Unfortunately, capitalism capitalism is designed to provide a solution that meets the needs of most of people while ignoring those need of a small percentage of consumers.

and letting the market decide. If moviegoers decide not to go because of ads, theaters will close or change their business model. Some have gone to a model where food service is more of the experience, including beer; while having reasonably low prices for the ticket. At least AMC says when to show up to avoid ads and trailers, if the offer reserved seating for advance purchases they’ve solved teh ‘arrive late and get a bad seat’ problem as well.

It's a shame IMAX isn't that advanced.

I've got 800w sound system in something the size of an NES cartridge. I run three of those for surround sound off my computer.

If only sound codecs allowed for vertical positioning of audio. I'd add a fourth amp and roll 8.1 out the corners of the room.

XFce is using GTK3 currently and the change is in GTK5. Hopefully, as more users have the sad realization about Wayland, GTK5 will be end of the line for GTK.

GTK's decision isn't that surprising, they've been part of freedesktop for some time, so they've bought in on the plan to cram Wayland down people's throat with a stick if necessary, much like RedHat in general.

You do realize that defunding an already underfunded program is objectively worse than not increasing the funding, don't you?

You might be tempted to mail these company execs something to express your displeasure. Just remember this important phrase if police might question you:

"OOps, my bad, I must have mixed their address up with Cologuard when I was addressing my packages..."

BZZT. That's a dodge and I suspect you damned well know it. LIE LIE LIE. You did successfully repeat the big lie, I'll grant you that.

I am quite sure it was understood that the people complaining were referring to the simple act of forwarding the X server connection to the remote X server (display) either directly or through ssh. I was lied to directly after being quite specific that that was what I was talking about (that would be the calling out). It was even a shade worse than Clinton's "I didn't inhale" (because it was in brownies). Truly a mis-direction worthy of a politician. Also known as a lie.

I remember history quite well.

If it's within the magnetosphere, that's easy enough. But it wouldn't actually be reactionless.

That would be true if all the graduate expected to do was write code; what the graduate needs to be think is 'how can I use what I've learned to identify solutions to problems by understanding what is needed and then use the tools to deliver that." The jobs in danger are all those cheap coding shops that employ a bunch of people to churn out code; companies ill be able to do more of that in house or with shops that can understand the need and use tools to deliver it.

I use it much like a community to get help with programming, asking questions such as "what does this statement do?" or "what are ways to do X?" or "What is wrong with this code ...?" or " Can I accomplish X by doing this using this code...? I don't use it to simply 'vibe code' but to help me get over a hurdle when I can't figure something out; much like how a community works but with instant response.

I view it as an adjunct and learning tool; not to simply produce cut and paste code. If it generates code I followup asking for a detailed explanation of how it works so I understand what it is doing, which I download and save for use later if needed. For example, I am using it to understand matplotlib's cmap function to generate gradient svgs t use as labels for graphs. It's a lot quicker yo ask AI to explain how it works after reading the documentation. It's also useful for answering specific questions such as "What are the hex codes for these colors...?' instead of doing a web search.

That said, the answers and code is hit or miss. Even if I wanted to , the code it generates often isn't cut and paste and I have had numerous occasions where I've followed up with 'shouldn't this line be this" to have it reply 'Yes, you are correct, let me fix it...'

As a learning tool and documentation it has been very useful expanding my knowledge as well as letting me focus in on what I am try to accomplish with my program. Instant response is also useful.

One are I have found it very useful is for documenting my code. I have it add line by line comments to my code so it is clear what is being done for future reference, as well as generate markdown documentation of the code. That way, when I deliver it, if it needs updating or changes later it is clear what I was doing and why. Without AI generated documentation my code would be littered with random comments and not really as easy to decipher.

For me, if all you do is vibe code you are replaceable by AI and a free intern; the real value is using it is to help deliver a solution based on what the client wants, which requires someone who can bridge the gap and is the human value add. That is especially true since the client often doesn't know just what they want and needs help defning it. Until AI gets good at reading minds there will be plenty of work to go around.

As opposed to San Francisco where nobody takes anything stronger than an aspirin ever?

In the early days right here on /. and on wayland's project blogs.

The claim was that X11 doesn't support remote display. Then when the foolishness of that claim was loudly called out, it was "Well that isn't REALLY remote support". Then that was called out and the claim was "it'll be implemented any day now..."

That was enlarged that it would be through an external proxy. Then that external proxy would be 3rd party. Then it would be started any day now.

Lie after lie after lie. Not a good look for open software.

Wayland is much much worse. IPV6 actually can do anything IPV4 can do. Wayland is still lacking, it's just that the Wayland boosters will try their best to gaslight you into thinking X can't do those things either, even as you watch it do them.

I have to support Ubuntu for commercial reasons. I am relieved to note that Ubuntu is NOT Wayland only. It's just that the latest Gnome only supports Wayland. So all I have to do to keep X11 available is not use the desktop environment that I despise anyway.

Wayland and Gnome are now so far up their own backsides, they will disappear into a singularity any day now.

Never invite a vampire into your home.