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Bored? How about trying a Linux speed run?

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Re: Bored? How about trying a Linux speed run?

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Post by mmm_grayons »

jeroenhd wrote: post #16
bschwindHN wrote: post #13

Bored? Write a touchpad driver based on libinput which gives you identical mouse acceleration between Macbook trackpads and linux trackpads.

As someone who can't be bothered to pay the Apple tax, what does the Macbook trackpad do that others don't? My experience with different mouse acceleration configs (Windows, Synaptics, Linux) has only been negative.

I switch regularly between Windows, Linux, and Mac systems with roughly equal time between each. I've never found anything magical about the trackpad, though everyone told me I would. It's a good trackpad, that's about it. Maybe I notice it less because I tend to primarily use the keyboard and avoid the mouse where possible.

Re: Bored? How about trying a Linux speed run?

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Post by anthk »

Cyberdog wrote: post #49
s3arch wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I do not use IRC at all. But still curious, do people use it?

You're asking on Hacker News if people still use IRC? In this same discussion thread where people are talking about writing Gopher clients? Yes, it's still in very wide use. The numbers might be declining as greybeards retire and noobs pick Slack instead, but there's still plenty of us out here.

https://xkcd.com/1782/

Re: Bored? How about trying a Linux speed run?

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Post by betaby »

jeroenhd wrote: post #16
bschwindHN wrote: post #13

Bored? Write a touchpad driver based on libinput which gives you identical mouse acceleration between Macbook trackpads and linux trackpads.

As someone who can't be bothered to pay the Apple tax, what does the Macbook trackpad do that others don't? My experience with different mouse acceleration configs (Windows, Synaptics, Linux) has only been negative.

Try trackpad on a PixelBook. Also those driver/config changes can be found on github.

Re: Bored? How about trying a Linux speed run?

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Post by badsectoracula »

objektif wrote: post #146
badsectoracula wrote: post #130

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I grew up on a greek island, that stuff gets boring fast :-P

Linux also gets boring pretty fast :) Btw which Island? I love to visit there at some point but dont know where to start.

Samos. I haven't been there for about 12 years though so i don't know how it is nowadays.

Re: Bored? How about trying a Linux speed run?

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Post by mslip »

badsectoracula wrote: post #130
DeathArrow wrote: post #89

>" About 15 years ago, I mused about the idea of having a "desert island machine". This is where I'd put someone in a room with a box that has a couple of hard drives and a working network connection. HD #1 is blank. HD #2 has a few scraps of a (Linux) OS on it: bootloader, kernel, C library and compiler, that sort of thing. There's a network connection of some sort, and that's about it. There are no editors and noth…

I grew up on a greek island, that stuff gets boring fast :-P

What kind of stuff would you do for fun?

Re: Bored? How about trying a Linux speed run?

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Post by dfc »

noir_lord wrote: post #92
jeroenhd wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As someone who can't be bothered to pay the Apple tax, what does the Macbook trackpad do that others don't? My experience with different mouse acceleration configs (Windows, Synaptics, Linux) has only been negative.

I can answer this a little, for sensible reasons (the team I run at new job was entirely on Macs) I gave in and chose the 16" Macbook Pro over the Thinkpad/Fedora I'd have defaulted to normally (since my personal laptop is a nicely specced T series I still use that for personal stuff at home). Simply put the touchpad on the 16" Mac feels like its from the future, recognition is perfect, multi-finger gestures are cons…

I wish libvte supported triggers (perform action on text matching regexp) iterm2. It's the one feature I am always super jealous of OSX users.

https://iterm2.com/documentation-triggers.html

Re: Bored? How about trying a Linux speed run?

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Post by testmasterflex »

badsectoracula wrote: post #165
objektif wrote: post #146

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Linux also gets boring pretty fast :) Btw which Island? I love to visit there at some point but dont know where to start.

Samos. I haven't been there for about 12 years though so i don't know how it is nowadays.

It’s fantastic. I was there in 2016. Have visited Greece at least 15 times but Samos is still my favourite. Make sure you rent a bike and drive around the island.

Re: Bored? How about trying a Linux speed run?

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Post by lcall »

This is a very cool idea. I have thought similarly, but for a "create current civilization from scratch" game (edit: this is a real-life challenge, not on a computer, and maybe not even as a competition): Start in an empty open area, with nothing but nature and the low-tech clothing you wear and means of communication with outside. The only things you can exchange with outside are: any information at all (so, maybe use a smartphone but only to read/research, or a "border" for q&a with anyone), and "traded" goods from similarly-managed areas. Find and record the shortest (reasonable? by some definition?) path to building a smartphone (or such) with its supporting infrastructure.

Re: Bored? How about trying a Linux speed run?

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Post by namenotrequired »

DeathArrow wrote: post #89

>" About 15 years ago, I mused about the idea of having a "desert island machine". This is where I'd put someone in a room with a box that has a couple of hard drives and a working network connection. HD #1 is blank. HD #2 has a few scraps of a (Linux) OS on it: bootloader, kernel, C library and compiler, that sort of thing. There's a network connection of some sort, and that's about it. There are no editors and noth…

Swim and fish and sunbathe... in a room?
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