Hey.com email does this minus the blocking of html/css. You basically thumps up or thump down a sender and they either go away forever or you happily trust what comes from them. It's been hit or miss on some stuff for me and I hate the way the website looks, but otherwise its a great way of whitelisting senders.
I have long thought that fewer things get properly packaged for Arch due to it having the AUR as a crutch. Stuff like Void and Guix will have packages that are only in the AUR for Arch.
The week before they released Mythos to governments they had all their source code stolen. It's all about improving their image and creating propoganda.
300 years ago when I was in high school I had a friend choose to go the HVAC trade school route instead of college. He chose the hardest school in the country where they did most things manually so that students understood how things work. It removed the "magic" some tools provide. I was pretty impressed he was wise enough to do that. He's exceptional at his job by the way.
I think we have a tendency to think the worst of your people. They frequently surprise me though.
Window Maker is still really cool! Not a full desktop environment, though. I tried using it with GNUstep for a while, but while the base libraries are apparently still actively developed and maintained, a lot of the applications are antiquated, and they’re very hard to make blend in with EFL/GTK/Tk/Qt apps.
Sometimes I wonder what the desktop landscape would look like today if that branch of software gained wider adoption in the free software communities. :-)
Oh, it’s still alive! Development stalled a while back, so I was worried something may have happened to the author, with their land being invaded and all.
It seems more focused on the retro aesthetic, which I personally don’t love, but it’s still really nice to see.
> Sometimes I wonder what the desktop landscape would look like today if that branch of software gained wider adoption in the free software communities. :-)
It's derived from GNUStep which was from NeXstep who Apple bought. OSX and now macOS are descendants of that design. That's where the macOS dock comes from. Not a 1 to 1 design obviously but a marriage between the operating systems thanks to Steve Jobs.
> Outside of rare special cases, yes, they will still work using the Xwayland compatibility layer. It does a great job of providing compatibility for most X11 applications
Not on my 4 year old PC. Wayland performs poorly and usually in wonky ways. I tried it for several weeks. Could not stand the odd behaviors and poor performance and went back to X11. And this is an AlienWare PC, cost me $2000 US, the most I've ever paid for a PC. Can't imagine how bad Wayland would be on the lesser PC's/laptops in our home.
Xwayland != Wayland. Xwayland is an X server and a Wayland client. I have a feeling that whatever performed poorly in wonky ways was due to whatever you were attempting to run rather than Wayland itself.
If you see this comment and ever decide to give the wayland session and whatever you were trying to run another go, I'd be more than happy to try and help you fix it.
I'm not a Wayland evangelist but as someone with an old(custom built) desktop myself who has used the Wayland session since it became an option, your comment reads to me as:
"Xwayland(and by extension Wayland on KDE) is bad, I'm not going to list any specific programs I had issues with or any of the troubleshooting I tried in the several weeks I attempted to use it but for me it ran poorly and/or strangely.
I have an AlienWare PC, which should prevent any of these issues from happening(?)"
I have a 6 years old PC (around 1000€ at the time). The only problems I can think of were caused by Nvidia drivers. It's true there can be still some rough edges in Wayland, but at least for me, nothing that I can notice in my day to day.
> Can't imagine how bad Wayland would be on the lesser PC's/laptops in our home.
Thousands of users use daily distros based on Wayland without problems. Maybe you had bad luck and something on your system is not fully compatible. But for the majority of people Wayland works fine. Have you tried different distros?
Before I upgraded to my new PC (managed to get it just before AI sent prices into the stratosphere), I was using an older PC (2016~ish) without discrete GPU. It ran Plasma Wayland without any problems. My new PC (has an RX 7600) also runs it without any problems. I don't know what's wrong with your PC (I mean, AlienWare does make atrocious garbage, so it could be anything), but I expect it to run better on your lesser PC's/laptops.
I remember when it first came out. Very impressive at the time. I was never a fan though personally, I always hated the look of KDE. I used it recently on CachyOS for fun and it worked great, just not for me visually. I'm glad it exists, I just wish there was something visually appealing with less settings bloat. It feels like going to a diner with 300 items on the menu and they're all sorta half baked.
I recently canceled my Claude subscription. The token costs are outrageous. I maxed my 5 hour limit with a single request. If they fix that I'll reconsider but as things sit today Claude is a pig that's just not worth the cost.
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