themoken

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[–] themoken@startrek.website 1 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Glad you're still with us, hope you're doing well, that crash sounds awful.

[–] themoken@startrek.website 5 points 4 days ago

Yes. It has basically the same issue that any compatibility layer is going to have. It will either faithfully reproduce X11 so well it will bring all of the nonsense Wayland was meant to do a way with (everything not directly related to displaying graphics, like font and geometry rendering from the '80s, network transparency, insecure event handling) OR it will attempt to get a reasonable subset working for modern X apps and it won't be compatible with dusty old binaries and X forwarding etc.

Right now it looks like a shim for Xwayland so it's the first one, but as it matures we'll see.

[–] themoken@startrek.website 13 points 1 week ago

I never had an issue with Lutris + a pirated copy. It's trivial to find the anadius rip around in a torrent. Fuck the EA launcher.

[–] themoken@startrek.website 5 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Great list. I think you and I might be the only people that actually liked Dark Matter, everyone else seems to write it off as wannabe Firefly and that's... not inaccurate, but I still enjoyed it, haha.

[–] themoken@startrek.website 2 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Because I think it has a stronger theoretical basis. We have been able to do simple operations with qubits and have been increasing those capabilities over the decades. It's basically a matter of scale at this point.

[–] themoken@startrek.website 2 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

Eh, I'll agree that quantum computing hasn't delivered much yet, but it shouldn't be mentioned in the same sentence as LLMs. There's a difference between tech that hasn't become practical yet, and tech that is a gigantic grift pretending to be something it will categorically never achieve.

[–] themoken@startrek.website 6 points 3 weeks ago

mfw third account banned because I play just like Stockfish

[–] themoken@startrek.website 5 points 3 weeks ago

Jesus. Good luck finding another job, it sounds like it literally could not be worse than your old one.

[–] themoken@startrek.website 6 points 1 month ago

I couldn't find the specific reasoning for this change, but I feel like QEMU is probably just too holistic to be appropriate for this kind of project.

QEMU needs to be able to emulate all the ARM hardware with enough fidelity to boot a naive operating system. For the purposes of running userspace applications almost all of that is not required, you really just need to convert one ABI to the other and translate the instructions. No need to handle firmware, the MMU, interrupts, disks etc.

[–] themoken@startrek.website 4 points 1 month ago

Yes! It used to be so hit or miss with Wine, but I played WoW in it around the same time and it was crazy that it worked (at least most of the time).

[–] themoken@startrek.website 13 points 1 month ago

There's just no reason to do this work. Even if you ignore the fork's controversial maintainer, and just favor the fact that it's maintained at all (which is what the proposal's author is suggesting) just... Why?

X11 is basically over at this point, why throw a last minute wrench into the existing, working Xorg infrastructure?

When we dropped XFree86 back in the day there were license issues, packaging issues and a real alternative didn't exist - all justifying the effort to switch. None of these are a problem today.

[–] themoken@startrek.website 15 points 1 month ago

That's hilarious, but not really the same thing.

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