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  • I've had six controllers connected and working on mine at once. It was a mix of Nintendo switch, wired PS3, Xbox and stadia controllers. It worked fine.

    I have had 4 wireless controllers running at the same time. I believe you can do up to 7 wireless.

  • You have quite a few absolutes in this comment, and not all of them are correct.

    Having access to a gun does statistically make you more likely to die of a gunshot, including significantly higher rates of suicide.

    HOWEVER, stating that there are zero situations where having a gun would be better than not having a gun is just incorrect. It is highly unlikely for a gun to improve a situation, and it is an anomaly for a gun to make a difference, but there are well documented instances where a gun prevented the start of, or the continuation of, violence.

    Flatly stating that there are no situations where a gun can make you safer is untrue. Pushing this hyperbole only helps keep the conversation on the wrong topics.

  • Depends, Russia has nukes. Russia has a shakey economy right now. Civil war or a breakup of Russian territory is possible if it gets bad enough, and then it would be hard to predict who comes out with what armament.

    You need to help Russia get back on its feet as soon as possible, just like what happened with Japan and Germany after WWII.

    If we cut Russia off from everything forever, then we're just gearing up for something worse, just like Germany after WWI.

  • What did you use to stain it? It's possible you applied it too thick and it isn't going to ever dry. If you clearcoat over tacky stain, you're just going to create a bigger mess. You can let it sit longer and sand if off, or use a solvent and try to remove the excess. But the more you mess with it, the more of a mess it is going to be.

    Might need to make some smaller test prints and experiment with finishing.

  • What do you think the metric system is based on? It's the exact same thing.

    0c is the temperature of water freezing (at sea level, etc.etc.)

    100c is the temperature that water boils.

    1 kilocalorie is the energy needed to raise the temperature of 1kg of water one degree.

    You have to define energy in some way, and almost all of it is related to how it affects water.

  • No, they can't do that. Insurance can't just randomly decide to change all of their contracts on a whim.

    Insurance companies are shitty, and dealing with them sucks, but there are legal rules they have to follow, and just deciding unilaterally to not cover healthcare isn't an option for a paying customer.

  • Depends on what you're using the phone for. Personally, my usage isn't very demanding, so having a phone that's going to have security updates and a replaceable battery will probably let me use the phone for 5+ years.

    I probably won't keep the phone for 10 years, but it means I can upgrade on my schedule, not just because some company decided for me.

  • I don't know you, or the people you're talking to, but once you're at the "you always have to be right about everything" point, the conversation is adversarial, and it's mostly a moot point where it goes from here. The goal shouldn't be "winning" the conversation at that point, the goal should be never getting there in the first place.

    I do know people who act completely disinterested in any conversation that isn't about them lecturing one or more people about something. If this is how you come across, that could be very irritating to people. They don't want to feel inferior to their conversation partner, they want to have a discussion, not receive a lecture.

    So back to the start. The goal should be figuring out how to stop the conversation from getting to that point in the first place, and since you have no control over how other people act, you'll need to start paying closer attention to what you are saying, how you are saying it, and how to start engaging with people in topics that they are more knowledgeable about.

    As they say, if you're the smartest person in the room, then you're in the wrong room.

  • This is untrue.

    20 years ago, most companies had proprietary connectors, because there was no standard. Then, slowly, they all shifted to USB Micro-B, which was acceptable, but limited charge speeds.

    Once USB-C came out, it took a while for everyone to flip over. Heck, you can still find a few devices like headphones and flashlights that use USB Micro-B (or even Mini-B). But they all flipped because the demand was there and the technology standard supported what they needed.

    Apple even flipped most of its devices over. They're just dragging their feet on the iPhone.

  • A third party isn't involved. An RSS feed pulls in the data from the source.

    My point is that you find a trusted news source and you don't have Google, Facebook, Apple, or Xitter deciding what you should see.

  • RSS is great for news, because you don't get told what to think by a 3rd party algorithm, you aggregate news from trusted sites (multiple) and decide what to read.

    RSS also is extremely important for podcasts, that's how it gets pushed down to your listening app (except for specific ones like Spotify and whatnot that host the content)

  • Careful, because 1337 had a recent scandal with Baldars Gate having a crypto malware in it and there was some involvement with the admins on that.

    Seems fine with media, but careful using it for actual executables.

  • To explain what's going on requires an actual reading of the article, but a quick summary (as best as I understand) would be...

    Villages in Pakistan near high altitudes need high altitude ice (glaciers and mountain ice) to build up over the winter, and slowly melt in the summer to provide water for farming and daily life.

    Due to climate change, the ice on the mountains aren't building up as much in the winter, and are melting too fast in the summer.

    There is a tradition in those villages to move ice to higher altitudes on the mountain, and mix it with rock and coal. This does a few things, it provides a seed that captures rain and creates a foundation for the glaciers to form, and slows the melt so they build up bigger over time.

    There seems to be some question about if this actually works, or if it's just ritual, but since the claim is that it takes decades for the process to work, we don't really have a lot of evidence either way yet.

    These villages are losing members because they can't farm anymore, this feels like a last ditch attempt based on old customs to get their way of life back. It's unclear on the amount of physical effort vs. impact, but it would be interesting to see if this can be applied elsewhere.

  • AI isn't magical, you give it instructions to get an output. It also uses history to base its decisions on. Both of those things need humans to guide it, and those same people making shitty decisions now will just use AI to cloak shit in an the guise of unbiased computers.