"More than 300 hospitals across the country are now at risk of closing according to the Sheps Center at the University of North Carolina, which tracks hospital closures.
Two of those hospitals are here in Maine."
wgme.com/news/local/medicaid-c…
Medicaid cuts lead to rural Maine hospital closures and service reductions
Now that President Trump's big tax bill has passed, analysts are taking a closer look at what major Medicaid cuts will mean for rural hospitals.WGME Staff (WGME)
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in reply to verita84 • • •I hate that hypothetical future in which people are trained to tolerate their master's forcing them into slaughterhouse lines, and even to complain that the line is moving too slow
that's why I support the FSF's drive to defy dystopia, and you all should, too
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in reply to Alexandre Oliva • • •And on top of all that, it performs worse, and would add an impact like Spectre & Meltdown mitigations did. techrights.org/n/2025/07/10/Ig…
It seems that the right question is: why would anyone be using Wayland at this point, if not for being lured into it?
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Igor Ljubuncic Once Again Shows That for Technical Reasons Wayland Still Sucks, Performs Considerably Worse Than What Existed for Decades
Roy Schestowitzdaltux
in reply to Alexandre Oliva • • •:xorg: Is the fact that X simply does what we want while the alternative isn't truly ready not a good enough reason? Why can't someone choose to keep using it?
I fully support the points made by @lxo@snac.lx.oliva.nom.br I'm also another busy person who tries Wayland periodically when people claim it's finally ready – and unfortunately, I consistently find it's not there yet, at least for me. If it works well enough for others, that's great! Let's keep choices available.
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m0xEE
in reply to Alexandre Oliva • • •I was "lured into it" by the promise that it would fix screen tearing on scrolling pages in Firefox — and I was given precisely that! I was never a GNOME user and I'm very unlikely to ever use it and it's even less likely that I would ever use KDE because I hate Qt with passion since Trolltech days — I'm mentioning it because most benchmarks I've seen were performed in KDE environment, there might be some peculiarities there. I've switched from Xorg dwm-based setup to a similarly lightweight Sway-based one, like I said — to fix the screen tearing. It solved my problem and I never looked back. Now I use a similar setup on three different laptops, all of them have Intel integrated video — I know there are issues with Nvidia, and maybe the performance with ATI/AMD is subpar, but for me it works flawlessly. Sure, there are minor bugs here and there, but nothing big and nothing that can't be worked around.
Worth noting that I use neither systemd, nor pulseaudio or pipewire — I'm not a fan of "bloated" software, I use Void Linux almost universally, so I have an option of avoiding them. To me those are redundant — they only add complexity, but solve no problem — but Wayland isn't, it did solve my problem!
I don't think there is a conspiracy — I think there are lots of people like me, for whom it just works. And as it just works, they are less vocal about it.
And I suspect that a lot of these people are users of lightweight wlroots-based tiling window managers, that is probably why features like precise window positioning do not get implemented, I can't be certain, but maybe a significant part of the community just doesn't care 🤷
True, there are synthetic tests in which it can underperform — but that is what they are: synthetic tests! I never have to render 25 thousands of fishes in my real life workloads, 80% of software I use is TUI software and Sway renders Alacritty windows just fine — my battery life is excellent. Maybe the fact that there is no screen tearing and it having to wait for vertical synchronisation is what causes lower frame rates? I'm not sure, it's just a theory that would require profiling to confirm — I'm not sure I'm interested in doing it as I don't want to write an article about how great Wayland is, for me it works fine already 😁
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