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| 0.0 | 4.6 | |
| 4 months ago | 5 months ago | |
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owl
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Smartphone sales are so bad even the holidays couldn’t help, says IDC
I guess that wouldn't be convenient because they'd have to press several buttons. Possibly also Airdrop is faster? It uses direct wi-fi transfer (and bluetooth at the same time, somehow). Seems there are open-source reverse-engineered implementations written in C and Python: OWL in C, OpenDrop in Python.
- An open Apple Wireless Direct Link (AWDL) implementation written in C
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AirDrop for Android
The only working airdrop compatible is opendrop which makes use of AWDL reverse engineer OWL
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An open Apple AirDrop implementation written in Python
Nope, it depends on this project and they specifically mention that WSL doesn't work because they need direct access to Wi-Fi card.
Two clicks further: https://github.com/seemoo-lab/owl
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AirDrop Anywhere – Making it work on Windows
"it is unlikely that a non-Apple device has hardware support for adhoc wireless connections between devices. This makes implementation of AirDrop directly on non-Apple devices practically impossible without additional hardware. Instead we’ll implement a proxy..."
I get what they mean here, but it has been done. It does require a Wi-Fi card with support for monitor mode and frame injection. OWL did it with an Atheros AR9280.
See OWL:
https://github.com/seemoo-lab/owl
And Open drop:
https://github.com/seemoo-lab/opendrop
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Channel selection in a mesh network
There’s an open source implementation called OWL — https://github.com/seemoo-lab/owl — it’s experimental, requires certain features to be supported by the wireless driver on Linux and no support for Windows.
forceFullDesktopBar
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macOS 13 Ventura: The Ars Technica review
They nerfed multiple desktops, back in the OSX days you would see a preview of the desktops any time you opened mission control. I use forceFull to get the functionality back but it means I can't run iOS apps from the App Store which sucks.
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Ask HN: How on earth are you using your Apple computer with external displays?
They should transfer over to your main display (at least that's what happens for me).
This utility might help you see what's going on: https://github.com/Jaysce/Spaceman.
And while we're on Spaces, this utility forces mission control to show full thumbnails of all spaces by default: https://github.com/briankendall/forceFullDesktopBar
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Helpful tweak — Use forceFullDesktopBar to make Mission Control desktop previews show by default
I found an excellent tweak from GitHub that lets you force the Mission Control desktop previews to show up without the need to move your cursor up there. It's easy to install, check it out: https://github.com/briankendall/forceFullDesktopBar
What are some alternatives?
opendrop - An open Apple AirDrop implementation written in Python
Spaceman - A macOS app to view Spaces / Virtual Desktops in the menu bar
mbpfan - A simple daemon to control fan speed on all MacBook/MacBook Pros (probably all Apple computers) for Linux Kernel 3 and newer
apfs-fuse - FUSE driver for APFS (Apple File System)
snapdrop - A Progressive Web App for local file sharing
Karabiner-Elements - Karabiner-Elements is a powerful utility for keyboard customization on macOS Sierra (10.12) or later.
airdrop-keychain-extractor - Extracting Apple ID Validation Record, Certificate, and Key for AirDrop
MontereyRainmeter - MacOS style widget pack for Windows
htop - htop - an interactive process viewer
Lunar - Intelligent adaptive brightness for your external monitors
GLFW - A multi-platform library for OpenGL, OpenGL ES, Vulkan, window and input
b43-tools - Tools for the Broadcom 43xx series WLAN chip