Look up phone repair. You'll probably find at least a handful of local shops that will do it if you live in a metro area. They apparently get enough customers to remain in business. Now imagine if those places could readily get any replacement part they needed and had the schematics.

Many people would probably do the same for dishwashers, washer and dryer, etc if there were repair people who could easily get the replacement parts at a fair price. Back in the before time when TVs were less proprietary and locked down, it was quite common to have a TV repaired. Some repairmen would even make house calls so you didn't have to lug the TV to a shop (not as big of a problem now, of course). There are/were also techs that would come out to fix your stove.

Right idea but they should provide STEP files and preferably also provide the CAD files themselves. Pretty much any CAD should be able to export STEP.

STEP to STL is an inevitably losy process. STEP is much easier to modify in CAD later while STL makes that difficult to impossible short of using the STL as a template to re-build the CAD.

I don't know about the other slicers, but Prusaslicer can use STEP files for input and do the STL conversion internally.

You know there are any number of DIYers who are quite competent to rework surface mount boards, right? Any one of them might also repair a friend's board as well. There are also professionals who could do it for a lot less than the OEM would charge for a new board.

Look up Louis Rossmann. He shows board repair on Apple hardware after the "Geniuses" told the customer replacement was the only option. He does it for a small fraction of what that replacement would cost. Unfortunately, due to Apple's ever tightening grip on replacement parts, it gets harder every day.

ICE must spare no expense capturing this illegal alien and sending it to El Salvador!

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.

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.

You mis-spelled "goons".