A few days ago I had dinner with some big shot from Beijing, and we got to talking about whether GNOME Shell is shit or not these days… We arrived at the same conclusion: GNOME Shell is a piece of shit. And it’s not just that “GNOME Shell itself” is shit — it’s more that “the whole pack of shitty GNOME Shell developers” is shit. GNOME Shell has been talking about supporting fractional scaling since last year. The feature was already mostly done last year, with only final fixes left. It was supposed to ship in GNOME Shell 3.26, but they ran out of time and it slipped to GNOME Shell 3.28. The GNOME devs even wrote a blog post bragging about how amazing GNOME is, how it has every feature, fractional scaling included. Yet a year later, with GNOME Shell 3.28 Beta about to be released, the fractional scaling feature is still nowhere to be seen. Is nobody working on it? Of course not!

BlueZ 5.43 has better compatibility with BLE devices and fewer bugs. Ubuntu Mate for raspberry 16.04.2 backported it, but the official release didn’t. Fine, whatever, guess I’ll just compile it myself. wget http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/bluetooth/bluez-5.43.tar.xz tar xvf bluez-5.43.tar.xz cd bluezbluez sudo apt-get install libusb-dev libdbus-1-dev libglib2.0-dev automake libudev-dev libical-dev libreadline-dev ./configure --prefix=/usr --mandir=/usr/share/man --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var make sudo make install That should do it.

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