Found a guy doing FPV at the beach and he liked checking out my wearable computing setup. Feels really natural to walk around in mixed realities. Especially with how easy it is to move the screen into the corner without needing fancy window managers.

@mauve link to more info on your setup?

@vbatts I need to do a writeup still. I just did a major update last week. :P tl;dr: khadas edge 2 glued to a battery, twiddler 3 one handed keyboard, XReal One Pro+ glasses for display. BeryliumOS arch distro for ARM linux with niri as the window manager for infinite horizontal scroll.

@mauve whoa nice!
I've toyed with the idea of going more wearble or more cyberdeck, and end up doing neither but just thinking lots about it.
Niri looks fun! How come the BeryliumOS choice?

@vbatts It's fun if you want to prioritize portability. My setup easily fits in a fanny pack when I'm not wearing it and hangs from my belt when I am. Beryllium is just the most active arch distro for arm with drivers and kernel stuff focused on graphical performance on rockchip SBCs. I'm ok using whatever else if it existed. Also I just kinda like how arch works. niri is super fun. Been using it as a normal desktop for years too.

@mauve That makes sense on the ARM front. I periodically survey the options and they all seem like maker kits that I'm not sure are good for actual work and use, or are laptops that look like some weak attempt at a corporate business laptop. I have really srsly thought about the MNT devices. They can't yet handle USB-C dock, to be a cyber-deck, everything on the go.

@mauve I just built that niri WM as a debian trixie package to give it a whirl. Still getting the keybindings down, but the gestures on my trackpad are already pretty natural. What are you using for systray, wifi, bluetooth, volume, etc.
That twiddler 3, well v4 now, looks pretty wack! I had not seen it. All the other finger loops or wrist gesture devices seemed like they would be problematic.

@vbatts I use waybar for the systray with some minimal configs. https://github.com/RangerMauve/my-gpd-setup/tree/default/.config/waybar I think the generic GNOME systray utils for wifi and bt? Gestures on niri are fun. Used it with my magic trackpad before I ditched it for the twiddler. It's not perfect but it's the best in it's form factor and the easiest to learn. took a few months of a few mins a day going through their trainer web app.