calliecameron

Onyx Boox handwriting optimisation in any app

All credit to this thread for figuring out how to do this, I'm just documenting it more thoroughly.

Tested on Nova Air C with firmware 3.5 (2023-11-20).

Handwriting optimisation makes the pen usable in apps installed from the play store. By default it's only available for OneNote, Evernote and WPS -- they have a 'handwriting' tab in the optimisation settings, other apps don't -- but can be enabled for any app by editing the file /onyxconfig/eac_config as root.

Note: whenever you edit eac_config, you have to reboot the device for the changes to take effect. Just restarting the app isn't enough.

pudquick

brew is a bad neighbor

This isn't a guide about locking down homebrew so that it can't touch the rest of your system security-wise.

This guide doesn't fix the inherent security issues of a package management system that will literally yell at you if you try to do something about "huh, maybe it's not great my executables are writeable by my account without requiring authorization first".

But it absolutely is a guide about shoving it into its own little corner so that you can take it or leave it as you see fit, instead of just letting the project do what it likes like completely taking over permissions and ownership of a directory that might be in use by other software on your Mac and stomping all over their contents.

By following this guide you will:

• Never have to run sudo to forcefully change permissions of some directory to be owned by your account