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Re:Phoenix: A modern X server written from scratch in Zig on Wednesday December 24, 2025 @09:39PM (#46381583)
Well no because it's not actually compatible with X11
To be fair, it's all "junk insurance"
Wow you're right, a massive coal plant would be much more ecologically friendly.
Re:Firefox is the best mobile browser on Saturday October 11, 2025 @05:54PM (#45553027)
There is some activity in the mozilla bugzilla related to the gecko ios port, who knows when anything will be usable though.
Re:Comparing Rust to Carbon on Sunday September 28, 2025 @10:02PM (#45409756)
While raw C is not super helpful for generating nice bindings, I think you could get most of the way there if there were annotations for everything, e.g. like how the __counted_by__ attribute was added.
Re:Z-Lib Visualizer on Sunday September 28, 2025 @09:52PM (#45409712)
Damn I tried the bee movie script, they got me.
Those two attributes are not contradictory.
Re:I ported pigz from Unix to Windows on Tuesday June 24, 2025 @10:47PM (#44373226)
No?
Re:I ported pigz from Unix to Windows on Monday June 23, 2025 @07:26PM (#44361263)
It's 2025, just use meson
Re:Plwm – An X11 window manager written in Prolog on Sunday May 25, 2025 @07:46PM (#44092396)
What? Wayland is a protocol. Not an API.
Re:Trump temporarily drops tariffs to 10% for most countries on Wednesday April 09, 2025 @04:19PM (#43637379)
Up and down and up again. The entire US economy is being used as a pump & dump scam.
Re:Watt The Fox? on Saturday February 15, 2025 @08:41PM (#43064494)
Hah yeah I used to do the same thing for my USB DAC, except I just did had `play -qn &` start when I logged in.
How about we secure Americans' communications against domestic surveillance demands
Re:Trump to Tariff Chips Made in Taiwan, Targeting TSMC on Tuesday January 28, 2025 @02:07PM (#42856536)
No you are right, that is pretty much the basis of his platform.
It does
Dynamic triple buffering is basically just giving the hardware time to clock itself up when there is a sudden change in workload, e.g. idling then opening the overview (drawing basically nothing -> redrawing basically the whole desktop).
Well it's already better than X11, so task accomplished.
No, that article is about copying frames between gpus
This is pretty bad methodology for someone to call it "Hard numbers"
They are clearly building GW from MGS2
Re:TikTok goes dark in the US on Sunday January 19, 2025 @12:01PM (#42758824)
The American voter is sidelined the second their elected official is sworn in, and immediately reneges on everything they said they stood for in favor of their moneyed interests. 90% of politicians have no intent whatsoever of fixing problems, after all those problems are what got them elected.
Re:Starlink Direct to Cell on Sunday November 24, 2024 @11:13PM (#42233185)
Space-junk
Re:Former President Trump is projected to win the presidency on Wednesday November 06, 2024 @02:19PM (#42067768)
I find a lot of his voters seem to respond to criticisms with "Oh don't worry, he's not actually going to do those things." I think your point about making his lying a feature of his candidacy is spot on. Here's to hoping that nothing ever happens.
Re:Former President Trump is projected to win the presidency on Wednesday November 06, 2024 @01:59PM (#42067452)
The FTC would be well within their duties to obliterate every single tech company in existence
More like flatpak/flathub since it has it's own runtime, with the addition of community features and purchasing.
Re:Gnome Files: A detailed UI examination on Saturday September 07, 2024 @11:31PM (#41478000)
The writer is just using an old version, you can just click the bar to enter edit mode.
You can actually. New versions of Wine support WoW64, allowing you to run 32 bit windows programs on a fully 64 bit Linux system.
Re:New Renderers for GTK on Monday January 29, 2024 @04:16PM (#39182740)
The xdg-portal attempt was misguided and I don't beleive anyone is pursuing it at this point. Ideally drm-leasing would be managed by the login manager, allowing multiple compositors to lease connectors and run independently on other monitors, as well as being used for VR headsets. https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/29078.

Sidenote: I hacked the wayland protocol implementation for gnome into working at least for SteamVR, but at least with AMD gpus there is some serious bug preventing the card from performing properly. It basically throttles itself for no reason and never hits the refresh rates needed for smooth VR, especially since there is no asynchronous reprojection at the moment. So while ideally the drm-leasing problem would be solved already there are other even more important problems to solve with linux VR for now.