Heroin? Last I heard heroin was meant to feel good.

It's more like that asshole friend you keep hanging out with who is a massive dick but always and I mean always up for a point or 5 but you don't want to drink alone and you've got all this history and you feel it'll be effort to get other friends for a drink (they're further away and/or have kids and got boring) and you can just about stomach his company after the second beer hits.

But you never really exactly enjoy hanging out.

Er sorry I must have missed the memo. Why is my head meant to explode?

The creator of Wayland was 10 when X11 burst onto the scene.

And didn't misuse psychological language you don't understand. Things is is off these people are capable as you say of designing one good and one bag windowing system then it's perfectly possible for X to be the good one and Wayland to be the bad one. Or both of them are good and so Wayland has no reason to displace X or both are bad and so Wayland is bad.

Also Wayland isn't incapable of having programs request window placement because of a limitation in X. That flaw is unique to Wayland among all modern windowing systems. I look forward to hearing the usual litany of excuses able how users are stupid to want it, people should rewrite "legacy" I e. Working software for a distinctly niche platform, how it's not Wayland's fault because it's just a protocol (ac frequent excuse, though one that applies equally to X, but is always ignored in that context), and how it's out of scope and simultaneously the fault of absolutely every single compositor and program using Wayland, but just not Wayland itself.

They're not useless but they are overblown. I use them of course. A nontrivial amount of time though I wonder if they have actually saved me time. They are good at API search, though I have been in the position of trying to use one to help with a particularly strange API and have the LLM cheerfully hallucinate a much better API.

I do like being able to give a vague description or an off the cuff code sniper and getting back the correct API call or landing close enough that I can tear the docs etc for the rest. That's incredibly handy.

Saying "incompatibility by design" doesn't mean it's a good idea. Wayland decided to break compatibility with every extant windowing system, which means it's lower than the lowest common denominator, so otherwise portable programs break.

And again telling people they should abandon things that not only work but work everywhere else is why Wayland has taken so long and will remain so slow at getting adoption. You're not giving people a better alternative you are telling them they suck and need to get with the program. And if Wayland does displace X on Linux and stays broken then the people who need to get shit done rather than to wear hair shirts in the name of progress will go to Mac or windows.

Also you are glad out wrong, frankly. Wayland combined the windowing system and window manager, so now compositors do the combination of X and the window manager. If the kitchen sink argument holds, it's worse under Wayland. It's more coupled and more fragmented at the same time.

It's not really that surprising: LLMs have no model of facts. It's basically a compressed database of all the ingested text with soft database lookup (that's more or less what a transformer is).

They have been trained on a variety of arguments but they have no mechanism for logical inference and no model of facts. Once you push the internal representation far enough in one direction it starts pulling things out of the database that kind of match.

They are tuned to try and avoid weird stuff, but it's all in there. Essentially of you accidentally jailbreak or, it will happily support you flat earth delusions. This is why jailbreaking works: you can't remove the conspiracy theories and racism from the model of it's in the training data.

This to me seems the same argument as" X but on a computer" patents. I don't see why a person running a website that impersonates a doctor is different from a person impersonating a doctor. Clearly people do think that chat gpt gives medical advice, much like people including some practicing lawyers think it gives legal advice.

Automating something that it would be illegal for you to do in person doesn't feel to be to be materially different. Doing it by accident removes the intent but only at the point you don't know it was doing that.

You're simply counter asserting. Humans can be very prone to influence, so I don't think your claim holds.

Sorry I didn't mean you specifically, I meant the general case, addressing the room as is were.

Many of the claims against X are specious. I too have run it on small machines back in the day. People definitely complained about bloat, but again we're talking about a sun 3/60 or a 386. Those arguments clearly can't hold water today, yet people still keep bringing them up.

Wayland out and out breaks some programs because they are written to the lowest common denominator of previous windowing systems, but Wayland is even lower. The Wayland devs appear to have dropped very well established features because they feel people shouldn't need them, because again they don't understand why those features exist.

This mindless "x needs to die" is why Wayland has the problems it has, still after 16 years.

The reason Wayland is having so much trouble replacing X is because it's not doing what people want to do. It'll probably replace X eventually, but berating people into abandoning workflows which work in favor of the rather middle aged shiny thing also won't speed up Wayland.

I suppose that's the problem. If you don't understand the nuances of X then you don't know though to design a windowing system. The nuances are there for a variety of good reasons. If you understand and disagree with them, that's fine. But Wayland appears to be beset with problems which have come from not understanding why people did things the way they did.

I needed to use an Ubuntu workstation recently. It was set up with Wayland and Ubuntu's gnome respin. The default you know? I decided to not be an old fart and really have it a go. Wayland was unfortunately still buggy even slightly off the beaten path (meshlab didn't run which is a bit of a deal breaker for me), and gnome... It's odd to be sure. Some is ok, some is annoying and some of the choices are absolutely barking mad and deeply user hostile. They're also obsessed with featureless grey in grey icons which you have to puzzle out.

I cracked after 2 days and installed xfce. Not my top favorite but it's quick and easy, it works and doesn't impose. It's good.

The other operating system is not in the same category. It's limited to a very small range of hardware exclusively from one company. And the hardware they sell is often intentionally limited in ways that hamper serviceability.

That is crazy. Which is exactly what the majority opinion was so critical of Jackson's dissent. There is nothing constitutional at all about a District court judge preventing the executive from taking action against complainants not before them. There was no history of first rung judge halting policy beyond their regional jurisdiction in US law or common law prior to 20th century either.

They even carved out the case of class action suits, that could still result in nation wide injunctions. District judges don't deal with broad questions of law appellate courts and the Supreme court do.

The Constitution establishes three co-equal branches of government, there was nothing equal or little 'd' democratic about one judge being able to cause the policy choices of the other two branches to be brought to a screeching halt. All the present system did is enable agitators to go shopping for venues where advancing their pet legal theories are most likely to succeed. Conservatives and liberals alike have played these stupid games and it was long past time to put a stop to that nonsense.

Thatcher invaded the Falklands

Argentina invaded the Falklands. Thatcher did many things wrong, but defending citizens from invasion by a foreign power was not one of them. You can't invade your own country.

in the same way Bush Jr would use Iraq and Afghanistan years later to do the same.

Those are not remotely comparable. Those are both invading foreign countries, under false or dubious pretenses in some cases. The Falklands were (a) not a foreign country and (b) not defended under false pretenses.

The Argentinian Junta claimed sovereignty but that does not mean they had it. The population doesn't want to belong to Argentina, and there is no displaced Argentine population who has a claim to the islands.