This seems very similar to another open-source tablet effort, which went a step further and designed a Hall effect sensor-based tablet: https://github.com/pompyboard/pompyboard
The creator of it has showcased the prototype at an osu!* streamer's channel (since low-latency absolute positioning devices are highly desired for playing osu!): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1afJ7OpacU
* that is osu! (sic) rhythm game, not to be confused with OSU universities
Has it actually reached properly functional state?
The showcase video didn't look very convincing and neither website nor the discord channel contained a lot more information. Although I didn't dig through discord history too carefully.
It's one thing to hook up 200 hall effect sensors to a MCU, and read few of them or send data over HID at 8000Hz. It's different thing to read all 200 at 8000Hz and figure out the position with reasonable resolution and accuracy.
Can it also detect the exact moment pen touches tablet or additional button clicks? Or does it require taping keyboard with other hand? Which is probably fine for OSU, but less so for drawing.
Regarding the last point, pompyboard is very much a tablet or pointing device meant only for enthusiast osu! players from what I understand. No artist in the world needs a 8KHz polling rate tablet let alone 1KHz. Tablets from other brands are much better suited for drawing.
While the basic idea of a rectangle you put a pen on is the same for artists and osu! players, the more detailed requirements are basically opposites
Basically:
- Pen click is useless for osu! or can just be digital, while artists would want analog pressure
- Buttons on a pen are actively detrimental for osu! but very useful for artists
- Smoothing on a tablet is more detrimental for osu! the more of it there is but absolutely necessary for artists
- High polling rate is useless for artists (they would have input delay due to the smoothing they need either way) but very useful for osu!
- Big tablets are useless for osu! players as they typically only use a 5-15cm area while they are very useful for artists
I think the entire point of something like pompyboard is to make a tablet just for osu!, which doesn’t exist right now. Meanwhile for artists there is already a whole industry of tablets available for them
Thing is, these things are automated... Internally.
Which makes it feel that much more special when a service provides open access to all of the infrastructure diagnostics, like e.g. https://status.ppy.sh/
> No matter where I SSH to (*nix systems)
Nano is also available on Windows!
I have it installed through Scoop and I use it when I SSH to my Windows PC from Termux on Android
This. AOSP feels so annoying to use, while OneUI is incredibly comfortable, especially showing its advantages on large screens. I swear, I often wish more apps would follow OneUI in their design, that's how comfortable in use it is.
I'm using a mix of Samsung's navbar gestures and "One Hand Operation" GoodLock module gestures and my thumb barely ever needs to reach outside of my "comfortable grip" reach area on my 6.4" Galaxy A50, even when accessing notifications/quick settings drawer.
And I could go on and on about how good their hardware is in the midrange shelf, though it seems to me flagship pricetags usually don't seem to bother HN users.
Also: if you use a Samsung, try out GoodLock apps, they're great. I don't think any other manufacturer supports completely changing things like the recents tab or sound controls without rooting or installing custom ROMs.
I highly doubt this is intentional, but I wanted to point out a little fun play on words here: USAG-1 written down looks a lot like "usagi" (兎), which in Japanese means "rabbit" – an animal known for its teeth, among other things. :)
I think a misunderstanding occured here: AltGr is actually the right Alt key. The left one is the regular Alt.
If I remember correctly shortcuts to change layout/language are by default Ctrl+Shift and Alt+Shift respectively (correct me if I'm wrong). These are incredibly annoying, especially in some games.
Luckily though you can disable them from the settings. Instead there's Win+Space, which is a Godsend and should've always been the only default.
Fun fact: on Windows Polish programmer's keyboard you can use the Tilde key (Shift+Grave) to input Polish characters as well, e.g. press Shift+Grave (it won't put in any symbol at this point), release and then press 's' to input 'ś'. However it makes it problematic to input the tilde symbol itself, so I've modified my layout with the MS Keyboard Layout Creator to get rid of that functionality/flaw (aside from other minor improvements)
https://www.microsoft.com/download/details.aspx?id=22339
Right, it's the right alt, not left:) It's muscle memory to the point I had to check myself doing it to be sure :)
The shortcut to change was definitely something with Ctrl and Shift because I remember accidently switching layout when I was selecting text by whole words with Ctrl+Shift+Left/Right.
Tilde works funny on linux - it makes alternative version of every letter, not only from the current locale. I was accused of being a Russian pretending to be Polish on some Polish forum long ago because I wrote something with a Greek (or cyrylic?) letter by accident because I did something with home directory in the background and only pressed ~ once instead of twice :)
If you'd like to run decent ad blocking extensions (or any extensions) on the Chromium side of things, give Kiwi a shot.
Afaik the current Play Store/XDA Labs release is out of date on the security patches' side of things, but the developer is currently working on catching up.
Also, the project went open-source not too long ago and apparently the dev's been working together with some devs of a different browser, so you can expect more Chromium browsers to implement support for extensions in the near future.
https://kiwibrowser.com
And, well... There's also Yandex with their extension support, they deserve at least a mention. iirc uBO is broken there, but Nano works fine
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