Kinda outside my price range. And there’s probably no used devices yet.
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I_like_cats@lemmy.oneto
Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•What's A Piece Of Software You Could Never Do Without?
11·1 year agoI think vim (and other text editors with vim bindings). I’ve gotten so accustomed to the vim way of doing things that I can’t go back
I_like_cats@lemmy.oneto
Linux@lemmy.ml•What is the most duct-tape thing you've done to Linux?
941·1 year agoMy mother uses some software that runs in the browser for her shop. It can print out receipts and scan items. To do these things it has a small “sattelite” application that runs on the system and interacts with the printer and scanner. This software only runs on Windows and Linux doesn’t have drivers for the scanner.
When I switched her over to Linux and found this out in the process I wanted to stop, give up and install windows.
But then I had a stupid idea. I could run the sattelite program in a Windows VM and pass through the USB devices for receipt printer and scanner. The webapp uses requests to localhost:9998 to communicate with the sattelite so I set up a apache server that proxies these requests into the VM. I also prevented the VM from acessing the Interner so Windows doesn’t update and screw everything up.
And it works. It has been in use for a week now and I’ve heard no complaints. I’m just praying to god it doesn’t break
I_like_cats@lemmy.oneto
Technology@lemmy.world•Roku explores taking over HDMI feeds with adsEnglish
0·2 years agoThe HDMI forum is run by big companies so that is not happening, sorry
I_like_cats@lemmy.oneto
Linux@lemmy.ml•overskride: A simple yet powerful bluetooth client
0·2 years agoKinda weird to call it a Bluetooth client. The only Bluetooth clients would be the devices and even that is not entirely correct since Bluetooth doesn’t follow a client/server model. I would rather call it a Bluetooth manager
Buy a pixel and install GrapheneOS


Nah. I already did that once and the mrchromebox.tech site even says not to buy a chromebook for Linux. It’s honestly not that great of an experience