• Admiral Patrick
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    353 months ago

    That’s pretty much how I buy my phones: Look at the LineageOS device list, find the newest ones I can find/afford.

  • TimeSquirrel
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    333 months ago

    Option three: YOLO it and be the first to come up with a working config for it after ripping your hair out for weeks.

    And then never tell the rest of the Internet…

    • @IrateAnteater@sh.itjust.works
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      183 months ago

      I somehow came across a guy who seems to be doing exactly that first part for RGB control of Corsair products.

      Dude will add support for your devices in a matter of days if it doesn’t already exist, and won’t even take donations for his project. The open source community is awesome sometimes.

    • grimaferve
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      173 months ago

      Hey guys I got a wifi69 card, does anyone know how to make it work? NVM I fixed it.

      (User disappears after the post and never elaborates, meanwhile replying to the thread is also a necro post and it gets locked anyway)

      Or my other favourite:

      How to make Gameguy xbox controller work: [posted 5 years ago] [Deleted by user]

  • Destide
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    183 months ago

    Weird how this often ends up with devices that don’t randomly break after exactly 1 year

    • @tiramichu@lemm.ee
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      There plenty of other things to consider too, though, especially for laptops.

      WiFi chipset, trackpad hardware, webcam, all can lead to a sad time with the wrong manufacturers and driver support

      • LostXOR
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        Yeah, my keyboard just straight up didn’t work when I got my laptop; thankfully the issue was already fixed in a newer kernel so I just had to update (using a USB keyboard, lol).

      • Possibly linux
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        13 months ago

        Modern devices are pretty generic. You can install Linux on just about anything.

        Web cams tend to be USB devices and trackpads are often SPI. WiFi can be an issue but only with a handful of devices.

    • @HStone32@lemmy.world
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      While AMD is certainly better than the alternatives when it comes to device compatibility, we’re still missing an open multi-platform cross-architecture compile-time standard (like a “C for graphics programing.”). So long as that remains the case, the graphics market will continue to have a number of artificial barriers to entry that favor Microsoft Windows.

  • @JasonDJ@lemmy.zip
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    13 months ago

    As someone with size 14-wide (US) feet, this is how I shop for shoes. Don’t even look at styles or price, I just look for the pairs that are in stock in my size and that narrows the other factors down for me a lot.

      • Possibly linux
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        03 months ago

        I’ve never had an issue personally

        I’m not sure why you are latching on to almost. There will always be that 1%.

        • udon
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          Well, to add my personal experience to yours, I’ve personally bought an off-the-shelf laptop “optimized for Linux” (from Tuxedo, to be clear). That should work just fine, shouldn’t it? As it turns out, energy management does not, which is kind of essential, at least with a standard Linux installation that is not their own Ubuntu-based distribution or standard Ubuntu. They provide a management tool, but you need to build it yourself and the process is not documented properly. You’ll need some experience and be able to interpret error messages in a terminal to find out where the issue is. Setting it up to start automatically on the next boot is another hurdle. I think that’s not very nice, especially with this “optimized for Linux” claim. that might target newcomers in particular who try to avoid such issues.

          The tool also requires a lot of additional node.js bloat, just to get your fans work properly and your laptop not to overheat. Sleep/hibernation also does not work properly outside their own OS/Ubuntu, and their advanced management tool with additional features does not work at all outside of Ubuntu/their derivate.

          I’ve been there in the early 2000s, fighting with my network and graphics cards and I know it all got much better. Especially now that Nvidia support seems to finally become better. But let’s not pretend issues don’t exist?

  • @lolcatnip@reddthat.com
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    03 months ago

    I’m not gonna listen to Geordi because he lives in an alternate universe where everything is compatible with everything else.

    • @xia@lemmy.sdf.orgOP
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      13 months ago

      Ackshually… in season three episode seven “The Enemy” it is made clear that Romulan technology is generally assumed to be completely interoperable when Geordi could not connect his VISOR to his tricorder in more than a superficial way… Quote he: “they don’t speak the same language”. :-)

      • @lolcatnip@reddthat.com
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        23 months ago

        I applaud the writers of that episode for doing that, but I’ve seen too many episodes/movies where people use alien technology with no indication they have a hard time with the interface, or where a Federation ship outright trades equipment with previously uncontacted aliens, and it just works. Hell, even Trip’s reproductive system is so compatible with an alien’s that she can get him pregnant! And don’t even get me started on how often people just walk up and use a control panel to access sensitive systems without needing to present any kind of credentials.

        • @xia@lemmy.sdf.orgOP
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          13 months ago

          Come to think of it… it’s also addressed in TNG when the guy from the past calls the captain on the intercomm, and says something like “if I was not supposed to use it it should have a lock/code”.

        • @xia@lemmy.sdf.orgOP
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          13 months ago

          I can get the perspective behind the last one (unauth access). Coming from a closed society it may be unthinkable for someone without authority or authorization to perform an action “unauthorized by the authority”, but in an open society the mindset would be quite different. Much as we might without thought throw a light switch without expecting authorization, or maybe like the hoplophiles that don’t want an electronic lock on their weapons, perhaps what they optimize for (i.e. their security model) could be for even an extreme case such as if “the only survivor” is one unbadged civilian with no bridge/engineering knowledge needing to control the ship (and even weapons) with the usual security case simply being that the bridge/engineering is a secured by persons/staff… IIRC, even knowing who performed such an action is a distant secondary concern (in Voyager it is said that control panels try to log who uses them be the comm badge present), but I know of at least two cases where command-and-control was locked: one in TNG by data (which is presented as quite an exceptional workflow), and one shuttlecraft in DS9 by O’Brien (which might be more of a consideration for scouting operations… to help ensure one has a vehicle to come back to). Conversely, it seems far more frequent that the computer denies access to data in defense of another’s personal privacy.