everyone ! I am looking to automate a repetitive task. On Android, it's easy with an autoclicker, but on iOS it's complicated because apps cannot interact with each other. To get around this, I display my iPhone on my PC using mirroring software, then I want to use an autoclicker on the PC. Problem: ApowerMirror works well but is limited to 10 minutes (then you have to pay). GlideX is unlimited, but when remote control is enabled, the cursor becomes special and autoclickers (even AutoHotkey) no longer work. I'm looking for a free solution or a tip to: Control the iPhone from a PC without limits and have the autoclickers work If anyone has an idea or knows of an alternative, I'm all ears ! 🙏

Linux continues to resent me, I guess

codezer0 · 2025-08-12T21:24:42+00:00

Preface: For as long as I've had a PC that could run games, any PC that I use regularly (and/or is the main pc) has a sound card in it of some type. And before someone chimes in with "use a DAC," "use the GPU audio," I need you to finish reading and withhold that for me a hot moment. Context: Presently across as many systems, I have a variety of Creative sound cards, ranging from the Audigy series (presently a 2 in my oldest retro PC to an Rx in my main) and several iterations of the X-Fi in PCI and PCI Express form. In my current main PC, I use the analog 7.1 out, to feed a set of Razer Tiamat 7.1v2 headset(s), then pass through to 5.1 speakers. I'm grateful that for the size of my noggin, the tiamats fit... Barely, but well enough if I need to be quiet for the wife. Put bluntly, in all those years, Linux and I... Have not gotten along. The early versions had a frustrating habit where all troubleshooting just eventually led to the only step being *always* recompile the kernel, and too many times staring at a command prompt that made zero sense to me. Credit where it's due, Linux in usability has come a decent way, but God it still has its unsolved problems. Namely... Sound. Or rather, lack thereof. Every zealot and their dog says that Linux has drivers in the kernel now. And when I boot up any live eval distribution you can name, I get no sound whatsoever. Best case is, it lists the sound card. It lists it as the device in use. It gives me a control panel making me think it will be usable. But I can't get sound, at all. No media, no offline music, not even the basic testing sounds. To date, the only *nix anything that hasn't given me constant rage fits like this, is still MacOS. But Tim Cook's leadership is off its rocker if he thinks I'm going to spend as much as he's asking, for hardware that is e-waste the minute it leaves the factory. I firmly hold the belief that bro shifted to arm entirely to spite the hackintosh method of things. Moving on... "But why not use GPU audio?" Because GPU audio won't output to my headset or speakers. And I will never have the space or money to buy a receiver and the small army of additional cables needed to have that output to normal speakers or the headset in question. "Why not buy a DAC?". BY ALL MEANS, show me a DAC on the market that (on Windows) supports the Creative ALchemy program, and can output analog 7.1. I've yet to see it, at any price. In as long keeping a lookout, I can only conclude that a DAC as capable has yet to exist. It's just frustrating because between the Audigy and X-Fi sound card lines, that means the Linux community has had *TWENTY YEARS* and counting and still hasn't got it right. Because every recommended distro I've been referred to, still won't work correctly. Like, I can't even move on to test capture cards or games because this issue is the equivalent to a game breaking bug for me.