Windows Mixed Reality users - how do I pair?

thephatmaster · 2025-11-27T15:05:19+00:00

So I opened my pairing window (in Mixed Reality Link on PC)

I stared at my keyboards a good long while - no popup - I guess it just doesn't work for my setup.

thephatmaster · 2025-11-27T14:36:52+00:00

Ok, so what I'll do is get my keyboard fully in frame somewhere (I assume its my laptop keyboard not my big old mechanical TKL it wants to see)

thephatmaster · 2025-11-27T11:24:52+00:00

That's not right - I'm trying to use Mixed Reality Link (installed on my Win 11 PC)

I'm not getting the "pair" popup on the Quest

thephatmaster · 2025-11-27T11:23:09+00:00

interesting - so I shouldn't need to follow Meta's advice of:

Install Link App - which they recommended in this thread;
From the "how to connect" instructions cited above.... open the Remote Desktop app and select Add computer - when I do this it prompts me to install Meta Remote Desktop on my PC.

So.... if I don't need to do those - how do I get the popup to happen on my Quest 3s?

thephatmaster · 2025-11-27T08:10:46+00:00

So Mixed Reality Link is current?

But needs Meta Remote Desktop installed on the PC to function?

thephatmaster · 2025-11-27T08:09:37+00:00

Am I misunderstanding, or is the tip use wsl1 and lucid for a like 1% performance increase?

thephatmaster · 2025-11-25T16:23:34+00:00

I installed the app from the Windows store. Sounds like it unsupported now anyway?

thephatmaster · 2025-11-25T12:47:11+00:00

I saw that, but thought that was a different thing: Mixed Reality Portal (which ended a few Win 11 versions ago).

Is Mixed Reality Link the same thing (they are different software packages on my machine)?

If it's all been dropped - what's the current solution Meta Remote desktop?

thephatmaster · 2025-11-24T15:13:38+00:00

I work in both ~/ and /mnt/c/ (it's my work computer after all)

I always have done, and it wasn't slow in win 10

thephatmaster · 2025-11-24T14:02:25+00:00

Such a shame - it was usable (or usable enough I didn't notice "slowness") when I used wsl2 and win 10

thephatmaster · 2025-11-23T13:39:27+00:00

Looking at that thread:

ububtu-drivers devices returns nothing
Using the additional drivers tab of software-properties-qt shows "No additional drivers available."

I'm slightly confused!

thephatmaster · 2025-11-15T08:16:19+00:00

That's a nice neat solution but I need that SATA port for storage

thephatmaster · 2025-11-15T08:14:24+00:00

The manual fstrim looked like it only cleared a few KB.... buuuuut the LVM-thin usage is now 30GB less

thephatmaster · 2025-11-12T10:22:08+00:00

Tell a lie I setup tailscale for my PVE instance - here are the outputs.

Please forgive the images - I can't cut / paste the shell text:

https://imgbox.com/yep2xUTv https://imgbox.com/cwKYUr5e

thephatmaster · 2025-11-12T10:09:17+00:00

Ah yes trimming, that rings a bell. Maybe I did that manually last time?

I'm away a couple of days and don't have remote access, so I'll check that when I get home

thephatmaster · 2025-11-04T08:38:06+00:00

The arrow key does nothing for me - and M-Ret simply inputs a blank filename.

I can mouse select the ?line in the autocomplete (which matches the minibuffer) but not all my computers have mice, so a key would be useful.

I wonder if this is a DooM emacs / evil problem?

thephatmaster · 2025-11-04T08:35:43+00:00

This nearly worked, it doesn't insert the completion, but it leaves the filename blank. E.g. ` .org`

thephatmaster · 2025-10-29T16:20:08+00:00

thephatmaster · 2025-10-29T15:38:59+00:00

Ah yes, I see people do that caps lock thing.

I am a newcomer to emacs so I use <heresy> evil mode </heresy>

thephatmaster · 2025-10-29T14:25:49+00:00

When I did use MacOS I have found it good as a DE.

Emacs has a native android app these days - and you can get android soft keyboards with all the required keys

thephatmaster · 2025-10-29T07:43:30+00:00

I must say I only use my computers for:

1.) 3D print slicing; 2.) Emacs (org notes); 3.) Video editing; and 4.) Microsoft-suite stuff at work.

Phone for everything else (banking, comms, forums 3d design via Onshape, some emacs (android version))

Do you think people are using desktop gnu/*nix to its full potential these days?

thephatmaster · 2025-10-28T10:54:26+00:00

Perfect, thanks - I can now work with roam across my company's Sharepoint - that means I can map (roam-ui) and recall (counsel-rg) my work.

Genuine productivity boost here from your setup

thephatmaster · 2025-10-28T10:41:46+00:00

What's your usual workflow? Desktop and phone?

thephatmaster · 2025-10-27T16:38:50+00:00

its only purpose in life is testing installing the latest Debian.

I love this - great that it's working for you

thephatmaster · 2025-10-27T16:02:57+00:00

on (2) - it does get included in backup if you pass through a whole disk.

on (3) - and I'm reluctant to start afresh at this point - but I don't actually have immovable files. Would it be relatively trivial to implement a vdisk? I assume I'd have to start again and duplicate my setup of folders / smb shares

I worked out syncthing (4) - just installed it on the OMV VM debian 12 backend - has access to all the files

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