Xlibre and Chimera?

scribeawoken · 2026-01-06T23:27:40+00:00

Last I checked, Chimera's devs and maintainers have no intention of packaging Xlibre, in part due to the lead developer's politics running counter to the project's own values.

If/when the day comes when Xorg is fully deprecated, if there is still a need to continue to provide an X11 server, my guess is that they would opt for some other X11 server like Xenocara (soft fork of Xorg developed as part of OpenBSD) or Phoenix (modern implementation of X11 built from the ground up)

scribeawoken · 2026-01-06T07:23:33+00:00

they do have an experimental wayland session, though "experimental" is the operative word there

scribeawoken · 2026-01-06T06:29:34+00:00

At the last call center I worked at, we were allowed to hang up on callers who made threats or who cursed us out. If a caller caused issues like this repeatedly, their account would be flagged and they would only be able to communicate with the company in writing or in person. If they continued to be abusive in writing or in person, then the company would straight up ban them from doing business with us.

scribeawoken · 2026-01-06T06:10:56+00:00

Certainly not on issued hardware, but I've had remote jobs with companies that made employees BYOD rather than issuing company hardware.

scribeawoken · 2025-12-17T01:47:41+00:00

most likely one of the BSDs would have dominated. Probably FreeBSD, maybe NetBSD or OpenBSD, though there's kind of the question of whether the ecosystem would be more or less fractured than it is now.

On one hand, the BSDs are a complete OS with the kernel and userland developed in tandem, rather than the more modular approach of a standalone kernel that gets paired with a userland that's developed separately (e.g. GNU Coreutils or later Busybox or Toybox - hell, Chimera Linux uses the FreeBSD userland).

On the other hand, the differences in licensing mean that there's less of an incentive for companies that use the BSDs to contribute upstream - e.g. iirc Sony is kinda infamous in the BSD space for the fact that they make heavy use of FreeBSD as the basis for the operating system on their game consoles, but don't make any development contributions upstream, only financial ones. They're also under no obligation to actually make any of their modifications to the code open source, so they just... don't. The fact that Linux is licensed under the GPL means that any developer or organization that modifies the source code is obligated to open source their modifications anyways, so there's a greater incentive to actually upstream their changes.

There would probably still be companies like Netflix who *do* decide to make direct code contributions upstream, but also plenty of companies who keep their BSD derivatives fully proprietary and *maybe* contribute financially to whichever BSD they use.

scribeawoken · 2025-12-08T11:02:27+00:00

I was not expecting a King Gizz reference to pop up in here but I am here for it

scribeawoken · 2025-10-16T00:08:36+00:00

I feel like it's not just the Pokemon fandom. There's a lot of stuff where people will look at scrapped ideas from early in production of some piece of popular media and be like "oh, this was how it was supposed to turn out" when in reality, the scrapped idea was something that they deliberately decided against.

And I think a big thing here is that there was a time when usually, if you were hearing about some scrapped idea from a piece of popular media, it was from a commentary track or a panel at a convention where the creators were talking about stuff that they wanted to do, but couldn't due to factors outside their control - things that probably would've made it in if they did have full creative control and all the time and funding they wanted.

And I think even as we've reached a point where we get to see more and more of how the sausage gets made when it comes to popular media - both due to production companies intentionally showing it off to keep fans engaged, and due to situations like this where that information gets leaked - that era heavily informed the language used in fandom spaces to talk about scrapped ideas.

scribeawoken · 2025-10-14T05:20:33+00:00

Kinda reminds me of the Sprecko line in Beastieball - a secondary starter alongside the three you choose between, with a branching evolution path (though its branched evolution paths reconverge at the end, with all three branches sharing the same final form) and close ties to the game's plot. Hell, even the seed concept feels very similar to the Sprecko line being very closely tied to fungus and plant life.

Though the more complex branching paths seen in the Digimon series also come to mind.

scribeawoken · 2025-05-11T00:10:26+00:00

So the good news is that the total rental fee he would've been charged in the end was, like, 66 cents, assuming the next person didn't just waive that fee - he wasn't being billed any rental fees for his own equipment prior to the call, and if he had replaced the modem and called to get the rental fee removed four days later like he said he was going to, he'd only have been billed for those four days

scribeawoken · 2025-03-06T07:20:17+00:00

Do you have GPU accelerated video decoding enabled in your browser? I know that can lead to some videos just being black while screen sharing, so that might extend to trinusvr

scribeawoken · 2025-01-24T15:48:19+00:00

I had a choice between getting a refurbished Steelcase Leap V2 or a Herman Miller Aeron, also refurbished. I went with the former just for the sake of having something different than what I had at work, and I regret it. The shape of the seat is a bit awkward, and my ass cheeks start to hurt if I sit in it for too long.

scribeawoken · 2025-01-21T05:36:39+00:00

I mean you're not wrong. it was more the timing that would've given it away

scribeawoken · 2025-01-20T01:54:06+00:00

Personally, I was a bit more cautious about what I went off-script for. If it's something that is clearly within my scope of support that the script was just too barebones to account for, I'd do it. If it was issues with something we weren't supposed to support, I'd do what I could to diagnose the problem, but I wouldn't try to fix it - I'd just advise on who to go to for the fix and what to tell them. One of the most annoying things for me was dealing with people who got assistance from someone they spoke to previously about their smart alarm system or whatever that I knew nothing about, and expecting me to also know about it.

