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X will charge users ‘a small monthly payment’ to use its service (techcrunch.com)
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X will charge users ‘a small monthly payment’ to use its service::X owner Elon Musk today floated the idea that the social network formerly known as Twitter may no longer be a free site. In a live-streamed conversation

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[–] 7 points 3 years ago (5 children)

What is wayland? How is it different than Mastodon if a Twitter replacement?

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  • [–] 17 points 3 years ago (4 children)

    Both X11 and Wayland are competing display server protocols in the Linux ecosystem.

    X11 is the old version that is now slowly abandoned in favour of Wayland, but still there are things like Nvidia with their proprietary drivers that run better under X11.

    Hence the word play.

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  • [–] 0 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    How does wayland avoid X fees?

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