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  • I think you’re missing some key parts of the Star Trek lore. America didn’t peacefully evolve into the Federation. Earth wasn’t able to get past it’s self destructive tendencies until after World War III, a conflict so devastating that 30% of the Earth’s population was killed. My knowledge is more fuzzy on this, but I don’t think the American empire survived WWIII as an entity.

    Also we have images of black holes.





  • brisk@aussie.zonetolinuxmemes@lemmy.world*gasp*
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    2 months ago

    If you’re fine with Wayland, go with Wayland. There are lots of reasons still that people might prefer X11 but the list has been getting shorter.

    • The security model of Wayland is more restrictive than necessary for many users and means things like screen sharing and desktop toys are harder and not universally implemented or doable.
    • Wayland effectively requires many things to be handled by the same process, preventing traditional modular environments (e.g. separating window manager from compositor no longer possible)
    • Explicit compositor support required for more features, meaning having a feature complete environment in small projects is much harder, and the design of Wayland tends to promote a few large desktop environments rather than many small window managers.
    • NVidia’s support for Wayland is still improving
    • Wayland can’t rotate your screen to be on an angle to maximise the length of a line
    • Several programs I rely on don’t support Wayland well yet
      • Steam doesn’t stream from Wayland
      • Transparent bits of FreeCAD show the background instead of what’s behind them
      • Code-OSS required a very silly workaround for decent font rendering, although I think this might have been fixed in electron











  • brisk@aussie.zonetoLinux@lemmy.mlAMD vs Nvidia
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    4 months ago

    I put a 3060Ti in my latest build. The NVidia drivers would consistently hard lock my PC after about a day of uptime no matter what I did. I spent ages trying to hunt down the issue, and waited through several kernel and driver versions in vain hope, fuelled by people insisting that the NVidia drivers were “good now”. I switched to nvidia-open once that released (or once I realised it existed) to no avail. Nouveau was not available at all for those cards when I started and was still missing critical features at the end.

    I think this is the first time I’ve ever encountered a kernel crash in nearly two decades of Linux computing. And second, and third and…

    I switched to an AMD card, a 7600 (a generation newer! In case anyone thought this was a “new hardware” issue) and the problem was immediately gone, and my PC has returned to being my sanctuary.

    My problem is exceptionally rare - I think i found one other person experiencing it over the course of 1-2 years. But the concept that NVidia had redeemed themselves continues to ring hollow for me.