Wasn’t the tablet already an eReader?

Looks great!

Looks nice and gets good reviews!

Fish has continued to add bash compat over time.

Yes. One thing that motivated me was comparing side-by-side the C920’s result with my iPhone’s webcam. My test subject is a black cat in a black cat bed. With the C920, it’s just one black blob. With the iPhone camera, you can at least see the distinction between the bed and the cat.

C920 is good enough for meetings. I solved the focus problem using the traditional Linux method of writing of udev rule which launches a timer when it’s plugged in, which periodically launches a systemd service, which runs a bash script to make sure it self-corrects at least every 5 minutes.

❯ cat /etc/udev/rules.d/90-video4linux-webcam-config.rules
KERNEL=="video[0-9]*", SUBSYSTEM=="video4linux", ATTRS{idVendor}=="046d", ATTRS{idProduct}=="0892", TAG+="systemd", RUN{program}="/bin/systemctl start video4linux-webcam-config@$env{MINOR}.timer" ENV{SYSTEMD_WANTS}="video4linux-webcam-config@$env{MINOR}.timer"

❯ cat /etc/systemd/system/video4linux-webcam-config@.timer
# This file is managed by ansible-video4linux-webcam-config
[Unit]
Description=Periodically restart webcam config service

[Timer]
# Unit= defaults to service matching .timer name
OnActiveSec=30

[Install]
WantedBy=timers.target

❯ cat /etc/systemd/system/video4linux-webcam-config@.service
[Unit]
Description=Set webcam configs

[Service]
Type=oneshot
ExecStart=/bin/bash -c "/usr/local/bin/video4linux-webcam-config.sh %I"

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

❯ cat /usr/local/bin/video4linux-webcam-config.sh
#!/bin/bash

if [[ $# -ne 1 ]]; then
  echo "Expected minor device number as sole argument" 1>&2
  exit 1
fi

   v4l2-ctl -d $1 --set-ctrl focus_automatic_continuous=0
  v4l2-ctl -d $1 --set-ctrl focus_absolute=0

Moneydance. That was a choice made years ago. It works fine, but we haven’t reviewed the options in years. On the plus side, Moneydance is cross-platform, syncs to a remote server, has mobile apps and is reasonably priced.

My wife has used Linux for over a decade. She primarily uses a web browser, office suite and a money management app.

Those have all been well-covered by Linux for years.

With Linux, you can customize your desktop until you pull your hair out.

I’m ready for post-flat design.

Chromebooks are sold in both architectures. The Arm Chromebooks may be cheaper and have better battery life.

Chromebooks have a great builtin support for running Linux in a container. No need to wipe and re-install. And they are consistently cheap and often small.

A older Dell XPS 13 could be good too.

These days you are likely running some code nobody read closely.

The author trusted AI and didn’t fully understand it.

The maintainer trusted the author and merged because the change sounded good and the tests passed and they are grateful anyone contributed at all.

The packager trusted the maintainer. The security team trusted the packager. The user trusted the distro.

Yes

How many Steam deck users are uploading their hardware stats though? This is opt-in reporting.

That’s a good question for Nvidia.

Brilliant!

Right, and the stable and unstable versions of the same package don’t get counted twice.

Companies have policies that phones must be receiving security updates.

In some cases holes are drilled through drives so they can’t recovered or, more efficiently, they are degaussed with large magnets.

Some e-waste processors degauss as a standard practice to limit their liability before the hardware is passed on.