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DRM = Direct Render Manager
I had no idea, was confused, and the article never de-acronyms/initialisms the term
Not to be confused with Digital Rights Management, another far more widely used DRM acronym. No worries, it’s not like that’s confusing or anything.
Ha, thank you. I clicked through two of the links to get context and none of them defined “DRM” and was like “I guess…everyone else knows what this means?”
My personal frustration is that even though I know it doesn’t mean Digital Rights Management in this context, I can never remember what it does stand for.
Where is all the information? This looks about as useful as when somebody says “I have a problem” without going into any more depth. Great, you have a problem, but with what? What was happening before you ran into it? Did you do something? What happened after you ran into the problem?
Maybe I’m missing something here, but copying Microsoft’s error handling is not the way I’d go about things.
Why is it blue?
Tradition.
What color should the blue screen of death be if not blue! I guess it’s coming from Windows: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_screen_of_death
An early blue error screen first existed in the Beta Release of Windows 1.0; if Windows found a different DOS version than it expected, the error message “Incorrect DOS version” alongside other text messages detailing what check failed to pass would be appended to the boot screen before starting normally.
Some HP cameras back in the days also had a red screen of death when things went very wrong.
When something hits you in the face you turn blue. This essentially hits you in the face, and matches that color.
Somehow Lennart is behind this further cancer, despite pupating into a Microsoft Employee as expected.
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Great, potterydung enshittified Linux to the point they added DRM to the death handler.
(only half-kidding, anti-Linux is explicitly what potterydung is trying to do; but it never ceases to amuse me that the name for the manager thingy was chosen to acronym to DRM. How will we ever know when DRM (pejorative) is actually added to Linux video?)
Direct rendering infrastructure in Linux predates widespread use of “digital rights management” as a term of art by about two or three years. “We were here first,” as the saying goes. That said, the specific concept of direct rendering managers is a little newer, and probably was a mistake on its own merits, regardless of the name.
“We were here first,” as the saying goes.
True. As corporate goes, take a good product name that exists in the wild, bury it with your own shitty product, best case you get to kill two products for the price of one (eg.: Google with “Gemini”).
I have no idea what you’re talking about but you seem to be quite upset about something I guess
