Yeah it is a beta, but the actual final update that was released lacked that gyro functionality over 2.4ghz that was in the beta. So yeah, you kinda do need to "downgrade".
Hopefully they do release an update with that functionality enabled one day but it's been well over a year now and they don't even officially provide that beta version anymore. So it's not looking hopeful.
The 8bitdo ultimate you linked to is great. To be clear I have only used it with Windows.
But if you get it there is a hitch that's not made clear anywhere- in order to use on 2.4ghz mode (with the dongle) with gyro enabled, you need to downgrade the firmware to an old beta version 8bitdo doesn't host anymore. Someone uploaded it to google drive in that reddit thread I linked to.
I have trouble believing that last bit. My Mastodon feed is always extremely full of scientists and Mastodon has almost 3x the active users that BlueSky does.
I really like Zorin as a beginner's distro. It's based on Ubuntu so most everything is designed to work with it without learning a whole new command line tool, but it doesn't try to hide the Linuxey stuff and mimic windows. On top of that it's just very polished.
A better comparison would be energy utilized per user, in which case the energy requirements for Bitcoin are miles and miles ahead of what the average person produces using a computer in the same amount of time. Even a gamer, playing 4k 120fps ray traced games 12 hours a day would use a fraction of the energy of someone mining bitcoin.
Yeah it is a beta, but the actual final update that was released lacked that gyro functionality over 2.4ghz that was in the beta. So yeah, you kinda do need to "downgrade".
Hopefully they do release an update with that functionality enabled one day but it's been well over a year now and they don't even officially provide that beta version anymore. So it's not looking hopeful.