zurohki

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[–] zurohki@aussie.zone 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Well, Nvidia initially didn't intend to support Wayland at all. They're being dragged into it kicking and screaming, one step at a time.

[–] zurohki@aussie.zone 0 points 7 months ago

Depends on what they actually need to do. When it's a drive that's working and they just have to image it and run some recovery software it should be pretty cheap.

Clean room repair of dead hard disks is a different story.

[–] zurohki@aussie.zone 32 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (4 children)

If there's something really important on that disk, don't do ANYTHING, just unplug it and hand it over to a data recovery company.

If there isn't anything really important on there, go ahead and try and do it yourself.

Paying $100 to a data recovery company can save you a ton of headaches if it has the only copy of your thesis on there and you mess it up trying to fix things yourself.

[–] zurohki@aussie.zone 47 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (5 children)
[–] zurohki@aussie.zone 0 points 7 months ago (5 children)

Some people don't have the space at home to set up a working area and really want to just go to an office that their employer pays for, and that's fine.

[–] zurohki@aussie.zone 9 points 7 months ago (1 children)

If only there was some way to take that link to the article and use it to find out what the article says.

[–] zurohki@aussie.zone 2 points 7 months ago

Never know when you'll have a flush of inspiration.

[–] zurohki@aussie.zone 6 points 8 months ago

I switched my laptop to Wayland about three years ago. AMD graphics, normal DPI 60Hz screen, doesn't really do more than run a web browser.

My gaming desktop needed more of those troublesome edge cases hammered out - freesync in xwayland, app DPI scaling in xwayland, etc. I only switched it last year.

[–] zurohki@aussie.zone 10 points 8 months ago

It's more expensive than solar, wind and batteries, though. Not just coal or gas.

[–] zurohki@aussie.zone 8 points 8 months ago

I'd argue the root cause was Nvidia insisting that X11 was the future, they'd never support Wayland, and refusing to participate in any of the design processes. As a result when they got dragged kicking and screaming into supporting Wayland, nothing that had been developed without Nvidia suited their hardware or drivers.

They first tried to throw their weight around by forcing EGLStreams on everyone, failed, and they've been scrambling to catch up ever since.

[–] zurohki@aussie.zone 8 points 8 months ago (1 children)

This. I once sat in stationary traffic for an hour and a half because a truck rolled over on a major highway. Nowadays I put my destination into Waze and if the best route is a long detour I just turn the car off and go back inside.

[–] zurohki@aussie.zone 38 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Well, we've now got Steam Deck turning your portable console into a full PC, just connect a keyboard. Also no need to buy a Steam Deck version of that game you bought on Steam ten years ago, it's already there and probably runs great.

It might be that proprietary, single purpose gaming portables are going to lose to more flexible portables even if smartphones are too limited to do the job.

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