Right, that’s it, we’re removing the network and power connections too.

To be fair, I’ve had my share of foul ups on remote servers too, but I have noone to complain to but myself about that.

01000001 00100000 01110011 01110100 01100101 01100001 01100100 01111001 00100000 01101000 01100001 01101110 01100100 00100000 01100001 01101110 01100100 00100000 01100001 00100000 01101101 01100001 01100111 01101110 01100101 01110100 01101001 01110011 01100101 01100100 00100000 01101110 01100101 01100101 01100100 01101100 01100101 00101110

I mean, if you’re not using LFS, are you really using linux at all?

To be fair, it would slightly reduce the xhance of the user really messing it up. If they remove the screen too we might finally have a user-proof computer. No more “I’ve forgotten my password”, no more “I put the internet in the trash can and now I can’t find it”, and no more “I didn’t do anything (they absolutely did) and now it doesn’t work, this must be your fault. (As the local ‘techie’ it’s not my fault, but it probably is my problem). Fix it!! (sigh…)”

Really Starting To Understand Very Xanthous Yammering Zarvanites.

They are, but by definition, the printer can print them. If your on linux or Mac it looks like it might be possible to write a filter to add to CUPS that would do it for every print.

Black and white printers can’t do that, but as I mentioned in another comnent, if you do have a color printer, add lots of yellow dots before you print it out.

If you’ve got a printer that does that, add lots of yellow dots to your document before printing it.

Great! Had I Just Known Little More, Now Only Peaceful Questions.

Yes, and it’s horrifying for a whole range of reasons!

Oh, I know. The trouble is my brain keeps trying to flip to match the peas, then back for the rest of the image. It’s just subtly wrong enough that it isn’t absurd until you focus on it.

That image is genuinely making my brain feel like it’s twisting around in my skull to make it make sense, and it’s not working.

https://archive.ph/Lou5o

Narwhals, Narwhals swimming in the ocean.
Causing a commotion.
'Cos they are so awesome!

With thanks to Weebl’s Stuff

Why, yes, my pop culture references are right up to date, thanks for noticing.

Would it though? Would it really? Couldn’t we just let trump have it as it is and see what happened? It’s bound to be ok, isn’t it?

Whilst you’re right about privacy not being binary and the need to create your own threat model, the problem is that all the different parties that collect your data trade it, so if you leave one avenue open, the others that you tried to block are likely to get your data anyway. Whether this fits your personal threat model is probably an individual decision.

It sucks that we need such an extensive amount of work put in to make devices private

The issue is that, short of the extremes suggested in places like privacyguides, you’re not really making the device private. You could argue that you’re making it more private, but the counter-argument is that you’re still leaking so much data that you haven’t significantly improved your situation.

Doing something probably is better than doing nothing, but it’s not going to satisfy those who seek actual privacy. If you’ve got a particular leak that you’re worried about it’s definitely worth looking to address it though.

You dismiss the data you recorded because it doesn’t seem to support your hypothysis tgat there is greater lag in wayland, but that’s not really the right approach, and I think it points to a different conclusion.

You recorded a lag of 5 or 6 frames at 90 frames per second in both Xorg and wayland, which suggests that the lag is the same to within 0.011 seconds, and I don’t think that you can say that’s a huge difference. However, what you didn’t test is the acceleration curve on mouse movement. If that curve is different under wayland it could easily feel infuriatingly laggy without actually showing any extra delay on the movement starting or ending.

I’m not sure how you’d accurately test that, a HID device just sending mouse move events wouldn’t do it as wouldn’t mimic you accelerating the mouse from stationary, so wouldn’t exercise the acceleration curve in wayland. You might need a physical device that moves your actual mouse a fixed dustance and then measure the distance the cursor moves on screen. Repeat for different movement speeds and you might have sone useful data.