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Cute & Thocky - Epomaker TH99 Pro Review

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The Epomaker TH99 Pro looks incredible and sounds amazing right out of the box with its Creamy Jade switches. But what happens when you plug a "smart" keyboard into an Artix Linux machine and the kernel thinks it's a 20-year-old Vivitar webcam?

Today, we put this 98-key board through the Terminal Tilt hardware test to see if it actually respects your digital sovereignty. We score it on Modularity, Repairability, and Sovereignty, and jump into what it actually takes to bypass proprietary drivers to use the built-in screen.

DISCLOSURE

Epomaker provided the review unit for this video. No money changed hands. No company saw this video before I hit upload. All opinions are mine.

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    • RESOURCES

    • If you own this board (or one sharing the Vivitar 0c45:8006 or 1919:1919 hardware IDs) and want to control the screen natively on Linux, you will need to bypass the proprietary WebHID driver.
    • Community reverse-engineered screen tool: https://github.com/guysoft/rt82display
    • Note: If your board is "shape-shifting" IDs like mine, you will need to manually edit the Python script to look for your specific Vivitar IDs. Be sure to check your udev rules to ensure your user has permissions to write to the device!

      • Join the Community: We have officially launched on Stoat! Ditch the Big Tech trackers and join our open-source, sovereign alternative to Discord. Join here!

      🎨 THUMBNAIL: Created by me in GIMP. Video edited on Kdenlive.

      No "AI" was used in the creation of this video or its assets.

      Stay sovereign. Stay secure. Stay private.

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