Also, here’s a decent video on wheels not actually being all the rave throughout human history either: https://tube.kockatoo.org/w/82758fd3-6e61-42a9-80c7-462639cfc608

TL;DW: Waterways were preferred, if available. And the use of wheels requires stable ground, but also required draft animals until really not too long ago, so lots of folks just skipped the wheeled cart and strapped their goods directly to the draft animal.

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Servo company? It’s an open-source project underneath the Linux Foundation. The Servo Shell source code seems to be here: https://github.com/servo/servo/tree/main/ports/servoshell
It probably wouldn’t be too difficult to compile it yourself, if you really want it.

However, you have to mind that it’s damn near impossible to build a browser from scratch that supports the majority of web standards at this point. Servo does not do so. Most webpages will not be usable on it.
That’s the reason why they don’t care to provide a general-purpose browser interface. Because Servo is only useful at this point when only a specific webpage or specific set of webpages needs to be displayed.
So, generally when it’s embedded into hardware or into a software application, where the user does not have a URL bar to type arbitrary addresses into, and where the webpage to display can be specifically crafted for Servo.

These days, you also likely get faster loading times when you self-host the font, because it can be sent through the same HTTPS connection and because caching doesn’t work anymore like it used to many years ago (cached files aren’t shared anymore between websites).

Ah, I meant that as in the individual hair have less circumference and therefore are easier to cut through.

Personally, I find it much easier down under, because the hair is a lot thinner…

“As always.” is an old favorite of mine. They’ll assume things are neither particularly good nor bad, when what you mean is that you always feel bad.

It was implemented as part of the X11 standard, so the concrete program would’ve been X.org…

I’m neither Scottish nor ultra-deeply embedded into the trans community, so I doubt I would’ve heard of politician statements or the like. But yeah, I do think I would’ve heard of it, if the ruling got repealed, and I did not hear of that, unfortunately.

I guess, the main aftermath is that it got reported pretty much globally, because it is clever and there are boobs involved, so even clickbait newspapers can print that. Well, and hopefully it got people talking and reevaluating their preconceptions.

It has been done before, with both kinds of news coverage, too:

• With nipples: https://snackmag.co.uk/trans-women-protest-topless-outside-scottish-parliament
• Without: https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/05/17/scottish-parliament-holyrood-trans-protest-supreme-court/

Don’t let that discourage you, though. Showing the “facts don’t care about your feelings” crowd that their “facts” are in fact just feelings, is always worthwhile.

I tried it a few years ago. I was really impressed by how lightweight and gorgeous it is. In particular, I found it really cool and actually useful that you got a live view of your other workspaces on your panel. You could even fullscreen a video on your other workspace and then watch (a very small version of) it in your panel.

But yeah, even though I came back to it multiple times, I never ended up sticking around. It would crash regularly (not the worst thing, since recovery was generally seamless, but still meh), but in particular, it had some peculiar design decisions.

For example, if you double-click a window titlebar in virtually any window manager, it will maximize. In Enlightenment, I believe it got shaded (i.e. the contents of the window got hidden and only the titlebar was still visible).

Another prominent one was that its applet for connecting to WiFi and such didn’t support NetworkManager, but rather only ConnMan. If you’ve never heard of ConnMan, yeah, I only know it from Enlightenment, too. Similarly, my distro (openSUSE) didn’t package it either (and openSUSE was said to offer a relatively good Enlightenment experience). That’s something which should just work, because you can’t expect people to look up how they can connect to WiFi while they can’t reach the internet.

And yeah, these are just the big ones that stuck in my head. There were lots of smaller usability issues, too. Many things you could fix by changing the configuration, but we’re talking many in an absolute sense, too, i.e. you might spend an hour or more just tweaking things so that they behaved like you might expect.