woot! let me know what you come up with.

there is no setup and the instructions for a manual install keep getting me weird complaints from systemd about dependancies. It occurs to me that tackling this is error doesn’t make sense because it requires systemd to work and ultimately I want to run this on a diskless alpine linux install which doesnt use systemd.

It’s not that we can’t do this that has kept it from happening yet. It’s that it’s never been practical.

Scenes like this make me giggle.

I wish Ginsburg were still around. She was old and weak but I don’t think she would turn down the opportunity to shank this fucker. And the mental image of it brings me perverse pleasure.

Hasn’t Kohl’s done this for years?

Honestly it’s just an idea to suck up time at this point. I do NOT have the skills for this shit, as we can see here. I can correct what ChatGPT gets wrong though and just run with that.

Once I crack this, I think it could be fun to create a script that could spoof devices plugged into it with the gadget framework. Could save me a lot of trouble creating known-working usb configs down the road. Instead of starting from scratch each time, I would just have to tweak an existing profile.

It will be interesting to see the long term of the asahi linux project. They are doing some absolutely incredible work without apple’s help.

Oof, I forgot about the damn butterfly keyboards. Apple really shit the bed with those.

To be fair, a lot of those are counterfeit.

Looking at those units I noticed something… ExecStart=/usr/bin/ln -s ${GADGET}/functions/uvc.0 ${GADGET}/configs/a.1/

It’s an a.1 instead of a c.1. Surely it couldn’t be as simple as just using a different letter, could it?

no change

ln: failed to create symbolic link 'configs/c.1/uvc.usb0': No such file or directory
./fauxcam-gadget.sh: line 19: echo: write error: Device or resource busy

And here I just migrated to a lattepanda mu. Fuck.

Dude I remember when live booting knoppix was impressive. Hell my intro to Linux was mandrake. We have so many great distros and documentation available now it’s crazy.

You know, aside from the i9 MacBook pros, these are really resilient machines that will last quite a while. They don’t deserve the hate they get. They easily outlast gamer laptops that bake themselves to death.

The caps in the power supply should be enough to eat the noise in that power source.

As much as I want AOC, she won’t win not because she’s a woman, but because she’s relatively young. We are all tired of these old, greedy, out of touch fuckers doing shit they wont have to live through the consequences of, but they get away with that shit for a reason. They aren’t old. They have experience. AOC would be presented as inexperienced.

Which is ironic given how inexperienced the current failure is having been in the white house fucking twice.

Israel is not irrelevant on the world stage. They are a major intelligence asset. Nobody comes close to what they can do. And America knows this. They have been enabling Israel all these years hoping to keep that asset on their side. The second we turn on Israel they become a mercenary operation for our enemies.

There’s not really any way to win with Israel. They are assholes. They shouldn’t exist in the first place. And we continue to play nice with them while they kill everyone around them and threaten anyone who dares question them.