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Cake day: June 13th, 2023

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  • In the last decade, I’ve had that sort of issue affect me twice:

    1. I bought an AMD Vega 56 on launch day, and I had to run it with the proprietary driver for a while.
    2. I recently upgraded my three monitors, and was having trouble getting them all to do the 1440p/100Hz they were rated for. After a bunch of fiddling with xrandr etc. and trying to add modelines and whatnot, it turned out the real problem was that I needed to upgrade from HDMI cables to DisplayPort ones.

    Anyway, I guess the gist is that I wouldn’t have expected Windows to do any better in either case.

















  • Also, it’s more and more clear that it’s a bad idea that websites can just execute arbitrary code. The JS APIs are way too powerful and complex nowadays.

    Javascript in general was a mistake, and always has been.

    The web should’ve had Scheme or Python instead. Or better yet, we shouldn’t have given up so quickly on Java Web Start because then we could’ve had proper web applications with their own windows and native UIs and such.

    Maybe websites and apps should’ve stayed separate concepts instead of merging into “web apps”.

    Damn straight!