zefirs-flashy-cooler VS fish-shell

To learn JavaScript, I wrote an app that renders to a CPU cooler's LCD. It was pretty trash and I wasn't satisfied with it but it let me get comfortable with the technologies I was using and learn. Now, I'm doing the same with Rust.

Working on entirely rewriting my cpu cooler app in Rust. It essentially renders a WebView to a CPU cooler's LCD. I'm not hyper experienced or anything, still learning. I'm using a bindgen'd C library for the rendering engine and then pretty much all Rust for everything else. It already works, although is in a rough state. Lifetimes get confusing after a while but I'm excited to be working on Rust. It's a big difference from JavaScript, that's for sure.

Current support for the LCD content is limited to displaying the canvas. Best alternative to iCUE so far is Zefir's Flashy Cooler, whose dev worked alongside signal's to make them not clash.

Consider using SignalRGB to control these fans, their software is way more competent than TT's thing. If that's their LCD cooler consider this: https://zefirsflashycooler.brunostjohn.com

I've found that the connector on the LCD is absolute rubbish and, in my case, if i tap my foot hard enough on my desk, the LCD will disconnect lol. If it was iCUE acting up consider this as a replacement.

You can anything that's within the license's bounds. Please make sure to give it a read. https://github.com/brunostjohn/zefirs-flashy-cooler/blob/main/LICENSE If you don't mind me asking, what are you interested in doing? Happy to hear it works.

Me and some of the team chat fairly frequently on their Discord channel and you might notice here that part of this project wouldn’t be possible without them; however, at the moment, we’re not in any talks about employment. We’re just a bunch of lads who like screwing around with light up stuff. I actually started this project to fill a gap SignalRGB can’t really fill at the moment, their backend was built considering only RGB devices, not displays so it can’t really display much system information at the moment. Who would’ve thought that a bad financial decision, terrible corsair software, and an incompatible alternative backend would lead to hours of fun.

since the top level link has disappeared, heres another https://github.com/brunostjohn/zefirs-flashy-cooler/releases/tag/0.0.3

It’s not currently controllable through signal minus you can set the LCD to show the SignalRGB canvas. There is an app that can do some of the things ICUE can do with the screen: https://github.com/brunostjohn/zefirs-flashy-cooler

Reminds of the note at the bottom of Fish's releases. It's there because the build system cannot determine the current version for some reason. Hopefully that will go away now that they have switched to a different language / build system. The custom tarball is used by Arch Linux at the very least.

https://github.com/fish-shell/fish-shell/releases/tag/3.7.1

https://github.com/fish-shell/fish-shell/issues/7772#issueco...

https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/packaging/packages/fi...

A recent practical example of the former: the fish shell re-wrote incrementally from C++ to Rust, and is almost finished https://github.com/fish-shell/fish-shell/discussions/10123

An example of the latter: c2rust, which is a work in progress but is very impressive https://github.com/immunant/c2rust

It currently translates into unsafe Rust, but the strategy is to separate the "compile C to unsafe Rust" steps and the "compile unsafe Rust to safe Rust" steps. As I see it, as it makes the overall task simpler, allows for more user freedom, and makes the latter potentially useful even for non-transpiled code. https://immunant.com/blog/2023/03/lifting/

And this discussion from November has an update on the progress: https://github.com/fish-shell/fish-shell/discussions/10123

We're using bash as our terminal shell for now (it is standard in many distros) but it is not the only one out there. If you want to test out zsh, fish or oh-my-zsh, you will see that there are a few differences and the features are usually the main differentiator. Try that, poke around.

They have a variety of reasons to move to rust, as outlined in their original rust discussion[1]. Mostly around finding other contributors, and adding an async/parallel mode they're comfortable with.

[1] https://github.com/fish-shell/fish-shell/pull/9512