Comment on Logitech will brick its $100 Pop smart home buttons on October 15 - Ars Technica
metaStatic@kbin.earth 2 weeks agoI would buy a G5 every few years until the end of time if they still made them. Profit clearly isn't the driving motivator of the post capitalist world we inhabit.
And what exactly will you replace your logitech stuff with? they're all going down this path now.
honestly if they still make the only mice that don't look like a gaming router they might still have me ... on the second hand market at least.
Wildmimic@anarchist.nexus 2 weeks ago
I’m the same with Roccat / now Turtle Beach. It’s not even their policies, but their hardware is easy to repair yourself if its a small fix, and i hadn’t any device die on me yet in the last 10 years where it wasn’t selfinflicted a.k.a drown the Keyboard in half a liter of soda - the second time; sadly the liquid reached the rgb-ic which shorted so hard that it melted before i could do anything.
Their driver support for linux could be better tho (have to switch to the windows VM and use USB passthrough to configure). has anyone a recommendation for gaming keyboard/mice which support macros and multiple layers under linux?
shift_four@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
I use the Mistel Barocco MD600. They have windows-only software but I’ve never used it. You can program everything on the keyboard itself.
It works great for me on Mac and Linux with separate key map/macro layers. I’m also a fan of split keyboards so that’s an added benefit.
Holytimes@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Basically none, if you want user friendly macro and layers your basically stuck to windows. That or your doing bullshit jank that barely works, breaks frequently and requires way too much effort for no good results.
Its one of the better examples of Linux being dog shit at being user friendly.
The most common excuse I see is it’s not safe and secure so it’s not supported. Or you need to just use an abandoned app from a random GitHub that’s 9 years old only works on x11 and requires a blood sacrifice.
Wildmimic@anarchist.nexus 2 weeks ago
Yeah there is one project for wayland which creates a virtual input device and hooks into the hotkey system in kde plasma, but it’s jank af and adding more than one macro bugs out.
It doesn’t seem too complicated tho, might be a good beginner project for updating my 25 year old coding skills.