Well yes, the rest of the world does have better paper. 21×29.7, the only ratio to conserve itself when halving the sheet
Wait, is that true? Is there something special about that ratio in particular that lets it conserve ratio when dividing?
And IIRC, A0 is 1m²
There also is B0, which is exactly 1 by the root of 2 meters.
Beautiful.
Yes it's true. It's the square root of 2, which is why it works.
Here's a fun CGP Grey video on the matter: https://youtu.be/pUF5esTscZI?si=9czdx4u8jWruZoui
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Here you go, proof at ~2 min in.
Edit: for those who don't want to use YouTube anymore. If a is the long side and b is the short side of a rectangle. Halving the rectangle will make the long side b and the short side 1/2 a. If the ratio is preserved when halving, we get:
a/b=b/(1/2 a)
a^2=2b^2
a^2/b^2=2
a/b=sqrt(2)
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Yes, this particular ratio allows the fact that you can fold a A3 paper in two and get two A4 sheet
It's called the Golden Ratio and has a lot of neat properties! Da Vinci and other nerds love(d) using it in art.
I didn't know there are part of the world which doesn't put A4 in their printers
Relation 1 to SQR 2, from A0 of 1m2 to A5 letter format, every time the half of the next bigger format. Easy to remember.
For anyone else wondering, this is a X11 vs Wayland meme - i.e. desktop window managers. Yeah.
Neither of them are window managers, they are windowing systems. A window manager is the part that actually lets you move around windows and draws the borders and stuff, like kwin, mutter, xfwm, i3, etc
As I typed my comment, I realised someone would correct me with hyperspecific linux terminology. But I support your correction good sir.
does Wayland even have a built in DWM? Because both are session manager.
No, Wayland is just a protocol, and the things that implement it are compositors, not WMs
Also, there's no such thing as a DWM, except for the WM called dwm
Yes, we do have metric paper. A4 vs. US letter.
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Mir for me
Stupid Nvidia Ink Cartridges...
Well the tearing fixes would definitely help.
Option "TearFree" "true" in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/your.conf but some compositors do that already.
for fuck sake shut up LMAO
I'm starting to think Wayland is the systemd of desktop graphic environments. Might be amazing eventually, but pushed onto the community too soon by opinionated devs who have fallen victim to the second-system effect.
Mod me down, don't care.
Edit: Woohoo, into the ground! Mod me down further, and I will become more powerful than you can possibly imagine :p
I don't troll often, but when I do.. it's about Wayland and systemd. Nyah nyah.
Honestly if Wayland will work 100% on my next setup and apps appear as expected, I won't give a damn what system I'm using.
I actually quite like Wayland. I have not had a problem. Except with the discord application cause they are too lazy to fix their screen recording bug
:) I'll try it again, promise. I just didn't have a good experience around two years ago. I do hear it's much better now.
I'll confess I've avoided systemd to this day however. Devuan/Funtoo are fine, and I don't miss any of the supposed improvements systemd brings. So I'll probably be rocking Wayland/open-rc or Wayland/sysv-init until I drop dead.
Systemd is great for process management. It's fault is trying to do too much.
Is there a Systemd fork that is unix philosophy compliant?
I don't think you can change foundational architectural things like that in a fork. A lot of systemd's strengths also come from the integration of doing many things, e.g. process management and the sandboxing features together are certainly easier to read and write than having the process management call some sort of external sandboxing tool (potentially multiple nested ones) with a bazillion parameters all in the ExecStart line of the systemd unit.
It was pushed way too soon. It's just not too soon anymore, that's why everybody is moving now.
I sincerely hope it turns out to be the case. I don't pretend I haven't torn out my hair on multiple occasions fighting with xorg.conf.. that's for sure.
Just being provocative for the lulz on a memepost, mostly :)
I like both Wayland and systemd
Name one init system that boots as fast as systemd on a modern distro with many services. Then name a display server that's actually easy to maintain and to develop client applications for
The current issues with Wayland are due to it being new, X11 fanboys not wanting to explore the idea of contributing to Wayland, and client applications that are poorly designed
X11 fanboys not wanting to explore the idea of contributing to Wayland,
People have tried that, those projects are all dead for 3-5 years now because Wayland's design turned out to be so much more flawed than originally expected with its "Oh, you know all that stuff the X server used to do, you now have to do all of that yourself in your compositor even though you don't care about any of it and there is no benefit from having multiple implementations" approach.
Shouldn't it be 8.5XFree86 in the land of freedom™?
HDR for Wayland when?
Early Febuary 2024 if all goes well.
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