CalcProgrammer1

CalcProgrammer1, 3 months ago

Steam Deck is an open platform because you can run any OS, launcher, etc. on it. It’s just a handheld PC. Steam itself is a closed ecosystem but the Deck is very open.

CalcProgrammer1, 3 months ago

GitLab used to be awesome when it was the place to go after MS bought out GitHub. They had premium access for all public projects under a FOSS license and top-tier CI. Then as time went on, they began pulling support for various functions in a very Microsoftian EEE sort of way. First requiring credit cards fir new users to access the CI, then taking away the CI almost entirely except for a practically useless monthly allotment, then taking away the premium access for public FOSS licensed projects. If I were migrating today I would not have chosen GitLab, but it is where I settled after leaving GitHub and my projects have grown to depend on GitLab CI even if I’m now forced to run my own runners due to the extreme nerfs they’ve done to the hosted CI. I mirrored OpenRGB to Codeberg, but since the CI pipelines depend on GitLab I don’t see Codeberg becoming the main hub anytime soon unless they can execute GL CI configs. Sad to see how far GitLab has fallen though, it is unrecognizable from what it used to be as far as support for FOSS prohects goes, especially given how GitLab itself started as a FOSS project.

CalcProgrammer1, 3 months ago

And you can create the bootable USB with the Deck before you swap the SSD. You should never need a second PC to set up the Deck unless you bought your Deck without an OS installed already.

CalcProgrammer1, 3 months ago

That’s why I mentioned the “without an OS installed already” though a corrupt OS is another possibility that would need some other system available (whether phone, tablet, another Deck, or PC).

CalcProgrammer1, 3 months ago

Leo’s covers are the best, been following him for years.

CalcProgrammer1, 3 months ago

Fans are not detectable. You probably need to resize the corresponding zone on the controller it’s attached to.

CalcProgrammer1, 3 months ago

The Corsair Commander Core controller isn’t being detected or the ASUS ROG motherboard controller isn’t being detected?

G.Skill RAM uses a chip from ENE, many different brands do and they all will show up as ENE DRAM.

CalcProgrammer1, 3 months ago

What kind of controller is it? Note that anything that connects to an ARGB header is NOT a controller, it’s a splitter or a hub and those are not detected in OpenRGB. An ARGB controller generates an ARGB signal from external software control while a splitter/hub just routes a signal from a different device.

CalcProgrammer1, 3 months ago

The Corsair fan hub is basically a glorified wiring box, it is not a smart device and does not get detected in software. All the Corsair fan hub does is route the ARGB output signal of Fan 1 to the ARGB input of Fan 2 and so on for all connected fans. The number of LEDs needs to be entered manually.

The ARGB protocol is just a string of LED data like RGBRGBRGBRGB… and it doesn’t know how many LEDs worth of data it should send out unless you enter this number by resizing the associated zone on the controller. The protocol is one-way meaning the controller has no feedback from the LEDs in the fan and thus has no idea if they actually receive the data or how many LEDs are actually connected.

CalcProgrammer1, 3 months ago

You would plug them both into your motherboard, not into each other (unless that device has a built in USB hub then you could). It would show as two different devices and each one would have however many ARGB channels that you could use. I know Lighting Node Pro has 2 channels and same with Commander Pro but I’m not familiar with the Commander Core.

CalcProgrammer1, 3 months ago

When you build your brand and business on the back of consumer and educational sales, then yeah you damn well better prioritize them. Industrial consumers bought up a consumer product and chose to integrate it into their business plans, this was the case before the compute module existed and is likely the reason it even exists at all. Corporations don’t just deserve higher priority because they pay employees, it was their choice to use a consumer product in their designs after all.

CalcProgrammer1, 3 months ago

There are plenty of alternative SBCs out there, many mimicking the RPi form factor as well. Look into Radxa, Banana Pi, Orange Pi, Pine64, ODROID, etc. I picked up an Indiedroid Nova board last year that is RPi form factor but has the more powerful RK3588 processor. Drivers are still WIP but it is quite fast. I also run my home server on a Radxa Rock Pi 4, which has an RK3399 processor and is very comparable to the RPi 4. Drivers for it are pretty solid these days and it doesn’t require extra work to set up. Just download an Armbian image and go.

CalcProgrammer1, 3 months ago

Pretty much all the alternative SBCs are either Rockchip or Allwinner if you want ARM. There are a few RISC-V SBCs now but software support isn’t as solid and many of these lack GPUs. There are also a few x86/64 SBCs based on either older Intel Atom or newer mobile parts too.

CalcProgrammer1, 3 months ago

Never heard of this brand, it sounds like a generic brand to me and lately most generic/no name RGB keyboards use Sinowealth chips. We’ve had major issues with Sinowealth keyboards bricking because they reuse USB IDs. You can check the USB PID/VID of your keyboard to determine if it is Sinowealth.

