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probonopd / Wayland.md
Last active November 15, 2024 01:20
Think twice about Wayland. It breaks everything!

Think twice before abandoning Xorg. Wayland breaks everything!

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 everyone else (e.g., people using just an X11 window manager or something like GNUstep) in the process.

The Wayland project seems to operate like they were starting a greenfield project, whereas at the same time they try to position Wayland as "the X11 successor", which would clearly require a lot of thought about not breaking, or at least providing a smooth upgrade path for, existing software.

In fact, it is merely an incompatible alternative, and not e

@Artoria2e5
Artoria2e5 / devise.zh-CN.yml
Last active December 5, 2023 04:35
Devise 4.2.6 zh files
# Chinese (China) translations for Devise 4.2.1
# 4.2.0: By HealthGrid at https://gist.github.com/HealthGrid/2d702b38aa6ffe0233f27d3d5be9250f
# 4.2.1: By Artoria2e5 (this file)
# - Fixes pluralization problems (zh only takes "other")
# - Misc translation improvements, you know what these grammar things are.
# - Should be minor enough to claim CC0 for my changes.
# Additional translations at https://github.com/plataformatec/devise/wiki/I18n
zh-CN:
devise:
@tzmartin
tzmartin / m3u8-to-mp4.md
Last active November 14, 2024 23:44
m3u8 stream to mp4 using ffmpeg

1. Copy m3u8 link

Alt text

2. Run command

echo "Enter m3u8 link:";read link;echo "Enter output filename:";read filename;ffmpeg -i "$link" -bsf:a aac_adtstoasc -vcodec copy -c copy -crf 50 $filename.mp4
@alexeygrigorev
alexeygrigorev / vimeo-download.py
Created September 17, 2016 09:09
Downloading segmented video from vimeo
import requests
import base64
from tqdm import tqdm
master_json_url = 'https://178skyfiregce-a.akamaihd.net/exp=1474107106~acl=%2F142089577%2F%2A~hmac=0d9becc441fc5385462d53bf59cf019c0184690862f49b414e9a2f1c5bafbe0d/142089577/video/426274424,426274425,426274423,426274422/master.json?base64_init=1'
base_url = master_json_url[:master_json_url.rfind('/', 0, -26) + 1]
resp = requests.get(master_json_url)
content = resp.json()
# Usage:
# curl https://gist.githubusercontent.com/entrity/5462105/raw/..linux-setup.sh | bash
# Installs
# - .gitconfig
# - .ssh/config
# - .bash_aliases
src=https://gist.githubusercontent.com/entrity/5462105/raw
wget -O ~/.gitconfig $src/.gitconfig
@torsten
torsten / proxy.rb
Last active April 30, 2024 17:53
A quick HTTP proxy server in Ruby.
#!/usr/bin/env ruby
# A quick and dirty implementation of an HTTP proxy server in Ruby
# because I did not want to install anything.
#
# Copyright (C) 2009-2014 Torsten Becker <[email protected]>
#
# Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining
# a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the
# "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including
# without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish,