Excigma

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 weeks 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.

[–] [email protected] 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

[–] [email protected] 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

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 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?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 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

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Dell laptops have mostly just worked on Linux quite well, but you may run into issues with the camera, however this hack(?) has worked for me: https://github.com/stefanpartheym/archlinux-ipu6-webcam.

I believe Dell has a catch for the camera saying that it may use more CPU when in use. Whilst the laptop is Ubuntu Certified, the camera only works if you select the Ubuntu option instead of Windows, and use the install they give you.

Some other nice things to have:

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

re: OneNote

Although not a replacement for OneNote on Windows 10/OneNote in Microsoft 365, you can get Waydroid and run OneNote's Android app with it.

I don't have a stylus so I'm not able to check if everything works, but if it does, it'll hopefully feel better than the web client, which wasn't able to keep up with stylus strokes last time I checked. The number of pens is lacking though, even the iPadOS version is better...

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

We have a Panasonic inverting one that has a flat bed (no turn table) and it doesn't heat evenly...

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