transcription: be me, closeted transfem, have computer science degree, family constantly bothering me with tech problems, always dumb shit like not restarting computer or googling error messages, lightbulb.jpeg, come out to family, get disowned as expected, they never contact me again, dont have to deal with their dumb it problems anymore, mfw, should have done this years ago.
Not a trans girl but Wayland and x11 are display server protocols. A display server is the program that draws windows and stuff on the screen (plus, does some other things related to desktop environments), and these protocols are how the applications control their windows.
X11 is very old and based on obsolete ideas. It is a less efficient protocol than Wayland, and has many security issues. The most prominent one is that any unprivileged program can read the entire screen and record any input. X11 development has for a long time revolved around a single display server that everyone used, called x.org, this is partly why it developed so fast. However the codebase is a mess because it started so long ago and developed so fast, so it’s almost untouchable. That’s why modern features like hdr and real multi display support will never arrive.
Wayland is the modern protocol that will replace x11. It is built from the ground up to avoid the mistakes made by x11. Because of this, development is often stuck discussing esoteric scenarios, to make sure everything is perfect before adding it to the protocol. Unlike x11 there is not a single Wayland server, and this is why you will see differences between implementations. Unlike x11, Wayland is designed around modern computers.
Unless you are using something that specifically only works on x11, you should use Wayland.
Found the egg!
Fun fact: a suspiciously sizeable amount of the people working on mesa, freedesktop, and the linux graphics stack in general, are trans or at least queer.
Is it graphics that makes people trans, or are the trans people who make graphics? We might never know
Wait a minute… How do i know if im an egg again…?
Mystery! And how do the furries fit in?
They are in the airports
And the CIA, NSA, FBI, DHS and any security focused gov op
I mean depending on who you ask I’m sure they’d consider furries to be at least one definition of queer.
I mean, furries are mostly just a fandom of people, maybe therians can be included as queers(?) I do not know enoigh about therians to be 100% sure
I was making a wordplay joke using the “older” meaning for queer where it meant “strange” rather than what it’s come to mean today. Not necessarily putting furries under the queer umbrella.
That said if I didn’t literally know a cis straight furry I’d think they didn’t actually exist because every one of the like dozen others that I know is gay or trans.
Ooh i see, makes sense
I think it’s either due to both communities being more open minded and so prone to try new stuff which leads to many to discover their sexuality/furry interests or the fact that both are very marginalized and so it became pratically a bonding thing that lead culture in-breeding
I’m sure in addition it probably helps that there’s probably a fairly large group of people that come into the furry community specifically _ to _ explore their gender or sexuality right? I imagine all of that has a lot to do with why there seems to be so much overlap yeah.
That’s just great, as a transfem I now feel I have to drop my current plans, to stop and contemplate if I enjoy making 3d game art because I’m trans, or if 3D game art somehow made me trans. It’s not the programming side, but is still the visuals and graphics…
I am 99% sure, if it had to be one of those options, it would be the former. I doubt it’s either of the two… And yet, how will we know.
So now I am cursed to I sit and ponder the possibilities