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Besides the specific Wacom related issue, I find this snippet fantastic: >The first is a principled fuck you. I don’t care whether anything materially bad will
by jaclaz 5y ago
Besides the specific Wacom related issue, I find this snippet fantastic:
>The first is a principled fuck you. I don’t care whether anything materially bad will or won’t happen as a consequence of Wacom taking this data from me. I simply resent the fact that they’re doing it.
I have rarely seen the concept expressed in such a clear, direct manner.
- KerryJones 5y agoI came here to say the exact same thing.
- contingencies 5y agoI am a long time Wacom customer and this pisses me off too. I will certainly be trying out alternative brands in future. How about organizing an open source hackfest for alternative tablet brands? Some alternative tablet manufacturers: https://www.veikk.cn/products/ https://www.veikk.cn/products/ (绘客) https://www.huion.cn/ https://www.huion.cn/ (绘王) https://www.gaomon.net/Pen_Tablet/ https://www.gaomon.net/Pen_Tablet/ (高漫) https://www.ugee.com.cn/ https://www.ugee.com.cn/ (友基) https://www.parblo.cn/ https://www.parblo.cn/ (Parblo) http://www.penpower.com.tw/ http://www.penpower.com.tw/ (蒙恬; Taiwan) https://www.xp-pen.com/ https://www.xp-pen.com/ (XP-Pen; Japan)
- citboin 5y agoI’ve been avoiding those products because they’re Chinese. Can a pihole be used to stop tracking?
- contingencies 5y agoSome are Chinese, some are Taiwanese or Japanese. There's nothing wrong with hardware from China per-se. The local market is Windows-centric though which means drivers for other platforms often suck or don't exist. Also, mainland Chinese market tolerance for spyware/malware/general iffyness is high, which means pushback on vendor driver software bullshit is low. To sidestep this, open source can solve the bad-actor-driver issues and we can all get cheaper hardware.
- userbinator 5y agoWacom isn't American either --- it's Japanese, and its products are also made in China; quite possibly by the same OEMs.
- yeko 5y agoThere is unofficial open source driver for tablet from these brands. https://github.com/OpenTabletDriver/OpenTabletDriver https://github.com/OpenTabletDriver/OpenTabletDriver
- contingencies 5y agoAwesome. Just replaced official drivers with it, and it solved an issue I had with my Wacom on KiCad!
- downrightmike 5y agoall pihole would do is stop ipv4 look up assuming you load a list that blocks it. It doesn't stop ipv6 because those are universal. And things can be hardcoded.