I understand completely, I don’t even update until I need to. In my case, screen capture works more consistently with Wayland than x11.

Xwayland should work basically forever, so there’s no reason to rewrite anything. In time those features will get implemented, but I’m guessing you will need to change the scripts to use something other than wmctrl unless that particular program gets updated

What is the use case that doesn’t work for you? Mine was Nvidia and now it’s working on gnome at least

If only x11 worked well in the first place. But its many flaws are never going to addressed because the developers only work on Wayland

the mitigations just have bugs, and bugs can be fixed

I’m not convinced it won’t be a thing of the past after some time

Isn’t there a last modified time stamp on files?

If a file has not been modified, why does it need to be scanned?

The predecessor state still exists in Taiwan

Food is the most affordable it’s ever been

Ronald Reagan was immensely popular, even with some liberal voters.

VHS

I use NixOS, FWIW

The piece of paper is basically much more likely to survive in a corner barring a fire. I have crumpled pieces of paper from 20 years ago. My PATA hard drive… I don’t even have a computer with that connector

The South being down is a convention, Antarctica is actually sideways from you if you live on the equator

There were companies that didn’t survive the dot com crash despite being worth billions. Amazon is a company you would recognize, even though a better company is pets.com

If you bought their stock you would be very rich for a very short while until it went bankrupt

Did I say zero revenue? I said didn’t make a profit. Lots of companies made money, but couldn’t make more money than they spent. You can easily have an investment that is valued high that you can’t cash out

Let’s say you bought some stock now, at the end of the year it’s worth $1,000,000 and you get charged $150,000 in April. Big problem, the brokerages stopped allowing you to sell the stock and it crashed down, so now your GameStop stock is worth $100,000

How do you pay?

Amazon had its first profitable year in 2003. It was worth 21 billion dollars.

Let’s say I give $100,000 to a friend that starts a start-up. You claim after some years that investment is worth $1,000,000 and want me to pay $150,000 tax

I take out a loan for $150,000 because the startup didn’t make any profit. The startup goes bust. I now have a $100,000 loss and I paid $150,000 in taxes. Thankfully I can write $3000 off on my taxes every year until I die!

I’m saying you can’t pay with paper money, you must pay with real money for everything.

I’m not against considering loans against unrealized assets as realization (with stepped up basis) since the person taking out said loan can use it to pay said tax.

But then I’d have to take out loans to pay my taxes which is absurd. I’ll have to pay taxes on money that I don’t physically have