OpenRiot v7.9.52 — The Machine Centers Itself

“The notifications were in the corner. Always in the corner. You’d be clicking something and the machine would whisper from the top right — right over the button you were about to press. We moved them. Dead center. Top of the screen. Then we made them bigger. Then we made the font bigger. Then we let the USB softraid drives breathe. Two changes. One machine that sees better.” — The OpenRiot Crew, after the notifications stopped covering the buttons, v7.9.52

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Release Overview

Notifications move from the top-right corner to dead center. Width, height, font, padding, and corner radius all scale up 10%. The construct speaks louder and stops covering the buttons you’re trying to click.

The drive manager’s softraid guard learns the difference between an internal RAID chunk and a USB enclosure. External softraid drives are no longer treated as internal — you can wipe, clone, and benchmark them without the machine telling you no.

Total changes: notifications centered and scaled, USB softraid drives unblocked.

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📢 Notifications: Centered and Scaled

The old position was offset = (16, 42) — top-right corner, 16 pixels from the right edge, 42 pixels from the top. Every notification landed on top of something you wanted to click.

The new position:

origin = center
offset = (0, 0)

Dead center. Zero offset. The machine speaks from the middle of the screen and gets out of the way of your cursor.

Everything else scaled up 10%:

        Old         New
Width   450         495
Height  300         330
Font    11pt        12pt
Padding 16          18
Radius  6           7

The construct is louder. The text is bigger. The corners are rounder. The Turing Police would file a bug about “screen real estate.” We filed a bug about notifications covering buttons and fixed it by moving them to the center.

Run openriot --dunst-setup then reload dunst to apply.

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🔌 USB Softraid Drives: Unblocked

The drive manager had a guard: if a drive is a softraid chunk and not removable, block the action. Wipe, clone, benchmark — all blocked. The guard was protecting internal RAID members from accidental destruction.

But USB enclosures with softraid chunks were caught in the same net. External drives, plugged in via USB, treated as internal. The machine said “cannot wipe internal softraid drive” to a drive you could hold in your hand.

The guard now checks the bus type:

if d.IsChunk && !d.IsRemovable && d.BusType != "USB"

USB softraid drives pass through. Internal softraid drives stay blocked. The machine knows the difference between a drive bolted to the motherboard and a drive sitting on your desk.

The Feds would call this “device enumeration logic.” We call it not treating your USB enclosure like a server rack.

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🧾 Files Changed

File	Change
config/dunst/dunstrc	origin = center, offset = (0, 0);
	width 450→495, height 300→330,
	font 11→12pt, padding 16→18,
	corner_radius 6→7
source/disk/update.go	Softraid guard exempts USB bus type
install/openriot	Compiled binary

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🗣️ Final Words

“The machine was whispering from the corner and covering your buttons. We moved it to the center and turned up the volume. We taught the drive manager that USB means external and external means yours. The construct sees better now. The Turing Police would say ‘cosmetic changes and a minor guard tweak.’ We say the machine stopped lying about where it was looking and stopped treating your USB drive like a server rack.” — The OpenRiot Crew, v7.9.52