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Yeah I like the sound of the functionality but I don't like the idea of it taking up menu bar space. Console utility would be good or even a gui that can be quickly launched through spotlight
You might like Ice: https://github.com/jordanbaird/Ice
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For some reason the app supports a separate standalone window mode as well [0]. It's not clear why the developer took the trouble to support two different modes when the menubar mode doesn't seem to add anything (like a live-updating icon for throughput). Well, I can think of one reason why it wasn't that much more trouble. François Chollet had a nice tweet [1] on why removing human cognitive friction is resulting in…
> It's not clear why People asked for it in these comments here and the developer added it.
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I've got Opus crunching on it now, will update when I have it finished and published Edit: https://github.com/Zetaphor/whatcable-linux Running on my Fedora KDE machine right now. Also includes a CLI so you could wrap your own widget I still need to figure out publishing, doing this in between work meetings.
I do not use KDE and wanted just command-line version of it without any Qt dependencies, so I've burned some tokens and produced just that: https://github.com/vzaliva/whatcable-linux-cli
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I've got Opus crunching on it now, will update when I have it finished and published Edit: https://github.com/Zetaphor/whatcable-linux Running on my Fedora KDE machine right now. Also includes a CLI so you could wrap your own widget I still need to figure out publishing, doing this in between work meetings.
I do not use KDE and wanted just command-line version of it without any Qt dependencies, so I've burned some tokens and produced just that: https://github.com/vzaliva/whatcable-linux-cli
https://crates.io/crates/whatcable
Thanks to the previous implementers/clauders.. I don't take any credits.
I remember seeing a recent analysis where the vast majority of cables from Amazon misreported their capabilities. Is this tool going to be able to catch those, or blindly report what the chip advertises?
The tool can only tell you what the cable says. Detecting the gauge and composition of the wires in the cable is either destructive or requires temperature probes. Detecting whether the signal characteristics are close enough to in-spec or not requires a speed test, perhaps, but that also doesn't necessarily mean the cable is the problem if such a test failed.
I am definitely gonna contribute or fork to create an open leaderboard of cable brands and quality :D
I get that the connectors are identical but I find it odd that people find it so challenging. Thunderbolt is the thick and short cable. If it's not thick it's not gonna work well and if it's over a metre it's not gonna work well. cf my pile of thin long "basic" usb c cables.
How do you define "thick" or "short" to a non-engineer/tech person? Relative to what exactly?
I get that the connectors are identical but I find it odd that people find it so challenging. Thunderbolt is the thick and short cable. If it's not thick it's not gonna work well and if it's over a metre it's not gonna work well. cf my pile of thin long "basic" usb c cables.
Thunderbolt 4 passive (over usb) is 0.8m in length, longer cables are active, up to two meters I think, so they do exist.
Interesting - do we know why that api is not allowed? I see no reason, especially if it would also require runtime permission from user.