I had a 128GB USB “3.0” (one of the cheaper ones so might have actually be slower than 2.x max speeds) stick fail on me right after installing Mint onto it and booting into it once or twice, so yes this is indeed a thing that can happen

what’s better then, web.archive.org is fucking dreadful to actually use because of how sssssllllllooooowwwww it is (for downloading big stuff off of there you can use an external download manager thing to max out your connection to make it come through faster (which is a weird concept but for some reason it does work), but websites? nah), and also… paywalled stuff

curl -L matchctl.sh | sudo bash

yeah screw that, I’m not piping curl into bash and root bash at that

I mean I have to wipe out my ~ relatively frequently on some machines at times but that’s for “actual” “reasons”, LLM hallucinations not involved

Ok, now stop doing whatever it is that they’re doing to the cursor layer that makes it feel like garbage (wlroots is especially bad, KDE less so but not as good as either Xorg or Windows, GNOME too but has other cursor issues so…) and then I’ll finally consider daily driving any of this stuff

will try again with a photodiode instead, since it’s known to be a valid way to measure stuff like this, and it seems precise enough at that

if it isn’t this, then I’ll probably have to dig into libinput or something

You gotta do the measurements. It’s probably not even that hard, all you need is a USB mouse emulator (any microcontroller with USB peripheral support can do this and there are tons of examples) and a photodiode.

will absolutely do this, the microcontroller and mouse emulation part is solved for me already so I just need to get an appropriate photodiode and… profit

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