Do you know where to get drop-in replacement Hall effect sticks for a DualShock 4 or DualSense? (Maybe they're easy to find now; I haven't looked in a while.) I have a soldering iron and would probably buy a set.
Edit:
I just learned that TMR (tunneling magnetoresistance) sticks now exist, and are easier to retrofit in Sony controllers, apparently because they use less power and therefore don't need an additional circuit board. Thanks for renewing my interest.
I don't know, but according to this page, it seems there is some kind of profile support. I assume it's part of the Android Open Source Project.
(Good thing I noticed that you edited your comment to insert this question.) I am not aware of an effective Google Play sandbox from any OS other than GrapheneOS. It doesn't affect me either way, since I don't use Google services.
Storage encryption is built in to Android these days. I don't remember whether the latest version does it with file-based encryption or full-device encryption. (Both have been used in the past.)
It depends on who your adversary is. For example, a Google employee or a government might have remote access to a back door planted in a Pixel, but not to your boot loader. On the other hand, a TSA employee might be able to pwn your phone if granted physical access, but unable to do anything remotely. Pixels are generally more resistant to to physical access attacks because they allow user-supplied keys and boot loader re-locking, but there are companies that sell tools aiming to bypass even these protections, so I wouldn't bet my life on them.
The widespread tendency for JavaScript developers to intercept built-in browser functionality and replace it with their own poor implementation, effectively breaking the user's browser while on that site.
And then there's the vastly increased privacy & security attack surface exposed by JavaScript.
It's so bad that I am now very selective about which sites are allowed to run scripts. With few exceptions, a site that fails to work without JavaScript (and can't be read in Firefox Reader View) gets quickly closed and forgotten.
GrapheneOS is better in principle, but it requires that you (directly or indirectly) give money to Google and depend on Google-controlled hardware, both of which are dealbreakers for some people.
GrapheneOS also depends on hardware support files from Google, which are no longer readily available, making its future unclear.
LineageOS supports a greater variety of devices. The privacy/hardening features aren't as strong as GrapheneOS, but many people find it good enough when:
Google Play Services are not installed
Commercial apps are not installed (open-source apps from F-Droid are the usual alternative)
There is little risk of an adversary gaining physical access to the phone
Is there a company outside of China making controllers with Hall effect sticks yet? I'm not aware of any, which means what you are asking for will severely limit your options.
FWIW, my six-year-old DualShock 4 has almost no stick drift; so little that I never notice it in practice and haven't bothered to calibrate it. Perhaps that's because I keep it in a drawer, where dust can't settle on it and then work its way into the potentiometers inside.
You know you can calibrate these things in Linux, right?
30 USD is the lowest price it has been on Steam so far. The summer and winter sales usually have the best prices, so if you wait another six days, you're likely to see a price at least that low; maybe lower.
I would wait.
For what it's worth, I found RDR1 a lot less interesting than RDR2, which is often on sale for half that price.
We're discussing things purchased at retail, as stated in the first sentence of the article and indicated in my comment by the word scalping. Not wholesale markets.
I found this in US Code Title 15 Subtitle B Chapter VII Subchapter E Part 791 Subpart A § 791.4:
§ 791.4 Determination of foreign adversaries.
(a) The Secretary has determined that the following foreign governments or foreign non-government persons have engaged in a long-term pattern or serious instances of conduct significantly adverse to the national security of the United States or security and safety of United States persons and, therefore, constitute foreign adversaries solely for the purposes of the Executive Order, this rule, and any subsequent rule:
(1) The People's Republic of China, including the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region and the Macau Special Administrative Region (China);
It looks like the determination of this "long-term pattern" was put on the books no later than 2024. Since Title 15 is about Commerce and Foreign Trade, it seems reasonable to think that hostilities being considered by the US are not just physical hostility, but also economic hostility.
I imagine there's also political hostility to consider. I haven't been following election interference news, but wikipedia has an article about it, so I suppose it's at least a concern these days.
Just as Padilla took to the Senate floor to deliver an emotional speech, New York City comptroller and mayoral candidate Brad Lander was arrested in a courthouse after demanding to see a judicial warrant for an immigrant federal officials were attempting to detain.
How about we make scalping of anything illegal everywhere, with a mandatory punishment of community service hours, valued at minimum wage, until the scalper pays back double their cumulative scalping profits?
Meanwhile, Trump’s so-called “Big, Beautiful Bill” spending and tax bill would direct $168 billion towards immigration and border enforcement. But that increased spending and other immigration-related costs could cost the U.S. an estimated $1.4 trillion over the next decade.
I also love how the characters age, develop, and eventually retire.
They can also turn up again in later campaigns. This lends well to both the story and team-building aspects of the game, and is one of the things that sets Wildermyth apart from superficially similar games.
One of the problems caused by certain litigious corporations is that a lot of community-developed knowledge about game/emulator compatibility is lost when an emulator project is forcibly shut down. A separate repository for that knowledge, like this one, could help preserve the information.
I'm disappointed that it doesn't show game details unless the browser allows off-site images, and doesn't show any information at all unless the browser allows javascript. This requires users to expose themselves to security and privacy risks in order to use the site. I would consider contributing if they fix this.
the first thing was install FreeBSD. I have always been intrigued by it, a UNIX like OS that was by design meant to replace UNIX
FreeBSD descends from the Berkeley Software Distribution, a descendant of Bell Labs Unix. As it is very much a pedigreed Unix, you don't have to say "UNIX like". :)
Fun fact: The network sockets API that is (or was originally) used by every major OS for internet protocol support came from BSD.
Unfortunately, it's nothing but overhead cost for people who are sufficiently skilled and can follow electrical codes. Sigh.