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Cake day: September 1st, 2023

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  • Yes. It has basically the same issue that any compatibility layer is going to have. It will either faithfully reproduce X11 so well it will bring all of the nonsense Wayland was meant to do a way with (everything not directly related to displaying graphics, like font and geometry rendering from the '80s, network transparency, insecure event handling) OR it will attempt to get a reasonable subset working for modern X apps and it won’t be compatible with dusty old binaries and X forwarding etc.

    Right now it looks like a shim for Xwayland so it’s the first one, but as it matures we’ll see.








  • I’ll bite. Austin, TX circa 2007. Sublet. Moved my (now) wife and one year old into a one bedroom, one bathroom house the size of a shoebox. Cooled by a single window unit, had to steal wifi, and roaches crawled in through the gaps under the doors.

    Ironically, it’s now a fond memory. First place I lived with my new family, it was just for the summer, we had cool neighbors and were like 200 feet from a bunch of really cool local businesses.












  • Not something I did, but someone did for me just yesterday that was very nice.

    I was driving home through rural-ish Texas and had just stopped at a bakery to get some coffee and absentmindedly left it, along with my wife’s favorite water bottle, on the roof of the car when I started to pull out.

    Guy in a pickup across the street pulled into the turn lane and stopped in front of me (not a busy road) rolled down his window and pointed over the roof of his car.

    I was super confused for a moment, but got the picture and was able to pull off again and grab the water bottle. The coffee was KIA.

    Anyway, thanks to that random stranger.