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They very rarely have memory and threading issues

It's always the "rarely" that gets you. A program that doesn't crash is awesome, a program that crashes consistently is easy to debug (and most likely would be caught during development anyway), but a program that crashes only once a week? Wooo boy.

People vastly underestimate the value Rust brings by ensuring the same class of bugs will never happen.

Ah you got my comment wrong! I didn't mean to suggest Gecko is closed source. I just wanted another web engine that is also open source.

Servo was an experimental ground for Mozilla in some ways (like testing out a new CSS engine and porting it back to Gecko if it works). So it's quite normal for people to be unaware of it, it was not meant for the public.

But later on it was abandoned by Mozilla and stuck in a limbo, until it got picked up by the Linux Foundation. Now it's a standalone project and I wish them well. We really need a new FOSS web engine.

It really depends.

If I know I will never open the file in the terminal or batch process it in someways, I will name it using Common Case: "Cool Filename.odt".

Anything besides that, snake case. Preferably prefixed with current date: "20240901_cool_filename"

I recall reading somewhere the earlier compilers had a hard limit on the length of function names, due to memory constraints.

People back then just grossly underestimated how big computing was going to be.

The human brain is not built to predict exponential growths!

One of the issues at hand is that X11, the predecessor of Wayland, does not have a standardized way to tell applications what scale they should use. Applications on X11 get the scale from environment variables (completely bypassing X11), or from Xft.dpi, or by providing in-application settings, or they guess it using some unorthodox means, or simply don't scale at all. It's a huge mess overall.

It is one of the more-or-less fundamentally unfixable parts of the protocol, since it wants everything to be on the same coordinate space (i.e. 1 pixel is 1 pixel everywhere, which is... quite unsuitable for modern systems.)

Wayland does operate like how you say it and applications supporting Wayland will work properly in HiDPI environments.

However a lot of people and applications are still on X11 due to various reasons.

LoDPI applications are either tiny sized or upscaled (= blurriness), aren't they?

Yeah I get the display server part. What I meant was that 200% scaling gets you 1920x1080 logical resolution on HiDPI applications -- LoDPI applications continue to be blurry just as if you set your actual resolution to 1080p, but HiDPI applications will enjoy the enhanced visual acuity.

Even on smaller screens like the 14" ones, the quality of very high resolution (e.g. 4K) is still quite visible IMO, especially when it comes to text rendering. But it could very well just be my eyes.

It's not even Linux's fault. Plenty of apps support HiDPI on Linux.

It's the developers who still think that LoDPI-only is still acceptable when it's already 2024.

Isn't scaling to 200% the same as lowering the resolution to half? And you lose the high DPI for apps that support it too.

Agreed. HiDPI is the way to go and we should appreciate Framework for putting that in their laptops instead of continuing the use of shitty 1366x768 screens.

Xorg is the reason why OP is facing the scaling issues. OP, try to force the apps to run on native Wayland if they support it but don't default to it. The Wayland page on Arch wiki has instructions on that. Immensely improved my HiDPI experience.

...Why is there Dunkin Donuts inside a hospital?

Agencies that are still living in the 90s...

The modern electronic devices are far more railroaded than it was back in the day tho.

Want to download an application? There's the App Store. No need to download random .exes from sketchy websites (and learn what a "computer virus" is the hard way)

Downloaded a picture? It's instantly inside your gallery. Back then we needed to find a folder called "Download" or "My Documents" using something called the Explorer!

iPhone and Android made a lot of things dumber and easier to take in, but I feel like it had a detrimental effect on digital literacy.

It's how I play Minecraft. I play on the servers solo.

Sometimes just seeing others chat with each other makes me feel way less lonely.

A question is a question... Just answer the damn question without judging it.

Better let someone know what the thing does instead of forcing them to experiment with it and (possibly) break it.

The "quit having fun" meme is ironically becoming as cringey as the thing it is originally complaining about.

You will help the community more by telling non-Linux people why Linux gaming is better, and this meme is doing the exact opposite of it -- "oh Linux can't play some games, yada yada. But we are still better! Switch over!" -- like what's the logic of it?

What's the purpose of this meme other than circlejerking?

Disclamer: I am a Linux user myself, started with Debian and is now using Arch Linux.

I will share some advantages I experienced in Linux gaming:

1. Alt-tabbing old fullscreened games won't mess with my monitor.
2. The compatibility of Wine when it comes to some older games is wild. SimCity 4 actually crashed less when I played it on Linux.
3. Better performance across the board. Granted it's just a mere 5% difference but I will take it, why not.

Subways are pretty much exclusively built in the cities, and the US doesn't lack cities. The same is true for most countries.

Indeed, the Ryzen laptops are very nice! I have one (the 4800H) and it lasts ~8 hours on battery, far more than what I expected from laptops of this performance level. My last laptop barely achieved 4 hours of battery life.

I had stability issues in the first year but after one of the BIOS updates it has been smooth as butter.