Mazda finally adopts touchscreens but hedges with "revolutionary" physical steering wheel buttons 🎛️
Last holdout caves to customer demand while maintaining "hands on wheel, eyes on road" philosophy. Sometimes the future means bringing back the past that actually worked.
All #cars are bad; #BanCars That said: are there any vehicles available in the US that... 1. Have knobs and buttons instead of #touchscreen only controls? 2. Do not pretend to be "self-driving"? 3. Are not SUVs? 4. Cost less than $40k? (preferably far less) Thanks in advance!
Sadly, my parents have to replace their #car
What are the least bad options on the market for aging drivers? Are there any vehicles available in the US that...
1. Have knobs and buttons instead of #touchscreen-only controls?
2. Do not pretend to be "self-driving"?
3. Are not SUVs?
4. Cost less than $40k? (preferably far less)
Thanks in advance!
all caveats understood. all cars are bad. older adults should not drive. Yes, noted, regretted, and accepted.
The most "successful #9thGenConsole" is the #SteamDeck, because #Nintendo's #Switch2 is merely a "minor upgrade" compared to the #NintendoSwitch, to the point that I think it should've been called "Nintendo Switch Pro" instead of #NintendoSwitch2, tho some people would call the #WiiU an
#8thGenConsole when in fact it's just an overclocked #Wii with #BD-ROM drive and #Touchscreen #Controller, which in and of itself was just a #GameCube with an overclocked yet smaller size CPU and more RAM.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ninth_generation_of_video_game_consoles
Doing a bit of an explore of the desktop environments on the Toughpad to see what's out there that's touch friendly. This is on Debian 12. I'll probably re-visit this when I move to Debian 13 in a few months time.
- #Gnome : tried both #X11 and #Wayland versions, Classic and the present UI… quite inflexible and the UI elements are practically invisible for driving with a stylus. On-screen keyboard is next to useless as it puts digits and symbols on separate pages and does not implement function keys or modifiers.
- #MATE : Seems to have limited screen scaling options and appearance customisation making stylus/touch operation tricky… but at least Onboard keyboard works.
- #Cinnamon : has the best built-in on-screen keyboard seen so far, but summoning it is not obvious and the layout is still sub-optimal for passwords (but ESC, function keys and modifiers are there!). You lose â…“ of the screen to the keyboard, even if you're not using it.
- #XFCE seems to work pretty well, I was able to bump the size of the panel up a bit, it uses Onboard for the on-screen keyboard, seems to be the best so far.
Just waiting on #LXQT to install… we'll see how that is.
@blog thx for the #HonestWords.
To me that touchscreen sounds awful.
Most 3rd party products that aim to compete with any established brand at least get the #price lower than the established players if they can't be assed to at least have the same level of #documentation, #quality or #support than i.e. #RaspberryPi.
For €100 I can get some 1080p screen if not a decent #touchscreen if I snipe the right corners and ain't afraid of returns and refurbished parts.
Got any recommendations for linux on an old windows tablet - Intel cpu - it’s low powered with 4GN ram, happily boots most things. My issue so far is finding a ui that works on a touchscreen only desktop. #linux #tablet #touchscreen
En junio 21 del 2007, Ralph Lauren lanzó una ventana táctil interactiva de 24 horas en Londres para que los clientes pudieran comprar con solo tocar la pantalla. Este sistema solo funcionó 6 meses #retrocomputingmx #eshopping #ralphlauren #touchscreen
How to enable long tap with touchscreen to right click in Ubuntu and its flavors with XOrg? #xubuntu #xorg #xfce #touchscreen #chromebook
Plot twist: Your car's touchscreen is now MORE distracting than your phone 📱➡️🚗
Studies show touchscreens take 4x longer for basic tasks vs buttons, killing muscle memory and forcing drivers to debug tablets while merging. Some manufacturers are finally adding physical controls back.
Who knew "smart" cars would make us dumber drivers?
How to enable long-press to right click in XFCE running Ubuntu? #xubuntu #xorg #xfce #touchscreen #chromebook
Enforcing a touchscreen mapping in GNOME
Hell yes, https://who-t.blogspot.com/2024/03/enforcing-touchscreen-mapping-in-gnome.html just solved my problem to limit a #touchscreen to a single display in #Gnome. While it is detected just fine it’s input was all over the place of my 4 displays when that should only work for a single display. Apparently #KDE has something in it’s settings where this can be easily configured. Gnome does not [yet?] have such an option in settings.
There is however a way to enforce the touchscreen mapping in Gnome too!
The real manufacturer for the controller of my new display here is still a mystery to me. Snippet from my $HOME/.config/monitors.xml is as follows:
<monitorspec>
<connector>HDMI-2</connector>
<vendor>RTK</vendor>
<product>0x2555</product>
<serial>0x20230705</serial>
</monitorspec>
The touchscreen comes back as an ILITEK-TP though and according to lsusb is it connected as ID 222a:0001 ILI Technology Corp. Multi-Touch Screen.
Armed with that knowledge I can limit it’s input with gsettings:
gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.peripherals.touchscreen:/org/gnome/desktop/peripherals/touchscreens/222a:0001/ output "['RTK', '0x2555', '0x20230705']"
Works like a charm!
Automatic screen rotation does not work in Ubuntu 25.04 #touchscreen #chromebook #displayrotation
touchscreen on a AWOW BILIMbook 2-in-1 VT13 not working #softwareinstallation #laptop #touchscreen
#Design
From skeuomorphic to liquid glass · Apple is preparing users for a UI paradigm shift https://ilo.im/164n93
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#Apple #DesignLanguage #TouchScreen #Glasses #AR #Skeuomorphism #ProductDesign #UiDesign #VisualDesign #WebDesign
📢 Commande tactile avec notre nouvelle App !
Avec Easy Multi Display, pilotez à distance votre mur d’image :
✔️ Sélectionnez un scénario (ex : "voiture")
✔️ Déplacez les zones à votre convenance
✔️ Agrandissez, réduisez, organisez l’affichage en temps réel
Mit diesem Film macht der Deutsche Blinden- und Sehbehindertenverband (DBSV) auf die Probleme aufmerksam, die viele Touchscreens fĂĽr sehbehinderte Menschen verursachen.
Deze #autoradio van #Volkswagen reageerde niet meer op zijn #touchscreen. Nu weer wel. #SonelVOF #reparatie