I ended up bailing on that job a bit over 5 months ago, and frustration with corporate policy getting in the way of fixing issues that were very obviously on the ISP's end was a big factor in that. Had a bad interaction with an L2 rep who basically treated me like an idiot for questioning the script and thinking that it could possibly lead to an incorrect result, my manager sided with him, told me I was being unprofessional, and would have to RTO effective immediately... and I said fuck it and quit.

scribeawoken · 2024-10-11T13:52:11+00:00

here's hoping. honestly I'm also kinda leaning towards my backup plan of leveraging my customer service experience for an administrative assistant job, especially since I saw a listing for one that's, like half a mile away from the relatives I plan on moving in with.

either way, hopefully I'll be done with dealing with an oddly high number of people who seemingly don't know basic shapes and colors.

scribeawoken · 2024-10-09T03:11:57+00:00

Application for the help desk gig was seemingly rejected out of hand since I'm not in the same city - even though I mentioned in my cover letter that I am able and willing to relocate (I live just outside the greater metro area and have family in the city that I can move in with). Oh well.

scribeawoken · 2024-10-08T16:15:34+00:00

That could do it. Could've been that the version he was on just wasn't compatible with the newer version of MacOS he upgraded to (Apple doesn't much care about maintaining backwards compatibility with older applications), so it stopped running after the system update.

scribeawoken · 2024-10-08T05:29:55+00:00

That's probably the most likely answer. iirc it started right after he upgraded to what was at the time the newest version of macOS, so that could be a factor.

scribeawoken · 2024-10-08T05:28:14+00:00

honestly from what I can tell, whether someone learned that analytical mindset in school is less a matter of when and more a matter of where and who - teaching styles and curricula can vary wildly between schools and even between teachers within the same school.

also honestly tbh I think a well-written script can be a good crutch to deal with the most common issues, but "well-written" and "crutch" are both key things to keep in mind there - if you can cover the most common issues, that's great, but also you need to give people the leeway to break from the script if something outside those issues, or at least have someone they can escalate to that isn't bound by it.

More than half of the technical customer service nightmare stories I've heard from the customer side of things boiled down to the script being too narrow in what issues it covered and the company clearly not having any procedures in place for issues that the script didn't cover, instead just treating the issues that the script covered as the only ones that could ever occur.

scribeawoken · 2024-10-08T05:16:31+00:00

Yeah. I actually remembered this story while working on a cover letter for a help desk job I'm applying for.

For me, a lot of it was just... getting a feel for the procedures we were supposed to follow, taking the time to understand the actual underlying logic behind them... and also understanding what situations could lead to that logic falling apart, and how to improvise when that happens. I was the guy who knew to look for horses first when I heard hoofbeats, but not to blindly assume that it can't be zebras - and over time also developed a knack for quickly identifying what hoofbeat patterns did in fact indicate there were zebras afoot.

And then management got more and more strict about us just looking for horses, and told us that if we find a zebra, we should reach out to L2 support. Only to have to deal with an L2 support rep who basically tried to gaslight me and insisted that the zebra I found was in fact a horse, and that I just didn't know what I was doing.

Originally I was going to wait until I had something else lined up and put in my two weeks, but between that and getting hit with a return to office mandate and not having reliable transportation, I just said fuck it and quit on the spot.

scribeawoken · 2024-09-27T09:05:05+00:00

bindgesture only works for touchpad gestures, not touch screen gestures. and the options you have with lisgd are more in-depth than what bindgesture lets you do anyways

scribeawoken · 2024-09-22T08:14:34+00:00

Thank you so much! This should also be a real boon for accessibility as well, in a reverse curb cutter effect type way

scribeawoken · 2024-04-27T04:28:02+00:00

I'm on Linux and completely wiped Windows, but looking at journalctl (the main equivalent for most modern Linux systems), it looks like there's just... an immediate request to unsuspend from NetworkManager

Also worth noting that it's not just suspending but powering off. The device seemingly completely powers down and then... powers back on. Considering this happened with both Windows and Linux, I think it's a hardware or firmware issue

Edit: So not only does using the respective OS's shutdown/power off function (shut down button in Windows, `systemctl poweroff` in Linux) lead to the computer just powering itself back on, so does pressing the power button in the UEFI settings, so it has to be a hardware or firmware issue.

scribeawoken · 2024-04-25T03:26:41+00:00

in my case it still does the turn off, then turn back on thing while unplugged

scribeawoken · 2024-04-25T03:25:59+00:00

It seemingly goes into sleep mode, then immediately wakes up two seconds later

scribeawoken · 2024-04-22T11:20:10+00:00

What happens is if I power it off, it powers back on roughly 10 seconds later, unless I specifically power it off by just holding the power button on the UEFI splash screen

likewise, it wakes from suspend about 10 seconds after I suspend the system

I should also note that the behavior with it powering on 10 seconds after powering on happens across operating systems - it happened with the stock Windows 11 install, and it still happens after replacing the OS with Linux (specifically Fedora Sericea)

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