Yeah, they've been tearing up a street that runs maybe ~75 meters from my house for months now, often working late into the night. Nothing like the sound of heavy equipment wafting in through the window as I'm lying in bed trying to sleep. Please Fix The Road succinctly expresses my feelings on the matter. :grin:

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Quoting: PhiladelphusFollow-up article about your personal experience trying out Boatswain, or maybe a comparison between the two?

That's a great idea. I feel like it might be a little unfair, given that Boatswain is only three weeks old (not even a teenager!) and I'll be testing on Plasma, not Gnome, but in terms of how fiddly it is to get streamdeck-ui working, it would make for a nice short comparison.

I'll keep the idea in mind!

Sure, doesn't have to be right away. Could give Boatswain a little time to mature. :smile:

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Quoting: scaineI've got a little 15-button Stream Deck and streamdeck-ui works really well, but it's a bit of a faff to get it all working. You have to install it through "python pip" which is fine, but then it installs into ~/.local/bin so you have to add that as a path by editing your .profile, or .bash_profile. Then you have sudoedit a bunch of udev lines to /etc/udev/rules.d. Then you have to create an auto-start entry in whatever DE you use so that your deck launches its config when you start your PC up.

Which is all fine, honestly, given that you only do all that faff once. But I bet it puts people off, so I'm really glad there's a driving force for a better app. Especially the bit about how the author managed to get Boatswain to use SystemD to bypass the need for udev changes... and the fact it'll be a Flathub install.

The StreamDeck-UI app itself is reasonably solid, but its biggest failing is probably a lack of paging - which might be coming to Boatswain (the author talks about "folders"). I'll keep an eye out. I don't mind adding a bunch of gnome libraries for stuff like this, if it's slick.

Follow-up article about your personal experience trying out Boatswain, or maybe a comparison between the two? :wink: (I've become mildly interested in getting a Stream Deck recently, so I'd be very interested in hearing about how the experience is on Linux.)

Quoting: chr

Quoting: TheRiddick

Quoting: elmapulis there any advantage of using stream deck over, i dont know... a phone? it dont seem something hard to replicate

Well phones auto turn off screen, don't have button feedback.
There are convenient issues with touch screen method of doing things.

One could certainly MAKE their own device with buttons and a touch screen in background, but it comes down to if you feel its worth your time and if your tech savvy enough to get all the bits together, probably also need 3d printing done.

Android has the option to not turn off the screen as long as the device is hooked to a power source. I think you can also have it always vibrate on touches.

For me though, the question is what kind of (FLO) software is there for such things? Can you effortlessly and quickly make menus to run arbitrary commands? And how would those things even integrate?

One potential issue I'd have with using a phone (he said, hypothetically, not owning a Stream Deck) would be the lack of physical buttons, which would require to you look at your hands any time you wanted to do something. Now, if you're only using it occasionally to turn your lights on or off or something that's probably fine, but I've read a lot of people end up using their Stream Decks for productivity shortcuts in various programs (and that'd be more my use case), where having to glance down at your hand each time would probably not be very conducive to creative flow.

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Quoting: Mountain ManCompanies that lose sight of their original focus tend to not last long.

To be fair, sometimes it works. A quick search turns up examples of famous companies that completely changed their focus and were fine, or got vastly more popular and successful as a result. Suzuki, now known for their motorcycles, originally sold mechanical looms, Avon originally sold books, etc.. Of course, sometimes it also doesn't work out (and I'm sure more business-savvy people than I could do a decent job predicting whether it will or won't for a particular case), but it's a little more complicated than a blanket statement either way.

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Wow, that really does looks a lot like Islanders in the mechanics, doesn't it?

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Hmm, it might just be a coincidence, but an overhaul of vassal mechanics around the time Dune came out? Wonder if we'll see any references…

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not that I have any real idea what I'm doing as it's been a very long time since I played

I know the feeling. I actually backed it on Kickstarter and played some of the pre-release versions, and while I like it it's never quite managed to get me to play for more than a few hours at a time, so I play it for a bit, put it aside for a year or two, go back and start a new game with all the confusing new features, rinse and repeat. :happy: (And then I actually got the two expansions mid-last year since they got my attention, and hoo boy do they add a lot of new stuff.)

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Cepheus update for the Overlord expansion, eh? Cepheus was the mythical king of Ethiopia, husband of Cassiopeia and father of Andromeda in the story of Perseus saving Andromeda from Cetus. An appropriate constellation pick.

I also enjoy playing with a bunch of vassals, so an overhaul of the vassalization system sounds cool. Especially if it becomes more like Crusader Kings, allowing you to play indefinitely as a vassal of a more powerful empire in a sort of "space feudalism" structure (where you either plot to take over from within, or serve as a loyal retainer).

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Ok, that is a pretty fun little Easter Egg. Now to wait for someone to make a mod for XCOM 2 replacing the tablet soldiers use for hacking when playing it on the Deck… :grin:

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Quoting: Craggles086I remember when I thought Cut and Paste into a terminal using the mouse right click felt like a luxury feature. Now get annoyed when it isn’t enabled by default.. :smile:

No joke, the second middle-click clipboard is probably like at least 50% of why I originally switched to Linux at home after experiencing it at work. :grin: And after 8 years I now get irrationally enraged whenever I go to use it on another operating system and it's not there.

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