by rom1v on 11/4/23, 6:30 PM with 34 comments
by jampekka on 11/4/23, 8:20 PM
But at the same time I find it a bit sad example of how much effort to and how much corner case fiddling such conceptually very simple tasks have to take.
Caricatyring here, but it is essentially just blitting pixels over a network connection. I don't think it should be that hard a task with a more reasonable underlying stack. Plan 9 (and probably many other sadly forgotten systems) showed how something like scrcpy can fall out more or less automatically from a better designed system.
Maybe I'm underestimating some fundamental complications, but I can't help but feel something has gone very wrong with how we do things with computers. Maybe something like worse is better on piles of previous worse is better.
by Scene_Cast2 on 11/4/23, 7:57 PM
by JeremyNT on 11/5/23, 3:40 AM
I dropped my phone and the screen broke. The touchscreen worked, but no backlight.
Luckily I had enabled Android debugging. It took a bit of trial and error but I managed to unlock the phone and then accept the adb key from my laptop.
After that, scrcpy let me grab all my files and transfer everything to my new phone.
If you have an android device take a few minutes to get scrcpy set up. It just might let you recover from a dead screen some day.
by arcanemachiner on 11/4/23, 7:31 PM
by mathfailure on 11/4/23, 11:23 PM
1 - https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.dozingcatsoftware.vector...
by clumsysmurf on 11/4/23, 8:57 PM