Ferengi Rules of Acquisition

• 34. War is good for business.
• 35. Peace is good for business.

won’t get better

There’s a common saying in Germany that applies. Basically translates to: “Those Brits are crazy”, but the literal translation would be: “The Brits are spinning” (yarn).

Obelix knows best.

this isn’t properly remapped and depending on implementation of the key-up events by the keyboard vendor, requires an ugly time delay hack.

qed. https://github.com/Rast1234/copilot_key_on_my_keyboard?tab=readme-ov-file#the-bad

You can get a 2020 M1 / 2022 M2 Macbook air for ~400€, that will mop the floor with all new hardware in that price range released even today (completely fanless/noiseless btw.). It also has decent linux support via asahi and Apple will still probably provide 5+ years of macOS updates anyway.

• geekbench: https://browser.geekbench.com/v6/cpu/compare/16388159?baseline=16471197
• ebay.de sold macbooks: https://www.ebay.de/sch/111422/i.html?_fsrp=1&_udlo=150&rt=nc&_nkw=macbook+air+(m1%2Cm2)&_sacat=111422&_sop=13&LH_PrefLoc=3&LH_Sold=1&LH_ItemCondition=1000|2010|1500|2020|2030|2500|3000
• random lenovo: https://www.notebooksbilliger.de/lenovo+v15+g5+83gw00a7ge+820626

The simple trick to owning nice hardware is to never give vendors your money directly, let others burden the depreciation.

It’s arguably worse, because Samsung has full control over software, hardware, and firmware of their devices.
Even if MS would like to fix this mess, they can’t.

I’ve made an update edit: Some hardware vendors fucked up when to send the key-up-sequence apparently so now every keyboard can behave differently. I don’t know if this makes the situation better or worse.

Who would’ve guessed radishes were so rad^ical vegetables.

You might wanna start getting used to pressing command with your thumb, instead of ctrl with your pinkie then:

• Windows: https://gist.github.com/apfelchips/e30321f33abc1eb1a481e83b1e79d5c5 / https://kinto.sh/
• Linux: https://github.com/RedBearAK/toshy?tab=readme-ov-file#-quick-links

Here’s my rant about inconsistent keyboard shortcuts on non-macOS systems:
https://mastodon.social/@attero/115771231064736124

nope, the hardware / keyboard controller sends a complete key sequence instead of a distinguishable key-up and key-down event. The OS can interpret that sequence as it sees fit, but you loose the physical key-up signal when you release the key with your finger.

It is/was required for vendors to use the AI PC / Copilot+ label and Microsoft “invented” the key-sequence.
src: https://www.theverge.com/2024/3/26/24112500/microsoft-ai-pc-intel-windows-copilot-key-requirements

FYI: You can use the new Collabora Desktop Version of LibreOffice with a streamlined interface if you want.

https://www.collaboraonline.com/blog/collabora-online-now-available-on-desktop/

Redirector - redirect pages to where you want them to go.

• make the youtube subscription feed the first thing you see / convert shorts without needing another addon
• fix stupid machine translated localizations of pages looking at you learn.microsoft.com or reddit does this too now
• overwrite / define custom duckduckgo search !bangs
• remove tracking parameters from urls
• etc…

Example Usage: https://github.com/einaregilsson/Redirector?tab=readme-ov-file#examples

This extension is how I learned to love RegEx.

This is a development kit, so the transmitted signals / pinout could have nothing in common with regular usb-c and they just needed more lanes than one usb-c cable can provide, leading them to develop this monstrosity.

Similar to the PCIe extenders that use USB3 male to male or HDMI as their connector / cable.

In other news, there are also efforts from a lot of chinese companies to establish the GPMI connector, aka. wide boi usb-c.

The Samsung Galaxy S5 lineup was wild:

This mostly happens when you use youtube while being logged into a google account.
I fixed this by using firefox containers + https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/switch-container/

• logout from google / clear cookies.
• switch to a new “google” container and login to see your subscrpitions
• if a video doesn’t load switch to decontained

also has the nice benefit of not messing up your reccomendations when clicking on random yt-links from other sites

There’s an app for that: https://github.com/zacharee/Tweaker

You’ll need to use adb to grant special permissions that an app can’t request on its own.

adb shell pm grant com.zacharee1.systemuituner android.permission.WRITE_SECURE_SETTINGS
adb shell pm grant com.zacharee1.systemuituner android.permission.PACKAGE_USAGE_STATS
adb shell pm grant com.zacharee1.systemuituner android.permission.DUMP

• Audio & Sound --> Disable Safe Audio Warning --> Disabled
• Persist Options --> Checkbox Disable Safe Audio Warning

You would never use DuckDuckGo as your default search engine and then type !archiveis in front of your urlbar visiting a news site.