Given they have no monopoly on cellphones

Not this again.

The legislation isn't anti- monopolies, it's anti-trust. Are Apple big enough to have a distorting effect on the market? Yes. Do they make use of that for profit? Yes.

You don't need an absolute monopoly to be guilty of anti-trust violations.

Someone feel free to break it down to me why Apple can't set it's own price policies.

If Apple were one of 10 equal sized players, and demanded 30% fees, developers would leave. Because of their size developers cannot afford to pretty much no matter what Apple does. In other words, their size alone distorts the market. At that point, no you can't simply do whatever you like because of laws which have been passed for precisely this kind of thing.

In general, no, you very much do not leave things dangling or laying around. You always bring your kit with you.

Ah well that's somewhat different. It would be impractical for a workshop since that's where all the kit is. And some of it is quite heavy.

Anyway, if I may ask, wtf is a "generic dongle" in this instance that one is talking about, or not a special-purpose one?

Ones for more generic tasks :)

USB A-C and USB ethernet. Not for example USB to CAN.

Fortunately the HDCP association hasn't had much luck suing Aliexpress or any of the vendors there. Not that I have any use for one, but I kind of want to by a $10 HDCP stripper just on general principle.

I brought all of my gear in a work backpack long before I moved to macs,

It's all on site. There's an office and a workshop. Dongles, which belong in the workshop just sort of wander around all over the place, get put away in the wrong place and so on and so forth. The people with macs, thin PCs with no ethernet ports and broken USB ports are always on the hunt for dongles.

I'm talking about the generic adapters. Things like the USB-serial and USB-can adapters tend to be semi-permanently wired into the respective serial or CAN or serial ports (especially CAN since it's daisy chained the annoying way).

They're not expensive and someone should buy enough to saturate every work surface.

They may as well use wingdings for all the sense he was making.

driving EVs,

Or providing viable alternatives to driving.

It quite literally changed the face of the laptop market.

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.

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.

Har-de-har. I'm also going to kill the guy who keeps putting tools back in the WRONG FUCKING DRAWER.

This is tackling a complex problem with a hammer.

Perhaps that's what's needed? It's a hard problem to solve, and as of right now, the companies involved have no financial incentive to solve it, just to keep the profits for themselves and push the problems onto everyone else.

Governments aren't good at and cannot be good at moving targets, because they need to rule ultimately by political consensus which is slow moving. Sometimes the threat of a big hammer is what's needed to keep the worst aspects of society in line and it's only a threat if it occasionally swings.

I assume you're posting from the Libertarian Paradise of the Congo where there's no unfriendly government to vex you.

Or maybe, it's a little more nuanced.

You're splitting hairs.

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.

This is not splitting hairs, it's somewhat fundamental.

Wrong.

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

In dB? Why?

Why not? It's perfectly cromulent and used across most of engineering for dynamic range.

The proper term for this is stops.

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.

A standard display is capable of ~6 stops of dynamic range. An HDR display is capable of 13 or more.

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

Were you trying to be clever here again?

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

Mouse input in Wayland is handled by libinput.

No.WaYlAnD iS jUsT a PrOtOcOl, remember?

"Wayland" doesn't handle the mouse input. Many compositors choose to use libinput for mouse input. This of course means that there's no standard way in Wayland to tweak things for compositors making different choices, because it's not a feature of Wayland.

The model pairs the compositor with the display server, because it makes more sense.

It does not. It's the wrong split.

99.9/100 Wayland beefs are based on ignorance and regurgitation of others' ignorance.

No. Lack of standardised method for control is a big one. I am not sure if they've fixed screen recording yet. That was a shitshow for the longest time. Also, it's been what 15 years in development, but sitting down at a freshly installed latest version ubuntu machine and I find that things like meshlab don't work out of the box in Wayland.

BuT iTs NoT wAyLaNd! WaYlAnD iS jUsT a PrOtOcOl!

Every flaw is not wayland's fault because Wayland is just a protocol. Every flaw in X11 is X11'sfault because X11 is just a protocol but that argument only works for Wayland of course.

btw- how is HDR support coming on your X11 display?

Could you remind me what the dynamic range of a standard display is in dB or unit of your choice?

At this point, the main problem is that for the last 15 years all development has gone into Wayland client development and X11 has stalled. It's kind of amazing that Wayland has a feature that X11 doesn't. Except...

With that said: xrandr is fine here, and the correct choice (the API, not the command line tool). Programs know which screen their pixels are on they are on and its DPI, and it's easy to query. Clients could choose to render, based on that query, but none of the toolkits implement it.

You'd need some mechanism to communicate to the WM to tell it you are or are not going to be responsible for scaling. That kind of thing is almost always done with properties. The WM sets one on the root window saying "scaling is going to be done", or maybe on the application windows. And the application would set a property on its window saying "I do my own scaling".

So the TL;DR is: could it? yes. Does it? No. Is it hard: no harder than Wayland.

I'll find out in mid January, lol - it's en route on the Ever Acme,

Ah cool! I saw one of those leaving Felixstow when I was on holiday near there a few years ago. Can't remember which one. The Ever Grounded? :D

But given our high local prices, it's the same cost to me of like 60kg of local filament, so so long as the odds of it being good are better than 1 in 8, I come out ahead, and I like those odds

Yeah that's pretty good. My experience of Aliexpress has so far been exceptionally good. Some thing have been a bit duff, although in fairness some of those were silly cheap. But otherwise a lot of stuff has just been really good value. Got a lovely rotary broach for £150 or so including the bits.

The only thing filament wise is Prusa claim a higher manufacturing tolerance than the standard, so give better surface finish. With that said, so do Yaisn by the looks of it. Prusa claim 0.02, Yasin 0.03 and I think the standard is 0.05.

Anyway since we're both regulars, let me know how it works out!

Teh free market works, but only for oil! It can't possible work for resources affecting things that free market worshippers don't believe in like EVs.

A large part of the German population is against watering down the 2035 goal. This is lobbyism from car manufacturers who failed to commit to EV. Merz also appears to try to please right wing climate denier voters.

Apparently the German car lobby is also trying to eviscerate the vehicle safety regulations in the EU so that American self-certified toddler mashers with zero pedestrian safety measures are legal. Why? Well they figure if the EU and US have reciprocal safety legislation then Trump might lift their tarriffs.

It's a nakedly murderous grab to exchange deaths for more profit.