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Linux Kernel Finally Nearing Support For The Apple Magic Trackpad 2, Thanks To a Google Employee (phoronix.com)
Michael Larabel, writing for Phoronix: Apple announced the Magic Trackpad 2 almost three years ago to the day while the mainline Linux kernel will finally be supporting this multi-touch device soon. The Magic Trackpad 2 is a wired/wireless touchpad with haptic feedback support and is a much larger touchpad compared to the original Magic Trackpad. There unfortunately hasn't been any mainline Linux kernel support for the Magic Trackpad 2, but some out-of-tree options. [...] However, as seen by this bug report there have been plenty of people since 2015 interested in using the Magic Trackpad 2 on Linux. Fortunately, Sean O'Brien of Google's Chrome OS team has been working on Magic Trackpad 2 support with a focus on getting it mainlined. The patch, which was also reviewed by other Google/ChromeOS developers, is now up to its third and perhaps final revision.
Supporting Apple hardware offends me, so can we get this Google developer banned from Linux kernel development?
Took a few days to adjust to it, but for most tasks I strongly prefer it to a mouse.
Now the second-generation Magic Mouse, on the other hand... what idiot creates a mouse with a non-replaceable, rechargeable battery but puts the charging port on the underside so you can't charge it and use it at the same time?! Seems typical of Ive's recent work - all about looks, practical considerations aren't even an afterthought.
#DeleteChrome
I always used my Magic Trackpad 2 with my desktop. Never used it with a MacBook. When I DO plug in my MacBook at my desk, I also use my preferred keyboard. Why use an external trackpad and not use whatever keyboard you want, Bluetooth or USB? I'd think that if one added another trackpad, they'd also add their preferred keyboard.
Without a proper keyboard
These days, the only laptops with a proper keyboard are MSI's GT series. And by proper I mean mechanical.
Circumcision is child abuse.
Don't you mean the Tragic Macpad?
No, I would rather have a single line for low-latency kernel for real-time applications such as recording your music and milling parts for the things you like.
Right now, a kernel has to be compiled with setting switched on, needlessly bifercating distros.
https://www.youtube.com/c/BrendaEM
Speaking of the new Code of Conduct, I notice this article says this is the third version and they are hoping this version will be good enough to make it into the kernel. The old CoC used to address that. The (very short) CoC said that your code probably will be sent back for revision, the first time and probably several times. Don't take it personally, that's part of quality for the world's most used kernel. Rarely does anyone get it just right on the first try, being completely up to the expected standards of the kernel. So don't take offense, just do the suggested improvements and submit again.
If someone wanted to go into detail about what it means to not be a jerk, fine. Even if you want to say it's extra bad to be a jerk to someone who happens to have whatever kind of genitalia, fine. I wish they hadn't removed the old wording about code reviews being about the code, it's not friggin personal. I had my code sent back probably five times, until eventually we found an all-around better way of doing it, along with getting the details just right. I'm pretty sure that had nothing to do with my genitalia or complexion since few people know what my complexion happens to be, and even fewer have seen my genitalia. They just know what I write about, and in my professional circle never written about the struggles of being X in America.
A couple times on Slashdot I've mentioned some particularly nasty and insidious racism targeting my family, but few Slashdot readers work on the projects I contribute to. Heck, even on Slashdot those who guess about my demographics mostly guess wrong, and therefore post some hilarious accusations. Apparently I hate my own family, according to one or two utter morons on here.
With these new codes of conduct that are popular lately, I find it odd that apparently I'm supposed to figure out the sexual proclivities of everyone, in order to know who to be extra sensitive to. I don't know the gender, race, or sexual interests of most of the people involved in projects I work on, because why would you even bring that up? It's irelevant. "Here's a patch to rsync to copy device files byte-byte. I'm a hairy male who enjoys other hairy males". Doesn't make any sense to me why that would be part of the software development process.
I'm pretty sure that had nothing to do with my genitalia or complexion since few people know what my complexion happens to be, and even fewer have seen my genitalia.
"I have a dream that my four little programs will one day live in a kernel where they will not be judged by the complexion of their genitalia, but by the content of their code."
