People bought excess of lots of things, toilet paper just was more noticeable more quickly because of it’s huge volume to value ratio, and slow restocking (in part because of that ratio, it’s not worth warehousing so there was little flexibility in the supply chain).

Once the shortage started becoming obvious it was self-perpetuating, you needed to buy what toilet paper you could when you could because you didn’t know when you would be able to buy again. The supermarkets near me at the time had no toilet paper restocked for more than three months as supplies got redirected to “higher priority” stores.

How many children died because Bill Gates lobbied for the Oxford Covid-19 vaccine to be patented?

I want a small EV

Tape the cord to the top

Is the lesson “why throw snowballs at cars when you could be having a snowball fight with a robot instead?”

For what it’s worth, I regularly switch depending on what I’m doing (AwesomeWM for X11 and Hyprland for Wayland)

If you’re fine with Wayland, go with Wayland. There are lots of reasons still that people might prefer X11 but the list has been getting shorter.

• The security model of Wayland is more restrictive than necessary for many users and means things like screen sharing and desktop toys are harder and not universally implemented or doable.
• Wayland effectively requires many things to be handled by the same process, preventing traditional modular environments (e.g. separating window manager from compositor no longer possible)
• Explicit compositor support required for more features, meaning having a feature complete environment in small projects is much harder, and the design of Wayland tends to promote a few large desktop environments rather than many small window managers.
• NVidia’s support for Wayland is still improving
• Wayland can’t rotate your screen to be on an angle to maximise the length of a line
• Several programs I rely on don’t support Wayland well yet
  • Steam doesn’t stream from Wayland
  • Transparent bits of FreeCAD show the background instead of what’s behind them
  • Code-OSS required a very silly workaround for decent font rendering, although I think this might have been fixed in electron

Catima can also handle pkpass (Apple wallet) files now, although last I checked it chokes on “pkpasses”, the zipped collective version