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▲ 3 r/Starlink

Making the switch from Bell 5G wireless home internet

Very excited for the switch going from 25 megs with a cap to 100 unlimited...

My question is will I be able to reuse the existing cable run that Bell put because it's very nicely done and it's in the right spot for where I want to put the StarLink dish I looked it up and they both used a similar amount of power up to 100 Watts give or take so I think the cable itself can handle the power load.

My question is more about the connector does anyone know if the rubber seal or plug is the same on both dishes

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u/185EDRIVER — 1 day ago
▲ 37 r/SpaceXLounge

Why not just start using F-Heavy to stage the moon?

Math says you can land around 9,000lbs on the moon the the heavy.... At 100m a flight you could put 90k pounds on the moon for the same cost as 1 SLS launch... If you factor also insane $20 billion development cost in you could actually put +-2m pounds on the moon...

If everything was modularized and even if you accepted a lower landing success rate since the lander isn't human rated You can literally build an entire moon base right now while waiting for starship and others to finish their development...

What am I missing here?

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u/185EDRIVER — 1 day ago
▲ 25 r/COSMICDE

I built GNOME-style smooth window animations for COSMIC's workspace overview with transparent type to search

OK OK I added a screen capcture: https://imgur.com/a/J6y9ywt it is smooth in reality the screengrab makes it choppy...

One of the biggest things I missed coming from GNOME was the smooth transition when opening the Activities overview — windows scaling and moving into place instead of snapping instantly. So I built it for COSMIC.

What it does:

  • Windows animate from their actual desktop positions to the overview grid, with both position and size interpolated
  • Reverse animation on close — windows fly back to where they'll be on the desktop
  • Ease-out cubic easing at 120fps
  • Focused window stays on top during the transition
  • Tab/Shift+Tab to cycle through windows with a bounce-scale highlight effect
  • Enter to activate the selected window (keyboard-only navigation)
  • Transparent backgrounds so your wallpaper shows through
  • Configurable duration via cosmic-config (animation_duration_ms)

How it works under the hood: Uses the existing ext-foreign-toplevel Wayland protocol's geometry events to get each window's real desktop position, then interpolates in the Toplevels iced widget layout. SSD decoration offsets are auto-detected by comparing geometry to the screencopy capture dimensions. All rendering stays on the GPU via the existing wgpu pipeline — no software blits added.

Try it out:

PR: https://github.com/pop-os/cosmic-workspaces-epoch/pull/299

# Clone my fork
git clone --branch feat/overview-animation https://github.com/jibsta210/cosmic-workspaces-epoch.git
cd cosmic-workspaces-epoch


# Build release binary (takes a few minutes)
cargo build --release


# Back up the original and install the patched version
sudo cp /usr/bin/cosmic-workspaces /usr/bin/cosmic-workspaces.bak
sudo cp target/release/cosmic-workspaces /usr/bin/cosmic-workspaces
sudo chmod 755 /usr/bin/cosmic-workspaces


# Restart the overview (it'll auto-respawn with the new binary)
pkill -f cosmic-workspaces

To adjust animation speed (default 250ms):

echo 400 > ~/.config/cosmic/com.system76.CosmicWorkspaces/v1/animation_duration_ms

To revert:

sudo cp /usr/bin/cosmic-workspaces.bak /usr/bin/cosmic-workspaces
# or reinstall the package: sudo apt install --reinstall cosmic-workspaces-epoch

Prerequisites: Rust toolchain (rustup or your distro's rust/cargo package) and the COSMIC dev dependencies. If the build fails, check the Cargo.toml for what you need — typically libwayland, libxkbcommon, mesa dev headers.

Heads up: Every time cosmic-workspaces-epoch gets a package update, you'll need to rebuild and reinstall. Source stays in ~/cosmic-workspaces-epoch so just git pull && cargo build --release && sudo cp target/release/cosmic-workspaces /usr/bin/.

Not sure if System76 will merge this — their PR template warns about AI-assisted contributions, which this was (I'm not a Rust dev, worked with Claude to implement it). But it works great on my machine across multiple display scale factors, and I wanted to share in case anyone else wants to try it or iterate on it.

Also built: a feature to hide individual system tray icons (similar to the GNOME Lilypad extension) — PR pending at https://github.com/pop-os/cosmic-applets

u/185EDRIVER — 6 days ago
▲ 14 r/linuxhardware

Need help nearly have all webcam working perfectly on Panther Lake Dell laptops for Linux.... Someone has a 2025 or 2026 Dell XPS and can give 5 minutes of their time running Windows with these steps below I can get it 100%

We've built a complete Linux driver for the Himax HM1092 IR camera in 2025/2026 Dell XPS laptops (Panther Lake/IPU7). Sensor probes, chip ID reads, clock runs — but we need ONE I2C bus capture from someone running Windows to finish the MIPI streaming init.

What we built:
- V4L2 sensor driver (first ever for HM1092 on Linux)
- 3 kernel patches (INT3472 IR LED, ACPI dependency fix, ipu-bridge)
- 60 register init sequence extracted from Dell Windows driver binary
- Full face unlock via Howdy working on the RGB camera

What we need:
Someone with a Dell XPS 13/14/16 (2025-2026 model) running Windows to capture 5 minutes of USB traffic while the IR camera runs.

Steps:
1. Install USBPcap (https://desowin.org/usbpcap/)
2. Capture USB bus with Synaptics device (06cb:0701)
3. Open Camera app or trigger Windows Hello
4. Stop capture, share the .pcap file

Check Device Manager → System → "Camera Sensor HM1092" to confirm your laptop has it.

This will enable IR camera + Linux face unlock for ALL Panther Lake Dell owners. Details: https://github.com/intel/ipu7-drivers/issues/
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u/185EDRIVER — 7 days ago