That said . . . Magic Mouse support is fine . . . but where's the support for my Magic 8 Ball . . . ?
"My sources say no."
Schroedinger's Brexit: The UK is both in and out of the EU at the same time!
Why is this even here?
I found that if I have to plug in four different cables to dock I do so much less often than one cable. My keyboard and mouse are Bluetooth, so there are no cables - set the laptop on the desk and the mouse and keyboard are already ready to go.
I find it odd that apparently I'm supposed to figure out the sexual proclivities of everyone, in order to know who to be extra sensitive to. I don't know the gender, race, or sexual interests of most of the people involved in projects I work on, because why would you even bring that up? It's irelevant.
If you have no technical ability or merit but want to throw your weight around it's kind of hard to do that without something to suggest that some animals are more equal than others.
Doesn't make any sense to me why that would be part of the software development process.
People who can accomplish no good of their own often try to claim some special status or greatness through innate characteristics because it's all that they have. It's just as idiotic and reprehensible when it's because of sexual orientation or gender identity as it is when it's due to their skin color or national heritage. We've already seen well enough where this type of thinking leads in the instances of the latter cases, and the rhetoric espoused by those today who take pride in the former doesn't lead me to believe that they'd be much different were they to obtain similar levels of power.
By that standard, developers should ignore ALL laptops. If I've ever seen a laptop with a full-sized keyboard, complete with properly sized and located arrows, an actual number pad, and all of the F-keys; I can't recall it. And if I could, I'd guess that I was mis-remembering or flashing back to a hallucination. The thing would be so wide as to be comical; and I won't even guess what its display's aspect ratio would be. And that's not even considering any potential Type-M snobbery wrt/ the superiority of the truly old-school clacky keys; which would also take up too much space in any laptop.
Granted, coming from vi-land back in the day; the absence of a physical escape key if annoying. But it's one that would be irrelevant to the emacs and nano people...
... and the truth is, I've been all-in on Sublime Text for so long that my vi skills have atrophied such that I use a cheat sheet for tasks much more complex than minor and temporary config file adjustments. And, as one might guess, I use an external keyboard and trackpad when I'm desk bound anyway. So even having been a "vi > emacs" partisan in the past, the Touch Bar escape key impacts me fairly seldomly.
(Side note: Fsck you Ubuntu! When I open visudo, it should goddamned well open in vi, not nano. Yes, I know I can change that. But I shouldn't have to. It's even right there in the name of the command: visudo, NOT nanosudo! End of rant.)
Imagine all the people...
Uh, that's what drivers are. Most of the code in drivers never get touched or processed unless needed in ANY kernel, and drivers are a large part of everyday general kernels by design for hardware compatibility, but don't do anything because not everyone has every piece of hardware. If space really was a concern, Linux can be compiled manually to have only the drivers you want.
In other words: you're just posting because you think it adds something bad or is a waste of time, but in reality you don't know what you're talking about, and it means people waste less time and be less frustrated by adding it.
I'm looking at one right now. Dell Inspiron 3521.
People miss jokes, but that's pretty I'm impressive that you missed the fact it was a joke even when I explicitly said I'm kidding.
That also does not work properly under Linux. I have the first version which works pretty much perfectly on ChromeOS.
A sentence you'll never see on an Internet discussion board: "You know what? You're right."
I don't have many hard and fast office rules, but here's a soft one -- if your keyboard is loud enough to bother others, you will politely be asked to select a quieter, which will gladly be provided free of charge.
By all mean, please do enjoy your unholy racket with its excellent tactile feel and whatever, wherever you like except not here.
M7700 comes close. They weigh 17 tons, though.
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
NOT. Also, who would want to use this latest low quality strangely designed and glued Apple devices? Even the 1st magic mouse I did not like due to being too heart w/ batteries, and having sharp aluminium edges that scratched my fingers, ..!
Will all the gestures/options be supported? Does Apple protect any with patents, thus cannot be ported? (Or even offered by another piece of hardware) You laugh, but look at all the silly mobile device UI patents all the Big Players engage in.
"Love heals scars love left." -- Henry Rollins