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Linux Patches Add Support For New "Phone Link" Hotkey On Latest ThinkPads

([Hardware] 6 Hours Ago Link Phone Hotkey)


Patches posted on Thursday for the Linux kernel add support for the newest hotkey being found on Lenovo ThinkPad laptops... The "Phone Link" hotkey for launching the Microsoft Phone Link software for linking your Android/iOS smartphone to your laptop. This hotkey can be adapted for similar purposes on Linux.

The newest Lenovo ThinkPad laptops are beginning to feature this "Phone Link" hotkey on F11 for connecting your smartphone to laptop. So far this hotkey is found on the likes of the Lenovo Thinkpad T14 Gen 5, T16 Gen 3, and P14s Gen 5 laptops.

Linux support patches were posted by developer Illia Ostapyshyn with the idea being that Linux desktops could use the new keycode for launching their own alternatives like KDE Connect or GSConnect for interacting with your smartphone.

The straight-forward patches for introducing a "LINK_PHONE" keycode and adding the support for the Lenovo laptops hotkey can be found via [1]the Linux kernel mailing list .



[1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20241114173930.44983-1-illia@yshyn.com/


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If Dr. Seuss Were a Technical Writer.....

Here's an easy game to play.
Here's an easy thing to say:

If a packet hits a pocket on a socket on a port,
And the bus is interrupted as a very last resort,
And the address of the memory makes your floppy disk abort,
Then the socket packet pocket has an error to report!

If your cursor finds a menu item followed by a dash,
And the double-clicking icon puts your window in the trash,
And your data is corrupted 'cause the index doesn't hash,
then your situation's hopeless, and your system's gonna crash!

You can't say this? What a shame, sir!
We'll find you another game, sir.

If the label on the cable on the table at your house,
Says the network is connected to the button on your mouse,
But your packets want to tunnel on another protocol,
That's repeatedly rejected by the printer down the hall,
And your screen is all distorted by the side effects of gauss,
So your icons in the window are as wavy as a souse,
Then you may as well reboot and go out with a bang,
'Cause as sure as I'm a poet, the sucker's gonna hang!

When the copy of your floppy's getting sloppy on the disk,
And the microcode instructions cause unnecessary risc,
Then you have to flash your memory and you'll want to ram your rom.
Quickly turn off the computer and be sure to tell your mom!

-- DementDJ@ccip.perkin-elmer.com (DementDJ) [rec.humor.funny]