Whoever invented this is a legitimate L99 genius #cake
Kai, sounds like the sky
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but also FreeCAD <-> KiCAD interop is kind of all i ever wanted for xmas, so I'm going to stick around
lol, framework laptop intro is like "we did blah blah blah", where in reality their vendors did all the innovation and they just packaged it all together
are they still supporting that DHH ass-hole?
said that, it looks like a decent linux laptop though
As the result it halved the horizontal BLE traffic between the halves and it actually worked surprisingly well. Feels like a normal BLE trackball even with the dual hop
I’m still not sure though whether it’s actually a BLE issue or ZMK internal processing that was chocking. But either way it worked. Yay!
So I struggled with that for a few weeks. In my previous iteration I ended up putting the central side on the right but that’s not great for battery usage.
I was about to give up and do the same here, but then I had an ingenious idea. I packed the two 16bit x/y diffs into a 32bit value with a bit shift and then reported as a single custom off the HID range event. Then on the left side I picked that up, split it back in two with an input processor and then reported as normal HIDs to the host
So fun story, I’ve been running those as a daily driver for a couple of weeks, and they’re pretty sweet.
The problem is that the trackball is on the peripheral side and it beams x/y diffs to the left (central) side via BLE. And because the central part also does HID events to the host over BLE it would oversaturate the RF and I’d get randomly sluggish cursor behaviour. Cont...
While the feeling is valid and understandable you can’t be selective about it based on how successful someone is. And if you really want to ban you should ban the opensource commercialisation layer as a whole. Which we can agree is stupid
QED
If you believe in opensource and free software in particular it means you buy into the idea that knowledge doesn’t belong to anyone. Which makes the whole intellectual property argument non withstanding and the issue boils down to some people feeling jelly of other people’s ability to sell knowledge better than them.
Despite current pushback from several open-source projects on AI contributions, I’m fully expecting the overall volume of AI “co-authored” open-source contributions to reach as high as 90% within the next 3 years
Partially because we won’t be able to tell the difference anymore , but mostly because people will realise that the whole argument is stupid