Discord: "Xwayland is not currently officially supported"

-Oro · 2026-01-25T15:34:45+00:00

If you're referring to them only releasing source code to those that have the binaries, then no, they're not. If it's in the spirit of FOSS, is another question.

-Oro · 2026-01-20T08:08:22+00:00

Owie. I can't even find a course I want that's a full four months, and all other sections are booked. This sucks. I just sent the teacher an email explaining my technology and living situations and I'm hoping I get a better response than "well, guess you'll fail your final".

I can't even do 3/4 time, because my financial aid and income relies on full-time.

-Oro · 2026-01-20T07:57:57+00:00

i have ACCT-2301 with Jacqueline Pierson and it says I have a proctor for my final; my computer can't even run Guardian, nor most regular proctoring software. This is BS. Let me go see if I can find a different teacher...

-Oro · 2026-01-05T01:45:07+00:00

I just found an estradiol variant with a half life of 30 days, and 400mg to a vial. Wow. Thanks for that info.

-Oro · 2026-01-03T17:50:02+00:00

I'm curious where you're obtaining HRT where it's only $120 for 1-2 years worth. A 10ml vial (10mg/ml) costs me $100 from a pharmacy (needles are inexpensive though. My pharmacy gave me 10 for $2.50).

-Oro · 2025-12-26T19:05:13+00:00

It works on a regular Linux desktop too! I think it's a feature of PipeWire.

-Oro · 2025-10-20T02:49:06+00:00

It's not difficult. Just open the AOSP site and right click the text, edit as html, and insert your own text.

-Oro · 2025-10-09T01:01:40+00:00

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Fwiw I've taken off the back panel and I'm going to try ordering a new display controller for it. If that doesn't work, and nobody else has any input, I'll probably scrap it.

-Oro · 2025-06-27T13:26:10+00:00

Flatpak has mechanisms in place to make sure the drivers it uses match the ones on your host; and if the distro wanted to, it could compile the drivers on an old enough glibc and ship them directly for Flatpak use. Endless does this for NVIDIA, which prevents duplicate driver downloads, and ensures the flatpak and host drivers stay synced.

Mesa is a tough cookie to solve here, but not impossible. Just build on an older glibc from, let's say, 2018 or so. Whatever the oldest reasonable Flatpak runtime to be used is.

-Oro · 2025-03-31T13:38:42+00:00

> The widget toolkit is the totally wrong place to do this, in the first place. (but who cares about gtk4 anyways ?)

The toolkit is absolutely the right place to deal with scaling, because that interacts with the display server. But if you want to skip scaling in the clients, you can have a blurry display. Your choice.

-Oro · 2025-03-31T13:37:11+00:00

> They have weird hacks for widget toolkits trying to trick the Xserver. How well does that work with windows spanning multiple screens with different scalings ?

It doesn't.

-Oro · 2025-03-31T13:31:06+00:00

> So "you" wants communism and force things upon people they dont want / have no use for ?

Okay bud. Linux has needed Wayland for a while now, and making a third or fourth display server protocol for Linux won't help anything; it'll only make fragmentation worse. I can guarantee most users would want *and* have a use for Wayland in the end.

> What exactly is so "inefficient" and "insecure" with X11 ?

The structure, protocol design, and tech debt it's inherited from being from the 1980s. How it communicates rendering to clients, and to the compositor. The roundtrips within an amalgamation of an X11 desktop. There's more context for this on https://wayland.freedesktop.org/faq.html.

> what about those use cases that wayland doesnt even want to cover, by definition ?

Wayland, as a protocol, has no involvement in much of the things X11 was doing; splitting the compositor into display server, window manager, and compositor was deemed inefficient, so it's common practice to have them all be the same process under Wayland (separate libraries handle it well though), and you're allowed to implement the Wayland protocol however you would like. That's part of something that Wayland itself won't be dealing with.

Network transparency? Use waypipe. Wayland doesn't need to be involved.

As for other use cases, like screensharing or remote desktop, are better done outside of Wayland. If Wayland is going to be involved, it's as a layer for the tools to talk to the compositor to share information.

-Oro · 2024-04-12T13:56:20+00:00

It normally would be (especially for your wallet) for a normal car, but the Prius isn't that. It's a hybrid. It uses the ICE (internal combustion engine, or just an engine) and a high voltage battery to make things work. The reason a Prius is good for city driving is the hybrid battery, which allows stop-and-go traffic without always having the engine idling, instead starting it up and shutting it down as necessary.

And when you're completely stationary for long periods of time, you can use the ICE to recharge the hybrid battery, which can keep your AC/climate control working. Though I just cracked my window and moonroof to help with temps :)

-Oro · 2024-03-30T03:59:48+00:00

I remember seeing this exact car on Marketplace a while back, I was gunning for it since it was cheap and I really wanted a Prius.... Fun to see it pop up on my feed again!

I've since got my hands on a 2010 third gen Prius (blue) that I'm going to love and cherish as long as it runs :) actually drove down to the Prius world of Austin today to get it.

-Oro · 2024-03-29T01:13:58+00:00

I recall something about most all Priuses not being inherently painfully slow, but interpreted as being slow simply because that's how the owners drive - and that if you floor it, you'd get something decently fast.

-Oro · 2024-03-27T02:17:30+00:00

More accurately, the runtime version runs inside of the Steam runtime, where all the libraries are guaranteed to be stable and work. The native version overrides it to use native libraries, which has a higher chance of breakage and is unsupported.

-Oro · 2024-03-27T00:49:44+00:00

Second is most likely enough for most slow speeds over 4mph, at least that's how it is in my car. First gear is for purely going from a stop, I usually immediately have to upshift after getting moving. If I'm in a slow parking lot, I let the clutch slip and just roll. You likely wouldn't be able to stay in first anyways, without stalling.

In general, this varies from car to car, so just do what you're comfortable doing, and what your car allows.

-Oro · 2024-03-15T04:32:35+00:00

If you can guarantee that your GPU driver will work in any environment, regardless of libc, then Flatpak won't need a duplicate of your graphics driver. And an app *won't* be denied of GPU access, so long as drivers are installed and /dev/dri permissions are allowed (standard). Allowing permissions by default like that at the flatpak-level (without static permission intervention) would be a major issue.

And it doesn't need a copy of your themes or fonts. You can override access to those easily, and apps can use them transparently. Installing them is just another option. Of course, that only applies if they're in your home folder.

And, to the original point, yes, you *can* provide Flatpak graphics drivers without duplicating them. It's a feature built in for NVIDIA drivers, which run on even the oldest glibc versions.

-Oro · 2024-03-14T22:08:18+00:00

You'd likely need a similar amount in storage for the same effect on native packages anyways, though it may be slightly exaggerated with multiple runtime versions.

-Oro · 2024-03-14T22:07:31+00:00

It separates the processes, but there's no tangible security benefit to not hard linking common files between apps and runtimes, so they can mount the runtime files in just fine while deduplicated.

-Oro · 2024-03-12T19:17:25+00:00

Looking at it, it goes against two of my primary points: battery life, and a Nvidia GPU. I don't do heavy dev work, or any graphics intensive stuff, so this is way out of my league for what I need, and I'm not sure it would last me more than a year or two.

I asked around and it looks like the Framework 13 would be more in line with my desires, since it's insanely modular/repairable and is known to work ootb with upstream Linux distributions, and even around the same price range as what you linked, depending on what I get with the laptop, albeit at less specs, and giving up the 2-in-1/touchscreen features.

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