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@azavech @zuthal @panegyr @mynotaurus NTSC region TVs not handling 50Hz is normal. late PAL TVs not handling 60Hz is unusual.

Source: am from a PAL country and run them at 60Hz.

@zuthal @azavech @panegyr @mynotaurus Ones this new/of this sophistication are happy with 60Hz

@soc @zzt @rootwyrm Wayland pisses me off especially because it's "policy, not mechanism", and the policy is "no you can't"

@soc @zzt @rootwyrm Wayland and GTK, Gnome and systemd.

Wayland kills all small desktop environments and independent window managers, funneling everyone towards Gnome, GTK forces environment-agnostic applications to become gnome specific applications via libadwaita, systemd absorbs every key service running off screen.

the end goal is basically that linux becomes an IBM controlled monolith that you're allowed to look at source code to, if you really really want

@zzt @rootwyrm I've been saying it for a couple years. entire linux ecosystem is dominated by a couple big corpo gorillas and their projects exist to supplant pre-existing ones they do not control

@zzt if your usb devices randomly disconnect, add usbcore.autosuspend=-1 to the end of GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT then run sudo update-grub and reboot. if you don't use grub then idk do the equivalent of that for the systemd bootloader i guess

@errant @davidgerard yeah this is broadly speaking, the right answer. anything from the 80s that says "quartz lock" on it is going to be a better bet than any new thing with a USB port on it