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Andreas did not like the Rust community. It sounds like that is still true.

He also thought that Rust integrates poorly into project with a deep C++ OOP hierarchy. That is probably still true as well.

It is telling that the first project was a total rewrite of the entire JavaScript engine. There is no shared hierarchy and a well defined boundary between the C++ and Rust code. That may be a sign of things to come.

We may see entire modules that are either all Rust or all C++ rather than more fine grained mixing.

It IS the early days of GNOME. MATE started with the source code of the last GNOME 2 release.

MATE exists because people loved GNOME 2 and hated GNOME 3.

Canada would have done anything for the US. Canada is a good friend.

But the situation has become more like freeing the German soldier in Saving Private Ryan. Helping the USA in 2026 is like putting a bullet in your other friend yourself.

And it is not just how Trump treats Canada. Denmark bled for the US over 9/11 and they got Greenland belongs to the US as thanks. How many Ukranians have died as result of current US policy?

And is it just Trump? Important men all over the world are being held to account over Epstein. Anybody in the US?

The US itself is the biggest victim. The US is murdering its own citizens in the streets. No reaction. Not really. How exactly is that genie going back in the bottle? I was in Chicago when 9/11 happened. The US was never the same after. This has changed it more and more irreversibly.

It is such a sad and tragic end. So much for the shining city on a hill.

I have tired of hearing how many voted for him. How many did anything to stop him? How many are doing anything now?

That is what matters. Lines have been crossed.

And totally ineffective if the other two parties are already colluding (which we are).

It would hurt but honestly I would be ok if Canada stopped trading with the US completely.

First off, do you have evidence that negotiating with terrorists is a historically successful strategy? Because otherwise, I am not sure why you are suggesting that Canadian capitulation has any influence over US tariff policy.

Second, who has had famously higher egg and dairy prices over the past year? The US or Canada? If the goal is lower prices, which administration should we be cheerleading?

I will am pretty free enterprise but I will take “price fixing” over submission to an abusive and unreliable narcissist every day of the week.

The idea that the biggest threat to Canada right now is internal economic policy is laughably disconnected from reality.

How about some of us choose with our heads. That sounds like an idea.

Maybe not “dead” but it is permanently broken.

Also, get the numbers right. Two thirds of Americans did nothing to keep Trump out of office.

The midterms have not happened yet. We will see.

What riding is this guy in? I think we should show him what a real hissy-fit looks like.

You do not need to understand anything about X11 vs Wayland. Use whatever your distro of choice defaults to.

Wayland is the future. Every Linux desktop user not fighting hard to avoid it will be using Wayland in 2 years. The majority are already.

Wayland and X11 are both protocols. They are a way for graphical applications to talk to a “display server” (your graphical desktop).

X11 was invented in the 80’s. Until recently, there was essentially only one surviving implementation on Linux—something called Xorg. While Xorg was the display server, you had to add something called a “window manager” to control what your desktop would look like and how windows would behave.

While Wayland essentially does the same thing as X11, it was built to quite a different set of design criteria. If you have not been part of the history, it is not worth knowing about. Security is one of the big improvements.

Perhaps the only detail worth mentioning is that the display server and window manager functions have been combined in Wayland into something called a “compositor”. So while everybody was using Xorg back in the X11 days, there are many competing compositor implementations in Wayland. They differ not just in how they manage windows but also in how them implement many other details like how to take screenshots, manage multiple monitors, or handle scaling. There are a set of standards that define this behaviour. It is a bit like the web where you have different web browsers and web servers but the same web applications work on all of turn (which perhaps some small differences).

The two systems both “do the same thing” and are quite different at the same time. If you use one, switching to the other may seem painful as things that worked may not anymore and even things that still work may be done differently or require quite different knowledge. Not many people switch from Wayland to X11 but anybody that used Linux 5 years ago has had to switch from X11 to Wayland (or feel pressured to). Not all of them are happy about it. Some of them rely on workflows that Wayland does not yet or many never support. These people consider the switch to Wayland a really big deal which is why you hear about it so much.

But, if you already use Wayland, ignore it. Everybody will stop talking about it soon as almost everybody has switched. The majority that have not switched are using popular desktops like Cinnamon or XFCE that have also not switched. They have not switched as they want to make the transition very seem-less for their users. Which also means you do not have to think about it. One day they will move you and hopefully you will not notice. Or, even better, it will seem like a bunch of new features in a new release.

That amount of money is one developer full time maybe. Which can make a really, really big difference for an Open Source project actually.