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by matheusmoreira 1403 days ago
Completely agree. I took matters into my own hands with my laptop. Wasn't able to reverse engineer everything but I got many features working on Linux and the result was better than the proprietary Windows app.

I wish I was knowledgeable enough to tackle more complex hardware like webcams. Perhaps one day I will be.
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AshamedCaptain 1403 days ago
> I wish I was knowledgeable enough to tackle more complex hardware like webcams. Perhaps one day I will be.

https://lkml.org/lkml/2020/9/17/363

People who started the job on Surface webcam hardware didn't even know C to begin with ;)

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matheusmoreira 1403 days ago
Yeah that's impressive... I have to step up my game then. :)

I was able to intercept and reverse engineer much of my laptop's USB features. I hit a wall when I tried to figure out the ACPI stuff. There's some fan control functionality in the Windows app that's missing from my software but the fans are terrible and always at 100% anyway so at some point I decided to just let it be.

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