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  • Wayland didn’t kill Linux desktops, but it did expose their weakest assumptions [EDIT: Warning, article likely written with AI assistance]

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  • I have KDE + Wayland on Arch using an Nvidia GPU and I have tons of nagging issues that seemingly cannot be resolved with current drivers.

    More power to you if it all just works, but that isn't universal

  • Where is Linux not working well in your daily usage? Share your pain points as of 2026, so we can respectfully discuss

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  • As someone with an Nvidia GPU on Wayland, unfortunately quite a few places.

    Resuming from sleep requires power cycling the monitors.

    Glitchy transparent artifacting down to the desktop if windows are overlapping next the task bar.

    Widgets in the system tray (KDE Plasma - I have temperature readouts) disappear and reappear randomly, and sometimes switch which taskbar they live on.

    VRR support is pretty bad, causing black screens when using full screen applications.

    2D-heavy games are flooded with thousands of vulkan draw calls, leading to abysmal performance and massive current spikes (and therefore coil whine). This is mitigated per-game with dxvk settings - often removing the whine without improving performance.

    HDR is .. technically available.

    Overall I'm happy, but I cannot recommend this experience to anyone I know because it would drive them insane.

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  • If doesn't matter if you like it or not, when Trump does unhinged shit real people suffer out in the world.

    They blame our country, they don't blame just the president. And they shouldn't - because all of us here going through our lives, going to work, paying taxes, obeying laws, keeping the economy going, etc. are instrumental to the power he is wielding as a club against everyone else.

    If you don't want to be blamed, then resist.

  • Trump in letter to Norwegian PM: "Feels no obligation to think purely of peace" due to Peace Prize rejection

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  • The peace prize is awarded by a Norwegian committee, the other prizes are awarded by Swedish committees.

  • When I was a child I thought as a child...

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  • In most games I find no matter how good the static assets look, the animations immediately break the illusion of 'realism'.

    One recent exception to this were some of the cutscenes in Expedition 33, the facial mocap was very on-point and, even though the game isn't anywhere close to photorealistic, it felt close to watching real actors perform a scene.

  • Being Trans Isn't Normal or Part of Nature...or is it...?

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  • Seahorses aren't a great example here imo. Their biology is just different from ours, the sex that fertilizes is the sex that carries the eggs to term - that doesn't make them trans that is just how male and female work for seahorses, different than humans.

    A seahorse could make this meme calling cis women trans men because they carry the fetus..

  • Today's enby feels

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  • Those folk really need to shave their elbows

  • An almost inexhaustible reserve of lithium discovered in Canada

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  • Lithium is quite rare. Essentially all the lithium that exists was created at the big bang, and since then the total supply has been diminishing with each generation of stars - they fuse lithium into heavier elements.

    There's less lithium all the time

  • Anon tries to understand credit scores

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  • Not necessarily a shitty dealership, just one with low margins.

    Cars are generally sold by sellers with incredibly low margins (talking like a few hundred dollars, max). They make their money through the financing. They probably didn't want to sell the car in cash, because some other chud will come along and buy it on credit and get them a higher margin.

    Pro tip - always get your own financing when purchasing a car, don't get it through the dealer. But don't let them know that, look over their finance package when signing the paperwork, try to negotiate out any origination charges, etc. then simply pay the loan off immediately with your private financing.

  • AI-generated code contains more bugs and errors than human output

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  • The end of your comment was

    But the productivity and quality debates are absolutely ridiculous

    Which is a general statement and not dealing with your specific circumstance. If a tool works for you, by all means keep using it.

    However, broadly across software that is not the case. So the "productivity and quality debates" are not ridiculous .. the data supports the sceptics.

  • AI-generated code contains more bugs and errors than human output

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  • Consider: the facts

    People are very bad at judging their own productivity, and AI consistently makes devs feel like they are working faster, while in fact slowing them down.

    I've experienced it myself - it feels fucking great to prompt a skeleton and have something brand new up and running in under an hour. The good chemicals come flooding in because I'm doing something new and interesting.

    Then I need to take a scalpel to a hundred scattered lines to get CI to pass. Then I need to write tests that actually test functionality. Then I start extending things and realize the implementation is too rigid and I need to change the architecture.

    It is as this point that I admit to myself that going in intentionally with a plan and building it myself the slow way would have saved all that pain and probably got the final product shipped sooner, even if the prototype was shipped later.

  • Wyr

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  • Vast majority of sea life lives near coastlines - because that is precisely where current disruptions create easily accessible nutrients.

    Out in the middle of the ocean there is really very little. Migratory animals moving between destinations mostly.

  • Cabinet organization.

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  • Cook bacon once and all that is now covered in grease

  • 'No, God No' — Game of Thrones Actor Kit Harington Says He Spent 10 Years Playing Jon Snow and Doesn't Want to 'Go Anywhere Near It'

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  • Generally the 'safe withdrawal rate' for investments is 4% per year. At this rate, the principal will grow a bit above normal inflation, and you'll have basically a guaranteed inflation-adjusted salary.

    Someone worth 10M, with maybe 8M of that in liquid investments (i.e. 2M in real estate) could clear about $320K every year. It's good money, but like you said it isn't unfathomable wealth. It is 'fuck you' money, though, where basically anyone can live comfortably without having to take work they don't want to do.

    The key benefit is the money is free - it doesn't need to be saved for retirement because the nest egg is already secured, you already own the house and don't have mortgage, any extra money from an external salary just increases the principal, etc.

  • LG Update Installs Unremovable Microsoft Copilot on Smart TVs, Ignites Backlash

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  • I've had good luck with their mid-high end kitchen appliances and washer/dryer.

    Not impressed with the TV and the AI update made the UI very slow and unresponsive. Next one will not be LG.

  • why

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  • Anything with -chen/-klein (a diminutive) is neuter.

    E.g. in addition to Mädchen there is Jungchen (~"youngster") that is also neuter rather than masculine.

  • Japanese devs face font licensing dilemma as leading provider increases annual plan price from $380 to $20,000+

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  • The problem is Japanese has so many characters - typically a font would need 5-6000 glyphs to be usably complete - that it isn't easy to create new fonts.

    English ASCII is 96 characters, for reference. A designer can crank out a new thematically-appropriate font in a week.

  • xkcd #3174: Bridge Clearance

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  • Well.. Earth's rotation would mean that the top of the lorry would be moving at 3.3 million light years per second ... Or you know, about 100 trillion times the speed of light.

    That might break some things.

  • KDE Going all-in on a Wayland future

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  • I've had many similar issues with Wayland. Not thrilled that nearly everyone is throwing in the towel on X11 support.