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!
all caveats understood. all cars are bad. older adults should not drive. Yes, noted, regretted, and accepted.
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.
Got any recommendations for linux on an old windows tablet - Intel cpu - it’s low powered with 4GN ram, happily boots most things. My issue so far is finding a ui that works on a touchscreen only desktop. #linux #tablet #touchscreen
https://www.europesays.com/de/195971/ iPadOS 26 bringt Macs mit Touchscreen wieder ins Gespräch ⋅ ifun.de #Deutschland #Germany #iPad #Mac #Science #Science&Technology #Technik #Technology #Touchscreen #Wissenschaft #Wissenschaft&Technik
Mit diesem Film macht der Deutsche Blinden- und Sehbehindertenverband (DBSV) auf die Probleme aufmerksam, die viele Touchscreens für sehbehinderte Menschen verursachen.
An Open-Source Wii U Gamepad - Although Nintendo is mostly famous for making great games, they also have an infam... - https://hackaday.com/2025/05/19/an-open-source-wii-u-gamepad/ #nintendowiihacks #touchscreen #controller #opensource #steamdeck #nintendo #android #gamepad #wi-fi #wiiu
I'm looking into ways to scroll on #touchscreen on #debian with #i3. I haven't yet find a reliable solution. Any advice and/or experience? Gestures would be nice, but it looks like #touchegg is not included in debian apt anymore. I guess I'll have to install it manually. #askfedi
Some more great progress by @tobykurien who is porting #FreeBSD to the #PinephonePro in the project sponsored by us:
After getting #X11 running a short while ago, he now implemented #touchscreen support. 
Welches #Linux eignet sich eigentlich am besten für ein #Touchscreen?
I recently drove a car whose whole control and entertainment system was a gigantic iPad-like thing mounted to the dash. It caused me to have a realisation about the #Ui and #UX of touch screens.
There is no way to touch a touchscreen without it treating that touch as intentional. What I mean is: without taking my eyes off the road, I can grope across the dashboard, find a knob or button—by touching it—without activating any function. Touching the volume button or temperature knob doesn’t DO anything until I do it with more force and intentionality. Not so for a #touchscreen.
My mobile #phone (an #iPhone 13) has no dead space in its face. There’s no part of the phone face I can touch without it assuming I meant to do that and I wanted to activate whatever was under my finger. Old iPhones that had physical home buttons also had dead space to either side: a safe space to hold the phone without DOING anything.
Computer keyboard have little raised pips on the F and J keys so you can find them by touch without looking. I do this all the time. But I don’t type the letters F or J. Touch screens have no such affordances.
I look at the #blackberry keyboard in this photo and I see a raised space bar. It’s an #affordance that lets you orient your fingers, and orient how you hold the phone, without looking.
I miss buttons.
https://mobilesyrup.com/2025/02/15/blackberrys-expired-keyboard-patent/
Number of times I have touched the screen of my new Mac expecting something to happen: too many to count.
How is that not a thing?
New gesture just dropped.
Touchscreen vs. Stoffunterlage: fragt nicht warum, aber manchmal lege ich den Streichelfernsprecher (Android) auf der Sofalehne ab und will darauf wischen. Oder das iPad liegt auf der Tischdecke. In beiden Fällen funktionieren die Wischgesten nicht. Ich dachte erst, der Bildschirm ist kaputt und spinnt manchmal, bis mir aufgefallen ist, dass das mit der Stoffunterlage korreliert.
Kann das jemand bestätigen oder erklären?
Ein #Bug in #iOS18 macht es #iPhone-Besitzern schwer, akkurate Eingaben zu tätigen. Denn in manchen Situationen reagiert der #Smartphone-#Touchscreen nicht. #Apple hat noch keine Stellungnahme abgegeben. https://winfuture.de/news,145485.html?utm_source=Mastodon&utm_medium=ManualStatus&utm_campaign=SocialMedia
Drei Forscher des DLR haben sich etwas einfallen lassen, wie man quasi jeden Quadratzentimeter eines Roboters zu einem Touchscreen machen könnte.
Den ganzen Artikel findet ihr hier: https://t3n.de/news/wie-roboter-menschliche-beruehrungen-fuehlen-koennen-ganz-ohne-kuenstliche-haut-1643515/
«Macbooks sind irgendwie langweilig geworden. Klar, die Leistung wird stetig gesteigert und wir Käufer quälen uns jedes Jahr aufs Neue, für welche neue Schwarz- und Silber-Farbvariation man sich entscheiden soll. Aber sonst?»
Der Autor wünscht sich ein #MacBook mit #Touchscreen anstatt #Touchpad. Und mit #Pencil. Das hätte schon Charme, wenngleich ich da noch viele Fragen bzgl. Handballen etc hätte. Doch charmant wäre das, und wer, wenn nicht #Apple ...
Wie die EU jetzt Autobauer zur Abkehr von Touchscreen-Bedienung bringen will
Die EU will offenbar, dass Autobauer wieder mehr auf Knöpfe statt auf Touchscreen-Bedienung setzen. Durchsetzen soll den Wunsch jetzt die EU-Sicherheitsorganisation NCAP – die droht den Herstellern mit Punktabzug.
https://t3n.de/news/eu-ncap-touchscreen-bedienung-1612395/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=referral
#EU #Europa #Mobilitaet #Touchscreen
Touchscreens sind an manchen Stellen richtig gut und praktisch.
Bei der Verwendung in Autos denke ich mir aber schon seit Jahren, dass die Displays da absolut kontraproduktiv sind - man muss für jede Kleinigkeit den Blick von der Straße nehmen!
Schön, dass jetzt auch Euro NCAP Touchscreens bei ihrer Sicherheitsbewertung negativ einfließen lassen wird. Hoffentlich bewirkt das etwas, dem Gesetzgeber ist das Thema bisher leider egal.
Hello @tuxedocomputers, @slimbook, @system76/@system76, @purism, @novacustom, @start9labs@mastodon.start9labs.com & any other companies making #PC with #Linux preinstalled roaming around on the #Fediverse, I have a seemingly stupid question for all of you:
How come, as far as I know, none of you ever made any #2in1 #laptops, like Acer's Spin series, HP's x360 laptops, a non negligible part of Lenovo's Yoga laptops, or a growing number of Chromebook?
Because I would buy such a Laptop, especially if it used #CoreBoot (or a distro of it) as firmware. 
I mean, it's not like GNU/Linux didn't have some #DesktopEnvironment that would be great with a #touchscreen, like #Gnome, #UnityDE or #DeepinDE to name a few.)
#Linux_PC, #Linux_laptop, #OpenFirmware, @coreboot
