From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on inbox.vuxu.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.0 required=5.0 tests=T_SCC_BODY_TEXT_LINE autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Received: (qmail 15542 invoked from network); 22 Jul 2023 17:28:02 -0000 Received: from 9front.inri.net (168.235.81.73) by inbox.vuxu.org with ESMTPUTF8; 22 Jul 2023 17:28:02 -0000 Received: from gaff.inri.net ([168.235.71.243]) by 9front; Sat Jul 22 13:24:47 -0400 2023 Received: from [127.0.0.1] ([104.59.85.219]) by gaff; Sat Jul 22 13:24:32 -0400 2023 Date: Sat, 22 Jul 2023 13:24:00 -0400 From: Stanley Lieber To: 9front@9front.org In-Reply-To: References: <3A7445405C18FBF8566C2468E60FD0E4@gaff.inri.net> Message-ID: <6F2F1CCD-1C64-4278-93B1-16ED50E56332@stanleylieber.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable List-ID: <9front.9front.org> List-Help: X-Glyph: ➈ X-Bullshit: virtualized extended callback-based hypervisor information optimizer Subject: Re: [9front] mnt reform trackball stops responding Reply-To: 9front@9front.org Precedence: bulk On July 22, 2023 12:31:19 PM EDT, Philip Silva wrote: >Ah ok wow, but at least that's that then! I had the trackball stopping to= work at random times even when not sitting directly at the laptop=2E (Not = often but every now and then) Other problems got worse with time, there was= also a problem with static electricity which created glitches on the scree= n until it would eventually turn off for a while=2E (One time it was also f= lickering when being with my hand close to a USB port) But maybe one doesn'= t always run into that=2E=2E=2E Although now all that seems gone=2E > > haha, weird! i've never observed any induction glitching=2E there is a thi= ng where the screen will occasionally momentarily go wobbly for a second, b= ut iirc this is a known software problem, and it has happened on both units= i've used=2E it seems logical that no two reforms would meet precisely the= same tolerances since they're all assembled by hand, either by mnt personn= el or the owner=2E maybe something internal on yours is or was not quite ri= ght=2E the usb stuff may not be limited to the reform, but since the reform leans= so heavily on usb for devices that are constantly in use, it may be trigge= ring some more general bug=2E fwiw, my trackball hasn't stopped responding = since the day of my original post=2E the keyboard not responding has been e= ven less frequent, but it did happen more than once without me trying to ma= ke it happen on purpose=2E i thought it was interesting i was able to induc= e the failures (though not entirely consistently) just by plugging/unpluggi= ng things into different usb ports=2E sl