I tried wayland (on amd) and found it annoying to work with compaired to x11 without any apparent benefits, wayland is definitely the future, but i don't think the future is now
it's weird to think that the only place you can go to hear the dangers of technology and the modern web, is that very same web through modern technology (tbf most blog posts like this one could run on a 25 year old thinkpad with a pentium m in w3m but still)
If I'm not mistaken there's actually a Minecraft server that has a giant library of books and articles written in Minecraft books, that are all banned, and they're ordered by which country bans them.
People are dumb, and like to believe the first thing they see, so "programming" a population is as easy as showing everyone something so often that it is all they see, tge human mind is incredibly malleable, and many big tech companies employ teams of psychologists to make best use of that, given china is a adversary or enemy or whatever you wanna call it, giving them a pipeline by which they can have direct access to tens of millions of American minds is a little silly to say the least, you do not win a war by winning battles, you win a war by breaking the enemies will to fight "Hence to fight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy’s resistance without fighting" Sun Tzu said that, and I'd say he knows a little more about fighting then you do pal because he invented it
Were this true then any of the countless authoritarian states which ended up in complete control of all media, news, and even the ability to enter or leave the country - would have had a nation full of fully misinformed and obedient people. Instead it's invariably the exact opposite. The USSR is one of the best examples. They not only controlled all media, all news, and even who was allowed to leave the country. Yet trust completely collapsed as the state of nation completely collapsed.
From personal experience, start with something small (max a few 100s lines) but that can improve your everyday life (work or personal) so you can stick to it. Identify your need, think what functionality could solve it, then decompose the solution and read some doc.
