Comment by nick__m
2 days ago
That's awesomely useless, it straddles the line between programming and art.
I am sure it was a great and fun learning experience.
Well done !
2 days ago
That's awesomely useless, it straddles the line between programming and art.
I am sure it was a great and fun learning experience.
Well done !
Well, not 100% useless: I can see its use for applications running inside Docker containers. Yes, there are ways to have GUI applications rendered from the inside of a container, but maybe this is easier than getting the Dockerfile right.
EDIT: nevermind, doing this with Docker seems much easier than I expected [0]. I'll try it tomorrow, I'm curious to see if the proposed solution works on Windows as well.
[0] https://medium.com/@priyamsanodiya340/running-gui-applicatio...
Windows had Wayland support before most distros! Rather surprising.
> Windows had Wayland support before most distros! Rather surprising.
WSL had non-accelerated wayland support at one point in time.
Was it before "most distros"?
I don't understand what you think that amounts to.
Wayland support in Linux-land typically means that the software supports running in your wayland compositor.
Windows famously is not a wayland compositor, no matter how much you try to bend reality.
Yeah, I can’t explain why this project makes me so happy because I struggle to think of any time where I’d need this, but it puts a big, dumb grin on my face.
It reminds me a bit of chindōgu, the Japanese art (?) of useless inventions. There's a particular delight to ingenious, but absurd or useless creations.
Emacs it's full of chindogus. Also, there's geekcode, xroach, megahal/hailo, xneko, aatv and mplayer rendering videos over aalib, aaquake, eforth running in the subleq virtual machine...
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That’s a term I’ve not heard in literally decades.
Thanks for the reminder
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Well, you can run apps on any less capable device with ssh and proper terminal display. You can limit data usage by offloading video buffering to the host (however not sure if that's net positive saving). And put the host behind VPN to avoid getting region blocks.
I actually used to tunnel Netscape Navigator via SSH to my Commodore Amiga desktop via an Xorg server way back in the 56K phone modem Internet days from my ISP's SSH user account login, since Amiga didn't have Netscape (and even if it did, the Amiga likely would have choked on it, massive and bloated as Netscape was), and the browser AmigaOS did have just wasn't up to the task of normal day-to-day usage of the Web as it existed back then. Fun times.
Sure am glad of the broadband Internet and modern "powerhouse" PCs we have so readily available today. Hell, even the computer most everyone carries in their pocket these days is infinitely more powerful than the average desktop machines of my childhood. :)
Oops, we've invented X
It's like a more generalized browsh[1].
[1] https://www.brow.sh/
I think one significant difference though is that Browsh renders actual text for text content, so you can copy and paste, etc.
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I came here to make the same comment. I want to try this myself just for the fun of it and the grin it will put on my face. Nice work!
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Definitely not useless!
I run a ttyd server to get terminal over https, and I have used carbonyl over that to get work done. That's limited to a web browser (to get access to resources not exposed via the public internet), so having full GUI support is very useful