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prollyanotherlurker said:
here I just looked this up, got this. The xscreensaver people are doing the work to add wayland support finally. But as far as I know literally anyone could have made a wayland screensaver tool, but no one has because as far as I can tell no one cares enough to do that work themselves. Which is why I asked what doesn't have any screensaver support.
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That's because it's the UI/DE devs who should do it in the first place. It boggles the mind why they even removed screensavers in the first place. No one asked for it, but many opposed the decision.
 
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here I just looked this up, got this. The xscreensaver people are doing the work to add wayland support finally. But as far as I know literally anyone could have made a wayland screensaver tool, but no one has because as far as I can tell no one cares enough to do that work themselves. Which is why I asked what doesn't have any screensaver support.
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Bro. The xscreensaver person, JWZ, has been documenting for MORE THAN FIVE YEARS how the Wayland scum DELIBERATELY SABOTAGE XSCREENSAVER.
You know what X Windows had within less time than that of its initial development? Working screensavers. In the 1980s. Accomplished by a fraction of the developers required to 'achieve' KDE's 'goal' of making Plasma not just not work properly on Wayland (because that's impossible) but also not on proper X Windows either.
 
As I’ve posted before, in KDE you can install the ”shader background” extension, set that as your lock screen background, and then download any shader you like from shadertoy.com to use as a screensaver. It works flawlessly, I’ve been using it for years by now (my screensaver and desktop background is a red bubbles rising with a scanline effect shader I made myself).
 

you would think someone developing on an ancient crusty program like this would have learned how to fade a screen by now. Somehow a teenage European guy that decided to make a wayland compostior to throw anime wallpapers on figured it out. And then basically made an entire desktop's worth of programs to go around it, while also getting banned from even working directly with freedesktop
 
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That blog is amazing for other posts too, like this one posted in reply to why it's UNIX only:
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look at that i learned how to use the button
for some reason i discovered these clone tech brainrot channels that all upload the same video, so the news comes across as fake cause it doesnt link its sources
but if oems start offering linux systems at a slight discount i could finally start recommending linux computers to people and become happy
 
acid_ra1n said:

look at that i learned how to use the button
for some reason i discovered these clone tech brainrot channels that all upload the same video, so the news comes across as fake cause it doesnt link its sources
but if oems start offering linux systems at a slight discount i could finally start recommending linux computers to people and become happy
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I'd personally hold off on recommending OEM Linux systems if they ever got mainstream. Imagine the kind of shit these companies would load the distributed distro up with; and it's not like there'll be a debloater program ready to nuke it all. Not at first at least.
 
GNU Abyss said:
I'd personally hold off on recommending OEM Linux systems if they ever got mainstream. Imagine the kind of shit these companies would load the distributed distro up with; and it's not like there'll be a debloater program ready to nuke it all. Not at first at least.
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But at least you can be fairly certain that all of the hardware used has drivers available. They wouldn't ship a Linux ready laptop with a fingerprint reader or wifi card that doesn't have any drivers available.
 
GNU Abyss said:
I'd personally hold off on recommending OEM Linux systems if they ever got mainstream. Imagine the kind of shit these companies would load the distributed distro up with; and it's not like there'll be a debloater program ready to nuke it all. Not at first at least.
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Dell, Lenovo, and HP already offer Linux preinstallations on some of their laptops.
 
ProudSkibidiTolietAryan said:
Basically the register T1 is NON cleared for some reason. I have to figure out WHY now. Im assuming its because my implementation is to perfect and there is something that is acutally SUPPOSE to fail normally.. But that is just guesswork, and you can make a MILLION valid reasons and theorys for why something does not work in this stage.
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Figured it out.

Its cleverly testing if the NAND controller is legit or a counterfeit.

On real Hardware when given a value that EXCEEDS the flash size its suppose to WRAP AROUND and then go back to 0(I figured that out by just trying it. As it turns out it lands PERFECTLY at the start of a page)> On alternate NAND chips it just results in a bunch of 00s). This check occurs as the VERY LAST checksum test it does

This likely prevents SMUGGLING from ports where you take a expensive high end electronic, take out all the expensive parts and SELL it, and then replace it with cheap parts before putting it back on sail to US retailer stores. I definitely know its a hardware check to detect if its running on the ACTUAL hardware. However the fact that the NAND is not encrypted tells me that they do not care about reverse engineerers they care about people hurting there BRAND by getting a TV with offshore parts in it.
 
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jeff7989 said:
Yesterday I switched from KDE to SonicDE on my desktop, I haven't noticed any stability issues. There's even a repo here.
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Was using it for a little while until Plasma 6.6 caused the theme I was using (aerothemeplasma) to finally push their major rework, which broke building for sonicde due to it removing wayland completely.

acid_ra1n said:
for some reason i discovered these clone tech brainrot channels that all upload the same video, so the news comes across as fake cause it doesnt link its sources
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If someone ever brings up microsoft and bill gates in the same sentence and isnt talking about something that happened 20 years ago immediately assume they are Indian or retarded (same thing I know).
 
Dante Alighieri said:
Dell, Lenovo, and HP already offer Linux preinstallations on some of their laptops.
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Yeah I know and you can also opt for no OS but its hard to tell someone to order a laptop direct from the OEM
Need Linux on computers you can find browsing a normal shopping site or storefront
Also: vendefoul wolf Linux (devuan fork) has a sonic DE spin u should totally test for them

GNU Abyss said:
I'd personally hold off on recommending OEM Linux systems if they ever got mainstream. Imagine the kind of shit these companies would load the distributed distro up with; and it's not like there'll be a debloater program ready to nuke it all. Not at first at least.
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From what I've gathered from this brainrot video it wasn't actually the oems bloating the installs but deals companies made with Microsoft themselves and oems weren't making money on
This is excluding first party bloatware like Asus crate or whatever


ive been pretty skeptical of ladybird, not for their coding practices but just in general. i don't see them as a serious contender for a mainstream web browser, and i don't see that changing in the next 10 years even if they did pass all their platform tests and implemented every web standard.
now i guess i have the anti ai, anti rust crowds agreeing with me, which is a start but i think the skepticism is misplaced.
 

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Lone Wandering Courier said:
I've been tempted to make the switch to xlibre+SonicDE myself, but I don't know how well it will work with cachyos and a 10xx-series nvidia gpu.
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Switching to Xlibre and back of fairly straightforward so it's worth testing. Xlibre seems to be trying to support GPUs that were dropped by Xorg so compatibility might be slightly better
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TNdOuhO5bEg

Is TempleOS the only safe OS now?

I have a feeling that the age verification will be put at the Kernel level, Linus Torvals will be the one to code it in with a gun pointed at his temple by politicians, regardless if left or right wing.

Or we could kill all the kids so the "Think of the children" argument can never be used again.
 
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