On a similar experience, I use moonlight on my Android TV to stream video games from my computer in another room. I use my own fork from an unmerged PR which enables me to use an Xbox One Wireless adapter so I can play with my pad wirelessly. These pads have a 3.5mm jack on them which on Windows and Linux enables me to route audio from the game to headphones connected to the pad. Moonlight and the xow driver it bundled, was nowhere near being able to provide this as a feature.

After about 5 hours, and feeding it the GIP spec, an export of sniffed usb traffic from Windows, and prior art (xone driver for linux), I had it working. This continuously blows my mind that I dont have to beg a developer on Github to do it for me.

Claude could do it for me for $20.

Yeah. I have a Stratasys J55 3D printer. Industrial and closed.

And now I can print to it via my Mac.

It's a fun time to be alive.

Freedom -- that's what it is. There are now more and more cases where we don't have to ask for permission.

Unfortunately, as I look around, I see most of the hardware vendors around me as gatekeepers. They prevent me from writing custom code in various ways. Apple restricts access to NFC or their UWB positioning, Supernote Manta does not let me access a bluetooth microphone, the list goes on. Denon at least has an API in their amps/receivers: buggy, but it's there.

Next try writing a printer driver for your iPhone.

"HP" "obscure"

Cool nonetheless.