Valve’s latest version of SteamOS has moved to Wayland (instead of X11) by default.
In some ways it is surprising this change was not made sooner.
SteamOS uses KDE for the desktop mode of the system. And KDE has been “Wayland by default” since KDE 6.0 (released in 2024).
For the last 2 1/2 years Valve has avoided making this change (for a variety of reasons), but with news that KDE will be dropping support for X11 entirely in an upcoming release, there were only two options available for SteamOS: change to Wayland or move away from KDE.
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Comrade,
1984 and Lord of the Rings are dangerous books.
One teaches people to resist totalitarianism. The other teaches them that individuals can stand against great power.
We do not want citizens who think this way.
The 5 year plan requires obedience, not heroism.
Worked with a guy who *literally* dumpster dove to grab old 486s & Pentiums and built a Beowulf cluster in his cube.
He extracted a single company's data, flattened it, and the queries that used to take *hours* happened in seconds.
He showed the company how we had that ability practically for free.
The suits *loved* it and decided instead of practically free hardware, they'd just buy super expensive IBM Blade servers.
He quit & because a local brewer instead.
"Microsoft LEGO" was one of the strangest and most secret optimizations we ever used at Microsoft, because it happened after the compiler was done, after the linker was done, after the .exe or .dll already existed, and in many cases after the developers themselves thought the build was finished.
And then, late at night, some secret internal tool would quietly take the binary apart, rearrange its organs, sew it back together, and ship something faster, smaller, and more memory-efficient than the program we had actually written.
And the best part is that almost nobody outside Microsoft knew it was happening. It’s been almost 30 years, but it’s time to tell you about it...
Great talks at ACCU on Sea today! (and of course having a view of the beach makes it even better).
Looking forward to giving my talk tomorrow at 4pm about building modern runtime reflection via C++26!
Noticing a lot of the people in the comments are saying "Oh women are easy go find one" or something.
Brother, Gen Z males are the most chronically single generation. About 60% aren't interested, and 44% haven't even gotten a date as a teenager. Most of us can't find someone.