CalcProgrammer1, 3 months ago

The one you want to change is Right Stick Sensitivity, not Aim Sensitivity. I guess Aim Sensitivity is only when holding LT for aiming down sights. It’s the same sluggish aiming on the Steam Deck and it was really annoying me.

CalcProgrammer1, 4 months ago

I’m fine with Apple retaining interoperability between their first party software products, they just need a way to bypass the walled garden. If they have sideloading (everywhere and without restrictions) and ideally also bootloader unlocking, they provide a sanctioned path around the walls of their ecosystem and now it’s up to the user to choose to leave that garden. If the user is comfortable there, they can stay. Trying to fuck over sideloading is the issue here. I’m fine with the App Store being restrictive if there’s a way around it, and simply sideloading an app shouldn’t break the rest of the OS’s capabilities.

CalcProgrammer1, 4 months ago

Hacker’s Keyboard is the only keyboard app I’ll accept on Android.

CalcProgrammer1, 4 months ago

If it isn’t working in MSI center then it sounds like maybe a corrupt firmware on the LED controller on your motherboard. Is there a firmware updater in MSI center? I know people have mentioned newer boards getting automatically updated. MSI’s older RGB controller firmware had bricking issues and we were able to reflash these older motherboards using the JT1 header and a Nuvoton NuLink adapter, but those bricked boards the USB device never even showed up to the rest of the system. I haven’t heard of this specific issue before where it shows up but is uncontrollable. Have you tried using pipeline version of OpenRGB?

CalcProgrammer1, 3 months ago

I’m not familiar with the MSI boards that support per LED direct mode on the ARGB headers. They added that capability in later boards than the ones I have and support was added by a user named thombo on our Discord. You would probably have to ask him. By effects in this case, are you referring to the effects plugin or the modes in the Mode drop-down? The modes are effects built into the hardware.

CalcProgrammer1, 4 months ago

I thought their reputation was tarnished explicitly due to uploading footage to the cloud despite claims otherwise. How can you be sure it isn’t uploading when their words mean nothing?

CalcProgrammer1, 4 months ago

Depends on the device. The Modes drop down selects from modes built into the device and some devices have saving implemented. Some other devices automatically save mode changes. Otherwise if your device only lists Direct mode then it can only be controlled using software effects in OpenRGB such as with the effects plugin.

CalcProgrammer1, 4 months ago

I still left my old and unmaintained projects on GitHub but I moved all my active projects to GitLab and any new projects go there too. I have them auto mirrored back to GitHub though as the more mirrors the better. I also recently set up a Codeberg mirror for some of my projects, though GitLab’s CI is what is keeping me on GitLab even though they nerfed the shit out of it and made it basically a requirement to host your own runners even for FOSS projects a year or two back. Still hate them for that and if Codeberg gets a solid CI option, leaving GitLab would make me happy. They too have seen quite a lot of enshittification in the years since Microsoft bought GitHub.

CalcProgrammer1, 4 months ago

Drastically nerfed the quotas. FOSS projects with a valid license used to have GitLab Premium access to shared runners and now even FOSS projects with a valid license get a rather useless 400 minutes. They also require new accounts to add CC info just to use that paltry sum which means FOSS projects can’t rely on CI passing on forks to ensure a merge request passes the checks before merging, as even if you have project specific runners set up forks don’t use them and neither to MRs.

I wish companies didn’t offer what they can’t support from the beginning rather than this embrace, extend, extinguish shit. I guess in GitLab’s case there was no extend, it was just embrace FOSS projects and let them set up CI pipelines and get projects depending on the shared CI runners as part of merge request workflow for a few years and then extinguish by yoinking that access away and fucking over everyone’s workflow, leaving us scrambling to set up project side runners and ruining checks on MRs.

CalcProgrammer1, 4 months ago

The stupid thing is mutter-vrr works far better than Plasma’s implementation in my experience. Plasma locks refresh rate to max if your cursor is moving, causing games that use the cursor to stutter badly while the mutter implementation refreshes the cursor at the game’s rate as expected.

CalcProgrammer1, 4 months ago

I’ve used Raspberry Pis since the first model came out and other SBCs and the lack of RTC has never really been an issue. The Pi syncs time by the time it makes it to the desktop. I can see it being useful for early boot timestamps but the most useful such log (dmesg) is just elapsed time since power on anyways. I can also see it being useful for devices doing data logging without Internet or regular power supply like a remote sensor logging device. I guess I just don’t see it as a crucial component of a home router. I agree it’s a cheap and useful addition though, just not maybe the most essential of one.