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Given the positive results from what I've heard, this might be actually one are where LLMs could prove useful for once.
Freedom -- that's what it is. There are now more and more cases where we don't have to ask for permission. Unfortunately, as I look around, I see most of the hardware vendors around me as gatekeepers. They prevent me from writing custom code in various ways. Apple restricts access to NFC or their UWB positioning, Supernote Manta does not let me access a bluetooth microphone, the list goes on. Denon at least has an AP…
I think, from a business perspective, they just don't see us at all. We're such a small, inconsequential part of the market that building open, free hardware with code that we can update, change, or alter for our needs is just.. not part of their business use-case.
If you see articles from old computing magazines or TV shows in the 1980s (there’s some good rabbit holes on YouTube), the prevailing optimism was that everyone would have a computer in their kitchen and write their own programs for whatever they need to do.. But programming languages and operating system fragmentation didn’t let that really take off Maybe now that original promise of personal computers can be realiz…
I feel like both Google and Apple see that future, and are now actively working to make sure it can't happen to protect their app store commissions.
Edit: no, I was thinking of the older p1008.
On a similar experience, I use moonlight on my Android TV to stream video games from my computer in another room. I use my own fork from an unmerged PR which enables me to use an Xbox One Wireless adapter so I can play with my pad wirelessly. These pads have a 3.5mm jack on them which on Windows and Linux enables me to route audio from the game to headphones connected to the pad. Moonlight and the xow driver it bundl…
I used to feel proud of the fact I reverse engineered some of my laptop's features using stuff just like this. I suppose that's over.
I just fix a long standing bug on my Linux desktop I have had for years and kept meaning to look into to see if I could fix. The issue was I have a sound blaster katana sound bar and it works okay but the volume on the device is not in sync with the volume in Linux. In Windows it stays in sync. I can work around it by each time I boot, I press the button to go to max volume, then lower the volume in Linux to the desi…
Performing Stallman's stunt. Cool story bro, but unverified. Guy is marketing AI on X with an "attention is all you need" picture etc.
I'm all for being skeptical, but it doesn't take too much digging to find the proof (it's in the original tweet thread): https://github.com/Kuberwastaken/hp-laser-1008a-macos
Still better than nothing.
I'm pretty sure I've used that exact printer on Linux without issue. Long ago, deep into the pre ai era. Edit: no, I was thinking of the older p1008.
Recently, I had bizarre situation: I wanted to play a game from my childhood on Windows 11, but, without changing two booleans in the settings, I could not reliably move my in-game cursor. The catch is that to change those values in the settings, I needed to move my in-game cursor. So I was stuck. After digging around, I found a file that looked like it could be the settings file, but it was not plaintext. Naturally,…
I have a similar experience. I'm playing minecraft lately and I have patched already like 5 issues in the server that I would never put together time to trace/debug/understand/fix, including some o(n^3) integration between mods that was lagging the server. Same thing for utilities, managing backups, etc.
For example, I needed to change something in a particular function of firefox (which was in and of itself an amazing claude adventure to find that solved a problem I've had for well over 2 years), but only that very specific function.
I didn't want to fork firefox and have to constantly rebuild it just because of this one function. So I setup an LD_PRELOAD (well, not LD_PRELOAD, but the macOS equivalent) trick that injects only my modified function, as well as a full mechanism that traps firefox's auto-update process to reinject/re-arm the LD_PRELOAD trick into newer versions. I've had it going on for 3 months without any issues.
I counted and I have about 18 custom built apps ranging from "full blown swift GUI" to "tiny helper script" that have really changed how I interact with my computers for the better. It's so cool to be living this revolution.