X11 is like a big dilapidated house. It doesn't work very well anymore and is difficult to maintain.

Wayland is new modern house. Smaller and more efficient, but missing some amenities that the old house had that some people still want, like a wood burning stove.

Beehaw is my home in the fediverse, and I'm happy here. I like that they try to maintain a positive community. But if Beehaw left the fediverse, I wouldn't come along. Which is a change from thinking I might last time I saw this topic come up.

If beehaw ends up in a silo I think it will just have too little to offer for me. And that's ok. This isn't about me, it's about creating a safe space for your disenfranchised users.

I hope Beehaw stays, but I understand if they don't.

Two facts:

1. I love people doing weird things with tech.
2. I absolutely hate this.

The YouTube adblocker battle is going to be a constantly moving target, so take this with a grain of salt as who knows when it'll break.

I use Firefox with ublock origin and watch directly on YouTube. I don't sign in, and I track the content I follow via rss. No ads, no nags, no issues.

Piped and similar as well as yt-dlp are also great and are better options for giving YouTube the middle finger, which I fully endorse. Just giving another option.

My guess is you have an nvidia card and are using the nouveau (open source) module instead of the nvidia (proprietary) one.

Assuming that's correct, here's Ubuntu's documentation on that. https://ubuntu.com/server/docs/nvidia-drivers-installation

I think most of us FOSS folks will agree that GIMP is pretty unintuitive.

Bad behavior in Windows article up on the Fediverse for four hours and no one telling us how their Linux laptop doesn't have this problem?

My Linux laptop doesn't have this problem 😁.

Sounds like it's a combo of bad Windows behavior and buggy implementations, but had to deliver the joke first.

Whenever I see these Musk posts, I always think the title can usually be reduced to 3 or 4 words. In this case, "Elon shouldn't be trusted".

Funnily enough I just, like an hour before reading this post bought an AMD card. And I've been using NVIDIA since the early 00's.

For me it's good linux support. Tired of dealing with their drivers.

Will losing me as a customer make a difference to NVIDIA? Nope. Do I feel good about ditching a company that doesn't treat me well as a consumer? Absolutely!

He's certainly polarizing isn't he?

I liked the guy for a minute when all I knew is that he was involved in EV's and renewable energy and such. That sentiment died real quick though!

Edit: Added the polarizing bit.

The nuances of this are beyond me, but I feel like it's likely this would eventually be overcome.

Your best protection from having your images manipulated is to keep them off the internet if at all possible (we can only control what we post).

Basically I'm saying to treat the internet as hostile. Which is unfortunate, but accurate.

You'd need Microsoft/Apple/Google to agree to this to get these client side message scrapers on devices.

You'd need commercial/closed source e2e messaging services to agree to add a backdoor.

Why would they? Not that they care about end users, but corporate interests will take issue with it too. And it's a bad look. UK is just one market for these global companies. I'm not an expert in such things so I'm basically talking out of my ass, but I think it makes sense.

But even if they somehow manage it, people will learn how to circumvent it. And then there's open source operating systems and e2e messaging which are immune to this.

Edit: grammar.