Wheeljack

joined 1 year ago
[–] Wheeljack@nerdbin.social 7 points 1 year ago

Sony made some significant changes between the PS4 and PS5 controllers. I don't know the details beyond the dynamic resistance triggers, but if you buy a controller board to make your own fightstick, it'll work with everything up through PS4 and then you need an additional daughter-board to make it work with the PS5.

[–] Wheeljack@nerdbin.social 67 points 1 year ago (12 children)

I don't really grok products like this.

If you have a fundamental disagreement with a platform, continuing to engage with it, even through a condom, is still perpetuating it. It's maintaining that platform as still important and integral, and a place that others should continue to engage with. It's telling advertisers that it's still a place that's worth their money to maintain a presence on. It stymies the momentum in shifting to an alternative; why put the effort into a new service if people are still seeing your posts?

It's like pirating Windows instead of moving to a different OS. You're still perpetuating the MS hegemony and telling software developers that Windows is the platform they need to develop for.

[–] Wheeljack@nerdbin.social 9 points 1 year ago

Seeing a game is Ubisoft makes it a total nonstarter. I refuse to have to have a separate account and be forced to log into it just to play a goddamn game.

[–] Wheeljack@nerdbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

Full agree. Get his product's name as part of the general term and it'd confuse people into thinking it was the original.

[–] Wheeljack@nerdbin.social 7 points 1 year ago

I've never heard the term "threadiverse". Where are you coming across it?

[–] Wheeljack@nerdbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Depends entirely on the person and what things they want out of a social life.

For me, if I didn't have social media, there's a lot I'd miss out on. It's how two of my main social communities communicate any of their events, and it's a big part of a third. There would definitely be a negative impact for me if I nuked all my accounts.

You can certainly build your life to have your definition of a thriving social life without it, but you'll have to go out of your way to find those groups that use other methods for communication.

[–] Wheeljack@nerdbin.social 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think if you want meaningful recommendations, you have to say:

  • why you want to get away from Fedora
  • what you liked about Fedora that kept you there until now
  • what you hope you'd get from a new distro
  • any nonstarters that would keep you away from a distro

Without knowing those things, it's just going to be people proselytizing their favorite distros rather than suggesting one that will fit what you're looking for.

[–] Wheeljack@nerdbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Depends on your definition of "eat".

If you mean "Can be chewed and swallowed without causing undue harm", then, yeah, you can eat wood. Well, most wood, I'm sure there's some out there that are some level of toxic to humans.

If you mean, "can be consumed as a source of nutrition", then, no, you can't eat wood. Humans lack the capability to digest it.

[–] Wheeljack@nerdbin.social 6 points 1 year ago

In OP's situation where they're downloading a car, I think it's a safe assumption that the car has already been designed/engineered and OP is just printing it out and assembling it. This would be akin to a kit car, and modern kit cars certainly don't require specialized engineering skills to assemble.

[–] Wheeljack@nerdbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

At it's core, whatever system you implement is going to have four buckets:

  • I need to see and deal with this immediately
  • I need to see this immediately, but can deal with it later
  • I need to see this at some point
  • This is a complete waste of my time

When you set up filters/rules, it's typically safer to err in putting something in a higher priority bucket.

Past that, it really depends on the email you receive. For mine, an easy differentiator is if I'm a direct recipient, just a CC, or if I'm getting it as a member of a group mailbox. I get a lot of automated notifications, and those are easy to sort based on source and subject line.