https://lemmy.ml/post/29786179/18482468

You’re always playing catchup when in a conversation with others; they’re racing ahead on the topic, already knowing both sides of the discussion and throwing their own spin on it, and you’re just sitting there staring at them mouth-agape as you try to process what is being said in realtime, but can’t quite grasp even the base concepts nor the terminology of what they’re talking about because their shop talk is so far removed from the baseline that it’s practically a whole subject in itself.

The smart thing to do is to just interject quickly with simple questions to highlight your supposed ignorance, and get some quick definitions to keep you at least somewhat up-to-date in the conversation.

But you don’t… either too ashamed of your own ignorance to draw attention to it, or rejecting it outright instead of facing the humiliation and telling yourself that you’re not that interested in the topic anyway.

That’s how it feels to me, anyhow

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https://www.x.org/releases/X11R7.5/doc/man/man1/xeyes.1.html

Xeyes watches what you do and reports to the Boss.

I find it’s not as reliable in targeting inputs, and you sometimes need to set the XDG_RUNTIME variable yourself. wtype is much better at this, but is limited to keystrokes

Appreciate the link, and I don’t mean to sound so ungrateful, but that extensive README contains everything except what exactly river is. Is it a desktop manager? A standalone compositor? What does it fix? What does it replace? etc.

Edit: Oh, it’s a tiling window manager, and all WMs in wayland have to be compositors.

I need a Venn diagram of whiteness to really get this. Or a scale of some sort

AwesomeWM, and xdotool.

That’s it. Oh and x-eyes of course

Gosh I had a few of these around that time. I wish I kept them…

“Head your cock to the side and said ‘I’m hungry’…”

It comes from the Algonquin tribe famous for their musical rhythms and Go coding skills.

Well, if the house doesn’t mind… and you’re not bothered by gaining the odd garden shed or two, then sure why not?

Exactly. Move in slowly, wipe your feet, wind down your umbrella and give it a shake before putting it into the stand. Take off your coat and hang it on the hook. Stare at yourself in the hallway mirror with existential dread. Begin to hum the opening theme to Everybody was Kung-fu Fighting, and then finally cartwheel onto the sofa, let out a tension fart, and then remember that the house is on fire! At which point you exit immediately and spray the front of the house with a foam fire extinguisher until you feel relaxed enough to fall asleep in the driveway

Thank you for asking this. Also wondering. It’s just a compositor for wayland right? A compton/picom equivalent?

Seeing so many posts about it, and wondering why.

I use AwesomeWM with Picom, and my idea of what a compositor does is: provide smooth v-synced video playback, and maybe fade a window out gently when I ask it to vanish.

I think compositors are now taking on new animation/interaction roles, where they are getting fancy with screen transitions like scaling/moving/focusing and other than actually managing the windows, are almost becoming Desktop managers themselves.

I had the Student XP cracked version. That baby was smoooth

Well he’s giving himself one maybe

I am in this, but I got tested and I’m “normal” even though in my 20s I’m pretty sure I would have been in the very high ranges.

I’d still say I have an ADHD brain with OCD tendencies, but I’ve managed to moderate both through a decade of exercise, caffeine, and sugar.

(Anecdotal, N=1) I think once your brain realizes in some sense that it can be productive despite its neuroses, the extremes peter out once the stress of your failures no longer hang over you.

I mean, the guy on the right there is definitely doing something with his hand…

“Let he who is without tab, cast the last grouping”

Windows XP.

A security nightmare, had more unfinished backends than a plexiglass gloryhole… But goddamn could that machine run

leaded gasoline

Few memories trigger a nostalgic response in me than this. Ahhh, I’m in heaven