kessler herd immunitywhat is even happening when linux does that "im not even gonna look at this device until next boot" thing like does it have a non persistent bitch cache where it randomly decides it hates a device. like how does this happen
plugging in my thunderbolt monitors to my laptop for the 1st time in months and it's not recognizing the left one but it also does this w flash drives and im so certain it'll be Just Fine if i reboot
WHAT DO U MEAN KDE CAN CONTROL THE BRIGHTNESS OF MY MONITORS BY WIRE ??
i have had both these monitors for years and both windows and macos have not once implemented this capability
bruh the brightness function keys on my laptop adjust all 3 monitors and it keeps their relative brightnesses in proportion i thought you had to be a rich mac user to have this kind of monitor harmony
new computer project im making a macos utility that does this. im gonna call it BYODKM for "bring your own dickass kontrollable monitors"
i actually started updating someone's old repo that does this but we'll see how much more time i want to spend trying to unravel undocumented and deprecated macos things ~w~
i should figure out how to do macos virtualization so i can fw it more like in general
(there are also more mature repos that do this but they're all like, the watered down Open Source arms of app store apps because mac users are the kind of people who will pay $20 to change their brightness)
as an aside maybe i should become an apple dev. i could sell "open a zip folder" to ipad users
actually if anyone knows how they're identifying monitors to windowserver now lmk it's not in com.apple.windowserver.plist (now known as com.apple.windowserver.displays.plist) anymore and ioreg was not helpful (it doesn't supply an IOService:/ string for my thunderbolt monitors which i think i need)
if i make meaningful progress on this then what i should actually do is patch the functionality into this little number
"is that hard" i have no idea i've only patched a binary once but it would be satisfying and i like that part
Thorsten Karrer@kirakira I can check how I am doing it for DisplayMenu (https://apps.apple.com/de/app/display-menu/id549083868?l=en-GB&mt=12). Have not touched the code in ages, but faintly remember that it was a pain to identify monitors in a stable way.
Display Menu
Display Menu shows a status item in your menu bar that lets you change your display settings with a single click. Depending on your display setup, you can set the screen resolution, toggle mirroring, and adjust the refresh rates. You can enable additional features like Retina resolutions (on Retina…
@tho oo awesome, if you can find/remember anything please tell me! i'm guessing it still works on recent macos's? they definitely changed things sometime around 2022 and made it harder
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@kirakira for like $35 too
@dragonminded i should make "Open Dropbox Links Without A Login" too
@kirakira ohhhh dang that's gonna cost another $45
@dragonminded this is how im gonna afford four year school
standard issue dipshit@kirakira the one thing I've observed in the last few months of experiencing MacTown ™️ is that a lot of Cool Fun things don't exist or might go away because ✨Security✨
I'm Not Smart Or Cool so I can't verify that. like yeah security good but also my fucken keyboard brightness buttons bruh 
I'm Not Smart Or Cool so I can't verify that. like yeah security good but also my fucken keyboard brightness buttons bruh
@gothdactyl they took away your keyboard brightness because security?? was it like an app that changed it or something
@kirakira oh no it was like
they were keyboard function controls that got replaced with like... the dictation key and something else I don't use I think. so I had to install something else to use ctrl+screen brightness as the keyboard backlight since there wasn't an easy (afaik) way to do it without installing that utility
I slightly exaggerated sry. but also not too far off apparently
they were keyboard function controls that got replaced with like... the dictation key and something else I don't use I think. so I had to install something else to use ctrl+screen brightness as the keyboard backlight since there wasn't an easy (afaik) way to do it without installing that utility
I slightly exaggerated sry. but also not too far off apparently