what 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)
@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
@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