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Charlie Stross Jan 4, 2024

NO FUCK OFF GET AWAY FROM ME YOU CREEP— https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/01/ai-comes-for-your-pcs-keyboard-as-microsoft-adds-dedicated-copilot-key/

Microsoft is adding a new key to PC keyboards for the first time since 1994

Copilot key will eventually be required in new PC keyboards, though not yet.

Ars Technica

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Charlie Stross Jan 4, 2024

Seriously, if Apple copy Microsoft with a stunt like this, that'd be my cue to buy a Framework laptop and switch 100% to Linux for work.

(Which would be enormously painful as Scrivener isn't supported on Linux and it's been my work platform for the past 15 years.)

NB: only distributions with X.org ranther than Wayland and sysv init instead of systemd need apply.

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alex

now on shonk.phite.ro Jan 4, 2024

@cstross why not wayland

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Charlie Stross Jan 4, 2024

@graphite Because Wayland AIUI isn't compatible with all previous X apps. And I want compatability. (Also, it's needless change for change's sake, just like systemd.)

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hko 😷🪁Jan 4, 2024

@cstross X11 applications can run on Wayland, via Xwayland

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Charlie Stross Jan 4, 2024

@hko So they've built an X display server that runs as a guest on Wayland, which is otherwise useful for what, precisely? It seems like a waste of CPU cycles to me (that is: I have no use case for it).

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lonjil Jan 4, 2024

@cstross @hko

It seems like a waste of CPU cycles to me (that is: I have no use case for it).

Huh, but you just said higher up that you need compatibility?

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Charlie Stross Jan 4, 2024

@lonjil @hko I need compatability = I want to run X11. I am uninterested in whatever innovations Wayland is supposed to bring. I want a Linux desktop like it was in 1999, running KDE 3.5.8 or thereabouts!

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dholsopple

@cstross @lonjil @hko The most important innovation of Wayland is convincing people post-2010 to give away their time for free to maintain it.

X works fine for now, but bitrot is slowly chipping away at the ability to successfully run it, and it's going to continue that way unless someone volunteers for the thankless, unpaid job of maintaining it.