Sometimes things just happen.
Those two statements are at odds with each other. As someone who has spent plenty of time authorising electrical excavations around far more sensitive things than a crappy fibre (the kind of things that could potentially go boom, or just silently kill everyone), when you *know* the job is dicey you put in additional controls around it.
Sometimes things just happen is a statement used on a normal day at a normal job site without any advanced knowledge. It's not a statement used for when you know the job is dicey. The correct statement for a knowingly risky job going south is: "sometimes the people doing the job are incompetent".
Your processor may be safe inside a metal box, but EMP will induce a voltage spike in the wires is uses to get power and to talk to the outside world. Are *all* of those wires shielded? Almost certainly not.
Equipment is incredibly resilient to such spikes. We're not going to fry entire processors here, in many cases the spike will simply be shunted in the power through a VAR or MOV designed precisely under the assumption that incoming power actually regularly does experience such spikes. Large enough spikes are likely to blow the fuse / trip circuit breakers, but your computer will be back up and running in a jiffy. You've over estimating the level of damage that would be done.
but just imagine the voltage that EMP can induce in power lines. I'm less worried about the high voltage ones, and more worried about the low-voltage lines directly supplying houses and businesses
I'd be more worried about high voltage ones. LV lines all over the place are buried. But the HV ones aren't a risk either. The power systems are surprisingly resilient in multiple areas to deviations. I still remember when a procedural mistake resulted in our 33kV network at home going up to 47kV before the local substation caught fire. Nothing downstream even noticed.
corruption leads to incompetency, this is the inevitable result of classism and economic exploitation
No. Physics does not keep track of "eras" like it's a game of Civilization, even if humans and clickbait headlines try to.
And yet the citizen taxpayers will still be forced to pay and try and prove otherwise about Physics, because humans and clickbait headlines will sell it so.
"Here's something to think about: How come you never see a headline like `Psychic Wins Lottery.'" -- Comedian Jay Leno
