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usbipd-win
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What's Your Primary Operating System for Development on Your PC/Laptop?
If (like me) you're stuck on Windows, WSL2 is really awesome. It's super fast, and requires very minimal setup to get it up and running. The VS Code integration is superb. You can even connect USB devices to WSL now, which makes it very suitable for embedded. You get nearly the performance of a full OS install, unlike a typical VM. On my machine it's about 50% faster than Virtualbox.
It should be possible with usbipd-win, you can then attach usb devices to hyper-v/WSL2 VMs. edit: there's even a vscode plugin for it
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Planespotting with Rust: using nom to parse ADS-B messages
ADS-B is a protocol used by aircrafts to broadcast their position, altitude, speed, and other information. Nowadays, the majority of aircrafts broadcast ADS-B messages constantly. Anyone with the right equipment can listen to these messages. You can buy a relatively cheap USB dongle with an antenna on Amazon and install drivers for it on Linux. In my case I used usbipd-win to mount the USB device inside Ubuntu running in WSL2. Then I installed the Linux drivers and dump1090, a program that makes use of these drivers and then outputs ADS-B messages in a format that is easy to parse. While you can use dump1090 to display a neat table full of information about aircrafts, I wanted to use its raw output capabilities to parse ADS-B messages myself. It starts a simple TCP server that outputs raw ADS-B messages wrapped in Mode-S Beast frames. I'm not sure what Beast means, but I found something that looks like its spec here.
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Windows Terminal is now the default Windows 11 22H2 console
Though I see https://github.com/dorssel/usbipd-win may actually work properly as a full usb passthrough now for WSL2?
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Use your Steam Deck as an expensive game controller
For server (e.g. machine that provides devices), https://github.com/dorssel/usbipd-win is a bit more mature - they grabbed the driver infrastructure from virtualbox to handle the issues with code signing.
Flow.Launcher
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Keypirinha: A fast launcher for keyboard ninjas on Windows
Flow Launcher is a very good alternative that i use everyday:
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Win-Vind: Vim powers with speed of thought in Windows 11
Looks like thereโs an Everything plugin https://github.com/Flow-Launcher/Flow.Launcher#everything-pl...
Looks slick! https://github.com/Flow-Launcher/Flow.Launcher
Do you know if it does anything like what Everything does re/ tapping into Windows's underlying file database?
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Somehow AutoHotKey is kinda good now
https://github.com/Flow-Launcher/Flow.Launcher
The Fluent Search creator is pretty active and available on Discord.
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Windows Terminal is now the default Windows 11 22H2 console
Personally prefer Flow after having used both extensively
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What checks would allow you to deem a closed-source app as safe? (worries over Fluent Search)
You could also see if Cerebro or Flow work for you, both of which I tried last year before settling on ueli.
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Appwrite Loves Open Source: Why I Chose to Support Flow-Launcher
Lucky for us the open-source community is here to rescue us! While browsing through Reddit, I came upon Flow-Launcher, and I immediately fell in love with it! ๐
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Flow Launcher false positive? (VBA 32) [Help Needed!]
I recently downloaded the flow launcher from github. On running the exe through Virus Total, it shows 2 detections, the first by MaxSecure, which is most likely a false positive, considering that it shows the same detection in various files, but I need a second opinion on the VBA 32 detection.
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I am genuinely curious - why Microsoft thinks this is an acceptable default search behavior?
Other options that are open source are wox, cerebro and flow launcher
What are some alternatives?
Wox - A cross-platform launcher that simply works
ueli - Keystroke launcher for Windows, macOS and Linux
PowerToys - Windows system utilities to maximize productivity
plugins - Plugins for Flutter maintained by the Flutter team
cerebro - ๐ต Cerebro is an open-source launcher to improve your productivity and efficiency
EverythingToolbar - Everything integration for the Windows taskbar. [Moved to: https://github.com/srwi/EverythingToolbar]
container-desktop - Provides an alternative for Docker for Desktop on Windows using WSL2.
EverythingToolbar - Everything integration for the Windows taskbar.
Fluent-Search - Official repository for Fluent Search, use to report issues or ask for a new feature
bnetlauncher - Launcher utility to help start battle.net games with the steam overlay.
pinpoint - Keystroke launcher and personal command central. Alternative to Spotlight and Alfred for Windows. Alternative to Wox, PowerToys.
Unplug - windows application designed for your digital well-being ๐