Don’t it though

Actual communism? Yes. Authoritarians larping as communist? No. They need scapegoats to deflect the ire for their failures. Even good governments still fail. But they will have the good will and consent of the people. Authoritarians don’t have either, and have to manipulate people to keep them from rioting.

I think KDE has an rdp session built in as well now. But from outside the lan and even in sometimes. Rust desk has been really good.

Wow, that’s quite the way to tell everyone you have no idea what you’re talking about.

Bedroom eyes and hands. Vance had his hands full of white cake as Usha watched.

That could definitely give you a different perspective. You might not really remember before twitter and Facebook. Heck before MySpace for that matter. Or when companies didn’t advertise their website but rather their AOL keyword.

Activity Pub is a lot like Usenet on steroids. It really is a return to the distributed, democratized Internet. Before all those other things. The only big stumbling block the increasing tighter grip on access and CCP style censorship that many nations are gate-keeping with.

It’s all good though, and with the view you’ve had of it so far I can absolutely understand and agree on how you think things are getting better. Because it is.

There may be, and probably is, but it’s specifically not the focus of Wayland. Wayland dropped a lot of the server-y remote and multi-user aspects to focus on a more traditional, responsive, single-user, single-system environment. Familiar among desktop users. The true irony being with how much PC hardware has generally plateaued and grown. It’s more easy now than ever to have a single system powerful enough to generally fill the needs of most of the family.

Honest question, I’m just trying to understand here. How long have you used the internet? That could definitely color a lot of different perceptions.

I suppose the best way to put it is that I’ve had the privilege of access to the Internet. In one form or another for a little over 32 years I think now. While access has improved, and nearly everyone carries a terminal in their pocket. My usage of the Internet is reverting back to more what it was 25 years ago. Just with much better access. Largely because it was better. The underlying internet hasn’t changed that profoundly. Just control of or access to it.

There were media streaming services before the oligarchs. They just had access to bigger pipes. And people ceded control to them for access to those bigger pipes. But our connections have improved while media size has decreased in many ways. And so has our need of them. The only new/unique thing they brought us. Was a centralized personal privacy nightmare.

If you really want to stretch things, I suppose you could say that the popularity of their services has helped drive adoption and commoditization of access. But that is as far as someone like myself would be willing to give them.

If you want to serve displays to multiple systems. Wayland will never do that. Honestly I’m not sure it even properly supports serving different displays to multiple users on the same system well. And I don’t think they are planning on it.

It’s a really niche paradigm anymore. Remote displays being handled by RDP or something like rust desk. Multiple users handled by hypervisors. Sure it is a bit of a waste of hardware resources. But on the other hand it allows things to be a bit simpler and more secure.

I absolutely have fond memories of setting up a multi seat display server that could access over the internet. Running a full gnome session acessable in Windows. Through the cygwin utilities and windows X client in college 27 years ago.

Right there in his own words for those that care to see. He lovingly caters to a class so wealthy that they feel no allegence to any country or nation. While at the same time decrying globalists. It’s not contradictory though. The term globalist is just another dogwhistle in the long history of fascist dogwhistles.

All true, but also all the more reason to acknowledge what we’ve lost. With an eye to the future to make sure that the enshitified centralized internet is one of them.

Whatever you call it, the Internet is changing and enshitifying. For many it’s the death of what it was. The new restrictions and push for chat control/censorship.

AI may just be a tool. And people may be over reacting. But it’s inarguable it’s being overwhelming leveraged by abject evil.

That or better, it brings more interest and support for mobile Linux/BSD. The enshitification can only be slowed at best. The only answer to it is to leave the systems promoting enshitification behind. Just like many people are looking outside their Windows on desktop ATM. This is the way.

Absolutely. So disconnected from his roots and the things that made him popular that he was looking to sell off the rights to his catalog as well. Because for all his blathering about Ian Curtis and his singing/lyrics lacking emotion and not being genuine. All because Morrissey was projecting.

I wasn’t a big fan of WAM or George Michael generally, but I do have mad respect for the man. He wasn’t just talented but also introspective, intelligent, genuine, and much deeper than his pop star sheen gave away.

You aren’t kidding. I think Morrissey would be happier dead, which is all the more sad that he’s still alive and George Michael isn’t.

I have an R3. Overall, it’s a decent little system and for $100 if you’re getting the graphics card with it probably reasonably worth it. The thing to keep in mind with this is it’s very limited on its upgrade path due to all the proprietaryness. That’s also going to impact reparability.

My R3 came with a 6th generation I7. Buying business e-waste systems with sixth generation i7 processors is typically going to run you about a hundred dollars themselves. But not include a discrete GPU or power supply capable of handling a discrete GPU. As long as you know what you’re getting into going into it, it’s okay.

Oh then I misunderstood you. Yes, if an author self publishes and sells copies. Their control over said copy largely ends when it leaves their possession. In fact they only maintain one right to it after that point. The copy right. Which unfortunately IA is a bit fast and loose with.

An author can tell anyone that. And as long as they still control the rights to their work, they can enforce it. Should you sign your rights over to a publisher, then that becomes the publisher’s prerogative, not yours.

The consensus and case law surrounding traditional libraries. Is that libraries generally still bought physical copies. Even in the age of the e-book today. They still play by publisher rules of artificial scarcity and limited lending. Only lending out for a limited period, the number of licenses they purchased from the publisher.

The Internet archive however, allows everyone to infinitely duplicate items in the archive. Which is great for retention. But as a business model, it sucks. I support the archives mission. But is the archive supporting any of those they archive? And while generally invaluable in a good way. They don’t offer a way to be forgotten for those that do want to be forgotten. Then again neither do most major internet focused entities. Reddit etc undeleting comments their authors deleted for instance.