Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: rbowman Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy Subject: Re: A New Deadly Critique of Wayland Date: 27 Mar 2026 20:33:17 GMT Lines: 26 Message-ID: References: <189f42f4a5fdae26$32627$2320387$802601b3@news.usenetexpress.com> <10pq8o3$3pvgv$1@dont-email.me> <189f7ca7b57fd592$42334$2133644$802601b3@news.usenetexpress.com> <10pri4l$72pe$1@dont-email.me> <10pugns$173b1$7@dont-email.me> <10q0061$1n0f3$1@dont-email.me> <10q0orh$1vjms$1@dont-email.me> <10q2jgq$2jo58$1@dont-email.me> <10q5gbs$3j4rb$1@dont-email.me> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net UfsqmcnXXoWN4LKODbX6VgHiI/d0mAVRnF4OTHKoR2Q4pCRzBS Cancel-Lock: sha1:vlFeWufPcbjCXZ6Y4TiLP9ekTkQ= sha256:g6hgAJcEs45bJqteu6DEBwNVF/cYc8tU+PAXsqIhmEQ= User-Agent: Pan/0.162 (Pokrosvk) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.advocacy:710274 On Fri, 27 Mar 2026 08:50:03 GMT, Jan Panteltje wrote: > As a kid I build a small robot car with photocells that would track a > light source. > No computers in those days, just electronics.. > Interesting was that in the room it would drive towards a bright wall, > get in its own shadow, return, > once out of the shadow go forward again and started oscillating back and > forward, > It reminded me of my own life.. I would love to find the original article but one of the magazines like Popular Mechanics in the '50s had plans for a robot. I forget if it had photosensors or limit switch 'feeler' but I remember the body was an inverted steel dishpan. > Also records ship traffic via an other RTL_USB stick: > Code here: > https://panteltje.nl/panteltje/xgpspc/index.html > There are better navigation programs for Linux, but this I wrote to > get the feel, it is still running. I'm a long way from ship traffic :) It would be interesting if I still lived on the Atlantic coast. Portsmouth NH wasn't a major port but it did have some traffic.