• mech@feddit.org
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    3 hours ago

    That’s the kind of stuff why people buy macs. You could configure that on Linux, but you’d have to write Bash scripts.
    And on Windows, if they implemented it, it would work 80% of the time.

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      3 hours ago

      I mean, I wrote bash scripts for this on Mac, and Automate workflows on the phone. The scripts are pretty short and simple. The custom touchbar buttons were added with MTMR.

      In Windows, I can’t connect/disconnect Bluetooth devices via PowerShell without a UAC dialog appearing (or whatever dialogs those are). And the free third-party option for control of devices from the command-line is a binary from a site last updated ten years ago or so.

      In Linux, I’m perpetually mourning the absence of an app like Hammerspoon, that is scriptable with Lua (or a similar language), has tons of APIs for desktop automation, and a built-in http server for requests from the phone. Proprietary Unified Remote might be the closest thing, but its workflow is different.