True but even sports cards traditionally they are given player in a given years, TOPS or whoever printed however many Babe Ruth cards they thought they might sell in his rookie year, and later when he turned out to be a sensation, people wanted those early issued cards.

Pikachu as far as I know is ageless, and Nintendo can decide to issue more of any given card, there are no real rules that anyone would slam as a rug pull or be able to reasonably say - well the 're-issue' isn't worth anything they there would be if one of the Base Ball card companies decided to print more TreyYesavage 2025 season cards, in 2032.

So NFTs but even dumber because we now have an asset that isn't unique, is only rare in context, and probably lacks any meaningful anti-counterfeit controls etc.

Every time it appears Gen-Z has a solid lead in race to be dumbest generation, the now middle aged Millennials groan and say hold on there youngin hold my beer!

To which Gen-Z replies, eww you still drink that stuff.

I am not sure about that.

Microsoft isn't a hardware company, going back to add on cards in mice for XTs, Microsoft has always used hardware to push software.

We see the ROG Xbox Ally and the pushing of Xbox branded content in Windows 11. I think all suggests that while XBox as brand and XBox 'titles' are not going away Microsoft is testing the waters for options that don't include them sell hardware. Those options range from pure PC based / Windows software plays to partnering with OEMs to build gaming oriented hardware that can run custom spins of Windows 11.

Microsoft has long history of trying to get into the living room with various products, webTV, that floppy based picture viewer thing whatever that was called, Media Center releases of windows.. XBox as we have known it might just be another corpse beside that highway. It failed to give them the gatekeeping positions for media in the home they have always sought. In someways I think Microsoft missed Smart-TVs they way they missed the web and mobile.

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.

Now do USPS.

Paper mail is a waste of time except when it isn't, and for those times pay for FexEx!

so was my last speeding ticket.

The fines should be set high enough to so that the activity that results in them isn't more profitable than doing whatever the law says is the right thing. 400k is probably enough that it would have been better for the company to have given existing part time works a handful of additional hours a week to update price labels across the state.

Fines are not suppose to be excessively punitive or ruinous. If someone was really behaving outrageously or with real criminal intent we have have jails for that. This is that though, anyone who has been in Dollar General knows managements 'vision' how can we do the absolute minimum require to operate a retails store, right down to the bear florescent (maybe led in some newer facilities) tubes for over head light.

hows that again? AC

Lack of regulation - Nope they are getting fined because there are regulations.

Lack of enforcement - Nope they got audited thousands of times and fined!

Now you could argue they were not fined enough, I guess but clearly there is a regulation and clearly the regulators are checking up!

I live 'out in the county', that is dollar store country.

The typical Dollar General is a 60k foot store - sometimes bigger, and there are NEVER more than two employees working. Which means one person on the register and one other person to do any re-shelving, stock keeping, pricing, etc.

No way they are getting all that done.

We all know what masking is.

Hint if you are able to effectively mask a disability - its not really a 'disability'. Its just a 'condition' to whatever degree it is even real.

Now in your case the masking isn't effective. We can all tell you and the kids you are always babbling about are in fact severely retarded, like Tim Walz level retarded..

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!

Just because an asset is fully depreciated on the books does not mean a business has to throw it away.

They may want to because a new asset might be more efficent, more reliable, have lower maintenance costs, and of course it might be safer which could translate in to lower insurance rates, and obviously a depreciation goes against profitability and therefore gains you some favorable tax treatment which shifts the margin at which you might replace a appreciable asset forward.

That said I worked a company about a decade ago that was running a punch press built in 1898 regularly. Pretty sure that was fully depreciated. It was still shaping metal cases just fine and nobody saw a reason to buy a new one.

I think we are just now experiencing an age of computing where decade+ old hardware really is really might do a given job as well as anything new. Depending on the scale other concerns like energy consumption might not be much a of a concern.

if you look at just PCs (server/data center applications are more complicated) from the mid 1970s up until maybe the mid 2000s, each generation was obviously a significant leap forward for the typical home user. Electron, more complex cryptography etc, mean that c2005 PC is pretty much hopeless, however by the time you get to 2015 or so you can still be using that system today if it was high-end at the time. For most business applications a 2017 or newer system if probably indistinguishable for the latest and greatest for all but most demanding users (recognize Slashdot bias probably means you're a demanding user) as far as Jim in AP is concerned when he selects re-calculate from the menu in Excel it was then, its fast now, and the pie chart he sends his VP to include in the executive briefing looks about the same in terms of resolution and color.

  It really is though quite a new thing for the response to 'new pcs' being 'why?'

Which is I think why this AI hype cycle seems outsides even as tech hype cycles go; If the industry can sell you AI accelerators, they don't really know what else to do...

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.

When you're the only guy still driving a petrol car, are you going to be able to afford to run the oil refinery single-handed?

Refineries are going to continue for a while. Batteries are quite a way off for aviation and oil will still be used as feedstock for the chemical and plastics industry. So, it will be merely very expensive as opposed to unobtainable!

But the bubble will burst and a ton of companies are going to end up with racks and racks of useless GPUs that they will simply switch off and throw in the trash.

I hope not! GPUs are pretty amazingly useful things. I'd hope they would flog them off to people who want a nice chunky compute card.