sugar_in_your_tea @ sugar_in_your_tea @sh.itjust.works

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I use them for point and click games and other games where a mouse is better.

Exactly, I'd rather lose a D-Pad than a joystick, and the Steam Controller lost both. That's why my Steam Controller sits on my desk largely unused, while my PS4 controller gets all the love (I prefer XBox controllers, but PS4 has better Linux support).

I'd love to see the Steam Deck controller be made standalone, it's super comfy and preserves both joysticks and the d-pad while having useful trackpads.

Yeah, I consider them "better guys," since they're better than their competitors. I say this because:

• they firmly support Linux, which was my platform of choice before Steam came to it
• they have useful Greeks features like Steam input
• they have a good refund policy

Yup, the touchpads are cool, but I would've bought a Steam Deck without them, but I wouldn't if Proton didn't exist. I was on Linux already when the Steam Deck came out, so I was already familiar with Proton.

It absolutely is.

PS1 controller

The original PS1 controller didn't have joysticks, and when it did, the position sucked for larger hands. I have always preferred the XBox layout.

you had to map it

Did you? I thought most games worked fine, though admittedly I only played a couple because I never got used to the trackpads.

I think it wasn't very post all popular because it was so different. Even if it worked as expected out of the box, a lot of people dismissed it at first glance. It was also only available through steam, so there was less reach.

But even then, I still don't think it failed on its own merits. I think there wasn't a compelling reason to get it without a Steam Machine, which flopped because Valve didn't commit to it.

Yeah, the left trackpad sucks. I think they could also fit another joystick if they made the right trackpad a little smaller.

Brendan Eich

I honestly don't understand the hate here. I get that he supported the bill to ban gay marriage and that's terrible, but I've also heard that he left his politics at the door and treated everyone with respect, including the LGBT people at Mozilla. I honestly think he would've been a better CEO at Mozilla because he's interested in the tech. His largest problem was making a personal contribution with his own money to an unpopular cause, and someone dug it up looking for dirt.

Isn't that exactly how people should act? Leave your politics at home and work well with others. I work in a diverse group with a mix of immigrants, likely gay people, atheists and religious types, Trump supporters and critics, and even a couple furries. None of that matters and we work well together. In fact, most of the turnover we've had has been over compensation because our company has been stingy recently, and they all say they wouldn't have considered leaving otherwise.

You can disagree on very important things and still work well together, it's called professionalism. I dislike Eich's views, but I believe he had way more professionalism than his loudest critics.

I suppose, unless you've watched King of the Hill.

Exactly. How FOSS devs spend their time and money isn't my business, what is my business is foundation financials and whether the software is reliable and safe to use.

I strongly disagree with Lemmy devs on politics and how they run their instances, but that doesn't impact me so whatever.

As long as ladybird devs don't go out of their way to be jerks to trans people, I'm good. The worst I've seen is rejecting pronoun changes in code comments and docs, which isn't a big deal.

stand up against racism and discrimination

What does this mean for a browser company? I understand this being an important company value, but I don't want them filtering the internet or anything. Their primary goal should be to foster a privacy respecting web and a high performance, standards based browser.

I don't think eliminating profit from the web should be a goal. I don't care if websites make money, I just care they don't profit from my data without me agreeing to it explicitly.

I think Firefox needs to become financially independent, and that means finding a privacy respecting business model. My personal preference is a micro payment system where I can pay websites for content in exchange for no ads. That provides value to me and websites that I'd otherwise block ads on.

If AI is part of that, sure, just make it opt-in and very obvious when it's working.

The one in the picture is 1.9L.

Yeah, idk. I'm guessing it's one of those cases where he started solo, then Disney noticed and paid him to publish w/ them.

Oh sure, caution is always warranted w/ LLMs. But when it works, it can save a ton of time.

And that's the same w/ traditional search engines, the difference is that we're used to search engines and LLMs are new. Learn how to use the tool and decide for yourself when it's useful.

It's also from 6 years ago...

Sure, Disney acts as a publisher, but I think it would be naive to think that they don't direct the content of those books. Likewise, I imagine they use a lot of Disney outsiders for their movies as well as part of the production process. At the end of the day, it doesn't exactly matter whether it's Disney staffers doing the writing or someone on the outside, it's being published under the Disney brand.

Yeah, and that's largely what soured me on it. I watched a few, and it basically seemed like a "I know better" type "discussion" instead of an actual discussion about pros/cons to certain things.

The name americano refers to machinery imported from the United States that was used in the 1940s to produce the first piece.

Ah, makes sense, we had more reasonable portions back then.

I will always approve of adding garlic. 😀

Thanks for the recipe!