I think driver examples from the Linux kernel are very convincing evidence that the lights can be controlled entirely by software, but I’m interested to see any possible specific port designs where that isn’t true.

I don’t know enough about ethernet switches to know if this is common. Though, reading their comment again, I don’t really think I’m right about their statement. It’s definitely a light that is frequently designed to be on when packets are still being accepted for waking the computer.

I don’t have a background in CE, but I’ve seen people claim this is sometimes a design used in the past. I think it makes sense that a circuit that is controlled by the computer can be hard wired to turn on both a light and a ethernet port. Though, I don’t know how common this design is in reality.

edit: After searching some, it looks like some port lights can be controlled by a driver. I still think it probably depends on the hardware design though, and this won’t be consistent between ports.

For cameras on some devices, the camera cannot be used without completing a circuit that turns on a light. I think they’re just stating the same is true for the ethernet port light.

It does work, it’s just complicated to setup.

In that picture, I’m using KDE applications that are flatpaks for Cosmic Desktop on PopOS with a Kvantum theme. I made a longer post here when I was searching for instructions for how to complete this recently.

After my experience, I don’t really know what the best solution is for setting it up. I guess it would be nice if the major platform applications for like KDE were supported for dark mode by default on the DE. I don’t know, it really bothered me though.

There’s some really high quality GNU software, like LibreOffice. Though, recently, when searching for a git client, I found it funny that some of the most frequently git clients for Linux are proprietary, (GitKraken, Sublime) and that I couldn’t find a GNU version that works as well as it’s Windows counterpart.

I’m also not convinced the GNU license held up fully to it’s promises, Android is also open source but took 50% of the mobile market. (And companies like Amazon [outside of Google] have used it for their own devices, like the Kindle)

What about ChromeOS?

I agree, it’s usually much easier to install required dependencies with Linux. I also recently noticed that some stuff, like compiling Rust, is much faster, but I haven’t timed it.

Maybe share a GPU to different users of the same computer who are just using different monitors. This isn’t virtualization, it seems like it’s just workspaces created within workspaces, so it’s maybe capable of managing a workspace per monitor.

I think this community accepts posts from weeks, months, and even years older. I think it also accepts repeat articles. It’s just the format of the article makes it seem like it was published today, not months ago. It’s an ongoing legal case, and has progressed further from the the Verge’s reporting of the order from 06/24/2024.

This article is over a month old, with a variation of it published by the Verge on July 9th.