I recently bought a #Wacom #DrawingTablet for my #Laptop. As with other #Hardware or #Peripherals that has been around for a while, there is no need to download and #drivers for it under #GNU #Linux as it's detected automatically and everything just works without any fuss. #Programs such as #Xournal++ detect variations in #PenPressure and draws lines of varying thickness depending upon it. It's taking practice but the results are quite precise in terms of position too. This will make both note taking and calculations during seminars much better.

#Fedora #KDE #KDE6

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#off #turnoff #peripherals #animatedgif

Building a Mechanical Keyboard as a Learning Project

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Building A Mechanical Keyboard As A Learning Project

[Thomas Rinsma] wanted to learn about designing PCBs. Thus, he set about a nifty project that would both teach him those lessons and net him something useful in the process. The result was kb1, a m…

Mind Control… No, Not Like That

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Mind Control… No, Not Like That

[Vintage Geek] found an interesting device from 1996 called “MindDrive” which claims you can control your computer with your brain. Oddly, though, it doesn’t connect to your head.…

Why You’ve Never Heard About Nintendo’s U-Force

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Why You’ve Never Heard About Nintendo’s U-Force

90’s kids think that the Power Glove was the coolest game peripheral of the epoch. We might have thought so too, until we saw the U-Force in this video about its rise and fall. (Embedded belo…

PCI Express 5: Here’s everything you need to know about the new standard (Spoiler: Peripherals will be expensive for now)

The PCI Express, or PCIe, remains a crucial part of computing devices. PCIe, which stands for Peripheral Component Interconnect Express, is one of the two main interconnects that allows you to connect various peripherals including GPUs, SSDs, capture cards, and more to your computing device. The preliminary specification of PCIe 5.0 was announced in 2017, but it was formally announced in May 2019.

The short of it is that bandwidth and throughput basically doubles, and that PCIe 4 peripherals will work in PCIe 5 slots. New peripherals though will be very pricey in the short term. So advice if you’re buying a new motherboard there is no need to avoid PCIe 5 if you still want to bring over your older graphics card, etc. You may just want to wait for prices of PCIe 5 peripherals to drop a bit before buying them.

See https://www.xda-developers.com/pcie-5/

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Genius or Cursed, This USB-C Connector Is Flexible

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Genius Or Cursed, This USB-C Connector Is Flexible

USB connectors have lent themselves to creative interpretations of their mechanical specifications ever since the first experimenter made a PCB fit into a USB-A socket. The USB-C standard with its …