ToyKeeper

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by ToyKeeper 20d ago
> zero evidence That's a bold claim. It doesn't tell me there is zero evidence... hardly anything has zero evidence. It just tells me you either reject the evidence or haven't looked. It's not hard to check. For
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by ToyKeeper 20d ago
I know someone with aphantasia. It's absolutely wild to me that he can't see things in his head. Totally alien from my perspective, since I'm at the opposite end of the spectrum. I see what's in my head so vividly tha
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by ToyKeeper 22d ago
Becoming active on Twitter in 2006: sunglasses Becoming active on Twitter in 2016: popcorn Becoming active on Xitter in 2026: red ballcap It makes a statement. Is it a statement you want to make?
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by ToyKeeper 23d ago
> just the tip of the iceberg So I keep hearing. But hardly anyone ever talks about what's underneath the tip... and when they do, it turns out to be a big mess under there, not a mountain of advantages. > just like there is no
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by ToyKeeper 26d ago
Whether the topic is Wayland or cheese or the finer points of knitting, one does not make an anonymous throwaway account to post statements one wants to stand behind and be associated with. Using an anon burner account makes every comment
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by ToyKeeper 26d ago
> This brings so many advantages, such as true tear-free graphics and lower input latency. Curiously, people always seem to list the same advantages, and it's a very short list. Fewer (but still non-zero) torn frames are the top of
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by ToyKeeper 26d ago
One guy creating an anonymous throwaway account, to make questionable posts without risking action against his real account. BTW, what's the policy on that sort of thing here?
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by ToyKeeper 26d ago
Exactly. That was one of the first examples which came to mind for me too. I often still use just ALSA, but pipewire is at least pretty decent and mostly "just works". Unlike pulseaudio, which was kind of a plague on Linux audio
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by ToyKeeper 27d ago
Metux (Enrico Weigelt) was banned from the Xorg project because his patches kept breaking things, often in ways which demonstrated he didn't even do the bare minimum before pushing commits. Like, adding code which didn't even com
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by ToyKeeper 27d ago
Exactly. It's hard to be enthusiastic about something which breaks a lot of stuff I rely on daily, when the benefit is that it fixes problems I've never had. My theory about the motivation behind the extra security is that it&#x2
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by ToyKeeper 27d ago
X11 was 21 years old when the Wayland folks decided it was obsolete and needed to be replaced. Wayland is now about 18 years old. So, by Wayland standards, only 3 more years until it, too, will be obsolete and need to be replaced. That day
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by ToyKeeper 27d ago
Hooray! A new release of Xorg is always a good reason to celebrate. Long live the all-singing all-dancing feature-rich network-transparent display system which is still the best (and often only) solution for a lot of common user needs, ev
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by ToyKeeper 1mo ago
Dang, who is this Zak guy? Seems like a huge nerd. (spoiler: he's the admin of /r/flashlight, an expert on lighting, a widely respected reviewer, maintainer of the community's quarterly "arbitrary list of popular f
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by ToyKeeper 2mo ago
It's funny to see someone using a LLM as a compiler, making it convert higher-level operations into assembly, instead of just using a compiler.
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by ToyKeeper 2mo ago
Yeah, 65% to 75% is great. It may be "boring", compared to the more exotic layouts, but I've tried a bunch and I like this more. The traditional rectangle is popular for a reason. The main thing is... it's gotta have o