Ben Lockwood, PhDHaving to force people to use the product they don’t want is surely the litmus test for knowing you’ve created something of value
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Alvaro MontoroIt is 2000. I'm 18 years old. They say my job won't survive quantum computing (IBM is really close).
It is 2005. I'm 23 years old. They say my job won't survive visual IDEs.
It is 2010. I'm 28 years old. They say my job won't survive smartphones.
It is 2015. I'm 33 years old. They say my job won't survive web3.
It is 2020. I'm 38 years old. They say my job won't survive AI.
It is 2025. I'm 43 years old. They say my job won't survive quantum computing.
Tried Wayland+Plasma 6 on openSUSE on a ThinkPad P14s G5 AMD last night:
-Firefox doesn't render properly
-TrackPoint is nearly unusably twitchy and doesn't respond to speed/acceleration settings
-Input latency makes it difficult to control the mouse pointer accurately
That was enough for me to log out and return to an X session. Once they finish deleting X11 from all distros and removing any X support from modern DEs, I guess I'll just get a Mac. We had a good thing going for a little while there, but it's coming to an end.
Awesome to see more rifts and schisms forming in open source. Fragmentation is our greatest strength. Anyway I'm gonna go buy some MSFT and AAPL stock
Looks like that Perifractic guy actually* bought** Commodore*** https://www.amiga-news.de/en/news/AN-2025-06-00123-EN.html
*not him, but some angel investors
**they haven't come up with the money yet
***seems like it's mainly the trademark rights they're after in order to monetise them
Commodore as we know it was a company made up of a certain crowd of people during a certain period of time that released certain products that enabled a bunch of people to have their first computer experiences. That time and many of those people are dead and gone. Slapping a C= logo on something today doesn't bring back your childhood. I think we should let dead things stay dead out of respect, but maybe that's just me.
Incidentally, I still have a few blank CD-Rs with Commodore logos on them which I picked up in NL 15 years ago as a novelty for like €1. I guess the B.V. was willing to sell the logo on anything.
If you need a fun novelty lightweight window manager for something, consider progman. Looks like Windows 3.1, works on OpenBSD and Linux.
Ariadne Conill 🐰
#wayback, a small project gluing together wayland components to turn Xwayland into a full X environment, is now published: https://github.com/kaniini/wayback
there's definitely a gazillion bugs, which will need work across the entire stack to solve.
however, unlike Xlibre, this is a sustainable path that is intended to reduce the number of X components in distributions.
Jamie Zawinski has now blocked me on Mastodon for responding to his uncredited The Onion post with a note that the story was 'Hilarious, but a work of fiction'. (I did in fact click the link, and there's nothing there but the verbatim story.)
Truly, never meet your heroes.
If Stallman had his way, we would be running LiGNUx, which lends itself nicely to the tagline 'LiGNUx: rock solid'
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Lost opportunities...
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