Hacker News: ChrisMLane

New comment by ChrisMLane in "You can't use your $6,299.00 Camera as a Webcam. That will be $5"

ChrisMLane — Fri, 17 Jan 2025 09:47:47 +0000

Worth a try compiling a custom version after adding to https://github.com/knro/libgphoto2/blob/master/camlibs/canon... Hopefully it's as easy as that.

I'm able to pipe gphoto2 frames to a pipewire sink or v4l2 device and it works great for making my Canon EOS 250D into a webcam.

New comment by ChrisMLane in "Show HN: Built a self hosted clean status page and batteries"

ChrisMLane — Tue, 23 Jan 2024 13:15:06 +0000

This looks great!

One thing I would like to see in the README is how this project differs from other popular similar projects such as "Upptime" which is already mentioned in the "Inspired from" section.

New comment by ChrisMLane in "FaceTime on the web requires Chrome or Edge, no mention of Firefox"

ChrisMLane — Tue, 08 Jun 2021 08:10:40 +0000

Slack calls didn't used to work on Firefox even if you bypassed their user-agent block.

In recent months, after bypassing the user-agent check, calls will at least work albeit not very well. (bit laggy, long connection time)

New comment by ChrisMLane in "A few HiDPI tricks for Linux"

ChrisMLane — Sun, 31 Jan 2021 11:16:23 +0000

Yes! Scaling was a nightmare for me on X11 since I have a high resolution laptop screen and then a lower resolution external monitor. I switched to Sway and scaling, switching monitors etc. was so much simpler and just worked.

New comment by ChrisMLane in "I Ripped Out a £6k Lighting System"

ChrisMLane — Sun, 15 Nov 2020 11:23:01 +0000

Could you explain what the star configuration is please? I'm not familiar with it and am currently assuming that just means cables to each wall from the ceiling.