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Cake day: July 26th, 2023

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  • False. Browsers can announce themselves as desktop or mobile, or even advertise pre-determined fake window and screen sizes for this purpose (in Firefox it’s called “letterboxed” in the hidden settings). There is no need for a server to have any of this information anyway - either the design of the webpage should be responsive by default, or the server can send specifically whichever files for styles the browser specifically asks for, perhaps falling back to a “all.css” or something.















  • My use case is pretty much having a normal, usable, standard desktop environment where I can do workflows supported by features such as:

    • using a screen recording program to, ya know, record the screen;
      • …without having to buy more into the so-called portals cartel (that is also adding age verification);
    • opening programs with their windows being opened in the workspace, screen and at least approximate positioning where I last used then;
      • being able to drag-and-drop or relocate windows across screens, workspaces or any such entities;
    • launch graphical applications as a different user and have them interact natively with the rest of the desktop (eg.: fullscreen correctly);
    • have a fucking clipboard!;
      • with the Linux-classic middle-click alternate clipboard, too.
    • assign a hotkey or keycombo for an application, that can be fired from anywhere else in the desktop;
    • being able to manufacture input events for keyboard, mouse, joystick etc… for when there are issues;
    • being able to launch the window of a program opened remotely;
    • programs using the graphical theme I’ve assigned for window decoration, instead of inventing their own titlebars and min/maximize buttons;
    • being able to drag-and-drop files from one window to another;
    • and many others.

    The last time I tried Wayland was in 2023-ish. The fucking thing could not even finish the startup for a desktop session in my machine. It’s honestly the worst vaporware I’ve ever seen, and I’ve been around since the '90s. I feel like these things will never ever be truly fixed, because from what I understand of the Wayland model, it is intrinsically about treating the user as an enemy:

    “We’re treated like hostile threat actors on our own workstations” [1]

    [1] https://gist.github.com/probonopd/9feb7c20257af5dd915e3a9f2d1f2277

    Which is, ultimately, worrying. Things like Pulseaudio, systemd, Wayland, …, feel like they are making Linux less for the user and more for corporations. It’s enshittification, and comes from a culture of enshittification (Potter-ing etc).




  • Semanal de semana santa. Más feriados para todas las religiones. Más feriados ecuménicos. Más memes de trenes. Más ver series viejas de los '90 (casi gratis en el tv cable). Menos TAG, más Manjarate. Más socialismo y/o comunismo, el que sea su cariño. Más disco para el hámster del servidor. Más usuarios de otros países de Latinoamérica. Más café con leche. Más gatos. Más reparaciones de bicicletas.

    Que pasen buena semana.