And it still loaded faster than some modern sites! Fun little trip, thank you.

The good thing about this is that it will remind people why we were vaccinating in the first place, complacency, attention span and all that needs a reset now and then.

Thank you all for the responses. Let me preface this to offer a modicum of credibility. I started my open-source adventure at the turn of the millennium when I found an obscure dutch program called Blender back in the NAN days and volunteered, earning several different positions in the organization as it grew over the next decade and a half. I also was a beta-tester for Artrage (could spot endianess issues when mac switched from motorolla to intel chips), working on other graphics software, commercial and open-source. My primary machine is a Legion Pro laptop with rtx 5800. And am currently employed at a company doing tech support for a linux operating system.

The idea of how do you take these outputs and present them to the user is a fascinating subject I will NEVER get bored of and every advancement excites me. I don't know how Wayland works, all I know is that it struggles to run on my older machines indicating it's heavy and un-optimized. On newer machines running Mint, there is an option to turn it on when I log in, and every two years or so I try it, and I end up saying, "not ready yet" because I need to lock my screen when I leave my computer, out of respect for the data of my users. Scrolling, probably in Firefox, looks like a strobe light, that's an exaggeration but it is anything but smooth or with the same silky momentum X11 provides. I'm old now, in my 50's, I don't want to faff about with settings or extra shit... so that is why I gave the critique I gave. If you wrote a lock screen then wtf isn't it incorporated into Wayland, I mean I might be 60, 70 years old by the time this matures... it just seems like the string theory of graphics display, overly complex, and if it's that convoluted to lock the screen or bring this to a production level in 5 years, then there is something wrong, and you guys need to ask yourselves if you should start over.

You know, I've heard RFK Jr admit to some some pretty fucked up shit... but, I'll take honesty over the lie through your teeth, sell out to the highest bidder shit any time. Admitting that, "yes it was me who put a bear carcass in Central Park, or that, yes I have done drugs and or had addiction" takes an amount of courage that few in the public spotlight are willing to take, and for that I feel admiration and a desire for others to be as forthcoming.

Reading and Listening: "Chemistry 2e" Openstax

Wayland doesn’t even do lock screen, jitters on scroll… I don’t get the hype.

If it were new I’d be patient, but I feel like it’s been 10 years now.

If they want to do dynamic pricing, maybe we'll just have to start dynamic shopping.

Many many years ago, I had returned home from a friends. Think rural country road, cinder block garage a few yards off a dusty road that was separate from the house. A single industrial lamp fixture burning a 100 watt bulb swarmed by moths and insects. The night is heavy, hot and humid. Crickets and katydids turn nights silence away.

Like I've done many nights, before going inside I would walk to the other side of the road to take a leak in the bushes, and as I was finishing up... What the hell was that?!? Something was moving toward me.

Now I've been scared, gun pulled on me etc, but whatever I was seeing had me frozen, I literally couldn't move, I was affixed as the little character bent down to climb through a hole in a rusty cattle fence overgrown with brush. A grey body, big eyes, hard to make out in the dull glow of the garage light and whatever faint moonlight existed, approached to within a few feet and stopped. All I could do was try and think of how much I love the Earth, the science of the universe and my reverence for nature and that of the natural world, and it stared, seeming to read my thoughts.

And like that it turned around and went back through the hole in the fence from whence it came, diminishing into the darkness of the night. Finally I was released and my muscles began to work. Half-way to the house, I began to wonder if that was real, like my memory of it was already fading quickly. I never said I saw an alien or anything like that, however I have told the story about the grey thing with little hands that had me paralyzed with fear.

Not so long ago I witnessed a raccoon walking and I sometimes wonder, was it a raccoon? Was it just the low light, brain filling in faint details of an out of world visitor??? I certainly would like to know.

I went to a prison that had a high number of pedophiles. They would often make comments like this to try and portray themselves as normal.

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