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  • The A battery has been obsolete for a long time now.

    C, D, and 9v are on their way as what’s left of their dwindling niche use cases that are progressively being replaced by rechargable ones. Think of boombox, or flashlight. Maybe the 9v is still solid for something like multimeters, and I’ve seen that automatic room sprayer with C or D batteries.

    For AA and AAA, tho? They’re not going anywhere for a long time. Even when all the flashy fun stuff all have their batteries in Lithium, or whatever comes next, a lot of the boring stuff would still be having them. I have this portable microphone I got from late 2010s that still use AA, and so are all my wall clocks. Also, there are good reasons why the walkie talkies have them as options.

    Some rechargable forms have become universal now, like the 18650, but I think they won’t replace the smaller ones.









  • Despite all its shortcomings, I do believe Wayland is the future. Sooner or later, all the funky decorative quirks will be some relics of the past.

    Maybe someday, they will be added back, and we’ll once again have that jelly window effect, but at the moment, people actually depend on this thing to do some work, even more true with the Windows exodus.

    I’d rather that they focus at the risk of being dull rather than fumbling on this chance.

    Yes, I know that popularity isn’t everything, but considering how big they (and GNOME) are, they can really make The Year of Linux Desktop™.