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Still on X11. OBS just works.

I've been using OBS on wayland, they got captures working really well a few years ago.

But for VR stuff I've been going back to X11, and I was just last night trying to finish a screen capture program on wayland (w/ kde plasma) and idk I just have to do repeated screenshots ana analyze those > horrible fps, but at least I think I got that working finally after many attempts last year.

Gaming is not really an issue now with DEs that help ppl disable compositions and wine/proton.



Also still on X11 because of xorgxrdp and X11 forwarding.

It would be cool to see this test with a CRT connected to a VGA port (adapters make it slower) and a PS/2 input device.


I have been having great luck with waypipe (gitlab) as an X11 forwarding alternative (OS X to Ubuntu 24.04). The setup was relatively painless and it 'just worked.' while this might not suit your needs for other reasons I was pleasantly surprised.

Yeah, not testing X11 was a weird choice.

It's likely his monitor. Would be interesting to see CRT results.


I chose my monitor very specifically for low latency, good color reproduction and "high" (as in the screen is higher than 16:9) aspect ratio - in about 2012! and I'm still quite happy with it. 4K is incoming, but only if it's better in all criteria, which became available fairly recently.

A lot of people still seem to buy their monitors without considering latency, which majorly sucks. It feels like the years between power supply efficiency making a difference and the introduction of 80+ efficiency standards.


Agreed, I don't want to miss my 24" 16:10 displays. They are just standard IPS though but enough for work.

Interesting methodology:

    "To investigate, I used a small Teensy microcontroller to measure click-to-photon latency. It acts as a USB HID mouse and is paired with a light sensor pressed against the screen. I flashed it with an existing Open Source LDAT sketch, with slight modifications. The resulting setup can log hundreds of samples to a CSV file, unattended."

Teensy is a great choice because it has a high processor frequency for a rather cheap price (IIRC 600mhz for 20€)

I just noticed the same thing.

UA being blocked for example:

  Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64; rv:140.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/140.0
Did mess with it some more:

Allowed:

    Opera/9.80 (Windows NT 6.1; U; zh-tw) Presto/2.7.62 Version/11.01
    Opera/9.80 (Windows NT 5.1; U; cs) Presto/2.7.62 Version/11.01
406:

    Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/14.0 Opera/12.0
    Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 14; rv:140.0) Gecko/20110101 Firefox/140.0
Maybe just remove it?

Figured it out, had a random block of Firefox versions less than 147 in my ApplicationController for some reason. Of course my home internet went down though so I’ll push in a few.

ok this should now be fixed!

Thanks for this info! Very helpful

Getting

    406 browser not supported
for ESR Firefox 140.

If I set my UA to "FUCKIT" I can use the site perfectly fine. Why is there a User Agent Filter that disables the whole website? This should be maybe a warning, not a complete block.


you know, I had setup some analytics filtering based on geoip because I was getting crazy spam traffic from Chine and Singapore, but that should only be affecting analytics not the whole site. Mind if I ask where you're located? (you can email me privately if preferred: me@dchuk.com)

Europe

IP address has no effect on the User Agent block though...


Yeah I know and agree, just wondering if something is haywire in that logic somehow. Otherwise it’s a bizarre issue but I’ll get it fixed

Glad to hear, and neat site. Cool to see new Ruby on Rails sites. Thought I was the only one still loving it. ;)

They will just rediscover Bluetooth. Kids have always passed around stuff they weren't supposed to have.

Source: I was a kid once, we had no cell phones. Porn on 5.25" floppies was a thing.


I was a kid once, we had no floppy drives. 'Borrowing' your Dad's Playboy or Penthouse mags was the thing.

Cool, definitely better than endless scrolling on the 'you are not good enough'-machine ticktok.

Wasn't there a (proposed) "standard" in 90s (eMediaMark, I remembered) that just added a Header to HTTP in order to have ancient browsers automatically filter adult content.

That would easily be enforceable by making a "kid mode" enabled and locked down by a parent with a password mandatory on devices. Then you could have something like this:

    Adult-Content: true
    Age-Threshold: 18
suggested here: https://digitalbiztalk.com/article/a-better-way-the-adult-co...

eMediaMark is now Internet Content Rating the stuff I was remembering can be seen here: https://icr.chit.eu/

You can just take that, it's been there for decades.


You might have an older GPU that doesn't work with wayland like me. My Radeon HD5870 also won't do Vulkan and anything wayland has never worked properly for me.

I'm not questioning what you are saying, but Wayland's only requirement is DRM, which is a Linux kernel capability that is supported for basically everything that you can push some sort of display cable into. It's for buffer management, and X was also ported to use this API.

Unless you have proprietary X server blobs, you have mostly the same low level route in either case to display stuff, so it's on the exact compositor you have tried, not on the wayland protocol.


I agree, it should work. It just doesn't. I haven't had the time yet to figure out why it doesn't because everything is fine on X11.

I have the same issue using either an older AMD card and an RTX 3 series card. Both are fine with X11.

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