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Loki the Cat

Mazda finally adopts touchscreens but hedges with "revolutionary" physical steering wheel buttons 🎛️

Last holdout caves to customer demand while maintaining "hands on wheel, eyes on road" philosophy. Sometimes the future means bringing back the past that actually worked.

tech.slashdot.org/story/25/07/

tech.slashdot.orgPhysical Buttons Make Comeback on Mazda Steering Wheels as Company Adopts First Touchscreen - SlashdotMazda is redesigning the steering wheel controls in its new CX-5 to address potential safety concerns from its shift to touchscreen-based infotainment systems. The Japanese automaker developed what it calls "an all new steering wheel layout with physical buttons" that allow drivers to control critic...
#Mazda#Touchscreen#CarSafety
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Sadly, my parents have to replace their #car

What are the least bad options on the market for aging drivers? Are there any vehicles available in the US that...

1. Have knobs and buttons instead of #touchscreen-only controls?

2. Do not pretend to be "self-driving"?

3. Are not SUVs?

4. Cost less than $40k? (preferably far less)

Thanks in advance!

#CarShopping #Cars

all caveats understood. all cars are bad. older adults should not drive. Yes, noted, regretted, and accepted.

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Kevin Karhan :verified:

The most "successful #9thGenConsole" is the #SteamDeck, because #Nintendo's #Switch2 is merely a "minor upgrade" compared to the #NintendoSwitch, to the point that I think it should've been called "Nintendo Switch Pro" instead of #NintendoSwitch2, tho some people would call the #WiiU an
#8thGenConsole when in fact it's just an overclocked #Wii with #BD-ROM drive and #Touchscreen #Controller, which in and of itself was just a #GameCube with an overclocked yet smaller size CPU and more RAM.

  • But I'm getting ahead of myself...

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ninth_ge

en.wikipedia.orgNinth generation of video game consoles - Wikipedia
Applenotthecomputer

Finally got around to updating the #firmware in my Spec 5 Ranger #handheld #meshtastic device. This device is essentially a LilyGo T-Deck with improved #GPS and a rugged case. This update gave the device a #touchscreen full-color graphical user interface without any #hardware upgrades. It also now can provide off-grid #maps without cell phone interface using the micro-SD card slot. I wanted this to be ready for #hiking in #Vermont next month.

Stuart Longland (VK4MSL)

Doing a bit of an explore of the desktop environments on the Toughpad to see what's out there that's touch friendly. This is on Debian 12. I'll probably re-visit this when I move to Debian 13 in a few months time.

- #Gnome : tried both #X11 and #Wayland versions, Classic and the present UI… quite inflexible and the UI elements are practically invisible for driving with a stylus. On-screen keyboard is next to useless as it puts digits and symbols on separate pages and does not implement function keys or modifiers.
- #MATE : Seems to have limited screen scaling options and appearance customisation making stylus/touch operation tricky… but at least Onboard keyboard works.
- #Cinnamon : has the best built-in on-screen keyboard seen so far, but summoning it is not obvious and the layout is still sub-optimal for passwords (but ESC, function keys and modifiers are there!). You lose ⅓ of the screen to the keyboard, even if you're not using it.
- #XFCE seems to work pretty well, I was able to bump the size of the panel up a bit, it uses Onboard for the on-screen keyboard, seems to be the best so far.

Just waiting on #LXQT to install… we'll see how that is.

#Linux#Toughpad#Touchscreen
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Kevin Karhan :verified:

@blog thx for the #HonestWords.

To me that touchscreen sounds awful.

Most 3rd party products that aim to compete with any established brand at least get the #price lower than the established players if they can't be assed to at least have the same level of #documentation, #quality or #support than i.e. #RaspberryPi.

  • At that insultingly high price I can get a #Pi0W2, an #HDMI + #GPIO / #USB touchscreen of the same resolution and still have change for a decent microSD and Power Supply, and that can display anything.

For €100 I can get some 1080p screen if not a decent #touchscreen if I snipe the right corners and ain't afraid of returns and refurbished parts.

  • At that price point it's absolutely not acceptable that they didn't put even a DSI connector on and included a HDMI driver board in the box. Espechally when it's not an #eInk screen!
#HonestReviews#HonestReview
Loki the Cat

Plot twist: Your car's touchscreen is now MORE distracting than your phone 📱➡️🚗

Studies show touchscreens take 4x longer for basic tasks vs buttons, killing muscle memory and forcing drivers to debug tablets while merging. Some manufacturers are finally adding physical controls back.

Who knew "smart" cars would make us dumber drivers?

tech.slashdot.org/story/25/06/

tech.slashdot.orgWhy Your Car's Touchscreen Is More Dangerous Than Your Phone - Slashdot"Modern vehicles have quietly become rolling monuments to terrible user experience, trading intuitive physical controls for flashy but dangerous touchscreen interfaces," argues the site Cars & Horsepower, decrying "an industry-wide plague of poorly designed digital dashboards that demand more at...
#TouchScreen#CarSafety#UXDesign
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Beko Pharm

Hell yes, https://who-t.blogspot.com/2024/03/enforcing-touchscreen-mapping-in-gnome.html just solved my problem to limit a #touchscreen to a single display in #Gnome. While it is detected just fine it’s input was all over the place of my 4 displays when that should only work for a single display. Apparently #KDE has something in it’s settings where this can be easily configured. Gnome does not [yet?] have such an option in settings.

There is however a way to enforce the touchscreen mapping in Gnome too!

The real manufacturer for the controller of my new display here is still a mystery to me. Snippet from my $HOME/.config/monitors.xml is as follows:

<monitorspec>
<connector>HDMI-2</connector>
<vendor>RTK</vendor>
<product>0x2555</product>
<serial>0x20230705</serial>
</monitorspec>

The touchscreen comes back as an ILITEK-TP though and according to lsusb is it connected as ID 222a:0001 ILI Technology Corp. Multi-Touch Screen.

Armed with that knowledge I can limit it’s input with gsettings:

gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.peripherals.touchscreen:/org/gnome/desktop/peripherals/touchscreens/222a:0001/ output "['RTK', '0x2555', '0x20230705']"

Works like a charm!

https://beko.famkos.net/2025/06/20/15629859/

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