Quoting: whizseYeah yeah lightning... What about their willy physics!?

Quoting: EhvisSome very impressive lighting going on in that trailer.

Quoting: whizseX11 was of course in contrast to Wayland loved by all and never faced any criticism.

If the designers of X-Windows built cars, there would be no fewer than five steering wheels hidden about the cockpit, none of which followed the same principles -- but you'd be able to shift gears with your car stereo. Useful feature, that.

This is what happens when software with good intentions goes bad. It victimizes innocent users by distorting their perception of what is and what is not good software. This malignant window system must be destroyed.

Oh, wait, maybe not. [External Link]

Quoting: dennisritchieFrom: [email protected]
Date: Tue, 15 Mar 1994 00:38:07 EST
Subject: anti-foreword
To the contributers to this book:
I have succumbed to the temptation you offered in your preface: I do
write you off as envious malcontents and romantic keepers of memories. The systems you remember so fondly (TOPS-20, ITS, Multics,
Lisp Machine, Cedar/Mesa, the Dorado) are not just out to pasture,
they are fertilizing it from below.
Your judgments are not keen, they are intoxicated by metaphor. In
the Preface you suffer first from heat, lice, and malnourishment, then
become prisoners in a Gulag. In Chapter 1 you are in turn infected by
a virus, racked by drug addiction, and addled by puffiness of the
genome.
Yet your prison without coherent design continues to imprison you.
How can this be, if it has no strong places? The rational prisoner
exploits the weak places, creates order from chaos: instead, collectives like the FSF vindicate their jailers by building cells almost com-
patible with the existing ones, albeit with more features. The
journalist with three undergraduate degrees from MIT, the researcher
at Microsoft, and the senior scientist at Apple might volunteer a few
words about the regulations of the prisons to which they have been
transferred.
Your sense of the possible is in no sense pure: sometimes you want
the same thing you have, but wish you had done it yourselves; other
times you want something different, but can't seem to get people to
use it; sometimes one wonders why you just don't shut up and tell
people to buy a PC with Windows or a Mac. No Gulag or lice, just a
future whose intellectual tone and interaction style is set by Sonic the
Hedgehog. You claim to seek progress, but you succeed mainly in
whining.
Here is my metaphor: your book is a pudding stuffed with apposite
observations, many well-conceived. Like excrement, it contains
enough undigested nuggets of nutrition to sustain life for some. But
it is not a tasty pie: it reeks too much of contempt and of envy.
Bon appetit!

Quoting: sharkcheeseSo things will be rough for a while. Change is hard.

Quoting: TactikalKittyI want to switch over to Wayland but there is a bug in the nVidia 545 driver that is causing my system to freeze after a wake from sleep/hibernate event. This forces me to hard reboot every time. This seems to be a specific issue pertaining to this particular driver version and Wayland as this problem is reproducible on other distributions. The nVidia 535 driver doesn't seem to have this problem. Unfortunately, OpenSuse Tumbleweed doesn't have the previous driver anymore.

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Quoting: sonic2kk"Grand Theft Auto V" and "Red Dead Redemption 2" both contain the Rockstar Games Launcher and require a Rockstar Games Social Club account.

The Rockstar Games Social Club account is something that I've personally got zero problem with. Cause it's used with the multiplayer in-game even on consoles. You can also link multiple platform accounts to it, and use it across the board on different platforms. I've had mine since before Red Dead Redemption on the 360.

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Quoting: GuestEU is Germany (and France). Without them there is no EU. So German initiative = essentially EU initiative

Don't think I can agree with that. There are plenty of government initiatives that are German only and the Sovereign Tech Fund is definitely one of them. No EU oversight at all. Founded in Germany, by Germans, funded entirely through the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action.

Conversely, the EU was founded by about 6 or 7 countries - I forget who now. Sure Germany is one, along with France, Netherlands... Belgium presumably? Italy, I think?

If you think that a Germany initiative is the same as an EU initiative... well, you're wrong. Germany really, really doesn't have free reign to dictate policy to the EU's 27 member countries. And if any of those member countries thought they could dictate how the Sovereign Tech Fund is spent, they'd be told (politely, I'm sure) where to go.

It doesnt matter who founded the EU, what matters is who pays for it. And Germany/France mostly pay for it, therefore they rule it. Pull Germany out of the EU and the EU is no more or becomes ineffectual as to be rendered non existent.

That's a bizarre take, honestly. Germany is certainly the most "profitable" country (ie, has the largest GDP), but per capita, Luxemberg is a bigger contributor (oh - and they're the 6th founding member, btw).

It only takes France and Italy (#2 and #3 in terms of GDP) to contribute more to the EU than Germany, let alone the 23 OTHER member countries that make up the 16 trillion the EU is valued at.

It would certainly rock the EU if Germany left, but I don't understand your point here. You seem to think that because it would rock the EU if they left, that Germany just get to have their own say all the time? That's complete nonsense.

Honestly, maybe I'm missing your point, but the bit I'm arguing here is that you think that Germany policy is EU policy. It's not, it never has been.

Edit:
I need to add - GDP and EU member contribution rates don't mean squat in terms of voting for EU regulation. That's calculated, mostly by population, through the "Treaty of Nice [External Link]", in which Germany has around a 9% say on any given vote.

To put that into perspective, if Germany came along with a piece of legislation that it wanted to become EU law, they'd have to convince either the top eleven countries in that table I linked, or a LOT of the remaining countries.

But it rarely comes to that. Something like 75% of all legislation proposed is unanimously agreed, probably because of the robust challenges that happen before the voting.