bekopharm

bekopharm , 4 days ago to Right to Repair in ‘It has officially happened’: Mechanic says he can’t work on your car because they’ve officially been locked out of computer systems

Some argued that the new requirements were to protect cars from theft.

Car thieves: Oh noeeees… anyway 🤷

bekopharm , 2 months ago to Ask Electronics in What's this thing called?

Whenever I order I always get a male and female connector because the terminology doesn’t seem to be consistent across connector designs.

Heh, there are a lot of unusual designs that are neither and both too :D Connectors are wild.

bekopharm , 3 months ago to Automotive Industry in European crash tester says carmakers must bring back physical controls

Meanwhile the headphones industry: Hold my beer.

bekopharm , 5 months ago to Gaming in The Day Before studio say the game's downfall was thanks to "a hate campaign"

The idea of random bloggers having any impact in 2024 made me laugh. Thanks for that :D

-- a random blogger

bekopharm , 5 months ago to Ask Electronics in Simultaneous joystick 3-axis protocol

This. It's basically only a thing for rotary encoder, where interrupts should be used for the reading, so they don't miss a beat.

Also: Combining several joystick devices on the PC again is a pain in the neck especially if the game only supports one device of each kind.

bekopharm , 8 months ago to Linux in Ultrawide on Linux: can you tell a game to take up only the "middle"?

Doing this in reverse all the time. Stretching games on my triple head setup to full size. It's the same principle. If the game doesn't offer it kill it with gamescope, Wine virtual desktop or if nothing helps a completely virtual display that overlays your current:

https://beko.famkos.net/2021/05/31/extreme-multihead-for-gaming-on-linux-pc/

For some editing the config files directly works wonders. Looking at you Unity!