InitWare VS input-polling-test

Fear not. They get to be part of the future too.

> Yes indeed, I should've expanded to requiring user namespaces and other kernel magic I can't expect from any random box i wanna work on.

That's fair, do have to make sure to avoid to modules that do user systemd services.

Longer term, though, I am hoping https://github.com/InitWare/InitWare will help with the userland part. And I hope to personally help with things like

https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-arch/2022-January...

https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/f8457e20-c3cc-6e56-96a4-3090d7d...

to get us more sane cross-platform system calls.

I know, but support is still in FreeBSD. My big long term plan is:

1. Work on FreeBSD cross in Nixpkgs, because I need a way to pin forks and run nice tests without going insane. (We already have NetBSD cross.)

2. Rig up a booting image that uses https://github.com/InitWare/InitWare, the fork of systemd.

3. Add support to CloudABI in initware.

4. Bang on drum for other OSes and upstream systemd to implement this stuff we can can good portable abstractions -- I think this is our best shot to get "portable containers".

I haven't bothered to have a beef with systemd, but some of us have discussed https://github.com/InitWare/InitWare to support non-Linux kernels. That would be really fun.

I'm the first to admit that I'm ignorant of the facts here, but seeing that a systemd fork ran on OpenBSD for the first time two months ago does not give me confidence that it's "an option" in the sense that you can trust it to work well.

And to be pedantic (this is an OpenBSD thread, after all), it's not "systemd", it's a fork of systemd called "InitWare", and the GitHub repo describes it as "alpha software".

Someone also pointed out in the discussion you linked that it doesn't seem to include journald. Here's a relevant PR: https://github.com/InitWare/InitWare/pull/27

The project GitHub is found at https://github.com/InitWare/InitWare

You may have heard of InitWare https://github.com/InitWare/InitWare. Discussions, note that one of the titles is misleading:

Years ago someone made a software for testing keyboards and mice https://github.com/ad8e/input-polling-test. Supposedly ThinkPads have around 62hz effective polling rate while someone tested a Dell Precision 7520 and it had 1000hz, which makes A LOT of difference for fast typing/inputs. I'm also a fan of TrackPoint, so if those tests are true, then to many, the last Dell with TrackPoint and 1000hz keyboard would be the best laptop. Could Dell owners make those test to confirm this?

The scrambling is easy to see once you know it's happening: press k and l simultaneously on your Thinkpad keyboard. It'll always come out "lk" unless you deliberately separate them.

Testing was done [0], but it's not written in an easy-to-understand way. As a summary, Thinkpad keys are scrambled within 15-23 ms. Usually, humans ascribe scrambled letters to their own mistakes, but this time it's the keyboard's fault. Lenovo continues to ignore the issue.

[0]: https://github.com/ad8e/input-polling-test

You can flash QMK supported kb from 125hz to 1000hz. Most prebuilt keyboard has 1khz these days. You can check your polling rate with this, if you press keys at the exact same time, and there is 1ms delay between them, u have 1khz.

Got a 1000hz polling rate using this: https://github.com/ad8e/input-polling-test