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  • Wayland is of course still a problem for now but hopefully not for long.

    To be honest, graphic in linux has been a rough spot for the last 30 years. Back then you had to fiddle with arcane syntax to get your X11 config working, then it was getting opengl working, then, then, then. So my expectations is that once Wayland is working there will be something else. Maybe HDMI58 AI enhanced turbo edition will come out and people will be saying “but once this is working it will be the year of linux desktop” ;)






  • Having the legal staff and having the upper management from another country able to understand it at a conceptual level and integrate it into their decision making process is entirely different. One of my friend is a lawyer in France who specialises in helping US corporation handle their subsidiaries here. There’s not a week that passes without him being asked how to do something illegal here but legal in the US and the client being baffled and literally refusing to understand that they can’t.

    The main one being firing people, from the way he talks about it, he seems to be earning half his income re-explaining to the same people over and over that no you can’t just give 2 weeks notice and fire people at will just because you need a quick expense reduction before the end of the quarter to amuse the shareholders. It just doesn’t register.




  • I think that underestimates the difference between handling tech that need to keep people alive and restoring a computer that sits in a basement and is not expected to do anything more than provide cool entertainment.

    Going through testing, certification, documentation and training for a USB adapter would cost millions, even if the piece was available off the shelf for 50 bucks.

    The floppy is just the funny visible part of the issue, the core issue is that their whole stack has seen the dinosaurs roam free.