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  • Wayland is a from scratch redesign on how to display things on Linux to get rid of a huge amount of technical debt of x11.

    As always with such a huge undertaking, there are a lot of speedbumps on the read that you can’t see beforehand. And at every speedbump people cried that wayland was a mistake and we just should go back to x11 because it worked good enough.

    We now reached the point where wayland has (almost?) feature parity with x11, that’s why now more and more distro deprecate x11 to be unsupported some undetermined point in the future.



  • my problem with signal is that they have a hard requirement to use a phone number for signup and that they don’t want to do anything about federation or messenger intercompatibility.

    Their resoning is that they only trust themself to keep the meta data safe and so need you. Leaves a little bit of a sour tast in my mouth that they don’t even give their users the option to opt into federation.