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Is it possible to access hardware RGB controls of connected USB devices?
  • Your primary search term here should be the USB ID. Model numbers can help but so many things are rebadged or go through cost optimization where different revisions require entirely different drivers.

    Plug in the device and see what dmesg or lsusb says. Search for that device ID, if you don't find any good matches search for the manufacturer ID -- frequently a newer model builds on older models code bases and APi.

  • How dare you use a text editor because it's easy to use
  • When you only need to hammer a nail every once in a while, any hammer will do. When you're a roofer, you better have a roofing hammer.

    If you don't spend your life in a terminal and just need to edit a file, vim isn't for you. If you want to learn complex strings of arcane wizardry to not only make your life easier but amaze your underlings, use vim.

  • One Of The Rust Linux Kernel Maintainers Steps Down - Cites "Nontechnical Nonsense"
  • From a developer standpoint you're taking someone's baby, cloning it into a language they don't understand and deprecating the original. Worse, if you're not actually interested in taking over the project you've now made it abandonware because the original developer lost heart and the person looking for commit counts on GitHub has moved on.

    Obviously these extremes don't always apply, but a lot of open source relies on people taking a personal interest. If you destroy that, you might just destroy the project.

  • Is it possible to rip movie straight from cinema?
  • Have to agree here, you can buy a Samsung branded 4TB USB-C drive that fits in your wallet.

    I doubt the copy the theater is receiving is any higher quality than a Blu-ray release though, so aside from George Lucas style editing there seems to be little value in transporting the encrypted copy unless you first have a decryption method.

  • It's honestly good advice, but I much prefer original hardware when possible.
  • Those screenshots were taken on Sony studio monitors which are much more precise than home equipment. They're still available fairly cheap, I picked up a pair a few years ago for $35 each. It's the best of both worlds.

  • Texas tops the list of America's 10 worst states for quality of life in 2024
  • The first paragraph tells you all you need to know about the rankings, "we don't like their beliefs".

    It's ironic that their "quality of life" rankings are linked to the ability to abort a child, the quality of the child's life clearly isn't important to their rankings.

  • Nvidia reveals that 150 RTX A6000 GPUs power the Las Vegas Sphere
  • I don't know if they're conflating rendering with display or just assuming those GPU are at max TDP 24/7, but they're way off on actual energy consumption.

    There seems to be a lot of recent articles attacking datacenters, particularly those involved in LLM "ai" work. This feels like one of those articles.

    I'm not saying we shouldn't keep them in check, but I also don't like being manipulated by "grass roots initiative" marketing companies, particularly on Lemmy.

  • Signal under fire for storing encryption keys in plaintext on desktop app
  • Under normal circumstances I wouldn't expect any privacy between processes on a desktop OS under the same UID.

    If you use Chrome's password manager on Windows your password database is unlocked with your password upon login and is available to every process you run.

    There's only so much you can do, as an app, to protect against OS deficiencies.

    The desktop app on Windows is a sacrifice of security for convenience.

  • Remote access giant TeamViewer says Russian spies hacked its corporate network
  • TeamViewer sold out long ago, formed a new company (AnyDeak), fooled us all, sold out again, and there's still people trying to use the same business plan.

    There's zero money being spent on security, this is pure profit extraction.


  • Texas Secessionsts win GOP backing for independence vote: 'Major step'
  • Texas already owns all its oil, including ocean mineral rights. This was part of the terms of statehood.

    They were allowed to keep their unallocated lands and mineral rights in order to pay off their debts and become a state, rather than the United States assuming the debt.

    This turned out to be a huge financial boon for the state and continues to be.

  • Texas Lt. Governor says state should have put Ten Commandments in schools before Louisiana
  • I don't understand how people don't see this for what it is. It's a political response to drag queen story time and spicy books at the school library.

    Who knows where it will end, I'd prefer it if everyone stopped using children to further their agenda.

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