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  • mlg@lemmy.worldtolinuxmemes@lemmy.worldPreference
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    2 days ago

    tbf to this thread, wayland wasn’t really viable until 2023.

    I made an existing comment on this that people didn’t like because I pointed out that most of Wayland’s “modern upgrades” like VRR, HDR, etc were unimplemented or unfinished for years. Even HDR is still “beta” on KDE iirc.

    People also like to pretend the triple buffer wasn’t a can of worms for many users for a very long time (and still is on low power devices).


  • SuperPACs became a thing because they couldn’t even handle PACs.

    if we gave them the chance.

    Is the problem with your whole idea. They don’t have an incentive to change anything, and they certainly won’t pass a constitutional amendment without a significant amount of pressure from constituents.

    The whole point of voting Biden was to undo what Trump did. and ensure he was properly prosecuted for his crimes. He half assed both and then refused to step down for a primary despite being unpopular.


  • WWW has been a complete crapshow ever since it started simply because it became popular.

    It was designed to serve documents over the internet, except everyone co-opted for their own needs like websites, APIs, etc.

    That left us with broken as hell crap at every layer from the joke that is HTML/CSS, the clownshow that is HTTP, and the circus that is JavaScript.

    And don’t even get the started on the mountain of vulnerabilities being stupid obvious crap that wouldn’t dare to fly in even basic GNU utilities at the time.

    Adding insult to injury, this guy hasn’t even provided a valid solution to this mess like hyphanet or the very newly released freenet.

    Which by the way tries to hack cheat the system with WebAssembly so that it doesn’t have to deal with HTTPS directly since its an exclusive client server protocol.


  • The core difference, arguably only with the US, are individual freedoms like speech, religion, armament, etc.

    Even though the US is currently trampling all over the bill of rights, it isn’t something that can be easily ignored or covered up. Protest can and will still happen all the time.

    China heavily values cohesion over individuality, so the only “free speech” you get to usually witness is scrutinized before it ever reaches you, and everyone is aware that the government actively covers up issues.

    Aside from that, China is miles ahead of the US in development, infrastructure, and their economy. Most of the US complaints over China are hypocritical as you say, or only exist due to the US viewing China as a military an economic threat.

    A lot of people would probably be happy to give up those freedoms in exchange for social stability and quality of life if they were given the option.






  • why/how do these guys design a product this way

    Its just one of many business applications that MSFT provides as you get vendor locked into the Windows platform.

    Technically it was the successor to skype for business, and skype itself was its own product that was acquired by MSFT.

    It doesn’t matter how crappy it is because MSFT can sell it to you as part of a complete package with stuff like Azure, M365, etc, and you would find it annoying to pay extra for a better platform like Slack.

    Does it mean Microsoft can keep running any app which necessarily doesn’t appear on my task manager?

    iirc it shouldn’t be hidden in task manager but it might be easier to use process explorer from sysinternals: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/process-explorer

    Haven’t touched hot garbage windows in a long time so I don’t remember if teams has a non obvious process that runs in the background.