PlasticExistence

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crossmr , to Today I Learned

There needs to be actual content rules. TIL worked best when the mods actually adhered to those content rules. Otherwise you just have people posting all kinds of nonsense. Quality is better than quantity

PlasticExistence ,

There are content rules. Take a look at the sidebar of this community. This post violated rule 6.

PlasticExistence ,

This community is on lemmy.world from what I can see. You might be interacting with it through kbin, but that doesn't mean there are no rules here. That's my only point.

kbal , to Linux
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Update available! This version is very old.

Xscreensaver has apparently been checking for updates and is disappointed that it hasn't had one for 14 months because Debian is too stable. Can anyone recommend a linux screensaver which would work with xfce and can be trusted to never do that?

PlasticExistence ,

Wayland does not support screen savers: it does not have any provision that allows screen savers to even exist in any meaningful way. If you value screen savers, that's kind of a problem.

Why doesn't it? Well, I suppose the designers of Wayland have no joy in their cold, black hearts simply do not value screen savers.

They go on to explain that the security model of Wayland is better than X in this regard, yet instead of writing code to improve what they see as deficiencies, they bitch and throw insults.

This is not the way to effect change. Oh, you're being ignored? Maybe try having more emotional maturity than a 12 year old.

PlasticExistence ,

Things are moving steadily towards Wayland because Wayland has been steadily improving. In some aspects, it's currently better than X. Valve certainly thinks so because they use Wayland for the Gaming mode on their Steam Deck.

Some people hate change enough that they'll blind themselves to that being their core issue, and instead they'll focus on the imperfect as their argument that things shouldn't change.

Screensavers aren't anywhere near as important as they once were since display tech is different now, so if Wayland devs aren't focusing on them, maybe it's not such a big deal. X11 isn't going to disappear overnight, so if you don't want to use Wayland, then don't!

PlasticExistence ,

Old dev angry new dev work not exactly as they want it.

Film at 11.

PlasticExistence ,

Absolutely. I still miss my After Dark screensavers from Windows 3.1. They can be fun and add a lot of character to a desktop computer.

I hope it gets support too. X didn't get all its features overnight, and Wayland won't either.

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