The app didn’t seem to respect the environment variable for X11 I tried to set for that one app.

I have an odd monitor configuration, one 2k high refresh rate, HDR monitor in the center, 1080p monitors to the left, right, and above. The right is also a higher refresh rate.

I could get it to work in Ubuntu… inconsistently. Sometimes I’d log in and have one 640x480 monitor in the center. PopOS just worked.

Yeah, my monitors didn’t work under Ubuntu X11. At least on PopOS, that just worked.

I want Omnissa (VMWare) Horizon Client to support Wayland. Until then, while I have to boot into Windows for one thing, I might as well boot into Windows for everything.

Maybe next year will be the year of the Linux Desktop.

No, but it clearly wasn’t the solution. They likely could have used some of those people they fired for that.

Is that the oil that Russia is now importing after losing infrastructure?

pushing people towards specific ideas using social media

I’ve been incredibly concerned about this for more than a decade. Watching r/the_donald in action was incredible and validated all of that fear.

And it’s still happening. On all social media, including here.

Certain narratives are pushed hard, and it’s effective. Some of it is fully genuine. Some of it is/was seeded artificially and picked up some genuine steam, and is still being reinforced. The stuff that’s fully artificial seems to be dropped fairly quickly most of the time these days.

After the artificial narrative picks up and gets genuine sentiment mixed with it, it becomes hard to tell the difference. If you can mix it in with existing emotions, like anger that we’re in this situation, and add in some seeds of truth it works even better.

Propaganda works. On all of us. And just by being here, we’re being exposed. But I’m afraid to leave, too. The more real people leave the easier it is to manipulate the remainder.

It’s just all so easy and effective and actually happening. And the alarm bells about it aren’t loud enough.

Seems like clickbait. Wikipedia does not need actual visitors that badly.

Well, maybe seeing the American Nazis being even more incompetent and corrupt helps.

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Oh my console.log messages are so much better than that now… (that I started telling copilot to add them for me).

Vaultwarden is what you’re looking for.

Are we not allowed to talk about an interesting intersection of advertising and politics?

You know this is a discussion board, right? If you didn’t want to discuss, why are you posting?

Everyone now knows that he diddles kids. And he’s grifted tons of money from the American people. He no longer needs Putin for either money or to keep his Epstein secrets.

Who knows. He tends to believe the last person he talked to.

Maybe they’ve realized both that and that he doesn’t need Putin’s money anymore.

Between the two, Putin can now go fuck himself. Trump isn’t loyal to anyone and never pays his debts.

It’s another holocaust.

I feel like meat only on weekends would be a pretty great compromise for the near term.

If enough people did that, meat would stop being the default with every meal and it’d end up easier to go farther.

And I think people are more likely to stick with a dramatic reduction than to go all the way.

putting in the design effort to improve the tools in the ecosystem

They have. The problem is that they generally cause as many problems as they solve. Adding another layer in software is often as harmful as it is helpful.

LLMs are nice in this regard, because they don’t really add another layer, but they do take care of the excessive boilerplate that’s easily understandable.

But… That’s where you’d put this crap. Notepad had one job, and it did it well.

It’ll sometimes do dumb and/or redundant or too complicated shit. Pile up a couple of those and your codebase can get unmaintainable fast.

I find if you give it small chunks and keep an eye on it, it’s great.

I think one of my recent prompts was “Create a procedure that creates an example configuration file with placeholder values. If a config file doesn’t exist on start, give a warning and create the example config.”

It also works great as a replacement for an ORM.