Option three: YOLO it and be the first to come up with a working config for it after ripping your hair out for weeks.
And then never tell the rest of the Internet...
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Hey guys I got a wifi69 card, does anyone know how to make it work? NVM I fixed it.
(User disappears after the post and never elaborates, meanwhile replying to the thread is also a necro post and it gets locked anyway)
Or my other favourite:
How to make Gameguy xbox controller work: [posted 5 years ago] [Deleted by user]
I somehow came across a guy who seems to be doing exactly that first part for RGB control of Corsair products.
Dude will add support for your devices in a matter of days if it doesn't already exist, and won't even take donations for his project. The open source community is awesome sometimes.
Link? I have some rgb ram I'm waiting on something like this for. Happy to donate!
Awesome thanks! Has mine! Hopefully someone does similar for the NZXT Kraken Elite display, but I can live with the large temperature number.
This is all of Homebridge. God bless βem.
That's pretty much how I buy my phones: Look at the LineageOS device list, find the newest ones I can find/afford.
Same, but grapheneOS and max screen width (big hands / fat fingers).
That's easy
Graphene only supports Pixels
I've been using Linux for close to twenty years. What hardware database?
!β¬οΈ!< Same question? π€
It probably means this hardware database.
Rad, but my Lenovo model is not there, everything works perfectly though
Please add your experience then :)
They provide a tool called hwprobe or something. Probe your computer and add to their database
Thanks! I'll give it a spin. π
Weird how this often ends up with devices that don't randomly break after exactly 1 year
It's why I get AMD for everything.
There plenty of other things to consider too, though, especially for laptops.
WiFi chipset, trackpad hardware, webcam, all can lead to a sad time with the wrong manufacturers and driver support
Modern devices are pretty generic. You can install Linux on just about anything.
Web cams tend to be USB devices and trackpads are often SPI. WiFi can be an issue but only with a handful of devices.
Yep, I never had a serious problem with any laptop from the last ~20 years (but I do usually use older hardware, my main laptop is from ~2018)
Honestly 2018 is fairly modern from a Linux perspective. I've seen people using hardware from 2005.
I think anything newer than 2014 is pretty good for Linux. Things made in the last 7 years are even better.
Well, the drivers have matured since then. And my latitude 5290 is a buisness laptop, so they usually don't screw consumers as much.
Yeah, my keyboard just straight up didn't work when I got my laptop; thankfully the issue was already fixed in a newer kernel so I just had to update (using a USB keyboard, lol).
Does wifi chipset matter on a laptop? Its just an m.2 Key E chip, should be easily replaceable. Cant imagine manufacturers would solder that on, its not like RAM
Yes it matters. Loads of manufacturers are doing soldered wifi on some of their models. Delll, HP, they are all at it.
And even if your wifi wasn't soldered, wouldn't it be better to know you were buying a machine where it would just work out the box rather than needing replacement?
Oof, yeah, thats awful.
Never been reliant on wifi tbh, I've generally been an Ethernet purist and have never owned a personal laptop (just desktops). Even for work laptops id use either onboard ethernet or a dongle
Intel is also a major Linux contributor
While AMD is certainly better than the alternatives when it comes to device compatibility, we're still missing an open multi-platform cross-architecture compile-time standard (like a "C for graphics programing."). So long as that remains the case, the graphics market will continue to have a number of artificial barriers to entry that favor Microsoft Windows.
Isn't that what openGL and vulkan aim for?
As someone with size 14-wide (US) feet, this is how I shop for shoes. Don't even look at styles or price, I just look for the pairs that are in stock in my size and that narrows the other factors down for me a lot.
Bruh, same. Except if it's a store I've not been too before. Then I just ask the first associate i see if they have 15's.
I remember getting a "winmodem" working on Mandrake back in the late 90s and thinking I was the smartest boy alive.
Maybe i have been lucky?, I did replace a mini nvme-wifi adapter with a intel one that worked once.
Mini Non-Volatile Memory Express Wireless Fidelity adapter
M2 2230 very fancy naming.
Well, intels almost always work, but mediatek...well it's not even worth mentioning.
I'm not gonna listen to Geordi because he lives in an alternate universe where everything is compatible with everything else.
Ackshually... in season three episode seven "The Enemy" it is made clear that Romulan technology is generally assumed to be completely interoperable when Geordi could not connect his VISOR to his tricorder in more than a superficial way... Quote he: "they don't speak the same language". :-)
I applaud the writers of that episode for doing that, but I've seen too many episodes/movies where people use alien technology with no indication they have a hard time with the interface, or where a Federation ship outright trades equipment with previously uncontacted aliens, and it just works. Hell, even Trip's reproductive system is so compatible with an alien's that she can get him pregnant! And don't even get me started on how often people just walk up and use a control panel to access sensitive systems without needing to present any kind of credentials.
Come to think of it... it's also addressed in TNG when the guy from the past calls the captain on the intercomm, and says something like "if I was not supposed to use it it should have a lock/code".
I can get the perspective behind the last one (unauth access). Coming from a closed society it may be unthinkable for someone without authority or authorization to perform an action "unauthorized by the authority", but in an open society the mindset would be quite different. Much as we might without thought throw a light switch without expecting authorization, or maybe like the hoplophiles that don't want an electronic lock on their weapons, perhaps what they optimize for (i.e. their security model) could be for even an extreme case such as if "the only survivor" is one unbadged civilian with no bridge/engineering knowledge needing to control the ship (and even weapons) with the usual security case simply being that the bridge/engineering is a secured by persons/staff... IIRC, even knowing who performed such an action is a distant secondary concern (in Voyager it is said that control panels try to log who uses them be the comm badge present), but I know of at least two cases where command-and-control was locked: one in TNG by data (which is presented as quite an exceptional workflow), and one shuttlecraft in DS9 by O'Brien (which might be more of a consideration for scouting operations... to help ensure one has a vehicle to come back to). Conversely, it seems far more frequent that the computer denies access to data in defense of another's personal privacy.