FishFace

All this effort when S3 did everything

Do you want to read books with ragged margins? Ew.

I didn’t understand at first. I don’t use fish, I’m afraid :P

“You’re still using bash? Ew.”

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Would you enjoy trying to explain this to your grandma or other stereotypically tech-un-savvy relative after you got her to install Ubuntu and something she was able to do before stopped working after an update?

You’re interested in backwards compatibility on servers, and in backwards compatibility for a subset of applications. Cool. Convenient for you! Recognise that there’s more to it than that, that when people meme about how awesome Linux is compared to Windows, focusing on servers and non-graphical applications isn’t good enough.

The transition would have been a lot less acrimonious if it had been attempted after wlroots was usable, or if people working on Wayland itself had made an effort to write something like wlroots.

You’re right! And yet it doesn’t really matter that much, does it?

Yeah, I wouldn’t expect it to work, so I wouldn’t expect a meme to imply that Linux has great backwards compatibility, when things change somewhat rapidly in mainstream Linux, making it quite hard to maintain.

xdotool is not already installed, and also will not work 🙄

I think there are parameters for that, from googling.

These just-so stories are easy to write, harder to write convincingly. I gladly use Wayland because I’m in a mixed-DPI setup, and didn’t rely on anything that broke. But loads of people are still pissed off due to persistent incompatibility.

The way Wayland made everything the responsibility of non-existent compositors really fucked over anyone not using GNOME or KDE, basically.

There is something wrong if it’s not discarding old context to make room for new

LLMs work by picking the next word* as the most likely candidate word given its training and the context. Sometimes it gets into a situation where the model’s view of “context” doesn’t change when the word is picked, so the next word is just the same. Then the same thing happens again and around we go. There are fail-safe mechanisms to try and prevent it but they don’t work perfectly.

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Mmh nobody forces me to, but someone did just imply I have bad hair for doing so 🤔

I have no desire to work on a large project in a plain text editor.

Actually no. In fact, I think most people who thought for a minute would realise names like mine exist, it’s just that sometimes people working systems don’t think for a minute ;)

There’s an aspect of my surname which is somewhat unusual (at least in my country). As a result I occasionally get form validation errors when entering it. Sometimes those errors are extremely inscrutable. Sometimes a form validates but something elsewhere makes unvalidated assumptions about names which then breaks in completely unpredictable names…

In my mind the switch to CSD was made concurrently with the switch to mobile style burger menus and a corresponding excision of features to fit in the smaller menu area, so most apps that do it I just instinctively dislike. It’s part of what pushed me to KDE, though I still use GNOME at work