• TimeSquirrel@kbin.melroy.org
    5·
    25 days ago

    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…

    • grimaferve@fedia.io
      3·
      25 days ago

      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]

    • IrateAnteater@sh.itjust.works
      1·
      25 days ago

      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.

  • Admiral Patrick@dubvee.orgEnglish
    2·
    25 days ago

    That’s pretty much how I buy my phones: Look at the LineageOS device list, find the newest ones I can find/afford.

  • Destide@feddit.ukEnglish
    1·
    25 days ago

    Weird how this often ends up with devices that don’t randomly break after exactly 1 year

  • lolcatnip@reddthat.comEnglish
    0·
    23 days ago

    I’m not gonna listen to Geordi because he lives in an alternate universe where everything is compatible with everything else.

    • xia@lemmy.sdf.orgOPEnglish
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      23 days ago

      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”. :-)

      • lolcatnip@reddthat.comEnglish
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        16 days ago

        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.

        • xia@lemmy.sdf.orgOPEnglish
          1·
          16 days ago

          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”.

    • tiramichu@lemm.ee
      0·
      25 days ago

      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

      • Possibly linux@lemmy.zipEnglish
        0·
        24 days ago

        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.

    • HStone32@lemmy.world
      0·
      24 days ago

      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.