PorkrollPosadist

I've been working on these parts in the machine shop for the past week where I need to bang on them with a dead blow hammer to return the outside diameter to the print tolerance of +0.0000 -0.0005 inches. Every time I bang one of these things I go like "ba doing doing doing."

These things suck. I hate them.

(Blink 182 Cover)

I posted the wrong song earlier, THIS is the one I was looking for. The one with TWO totally improv solos in it (completely unique to the studio recording) and a sudden temp change at the end.

As the sun continues to set on the X11 display protocol, X.Org - the premier implementation - has been forked by a former developer who accuses its maintainers of "abandoning the project, and letting it rot forever."

He's not exactly wrong. X.Org is essentially mothballed. It is an enormous, complicated piece of deprecated infrastructure, with a very limited amount of resources and experienced maintainers. The corporations which sponsor Free Software development don't particularly care about desktop end-users, and the resources which are being spent on desktop experience are largely being spent on Wayland compositors. On the other hand, it appears many of his commits on X.Org were reverted for sloppy management of licensing / attribution, as well as some regressions which were introduced.

It is worth noting that when Wayland was introduced in 2008, X.Org developers were among its biggest advocates and contributors. The writing has been on the wall for a long time now, and the work of building an alternative is mostly complete.

That said, Wayland is not at all a 1 to 1 replacement for X, and like with the introduction of Systemd, there are a lot of people with strong feelings about this, a lot of conspiracy mongers cranking out YouTube slop. People throwing out accusations about how "they" are trying to ruin Linux yet again.

I personally have fond memories of X. Especially in the later days when the whole "unix porn" phenomenon bloomed and there was a sort of renaissance of customization. I miss herbstluftwm terribly. That said, I've been running Wayland for something like 6 years now and I do not really get why people hate it. It works fine, and it actually has a future.

Update:

It's also worth noting the author of this fork is a chud. Some excerpts from the README

This fork was necessary since toxic elements within Xorg projects, moles from BigTech, are boycotting any substantial work on Xorg, in order to destroy the project, to eliminate competition of their own products. Classic "embrace, extend, extinguish" tactics.

This is an independent project, not at all affiliated with BigTech or any of their subsidiaries or tax evasion tools, nor any political activists groups, state actors, etc. It's explicitly free of any "DEI" or similar discriminatory policies.

Together we'll make X great again!

If there is one thing the workers can't stand, it is occasionally getting paid to go fishing or crack open a cold one and grill outdoors.

Retweeted by Majority Report

Insurrection is GOOD, fucking morons. Months before this picture was taken, demonstrators had surrounded the White House and were ripping away the barricades set up by the capital security forces. It was based as hell and Trump was ushered to hide in his bunker as a result. The problem with J6 was not the method, or the utter disrespect for the Capitol. It was that they were reactionary freaks. Look at them. They're waving a SOUTH VIETNAM flag! Fucking losers.

link

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kosmos_482

Kosmos 482 (Russian: "Космос 482" meaning Cosmos 482), launched 31 March 1972, at 04:02:33 UTC, was an attempted Soviet Venus probe which failed to escape low Earth orbit. It is expected to crash back to Earth sometime around early 9 to 10 May 2025.[1][2] Its landing module, which weighs 495 kilograms (1,091 lb),[3] is highly likely to reach the surface of Earth in one piece as it was designed to withstand 300 g of acceleration and 100 atmospheres of pressure.