CalcProgrammer1 @ CalcProgrammer1 @lemmy.ml

Software Engineer, Linux Enthusiast, OpenRGB Developer, and Gamer

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Sonic 2. I was like 3 at the time.

Started at 0 for me using mlmym

If the next iPhone has an unlockable bootloader, a USBC port, and a removable battery then I may just buy my very first iPhone (to run Linux on of course). With the work Asahi is doing for Mac hardware, an unlocked Apple Silicon iPhone could be an amazing Linux phone.

If they do this, they better realize that they're siding with corporate greed and betraying those who supported them and bought their games up to that point. Selling out to a greed factory is betrayal, plain and simple. Trading your integrity for greed.

Now they need to just not sell out to a soulless greed factory to beat BioWare at their own game. If EA comes knocking the only correct answer is to tell them to fuck off.

LibreWolf

Terminal

VLC Media Player

Visual Studio Code

Qt Creator

gcc

Home Assistant

OpenWRT

OpenVPN

Steam

Bottles (manage Wine installations/run Windows software)

Squeekboard/phosh (Linux phone UI/onscreen keyboard)

Hacker's Keyboard (Android onscreen keyboard)

OpenRGB

My dad has been into model trains since before I was born. We built a train layout in the early 2000s when I was in middle school or so. Working on that project helped get me into electronics as we made PCBs for signals and control circuits. Now, 20 some years later, I work in software engineering. My dad wanted to get back into working on the layout and I'm helping him with Arduino programming and Raspberry Pi stuff. He built a stepper motor controller for the turntable and then we built some turnout and light control boards that interface with DCC. We set up JMRI on a Raspberry Pi to drive trains from phones and automate stuff. I also got him into 3D printing and he's printed a ton of new scenery for the layout after buying his own Ender 3 after using mine quite a bit. We've learned various CAD/modeling programs to make 3D prints.

I also finally got to do something I always wanted to do as a kid, which is to drive the trains from a first-person view. We have gone through a bunch of different variations of putting a Raspberry Pi Zero and camera module on an HO scale railcar. We did some different designs. Our latest design uses an SG-90 micro servo to control the camera angle so you can look left and right. I also 3D printed an enclosure for a regulator, battery charger, and battery that takes track power and powers the Pi.

It's pretty fun to be able to sit on the couch with a phone, watching the view on the TV, and drive the train from the other room including operating turnouts. Haven't yet tried to drive the trains over the Internet yet but I want to, since I live a state away from my parents where the layout is.

Edit: Here's a video of the camera car in action! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ls-Rg1TlDOA

So was the Note 7

I've had good luck buying phones on eBay. I bought a OnePlus 6T last fall that was in box and practically brand new because the 6T has good Linux support, phone arrived and worked great. I just bought a OnePlus 6 because it too is well supported on Linux (postmarketOS) and doesn't have as big of a notch, good condition but minor OLED burn in. Problem is that the previous owner didn't realize that PIN lock remains over factory reset so it was locked. I managed to find an unlock procedure before the seller got back to me with the PIN and it's working fine now (though I think I will stick with Android on this one after all).

Not in any official capacity, but I know about what he and Steve from GN are doing. Their project aims to get vendors to provide documentation on their control protocols, not to standardize around a a single unified protocol.

The Windows RGB implementation might get companies to standardize around the HID Lamp Array protocol though.

I wouldn't call myself the world expert on Sonix these days, haven't messed with it in over a year. I occasionally check up on the Sonix hacking discord and it looks like some people over there are still making progress, have rebased to master and such. I have been focusing on OpenRGB itself mostly and once the Sinowealth boards started coming out I kinda lost interest in keeping up with SonixQMK since it felt like the work we were doing was getting undone.

I did try to JTAG a Sinowealth keyboard but thus far have been unsuccessful in talking to the chip. I would at least like to dump its firmware.

Problem is a lot of vendors that used to use Sonix/EVision chips have switched to Sinowealth or other chips during the chip shortage and haven't switched back. They do this without changing the model numbers. Sinowealth's chip is inferior in every way and does not have any QMK port so if you get stuck with a new PCB revision you're screwed.

I can't recommend anyone try to buy a Sonix/EVision board anymore for this reason unfortunately. It was awesome when every cheap keyboard on the market had one of these chips though.

Paladins doesn't, the anti-cheat kicks you out if you play anything other than the tutorial.

They already refuse to fix their EAC so that the game can run on Linux so I can't not play their game any more than I already do. I played Paladins briefly when Overwatch was having its China drama and enjoyed it, but I'm done booting Windows to play games.

They've been this way for over a decade, it's not Elon. I do believe that early Google actually cared about "don't be evil" but that ended before 2010.

Making a rumble pack type accessory that clips on the back wouldn't be too difficult from a hardware perspective, just a rumble motor and an Arduino with a type C connection would work fine, but the software involved to redirect just the rumble commands from the Deck controller to the rumble pack without also affecting the control input could be challenging. I'm not entirely familiar with how vibration is handled on Linux game controllers.

Instead of just stating this as the inevitable future, why not join us in realizing that this is a problem and push to do something about it? We all realize that physical media and ownership of content is going away, but we can push back by not buying into subscription models and buying what physical or at least one-time-purchase digital content we can while it is still around.

Your new car may not have a CD player, but external disc drives are still readily available. Buy up a CD collection (of lossless, DRM-free music I might add) and rip them all to FLAC files and keep them on today's dirt cheap giant hard drives. Now you can play them on your phone, car, laptop, Steam Deck, retro iPod, smart fridge, etc.

Same goes for DVDs and Blu-Rays. You have the option to convert them into whatever format is needed for the device you want to play them on because YOU OWN THE MEDIA and can do what you want with it.

Be the change you want to see. Cancel Netflix and Spotify. Buy CDs and DVDs/BDs. Build a local collection and have DRM-free content on all your devices that will be available to you for the rest of your life rather than for the rest of the month.

I'm guessing they RMA'd this particular one because I think it is a firmware bug. Hopefully a firmware bug that has since been fixed in newer hardware revisons/BIOS updates. My old one ran into the same issue after 6 months and Valve basically offered an immediate RMA when I described the issue.

Probably oils from the plastic mostly, maybe some of the coatings on the PCB.

Yeah, that looks like the same issue mine had. I read that it was an APU firmware/BIOS bug. Hopefully the newer units have patched firmware to fix this. In my case it started happening after I let the battery completely die and didn't charge it up for a month, so I've been more careful about keeping mine charged up now.