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Harder, but not impossible. You 3d print a jig for a solenoid and a relay so you can warm/cold reboot the laptop, get a pizerow setup and configured to be a key
by fragmede 9mo ago
Harder, but not impossible. You 3d print a jig for a solenoid and a relay so you can warm/cold reboot the laptop, get a pizerow setup and configured to be a keyboard you can control over SSH, a webcam watching the screen, a hardwired Ethernet port, a second computer to manipulate the Device Under Test (aka the MacBook/laptop with a missing whatever driver). Even though waiting on Claude Code doesn't hit flow state if you've only got one project going, setting things up so it can run with it is still fun, for specific and rather nerdy definitions of fun.
- bot403 9mo agoOr, for many things, a VM with hardware passthrough could work.
- fragmede 9mo agoVery good point! Different busses are capable of different things. USB is great for that. Windows drivers, especially. Unfortunately laptop hardware is pretty hardwired in, so there's no escaping that there.
- lstodd 9mo agoI would expect WiFi to be either usb or pci attached, so VM passthrough would work. It also doesn't matter if AI is involved - you save yourself trouble either way.
- fragmede 9mo agoI was thinking of the laptop that isn't waking up from sleep that I'm trying to get working when I wrote that. Although, hmm...