ExtremeDullard

Yeah it's reset. And now it's rebooting into a Chinese OS.

https://www.comedy.co.uk/online/videos/6443/davestation/

Cool affordable hand with haptic feedback from Psyonic in San Diego, CA.

Here's a video overview of this hand.

Best of all: if you like to tinker, Psyonic put the Ability Hands' API on their Github, so you're not limited to their software: you can do your own thing and control it however you want.

You may have noticed that the latest CalyxOS - 6.6.23 - doesn't support charge control anymore. See here for details.

This is mighty annoying, but I understand it will come back. In the meantime, if you want to limit the charge of your battery, you can use one of these little doodads.

They're not ideal because they require Bluetooth, the charge constantly flucturates some percentage points around the target charge level, and they disconnect the data link each time they cut off. But it's better than nothing until proper charge limiting is reintroduced in CalyxOS.

When deportees fear for their lives so much they signal distress with a giant SOS sign, that's the sign of a robust democracy.

I guess they'll be allowed out in the courtyard one by one from now on...

Don't you wish you could click on i3blocks items and bring up something useful, like a calendar when clicking on the date/time, or a file manager when clicking on the disk usage?

Well, you can! All you have to do is test whether the left mouse button was clicked in the block's command and spawn a separate command in addition to the regular block command if it was.

For instance, the volume block:

[volume]
label=♪
instance=Master
command=/usr/share/i3blocks/volume "5%" pulse; if [ "$BLOCK_BUTTON" = "1" ]; then pavucontrol > /dev/null 2> /dev/null & disown; fi
interval=once
signal=10

The regular volume command - just to update the text value in the bar - is /usr/share/i3blocks/volume "5%" pulse.

By tacking ; if [ "$BLOCK_BUTTON" = "1" ]; then pavucontrol > /dev/null 2> /dev/null & disown; fi after it, the script will also launch pavucontrol in the background when the command was triggered with the left mouse button.

Similarly, I have the following block commands declared in my .config/i3blocks/config file:

• Launch Thunar (file browser) when clicking on the free disk space readout:

[disk]
label=🖴 HOME
command=/usr/share/i3blocks/disk; if [ "$BLOCK_BUTTON" = "1" ]; then thunar > /dev/null 2> /dev/null & disown; fi
interval=30

• Launch the Gnome process monitor when clicking on the CPU readout:

[cpu_usage]
label=CPU
command=/usr/share/i3blocks/cpu_usage; if [ "$BLOCK_BUTTON" = "1" ]; then gnome-system-monitor > /dev/null 2> /dev/null & disown; fi
interval=10
min_width=CPU: 100.00%

• Launch the Gnome calendar when clicking on the date & time readout:

[time]
command=date '+%a, %Y-%m-%d %H:%M'; if [ "$BLOCK_BUTTON" = "1" ]; then gnome calendar > /dev/null 2> /dev/null & disown; fi
interval=30