> with only 8 gigabytes of VRAM

Ow. *glances at the GTX 1060 in the desktop*

generally I like how gtk4 has improved a lot from gtk3 (and in some ways also improved from gtk2) but man is its smooth scrolling *unpleasant* to use. In some programs like kgx/vte, at least.

In nautilus it feels okay (which is fortunately my main gtk4 program), but in gtk4 libvte terminals or the new gtk4 PDF reader it feels like it's completely stripped of any control or precision – like as if it's been deliberately slowed down so that you'd be required to "appreciate" the new inertial scrolling feature. Want to scroll more than 3, 4 lines? Have to slam the full height of the touchpad a few times, then let go and let the scroll physics take you somewhere nearby.

(unless it's inside Vim, then it sends enough mouse events to scroll two whole pages from a little finger twitch.)

I'm watching https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7mqkTFq7Ekg specifically the part about DSVD sneaking in a second data channel, and thinking "this would be useful for a backdoor, in some kinda 199x hacker movie"

like, you dial into some system, it's sitting there at a console login prompt, and the remote modem supports DSVD except instead of sending digital voice it's been connected to another secret console login