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this is cool. game guides aren't flashy, but the reason so many games journalism sites have invested so much into them is because they get traffic. a journalist owned guides site is exciting, and meaningfully different than the other existing journalist owned guides sites.
https://www.theverge.com/news/675764/polygon-guides-writers-big-friendly-guide-new-site
i get that wayland uses more resources, so i understand why people who like running linux on older hardware prefer x11. and since i don't really understand the technical details of it all, i'm open to the possibility there are some things about wayland under the hood that aren't ideal.
but the comments about wayland being a worse user experience just don't ring true at all to me. x11 was the source of some intractable problems for me, whereas wayland has "just worked" (at least in linux adjusted terms).
specifically, x11 could not work with my monitor setup - a high refresh 1440p monitor paired with a 60hz 1080p one. I was told x by design could not handle monitors with different refresh rates, so i had to limit everything to 60. but wayland handled it without issue out of the box.
i also had issues with vsync, vrr, and crashes in various games running at high refresh rates. these were also solved when i switched to AMD/Wayland, but it's hard for me to untangle how much of that wass Nvidia vs AMD or how much x11 vs Wayland.
hearing linux old heads complain about wayland is really strange as a newcomer, because the most intractable problems i ever encountered were caused by x11, and were immediately solved when i switched to wayland.
(that switch also coincided with switching from nvidia to AMD, which probably helped, but i was told some of my issues were specific intractable problems with x11 itself, not with nvidia drivers)
i really wish i could get one of these things (which are apparently called SPDT switches) hooked into a standard keyboard key switch. flip it on to hold the key down, flip it off to release.
i can't think of any practical uses for this, but i can think of MANY very silly ones.
The FDA wants to limit this year's covid vaccine to people who are over 65 or have a disability. this is incredibly dangerous, obviously.
there is a comment period for this decision, which is only open for a few days. if you live in the US, and think this is a bad idea, you should submit a comment. comments probably won't change these peoples minds, but they can be a factor in lawsuits that challenge regulatory decisions, which will probably happen if this isn't changed.
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