foggenbooty @ foggenbooty @lemmy.world

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Excuse me, can you elaborate on that last part? Dropping people outbound planes doesn't pass the sniff test for me.

Lol, I love NonStampCollector. Great to see other people still watching it.

That doesn't make a lot of sense. 3840x2160 is cleanly divisible by 1920x1080. You should just have pixel doubling happening. Check that you don't have some sort of scaling turned on in the TV.

It wont magically look high res, it'll be 1080p, but there shouldn't be any blurryness, just the blockiness of 1080p on a large display.

Yup. Look I don't like the idea of drone/robot warfare, but Ukraine doesn't have enough military support to win conventionally. As much as I wish allied countries would take the gloves off, they are still assisting minimally from afar so Ukraine has to get creative.

Thanks for the recommendation. The 8bitDo Ultimate 2 Wireless has most of that, but competition is always a good thing.

I agree about the capacitive sticks though, I've never used gyro without that so I imagine it'd really only be useful for ADS and other situations where you're already holding a button. Capacitive sticks were a genius move from Valve.

That's a big deal then. So far I'm not aware of any controllers that have all of the following:

• Analogue triggers
• Gyro input
• Back buttons
• Xbox layout (preferred)

The dual shock is close, but no back buttons and not my prefered layout. All the Nintendo clones have digital triggers, and almost none have gyro input that steam can use. This will make 8bit the best possible Steam Deck companion until a proper Steam Controller 2 comes out.

Edit: This would also add the ability to map extra buttons to new functions instead of a duplicate of the buttons that already exist. I'm waiting to hear the details but I'll likely buy one if all this is true because I haven't seen anything else offering this level of functionality.

I knew the US had prison labor but holy hell, I had no idea they had them in dangerous jobs. That's crazy.

That's also possible by piping your generic controller through Steam Input.

Now, if 8bit is actually supporting native Steam Input, that's a much bigger deal because we could potentially get access to raw gyro data, stuff that is normally converted to joystick input by the time Steam gets it.

Won't you please think of the profits!

I still have it and I can't get off it because my whole flow depends on a feature that no other launcher seems to have.

I have all my apps in folders, but the folders when tapped will launch the first app in the folder. If I swipe up on them the folder opens.

So for exameple I have what looks like a Camera icon. If I tap it Camera opens as expected, but if I swipe up on it all my photo related apps are there. It allows me to keep a simple easy to use home screen but then all my apps are grouped underneath. It's awesome and the best feature Nova ever made.

It's a hockey term that Canadians have adopted to mean to stand up to American influence / Trump.

You're vastly overestimating the space required for a 3.5mm jack, and the reasons for its removal.

The jack takes up some internal space, but not much at all. The components required internally like the DAC chip are insignificant. It is a potential source of water ingress, but that can be mitigated and has been done many times before.

The reason for removal is two fold, first you simply don't have to deal with any of the above, so from an engineering perspective it's always easier to not do something. The second, and most important, **is to sell wireless headphones. **

You'll notice that Fairphone came out with their own earbuds at the same time they removed the headphone jack. You could of course use Bluetooth headphones with the Fairphone 1, 2, and 3, but you weren't forced to think about it and could just use your existing headphones. Removing the jack ads inconvenience and breaks user habit, causing people to re-evaluate their headphones and consider a new purchase, which the manufacturer just happens to have and likely in a bundle deal.

Apple, Google, and Samsung have seen huge uplift in earbud sales with the removal of the jack. So the anger of some power users is of no consequence to them. Seeing Fairphone follow in this behaviour what's disappointing.

Big? The headphone jack is not large enough to protrude from a cell phone chassis. Any company telling you they can't fit it is just lying to sell you BT headphones.

I've been using Signal for years and my database was getting really bloated with media, attachments, etc but I didn't want to delete it all. I used this and it's incredible:

https://github.com/bepaald/signalbackup-tools

Just make a backup from within signal, copy that backup file to your PC, then run this tool. The commands I used make an HTML webpage that looks just like the signal messenger, along with a way of searching your messages. You can choose different commands to export however you like.

I used:

signalbackup-tools [input] [passphrase] --exporthtml [directory] --split --searchpage --originalfilenames

So while this doesn't help you move off your current messenger, you don't have to worry that your data/messages will be lost in Signal.

It's a test flight. Going higher was likely not the goal.

Let my try and distill that. SpaceX is capable of doing some good work, when Elon leaves them alone.

Remember, Starship is Elon's napkin drawing idea of making a big cheap steel tube. Bigger and bader than everyone else! For a mission that doesn't exist, which it's not even designed properly for. Starship is 100% Elon's blunder and he's made so many insane promises for it that it's dragging SpaceX down.

Starship is SpaceX's Cybertruck.

That's a bang on analogy.

Agreed. "Spin" would be the better word.

It's another embarrassment added to a long list of embarrassments at this point. SpaceX has utterly failed to deliver on its contracts and at some point people need to recognize that the private sector does not always do it better. Especially when the company is run by a conman.

They used to have poor band support in north America, though that seems better now on the 5. I'm still salty about the removal of the headohone jack though.

That's basically what I do right now except I do have a domain and my ISP doesn't restrict inbound ports like 443 so it works fine.

Just trying to sort out if I want the headache of a VPS if I don't need it (costs, maintenance, point of failure, etc).