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Fellow PC builder here - Noctua fans are good but aren’t the only option. My Arctic fans are whisper silent and cost a third of the price of equivalent Noctua fans.

Once you realize that Wayland is essentially a GNOME project, it will all make sense. Take for example how windows have to draw their own decorations. That's a GNOME-ism.

If Wayland is the future of the Linux desktop, it would seem that there will be one true reference compositor (GNOME's Mutter) with a number of other projects struggling to adapt to the various gaps left by Wayland's incompleteness.

For example, screen sharing on Zoom works with GNOME Wayland but not the other compositors because it targets a GNOME API. If the Linux desktop starts to fracture, what's the incentive to bring support to your less common WM/compositor?

I definitely think that the Internet Archive serves a valuable purpose. However, they will not see any money from me until they crack down on all of the porn hosted on their site.

Canistilluse.com 5 years ago

Back in 2014, I built some very flashy interfaces using Polymer components just for fun. Fast forward to 2021, and these pages are completely broken. They don't even display the text that I wrote.

I'm guessing that the depreciation of HTML imports is why they don't work anymore.

I've found the latency of Konsole to be phenomenally low. I can definitely tell the difference between Konsole and GTK-based terminals, but I can't really tell the difference between the latency of Konsole and XTerm.

Perhaps if they are aiming for the mainstream they should add some creature comforts like window buttons for minimizing and maximizing.

New iPhone SE 6 years ago

As current user of a Moto E5 Play, this is the first iPhone that I've been tempted to purchase. It delivers a lot of value at a reasonable price. As penny-pinching consumer, I've started thinking about device longevity. This phone will certainly be supported longer than any Android. However, my current phone still works, even if the camera is bad and it can be quite slow at times. I can't justify purchasing a new device, especially one that was probably constructed with unethical labor.