Haha, that reminds me of this classic xkcd

What about asset management software, like snipe-it? Or are you trying for payment in there too?

Neat project! I especially like that it goes for raw keycodes, real nice approach.

Unfortunately the Windows support is a hard requirement for me, but hopefully someone else sees and takes advantage

For the record, you may see some of these show up on ebay or something, they have been discontinued (really they just changed the line, same hardware with more variation and flexibility, which also means more variation in pricing, but also stuff like a transmitter/receiver option).

Since they are discontinued though, some companies may replace soon, so they may show up somewhere for much cheaper.

More of a video switcher with USB host switching, but works nicely as a KVM. Lightware Taurus

Not really an option for me or it would interrupt some other stuff I work on personally. I could make it not my main PC and go back to Debian, but it would also mean less time for me testing my stuff. So I’m more likely to just forget IP keyboard/mouse sharing and stick one of my little keyboards and a mouse there.

The rest of the main use machines are all on what amounts to an overly expensive physical KVM (work stuff freebie), so the only reason to use the software based option is the laptop.

Yeah, Wayland definitely complicates things. I dropped synergy before v2 and no longer being open, v3 is apparently 1 with some GUI on top. I can build v1 (deskflow), as long as they are keeping the main bit underneath open I don’t mind supporting them with a $50 one time payment. We will see how it goes though, their Wayland support is still in Dev.

I had expected to see input leap further along since it had been 3 years since the fork (and 2 more years since the maintainer of the repo was active), but it doesn’t seem ready for release, as they even recommend sticking with the last barrier release for now according to their readme.

Right now, deskflow/synergy seems the most promising.

Fair point, and I’m not entirely against commercial software. Probably easier to deploy to my work laptop too.

Synergy will be on the list

Because the separate installation means you can actually end up with both an apt installed and a snap installed.

My comment about docker was a specific example of such a case, where vulnerabilities were introduced. It was actually a commonly used attack a few years ago to burn up other CPU and GPU to generate crypto.

Yes, canonical provides both. Guess what? They screwed up, and introduced several vulnerabilities, and you ended up with both a snap and apt installed docker.

The fact that they are both packaged by Canonical is both irrelevant and a perfect example of the problem.

One selects a different package, same source repo.

The other completely changes the installation, invisibly to the user, potentially introducing vulnerabilities.

Such as what they did with Docker, which I found less than hilarious when I had to clean up after someone entirely because of this idiocy.

The differences seem quite clear.

Well, that’s your problem for not understanding the massive difference, not mine.

There are CSS, JavaScript, and HTML for babies books.

I’ve never seen/found a Linux one though.

Computer Engineering for Babies is good. Its just a couple of buttons, an LED, and logic (and, or, xor, not, etc)