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X will charge users ‘a small monthly payment’ to use its service (techcrunch.com)
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X will charge users ‘a small monthly payment’ to use its service::X owner Elon Musk today floated the idea that the social network formerly known as Twitter may no longer be a free site. In a live-streamed conversation

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[–] jasondj@ttrpg.network 119 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (4 children)

All the more reason to switch to Wayland.

[–] Blake@feddit.uk 35 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

This is fucking hilarious, the fact that this is so upvoted really tells you how geeky Lemmy is though!

[–] Immersive_Matthew@sh.itjust.works 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

What is wayland? How is it different than Mastodon if a Twitter replacement?

[–] filister@lemmy.world 18 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Both X11 and Wayland are competing display server protocols in the Linux ecosystem.

X11 is the old version that is now slowly abandoned in favour of Wayland, but still there are things like Nvidia with their proprietary drivers that run better under X11.

Hence the word play.

[–] Immersive_Matthew@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

How does wayland avoid X fees?

[–] Amir@lemmy.ml 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

There are no X11 fees, this is a joke about X=X11 and not X=Twitter

[–] isVeryLoud@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 years ago

The X11 fee is having to contend with Xwayland for years to come

[–] oKtosiTe@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

Not at all. That’s the joke.

[–] grayman@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago

I'd rather pay for X than drop driver support for my GPU!