https://docs.sidephone.com/en/articles/13624506-specificatio...

- No annoying "X11 stutter"

- FreeSync works reliably; no more fucking around with different compositors.

- applications aren't allowed permanently alter the display settings. That was particularly problematic with older Windows games and wine. Depending on the game, exiting a game could leave the display server in a very low resolution on exit. Even worse, a few games would result in the X11 gamma settings being altered outside of the game (Deus Ex was one, but there were a few others).

- display-specific scaling factors

- I could use Waydroid on my 2-in-1 finally.

- HDR support. As an added bonus beyond HDR content, SDR content looks better on my PG42UQ monitor due to the monitor suffering from severe black crush in SDR mode.

That said, there are annoyances. I recently started work on a rewrite of the Jellyfin Desktop client (https://github.com/jellyfin-labs/jellyfin-desktop-cef) and of course targeted Wayland first:

Pros:

- HDR via an Wayland subsurface works great!

Cons:

- Running CEF (Chromium) in Wayland mode does NOT respect the system scale factor. The workaround is to run it X11 mode. Not too big of a deal since I'm using CEF in offscreen-rendering mode with a Wayland SDL surface, but annoying.

- Picture-in-Picture isn't widely supported yet. It is one of those things that Wayland is building _towards_ rather than X11 just working.

- Minor, but not being able to position the window centered on startup is kinda annoying.

So yeah - tradeoffs, but currently good enough for me and it continues to get better. I'm optimistic.

Lots of manual, opinionated stuff in here, but it prevents Claude from even accessing the credentials and limits what it can do with them.

https://github.com/tauri-apps/cef-rs

https://web.archive.org/web/20100304155706/http://www.thepro...

Who?

As for attaching a file, I'm usually screenshotting small amounts of code - usually of the ephemeral variety.

No - call it what it is. They are catering to the largest market segments and ignoring the smaller segments who desire smaller phones.

Reasoning as to why is another thing, but it doesn't negate the existence of the segment who does want one.

When you see that, call them out on it. Not understanding copy+pasted code is one thing, but not testing it is a whole other level of garbage.

https://www.xbox.com/en-US/handhelds/rog-xbox-ally

My guess is they'll continue to improve handheld and TV experiences in Windows and leverage third-parties to make the hardware.

fwiw - I'm happy to chat if you wanna vent.

The KRunner plugin I use doesn't have a comprehensive Markdown parser, but it works great with the format I've been using. https://github.com/andrewrabert/krunner-markdown-bookmarks Ex:

  # Bookmarks
  ## Code
  - [GitHub](https://github.com)
  - [GitLab - Arch Linux](https://gitlab.archlinux.org)
  ## Social
  - [Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com)
  - [Reddit](https://www.reddit.com)

We now also have a web where ActiveX, the Windows-only IE browser engine, and Flash+Shockwave binaries are no longer exist as mainstream web technologies. As a Linux user, this is great!

> There are no forums, there's reddit and discord. > The are no private websites, there's uniform Meta Twitter.

Incorrect. I regularly read the VOGONS forum (https://www.vogons.org/) for retro computing related topics. Is the forum for you? Maybe, maybe not. There are plenty of others as well though many are specific to niches. Hacker News is also a kind of forum.

Focus on what you want to get out of a forum rather than a forum for the sake of a forum.

> Google search sucks.

Yeah, modern Google search really sucks. I often find ChatGPT or Claude better at fuzzy-finding than modern search engines. Depends on what I'm looking for.

> Everything is AI.

AI as a concept has existed in marketing for decades. The term has picked up again and todays LLM's will probably seem quite dumb in a decade. They're great fuzzy-finders though - I regularly use Claude for various dev tasks including DOS and embedded development.

> Toxicity is rampant.

I have a childhood memory, early 90's, where the news was on the TV talking about a bombing/attack/similar in the middle east. It's a fuzzy memory, but it continues having a strong impact on my life with regards to negativity in the world. Things have always sucked, will continue to suck, but likewise for the opposite. Focusing on what is in my control and positive has helped me a lot here.

> Pirate sites, the few are full of racists and other assholes.

I can't say I've ever spent enough time on pirate sites to bother with conversation. Plenty of these sites continue to exist and media is still aquireable. I'm amused anytime _someone I know_ finds a 10-year-plus old torrent that still has seeders.

Side note, there's even a modern, open-source keygen for older versions of Windows available on GitHub that has not been taken down (user Endermanch). It even has keygen music!

> You may not speak your mind, including HN, you get censored and/or otherwise canceled.

_Someone I know_ has been a life-long pirate and has always had this problem with regards to pirating things.

> And this whole thing bleeds into real life. People are edgy, dissatisfied, unfriendly, can't take criticism, even if it's constructive.

Some people suck, some don't. I was lightly bullied through my entire childhood so this was kind of the status-quo for me. However, my friends were an exception and they were and still are great! The only recent change I've noticed in my socialsphere is a change in family members for the worst. One side of my family went down the path of becoming pushy Grumpelstiltskin's, so I did have to make a choice to remove them from my life. The keyword for me was pushy, not necessiarily a difference of opinion. It was difficult to cut off contact, but doing so allowed me to spend mental energy on people who have positive impacts on my life.

The internet became less of a place for people like us as the rest of the world embraced it. This does extend beyond the web as even culture is more varied than ever (music, shows, memes, etc). It might take more work to find what fits you, but it's still out there.

Not all their stuff sounds like that, but I've been a big fan since first discovering them via a sample included in the XMMS2 media player way back in the early 2000's.

My office room is now absent of both noise and heat generated by my desktop and it's so much nicer for it.

Side note, balatro-mobile-maker works really well as an unofficial port to Android. https://github.com/blake502/balatro-mobile-maker