Her blog has lots of quality content that's been featured on HN several times - well before AI writing became a thing. Not that you should necessarily know that but just strong evidence that your intuitions here are way off on so many levels.

Your entire take is super strange and presumptive.

That isn't what this thread suggested; I was supporting plausibility of the GP's claim never to have used public Wifi because of good 4G; stating they could still have used a laptop in public. My wording was also explicit that this isn't always an option.

This comes down to intentions versus results. Viewed through the lens of results the comment you're replying to is still correct: The result is incompetence. I'd argue that's the only lens that matters when you're on the receiving end of such work.

Glad to see a good write-up of Wayland issues. My day-to-day doesn't run into the vast majority of these problems so when I see people melt down over a single trivial seeming Wayland choice about window coordinates then I have a really hard time relating.

This post is a lot more relatable.

As an aside, regarding remote Emacs - I can attest that Waypipe does indeed work fantastically for this. Better than X11 ever worked over the network for me.

I, too, suffer from the pgtk is slow issue (only a 4k monitor though it's mitigable and manageable for me)

As an Emacs PGTK user, do you have any experience with modifiers beyond the basic 4? I recently tried to use PGTK Emacs and it seems to not support e.g. Hyper, which is a bummer, because I extensively use Hyper in my keybindings.

Embarrassingly, I don't really understand Hyper. I have a Moonlander and AFAICT the firmware (or at least the Oryx configurator tool they provide) says Hyper is just a combination of the basic 4 - Alt+Shift+Ctrl+Meta. I'm pretty sure that's at least not historically true... but I don't have a whole lot of use for it so I haven't tried to wrap my head around what's going on there.

I imagine there's a "real" hyper modifier but I haven't attempted to use it. For my sake, since I use GUI Emacs I find that I have enough mappings without it (I'm also a dirty evil user). A friend makes extensive use of it because he primarily uses Emacs via a terminal and Hyper avoids all other terminal keybind conflicts he might otherwise run into. But, he uses X11, too so no PGTK Emacs even if/when he does run GUI Emacs.

I'll try to dig into this some though and see if I can (a) determine a way to map a "true" hyper to my keyboard and (b) use it in PGTK Emacs and follow up with you.

X11's XKB (which, funnily enough, is also the standard keyboard layout system on Wayland) has support for Control, plus another 5 modifiers. Specifically, I believe Hyper is typically mod3. If you run xmodmap in a terminal under X, you'll see which keys are assigned to which modifiers. I have a custom XKB layout that assigns some keys to Hyper, and then adds Hyper to mod3. With X11 Emacs I didn't have to do anything to get it to work. But I don't think I've ever seen a pure GTK program recognize Hyper, so it may be a GTK limitation.

For learning XKB, I recommend the Unreliable Guide to XKB[0]. XKB is sorely underdocumented, so guides like these are the best way to learn it.

[0]: https://www.charvolant.org/doug/xkb/html/xkb.html

Please don't feel like you have to look into it, though. I was just wondering, since you mentioned that you used PGTK.

The Orion? God mine is so annoying. What a waste of money.

That's a shame to hear, I was looking forward to that one. So much hardware these days seems to be let down by bad software.

I mean, I'm sure there's some bad hardware out there too, but it's usually the software that is letting things down more than the hardware.

Yeah. I mean, I still hold out hope that enough of the driver support will get mainlined or just rolled into some distro I want to use that I can use it for _something_ but right now it just sits unplugged on my desk. :(

Last I checked BredOS was close to having a reasonable experience with it but I haven't had the time to poke at it again. Personally I'd prefer an Arch derivative like BredOS or FreeBSD. I don't really want to buy a GPU to put in it but it seems like that's my only option at the moment?

Not who you're replying to, but no - this isn't the same. You can't share that album with others. Or have others collaborate on it.

You can do this with a few scripts and the Immich API - but that's not something the average user will do.

Agreed. The weird shilling of this nonsense is exhausting.

Can you not have an Optional<Optional<String>> in Java? That would allow you to represent explicit null with Optional, wouldn't it?

This style of engagement is so off-putting.

To use wayland?

As a full time Haskell developer, I have a similar aversion to Haskell-based distro packages which aren't statically linked.

There ARE statically linked Haskell packages in the AUR so it's at least feasible. I haven't even dug into the conversations around why packagers are insisting on dynamic linking of distro packages - I just avoid them for the same reasons you mention.

I can't really speak confidently to why it is exactly - I can only guess. Clearly dynamic linking makes sense in a lot of cases for internal application distribution - which is where Haskell is often used - so maybe people are incorrectly projecting that onto distro packages?