UnityDevice

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[–] UnityDevice@startrek.website 40 points 8 months ago

Then they'll just identify you by the sound of the printer being audible from down the street.

[–] UnityDevice@startrek.website 14 points 8 months ago (5 children)

TIL there are Linux people that don't use OpenWRT. I always assumed everyone in the Linux community used it. It's great.

Works great with mt7621 based routers if anyone ends up looking for something compatible.

[–] UnityDevice@startrek.website 5 points 8 months ago

Linux and a windows virtual machine with a dedicated nvme hard drive and GPU using PCI pass-through. Windows is boxed in but easily accessed when you need it, and the performance is 95% of native, or more. And because of the dedicated hard drive, you can still dual-boot it like normal if you want.

Also, I recommend installing windows 10 enterprise in the VM, minimal bloat.

[–] UnityDevice@startrek.website 4 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I believe they're called "logicool" in Japan. So maybe it's some form of logo consolidation.

[–] UnityDevice@startrek.website 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

I use gnome for the most part. I have been checking out kde recently to see how the newer versions stack up (gave up on it during the 4.0 days). As you mention kde supports dpms changes on wayland because they have their own protocol extension for that.

That's actually my biggest gripe with wayland - the huge amount of fragmentation it has caused. I'm pretty confident that almost all the missing features I talked about are possible on one or two of the compositors, but not all of them. And definitely not on the one I use. I'm sure once some pragmatism takes hold that all the issues will be ironed out, but my plan for now is to stick to X11 until that happens.

[–] UnityDevice@startrek.website 3 points 8 months ago (3 children)

For me it's a million little details that just don't work. Stuff like positioning windows, removing decorations from a window, remapping buttons on a trackball, setting a graphics output to tvrgb, disabling a display via ssh and enabling it again, etc.

[–] UnityDevice@startrek.website 4 points 8 months ago (5 children)

It's not just about hardware compatibility. It has to be compatible with existing workflows, and it's currently very limiting.

[–] UnityDevice@startrek.website 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I don't work for Apple, but I am an electronics engineer. Just don't be surprised when your simpler devices start failing.

[–] UnityDevice@startrek.website 1 points 8 months ago (3 children)

To be fair though, they just need to make everything USB-C anyhow.

Careful what you wish for. Putting advanced electronics into very simple devices will just make them fail a lot faster.
Some old device just needed 12V over a barrel jack to run some motor or light and charge the battery and it lasted a decade - only failed because the battery got old. New one now needs a state of the art power delivery chip to negotiate the right voltage and current, and all over a very fine pitch connector that will fail if you look at it wrong. Not looking good on the durability front at all.

[–] UnityDevice@startrek.website 27 points 8 months ago (1 children)

set -euo pipefail at the top of every script makes stuff a lot safer. Explanation here.

[–] UnityDevice@startrek.website 0 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

It's an American obsession.

[–] UnityDevice@startrek.website 3 points 8 months ago

You tend to lose count after the first few hundred.

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