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Think twice before abandoning X11. Wayland breaks everything!

tl;dr: Wayland is not "the future", it is merely an incompatible alternative to the established standard with a different set of priorities and goals.

Wayland breaks everything! It is binary incompatible, provides no clear transition path with 1:1 replacements for everything in X11, and is even philosophically incompatible with X11. Hence, if you are interested in existing applications to "just work" without the need for adjustments, then you may be better off avoiding Wayland.

Wayland solves no issues I have but breaks almost everything I need. Even the most basic, most simple things (like xkill) - in this case with no obvious replacement. And usually it stays broken, because the Wayland folks mostly seem to care about Automotive, Gnome, maybe KDE - and alienating e

FFmpeg cheat sheet

A list of useful commands for the FFmpeg command line tool.

Download FFmpeg: https://www.ffmpeg.org/download.html

Full documentation: https://www.ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg.html

Basic conversion

Once upon a time there was a user that wanted to install firefox.

The user tried to do pacman -S firefox but it didn't work. The all mighty pacman reported that firefox-3.2.4-1.i686.pkg.tar.gz could not be found on his mirror. So the user tried pacman -Sy firefox. It worked and the user rejoiced since he could once again go and troll /h/.

But all was not good. The user had made a grave error!

See, when the user told the almighty pacman to -Sy firefox, pacman did

	> * Go to [hexed.it](https://hexed.it/)
	> * Click "Open File" and choose your sublime_text.exe (DON'T FORGET TO BACKUP YOUR EXE FILE)
	> * Go to Search and in "Search for" put: 80 78 05 00 0F 94 C1
	> * In Search Type select "Enable replace" and put: 80 78 05 00 0F 94 C1
	> * Click "Find next" then "Replace"
	> * Do the same thing with: C6 40 05 01 48 85 C9 => C6 40 05 01 48 85 C9
	> * Click "Save as" then name it: sublime_text
	> * Copy your modified sublime_text.exe to directory Sublime Text

	#!/bin/sh
	#
	# Select videos to watch with mpv from the current directory using sxiv.
	#
	# Caches screenshots for all the videos in the current directory, and then calls
	# sxiv on the cache.
	#
	# requires: ffmpeg
	# sxiv
	# mpv