Every machine in my house runs Linux, my machines at work all run Linux. I don't have problems like that, not for years. Under Wayland there is buggy shit that doesn't work because of bugs and also stuff that doesn't work because Wayland is still missing functionality in 2025 that have been ubiquitous in windowing systems since the 80s.

Oh crikey I just read that. Gives me the heebie jeebies. Even assuming his code is sound, he'll have a hard job making this into anything other than a solo project with his outlook.

Right you don't have any good answers.

Who cares if it has some old bitmap fonts? You don't need to use them, and it doesn't mandate that you do use them either. Supporting 75 DPI doesn't mean it's "designed for" that.

Funny thing is you're also wrong about the toolkits. The ancient ones are surprisingly good at actually respecting the DPI settings, and allowing you to configure larger fonts. Not that it's relevant because the old toolkits aren't part of the protocol anyway.

As for extensions, why is X the only system people complain about when it gets new API calls. You know Wayland gets new things in the protocol, just like X, and also literally every other system.

In what way was X11 designed for "low resolution displays"?

I found snaps to be not very good, and ultimately decided to part ways with Ubuntu because of them.

I also don't like gnome. I gave it another solid try on a 25.04 machine I was using (not my choice), and it varies between ok, strange, and awful. I really tried but it has some vexing UI decisions.

And also it took about half an hour before I hit my first Wayland related problem.

They're is no alternative to bureaucracy for doing useful work at scale. There's is not one example ever where large scale works are achieved without it.

Yeah, I think slashdot could have benefited from a longer form forum section.

What do you mean "designed an aircraft"? What sort of level of granularity are we talking about?

It's a tool.

Yeah but so is my prime minister[*]. Are you saying that means he's not intelli... oh never mind I think I just answered my own question there.

PhD and 10 years experience fail to explain, in high school physics simplicity, how a hammer works

No one knows. There's no rational explanation for how an entirely passive device is so reliable at seeking thumbs.

No you mentioned the UK, read your own previous post.

But not the first one. In the one where I mentioned jaywalking and public nudity I said "my country" repeatedly, not "the UK", because I know the laws aren't uniform around the UK. It's almost like I ahve some awareness about the country I live in.

I mentioned the UK later in a different context. You could surmise therefore that I live in one of the countries within the UK.

Anyway, do you consider use of public urinals out on the street to be public urination? If so, then we are in agreement.

The benefit of pumped hydro is that it means large bodies of water that can serve double duty as a heat sink for thermal power plants. It could also mean other dual use like desalination plants, water for irrigation and municipal supplies, and so many others that I could list. Damming up rivers for flood control or such could provide the added benefit of pumped hydro storage. If artificial lakes are built for pumped hydro storage then that could provide the benefit of a lake for fishing, recreation, a heat sink for a power plant, etc.

All good points but not in the UK. We don't have much terrain for it. There's some in the wilds of Scotland, but you don't get any of the ancillary benefits you mentioned, plus you need to build out infrastructure to there in the first place.

Also, we're small, densely populated, started the industrial revolution and as I said fairly flat: we basically engineered every significant and most insignificant rivers to with an inch of their lives a hundred years ago.

Same here. After dinner coffee? Not a good idea anymore.

I am trilingual and tried Duolingo for 180 days. I tried free, paid, etc. It did help me learn vocabulary words NOBODY KNOWS.
Like for example, "camarero" for waiter. Sorry, the word is "mesero." Or "Boligrapho" for pen. Sorry, the word is "Plume."

There's pronounciation. Duolingo has people saying the word Yo as "Joe". No, nobody says "Joe quiero taco bell." We say "Yo."
Also there's "Elle" which Duolingo pronounced "Ejje".

Aren't those regional differences?

We can debate the philosophy, personally I lean further to the left than most here.

We can also debate it from a practicality point of view, whether a healthy, educated workforce with low child poverty is more productive etc etc etc.

But to me those are less useful. I think it's better to look at in terms of what we are doing right now. Right now most places that can do have some sort of assistance for low income earners. Benefits, good assistance etc, it amounts to the same thing. Whichever society you are in you've collectively decided that some outcomes are bad and it's worth spending money to avoid them.

For me the question about UBI is can we make the existing system more effective. In other words can you improve the outcomes you care about given the same budget.

To me it's not obvious, but not obviously no either. Unfortunately the debate gets missed because people have strange ideas about UBI, out are philosophically opposed to the idea of giving people money for nothing even if the actual amount of money you're giving doesn't change, or are blindly promises optimistic and think you should just give people money from nowhere.