I know you’re being dramatic, but even if X was just yanked out of existence, for the purposes of digital signage or other such extremely basic computing tasks it really shouldn’t be such an issue to switch to something else.

We’re still using COBOL for stuff like Visa and Mastercard for almost every contactless payment, saying ‘just port it’ is not how it works.

BTW’ers more the world of x86_64 only cutting edge gamestation/workstation that could snap at any moment and is heavily populated by people using linux as a daily driver workstation that want to ‘rice’, need high steam fps and are often rather evangelical about the idea of ‘choice’ on a distro that offers almost none of it. Not the ‘How to install Steam on Kali’ peeps, but not far off.

I’m not saying X11 is god, just been happy with it since 2012 or so and think I can at least chill for another good few years.

I should add Alan McCrae and other Arch devs are wonderful peeps that can use pacman/abs as us mere mortals would apt or portage, but many Arch consumers are not this way ime.

I lost track of a petite blanche natural Belgian for some years, I know how he feels.

I don’t hate computer games or young people, I’ve had both for ages.

I’m not a big fan of Valve, or the billionaire running the app store from his mega yachts.

BTW’ing seems relevant. It’s an ecosystem that’s been largely focused on turning a gnu/linux workstation into an x86_64 Steam player for over a decade and now Valve are using BTW as $UPSTREAM. It’s what this kinda thing evolved into as actually compiling stuff was harder than copy and pasting ''yaourt eyebleach-kitchen-sink-bin steam" https://www.shlomifish.org/humour/by-others/funroll-loops/Gentoo-is-Rice.html

Ask a question on X11 in the world of BSD, Debian, RHEL, Ubuntu, Raspberry Pi OS, Gentoo, Alpine, Rocky, MX or in the nerd mines of Phoronix, Linux Questions or Stack Exchange and people will help that have knowledge, ask in BTW lands and there will be witch hunt by people who have no idea what they are talking about.

If X11 goes down it would be like Mad Max: International banking and airports screens would just go black, Moscow, Pyongyang and Beijing too…even more important stuff like adverts could stop working at scale.

Yeah, it’s the younglings trying raise money to get Gabe a better yacht afaiu.

BTW’ing I think they call it.

A 10yr old printing out memes is like a little window into the past: a simpler time of dot matrix systems humming away instead of having to source minimalist techno on soulseek while doomscrolling jpg shitposts on lemmy.

Not thought about the big chap in a long time, I wonder what’s up these days.

I think that’s why peeps install stuff like gnu/linux and then slap Nvidia & Steam on them for lolz, they often can’t live without pretending they are a wizard or a soldier in some novel machine generated propitiatary hallucinations from an app store no matter the cost, Gabe needs better yachts.

No

When I worked for Royal Maii the logical structure of delivery was governed by how a postman could end the round at the precise moment the off-licence opened.

I’m reading a 3 A4 pages from my 12yr old at the moment, the mid point of his current post-apocalyptic world building wants feedback.

It’s 95%+ early years test compliant script, but cool to see the words come alive on occasion and become art that goes beyond what fonts can manage.

UTF-8 O not really a drop in replacement for the Ensō

Software, but full disclosure: I did go wild and spend £5 on Symfonium a few years back which I don’t grudge.

Mum was moaning about this last night reminiscing about the good old days when the act of writing actually involved writing instead of whatever the kids duct taping emotes, memes & comic sans to some predictive text via a spellcheck on the socials for points clusterfuck is going on these days.

A friend had had the gall to send a birthday card that had rather clearly been ordered online and shat out of a production line with fake handwriting…the ultimate insult.

The Christos is whatever you want the Christos to be, just craft one to your preferences.

Marcion’s Christ different from gPhilip’s Christ, different from Qur’an Christ which is different from St Ignatias’ Christ and on it goes.

I’d avoid the novel mundane Markan derived Christology from peeps like Ernest Renan that’s gone viral in the US, Ehrmanism I think…the most pointless of all the Christos’ to choose from, better with Netflix Christology.

Muslamic Ray Guns https://youtu.be/AIPD8qHhtVU

Steam library more game rental from Gabe imo.

Much like other media, ownership is not giving money to a proprietary app store for access they control.

Yeah, the whole farming industry is based upon non-comsensual interfering and eugenics type stuff.

Thr line with rice and potatoes seems more blurry, are they farming us?

Nice to see this pop up as Apple announce their 5yr plan to flood the world’s landfills & scrap yards with 8gb fused ram Neo’s.

Cool, I just tend to run one liners or little shell scripts but nice to see more of this stuff appearing.

Worth considering the backend too imo, as I imagine I’m not the only one here trying to leverage the most out of potatoes with not a lot of storage.

On my little n100 boxen for example having a building ffmpeg for the cpu/igpu to use hardware decoding gives ~5x the encode speed for a slightly larger filesize for hevc.

Afaiu it was them that passed it to humans just prior to the deluge.

Thankfully Noah invented wine to balance things out.

Personally I’ve found online banking, medical and travel services rather hard to resist.

Those new mobile phone things the kids are using also have biometrics and internets and look pretty handy to have around.