Gregory's ServerWelcome to Wayland.social: the successor to X.com.
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@compositor thought this morning that it's just a matter of time until a Fedi instance called Wayland turns up.. 🤷🏾♂️😅  @rjayasinghe @compositor took me a minute to get it but this is funny 😂️ (Also very meta? 🤪️) @badrihippo @rjayasinghe @compositor so it is a meta joke about x.com ... Shouldn't someone make a threads about it? ;-) @rjayasinghe What's the significance of the word Wayland? I haven't seen any news explaining it. @kctipton Wayland being the successor of X(11) I fear that’s a joke for Linux people 😇 @kctipton @rjayasinghe I would expect it to be a reference to Weyland-Yutani, but that's spelled differently @jane_lance @kctipton @rjayasinghe As someone else pointed out - it's a reference to Wayland, the successor to X11. Both are things that make GUIs work on Linux (and other UNIXlikes) From the bulging file of 'things I suspect but never got round to chasing down': Ridley Scott being a Brit & all, I always wondered if he just nicked that name off a roadsign & tweaked the spelling... @kctipton @rjayasinghe  @CatsSimsBooks @kctipton @rjayasinghe it’s still stupid, and you just got lucky. :P         @compositor@wayland.social wasn't that like a game where soldiers miss an allium from three paces @compositor Matt Stone and Trey Parker are gonna have a field day when they found out about this    @bookstardust@bildung.social @compositor@wayland.social Elon Musk announced that he is renaming Twitter to X. In the Linux world, X (or X11) and Wayland are two windowing systems (X is mostly old and quite outdated).  @bookstardust https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayland_(protocol) is called the successor of the X11 display server on Linux machines, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windowing_system#Display_server_communications_protocols. They are referenced to as "Wayland" and "X" respective. So yes, this is a kind of "Linux joke". And in case of wayland.social vs. x.com a real good one 🤣  @IzzyOnDroid @bookstardust That's too deep for me. My first thought was: "Weyland Yutani, but with wrong spelling." @IzzyOnDroid @bookstardust I have linux mint on my laptop, but basically I'm a N00b... :-) Mr Weyland of Weyland Yutani is the self-made billionaire with too much hubris that wants to live forever and to converse with aliens on eye level in "Alien Prometheus". Not a great movie, but Weyland resembles Elmo Murks to a certain degree.  @janhelms @bookstardust @compositor I suppose it is a pun on Musk rebranding Twitter. Wayland is a display protocol intended to replace the X display server on Linux systems. @compositor Just to make sure, that x.com idiocy is what later turned into PayPal, right? Or is my old mind playing tricks on me?   @compositor Seeing Weyland-Yutani joke mentioned twice in this thread makes me happy.  @compositor @kerneltux So long as your NVIDIA driver supports GBM (Going Beyond Musk), you should have an acceptable experience.  @compositor did you specifically set up a whole Mastodon instance just to make this pun? :clapping: @compositor Funny, the moment people talked about how the X logo looked a lot like the X Window System logo, I joked about someone making a "Wayland.social" instance. Guess someone actually made it!    @compositor Haha, I was looking for whoever made this joke already before I would make it. And there we go. 👌👍😂 @compositor  @compositor that's a joke I can't explain to any of my friends in under five minutes. But I love it. @mikebabcock @compositor You may want to look at oulipo.social for information on running glyph-banning Mastodon. Oulipo has its own localization and such. @compositor I am so tempted to switch servers for the meme alone :nkolul: must resist the temptation :nkoNotLikeThis:   @compositor  |
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