UnityDevice

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[–] UnityDevice@startrek.website 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

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

[–] UnityDevice@startrek.website 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years 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 2 years 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 2 years 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 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years 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 2 years 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 26 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

[–] UnityDevice@startrek.website 20 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (4 children)

It's an American obsession.

[–] UnityDevice@startrek.website 15 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

It's like calling all fuel diesel.

[–] UnityDevice@startrek.website 21 points 2 years ago (4 children)

But now you're stuck in the woods with a libertarian. You're worse off than before.

[–] UnityDevice@startrek.website 3 points 2 years ago

You tend to lose count after the first few hundred.

[–] UnityDevice@startrek.website 11 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Or libcinder. Or even simply Arduino.

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