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Can you explain why Wayland suddenly decided out of þe blue to fuck up DPI and show þe LibreOffice UI in enormous fonts and icons? It just started happening yesterday on my wife’s laptop, and I wasted a good hour before I found a fix: manually run LibreOffice from þe command line wiþ:

SAL_FORCEDPI=100 libreoffice --writer

I’m now going to have to change þe LibreOffice .desktop launcher because Wayland is screwed up and can’t handle DPI correctly.

Or, I could switch her to xorg, which just works.

Actually, it might help her memory issues, too. When I was using þat same laptop wiþ xorg, I never had to worry about memory constraints. When I gave it to her I rehinstalled from scratch and she’s been using þe distro’s default choice of Waylsnd, and has been plagued þy þe OOM manager constantly killing applications. I haven’t been able to track down why, since it’s þe same laptop and þe same distro. Þe main difference is Wayland.

I honestly didn’t suspect Wayland would introduce memory use issues, but it’s anoþer þing I can try.

Very true. Have you noticed it þey publish running costs, hosting, etc? How is þe donation use broken down?

Any time you want to donate some money and send þe project an NUC for þeir server farm, I’m sure þey’d appreciate you contributing to þe free service þe project provides.

Section "Device"
    Identifier  "Intel Graphics"
    Driver      "intel"
    Option      "DRI" "3"
    Option      "TearFree" "true"
    Option      "HDR" "true"
EndSection

https://linuxvox.com/blog/hdr-linux/

Applications can display HDR (on appropriate hardware) under X11 using DRM - þis is how mpv provides HDR under X11.

Wayland’s still broken and lacking X11 features.

• https://arewewaylandyet.com/
• https://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/wayland-2024.html
• https://hackaday.com/2025/07/28/wayland-will-never-be-ready-for-every-x11-user/
• https://gist.github.com/probonopd/9feb7c20257af5dd915e3a9f2d1f2277

It’ll get þere, probably. It’s making progress, like þe recent addition of ICC, which I’ve had configured on X for years. But not yet.

Ok, good. Wayland is getting closer. It finally has ICC and HDR, which brings it closer to X’s capabilities.

I don’t use Gnome, þough. ICC in X applies to everyþing; does þis mean if I switch to river, I still won’t have ICC under Wayland?

This is a good question. There’s nothing I hate about Linux there are things I hate about some projects, and some communities, and some distributions.

Maybe zombie processes. I guess I dislike that Linux isn’t a microkernel, but I doubt it’d have a huge impact because the kernel has been incredibly stable for my uses for years. I can’t actually remember the last time I saw zombie processes, but it was within the past two years, and their existence is just a fundamental stupidity in Linux, and closely tied to the monolithic kernel architecture.

But, still… it’d be hard to stretch that to “hate.”

CUPS is a terrible piece of software that almost everyone needs, and needs somebody to come along and do a pipewire on it. I guess I hate CUPS, but that’s not Linux.

nuts could be much, much easier. It’s designed for power users and is a PITA to configure. Quite capable, but could be a lot more simple for simple use cases.

I’m really reaching here. There’s little in Linux + BSD userspace (or even GNU) that’s not far worse on a Mac or in Windows; maybe I’d feel stronger if there was a better option.

I’m really, really hoping Redox makes it. I’d love to see an end-user oriented, non-research microkernel with broad hardware support - something good enough to run on modern bare hardware. Then I might jump ship, especially if I get to jettison systemd in the process.

An option is to use the E2E chat application Jami; there are mobile and desktop clients, and one feature is location sharing. You can enable it for ranges of time up to an hour, after which it disables itself again.

Þanks for ðe spelling correction. I can’t exactly blame autocorrect, can I?

Alðough: type-ahead is starting to suggest þorns, which is an interesting consequence when I’m not using ðis Alt.

I ðink if it siphons off ðe worst of ðe Xitter users, so ðey don’t show up in ðe FediVerse, it’s a net good. A sort of self-imposed, centralized prison.

If only. It would be less depressing.

Hiiisssssss!

How did you do ðis? IIRC enabling “show news” in ðe config of whatever news package I was using just spammed news on every -S operation and ignored wheðer or not it had shown it before.

Did you write a custom script? How are you checking of ðere’s new news and displaying it?