unalivejoy

X (derogatory)

Yup. “Legal” just means the government won’t punish you.

“Everyone hated that”

A third party ported a game to Linux then stopped keeping it up to date with the Windows version. Your versions have to match for online play, so to play with your Windows buddies, you have to force it to use the latest version on proton. But guess what, the save data is separated between platforms, so you have to create your character again and lose your story progress.

The game is Borderlands 2 BTW.

There’s lots of money to be made by inserting a hardware back door in your product then later disclosing it as an unfixable vulnerability and force your customers to buy new hardware which has the same but different backdoor. Repeat.

Sounds like tax brackets.

Still better than Chrome.

I will assume this is just the password they use in development. But they should probably be using pglite.

Modern JavaScript has come a long way.

This can be fixed by switching from npm to pnpm or bun. They use hard links and a package cache.

Why did I read this in an Indian accent?

Good news! It’s a suppository.

Emphasis on the protocol part. There is only 1 implementation of X11 (Xorg). Wayland however is just protocols. There are several implementations of varying quality.

Depending on your DE, you could be using one of Weston (reference impl), Mutter (GNOME), Kwin (Plasma), wlroots (hyprland, sway), etc.

You can fix it yourself by switching distros or desktop environments. Plasma 6 on Wayland is an amazing experience compared to Plasma 5 on X11.

Yay bugs!

He can host his own instance, then you’re free to block it.