Excigma

joined 1 year ago
[–] Excigma 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

As a Dell user, not very happy with mine. Uneven backlight/bleeding, poor build quality (screen glass misaligned with the bezels, keyboard keys coming out which aren't covered under warranty according to Dell, parts of the keyboard failing, trackpad click failing - the trackpad is integrated into the chassis so that had to be replaced) and it's quite overpriced.

That said, some models are Ubuntu certified and get firmware updates without Windows Update

[–] Excigma 12 points 1 month ago (4 children)

It may be possible to get past that, I've seen people disassembling the battery to get the BMC and connecting the DC power supply to that instead.

It sounds way more risky than OP's initial idea. I wouldn't recommend taking apart batteries.

[–] Excigma 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I think they are wondering if one extension can use both v2 and v3 APIs at once? As in whether v3 APIs will be "backported" to allow v2 extensions to use them

[–] Excigma 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I don't think I have enough knowledge to solve this or say anything for certain, but I wonder if the power button is treated as an external keyboard and is getting ignored in tablet mode?

[–] Excigma 1 points 3 months ago

I'm using an app to use my Android phone as a webcam, which works great (good low light performance!) provided I can stand it up somewhere above my laptop screen (finicky). You can accidentally knock it over. Might be worth considering if you don't use the camera much - otherwise an external one will probably attach better and he more stable

[–] Excigma 7 points 4 months ago

Regarding your mouse double clicking, some Reddit users suggest pressing the click button quite hard a few times...

[–] Excigma 2 points 5 months ago (7 children)

Not recommending against RustDesk - it is a very cool project - but regarding the "Why?", you could use a VPN or something like Tailscale which has MagicDNS that'll resolve hostnames of computers to their local IP address. You can use this with GNOME's RDP server to remote in from another device pretty easily.

[–] Excigma 3 points 6 months ago

PairDrop(dot)net is a fork with a bit more features

[–] Excigma 2 points 7 months ago

I believe they're available as backup but re-calibrate themselves with GPS coordinates if available. This is not a problem when GPS jamming is used but becomes an issue with spoofing - the pilots need to monitor for it.

I think they talk about it in this video by flightradar24 somewhere: https://youtu.be/4dG_Whxzdkk

[–] Excigma 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Strange. The default keyboard works wonders for me but doesn't automatically pop up. Are you able to swipe from the bottom edge of the display to make it pop up?

[–] Excigma 1 points 9 months ago

Right? Even MacBook Pros have larger batteries in the 14 inch and 16 inch lineup.

[–] Excigma 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Just use Waydroid instead: https://waydro.id, much lower overhead, however you need to mess with ARM emulation. For installing Google Apps and Device not Play certified: https://github.com/casualsnek/waydroid_script

More info: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Waydroid

view more: next ›