You.

Indeed but I can't really work out and you haven't explained why you are so angry with me responding to "is it the year of the Wayland desktop" with "probably not when Wayland based desktops missing common desktop features and are rather more fragmented with tooling".

The thing is both of those are demonstrably true.

But it seems to really really piss you off that it's true to the point where you think I should whip out a text editor and make it not true, so presumably you have less to be angry about.

You are way too emotionally invested here. It's really not my job to find a solution that will be accepted to window positioning on Wayland desktops so that you don't have to be fuelled with rage when someone points out it's missing.

If you want people to stop pointing out problems with switching to Wayland, it's on you to fix the problems. Angry as you are you won't succeed into shouting people into submission.

Some people are good at never losing those things. I'm not.

I'm not either, but it wounds like you are a somewhat extreme case. Do you have ADHD by any chance?

But even if you never forget anything, there's nothing like going about your life without ever carrying anything in your pockets. It's truly liberating.

I mean... maybe that's a consequence of losing stuff a lot? I often want my phone for navigation or transportation times. I have certainly done it the old way in the past, but there's nothing quite like not knowing if there's a huge traffic jam and the bus is never going to arrive or if it's round the corner. Plus there are no good RFID bike locks.

But also I guess I've just never felt bad about having stuff in my pockets. I almost always carry a pocket knife. Never know when it's going to be useful!

eh, why?

That makes no sense.

It's just a matter of not getting the same raw core count, but you can buy a lot of cheap Mac Minis to string together if you're buying a $10,000 Xeon or Epyc processor.

If you're buying a $10,000 Epyc processor, you're presumably paying a heavy premium for being able to have a very large system image. It's something of a waste to buy those CPUs if your workload is embarrassingly parallel.

Why not make a server product at that point.

Why bother? You don't buy a mac for the bang per buck, you buy it because you need a mac. If you want a build farm to CI test your iOS, you need a fleet of macs. Apple get to charge their high margins whether the case sits in the dark or not.

Like popping into any store to do the groceries and simply waving my hand to pay instead of fumbling in my pocket, only to realize I left my wallet at home or something.

Is that something that happens often?

Diamonds are excellent for everything except steel, unless you're very gentle, eg hand sharpening of tools.

You see, carbon dissolves in iron, which is what makes steel in the first place and if you use diamonds to cut steel and you don't keep the temperature very low, the surface just dissolves away into the steel and blunts the diamond.

Well the lab ones tend to be higher purity and with fewer flaws.

If you really really want to impress a nerd by splashing dollars, get an isotopically pure diamond, which has even higher thermal conductivity.

Indeed, women are neither uniform nor immutable.

In a good long term partnership you both make an effort and can often find hot and interest in each others interests.

Yeah I'm not offended as such, but I am often mystified.

I've never found it very simple, and it lacks so much by the way of tweaks that unless if perfectly fits then tough.

For standard desktop stuff, XFCE is excellent. It's efficient, be straightforward, and customisation is possible but not necessary to get started, and generally very unsurprising in what it does. It's not a trend chaser so every version is just an updated spin on the one before.

I generally use FVWM, which, well you'd likely hate my config, but I've spent nearly 3 decades slowly bending out around me and it has nothing superfluous to get in the way, and lots of tweaks for programs that think they know better...

But yeah if you just want a straightforward desktop that's not a straitjacket, XFCE is I reckon where it's at. I never got into KDE, I flirted with window maker a bit, but personally I find gnome also too much like a cut rate knock-off of commercial systems, not the best Linux that Linux can be.

I would say though trust the gnome desktop is dominant to the point where it had a huge amount of influence to break things that don't fit within it's philosophy. Combined with the occasional target obnoxious quote from some of the core people, I can see where some of the annoyance comes from.

It's the blue states where noncompete clauses had weight.

Like California... oh wait.

How about you get up off your blindly partisan arse and actually learn something for once.

Here's an actual breakdown of noncompetes by state:

https://www.sixfifty.com/resou...

A few states ban them completely. A few more have wage thresholds, and most have some sort of "reasonableness" requirement, though for Alabama, that's 2 years so it's pretty weak.

California protects 3 times the number of people from non competes as ALL the remaining states with a complete ban combined.

So what was that about blue states again?

Why on earth?

Well all I can say is welcome to planet earth. Is your boss a moron? How about your boss's boss? What about the boss above that, you know the exec with all the dumb ideas, no understanding of anything technical, no understanding that things take time and the attention span of a squirrel?

What about the layer of HR goons where you can't tell ifv they said supremely incompetent or just plain evil (which is if course a false dichotomy)?

Well guess what those guys run the companies. Why on earth would you expect companies run by people like that to make sensible decisions on anything?

Oh that's a shame: my cheap joke didn't work.

Damn you totally didn't read shit I wrote.

True, I did not because you didn't actually respond to the point I made.

I'm perfectly fine with the state of KDE + Wayland.

Then why are you so angry when I pointed out that missing features and attitudes like yours are why it probably won't be the year of the wayland desktop this year. You so you don't care but your bolded text says otherwise.

This "Year of the Wayland desktop" is just bullshit someone wrote

So why are you here?

Right now the vast majority of the sci-fi/fantasy books are all Game of Thrones type, set in some medieval-style world where evil lurks around every corner.

You can tell it's GRRM apeing, extra gritty "realistic" fantasy because you'll hear about "whores" within the first chapter. It's like my dude, cargo culting GRRM by sprinkling some of the same words like seasoning doesn't make you like GRRM.

High quality AR with normal glasses has an absolute crapload of obvious applications.

Games, I guess?

I mean I can certainly think of industrial usecases. I can't think of any outside of games for consumer AR. Of course a HUD for navigation can work, but we can do that already, it's not really AR, since the graphics aren't tightly registered to the world. There's other entertainment like a view to an extra screen, but... does the registration to the world help? Screens in a headset have been around but not very popular for decades.

I am genuinely curious.