It’ll have that on Linux like last time. You just need to set the uinput driver for the device. They had a generic gamepad one in the kernel for the OG. But not loaded by default as it’ll look like a kb&m out of the box unless you set a user-level driver config for the HIDs.

Valve were very supportive of Linux if people didn’t want to use Steam/Steam Input but other OS didn’t get their efforts beyond the Steam client.

You should definitely use those alternatives and they sound superior.

At the end of the day, this is the Steam Machine’s controller and it’s designed for use in the Steam and Linux ecosystem. Its behaviour and lack of generic xinput is intentional.

I’m surprised people think this is odd since the original Steam Controller was the same - it’s a Steam Input device, not XInput.

If you consider what it was designed for, it makes sense. This isn’t another generic controller but a controller designed for a Linux/PC-based video games console (Steam Machine).

If you boot into a desktop UI without Steam running, desktop UIs don’t support xinput devices to navigate around them.

The Steam Controller thus defaults to presenting itself as a keyboard and mouse so that the UI can be navigated without Steam running.

If it was xinput, you’d be reaching for a keyboard and mouse to plug in just to click Steam and then immediately no longer need them.

That’s why it’s not an xinput device.

Effluently shining!

Totally - it got us discussing! And if we didn’t, that daemon wouldn’t have been flagged.

Cheers for the thought provocation.

I’m not a Mac lover, it’s just the term; Spyware is data gathering in secret without the user’s knowledge. Apple seems to have it all documented and controllable vs say Windows where you can’t turn off telemetry gathering, just set it to “Basic/required”.

More a semantics thing. I assumed you meant there was something you can’t turn off in Apple shit and it’s done secretly (another commenter has highlighted a daemon that’s doing exactly that!).

I wasn’t part of the downvote brigade either. I don’t get why people downvote stuff that’s more a point of discussion. You didn’t say anything shocking nor blatantly incorrect.

Honest question; in what way is it spyware and do you have references?

From everything I’ve ever seen, macOS is more transparent and controllable than Windows or Android.

I’d still recommend Linux but if I were forced to use a mainstream commercial OS (e.g. for work), I’d pick macOS over anything else except FOSS.

Amazon, the bookstore?

I assume they mean taking their dog for a walk when they stop at a rest stop. Dogs need the toilet during long journeys too.

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Long-term blue teamer here. I don’t entirely disagree with you but there’s a little bit of minor nuance. In a general sense, many do use them interchangeably.

RCE is remote code execution. Some amount of code can be executed remotely.

ACE is arbitrary code execution. Unrestrained code can be executed.

That’s why many critical CVEs often have the verbiage “arbitrary remote code execution” to denote not only can code be executed remotely, but practically any valid code can be executed remotely.

I must be too old but I do not get this one iota.

I am so so painfully sorry for your loss of a clearly wonderful pupper.

You did something incredibly beautiful by giving Zeus the love and the forever home he always deserved. From what you’ve shared, you did everything right.

Please keep this in your heart: Zeus passed at the foot of your bed and while you wish you were holding him, to him, he was in his comfort place and WAS with you. To dogs, who can hear and smell a lot better than us, and gain so much just by being in proximity of those they love, he no doubt felt your calming presence the entire time; your heartbeat, your smell, your breath.

To him, he passed peacefully exactly where he wanted to be. With you.

All tortoises are turtles (but not all turtles are tortoises) from a biology point of view. Tortoises specifically being exclusively land-based members of the turtle (Testudines) order. So there is a difference.

And “spring” doesn’t really have different meanings - as per the root of the word, it always means some variant of “to burst forth”. There’s lots of different definitions for the word but they’re all rooted in the same place, from an etymology point of view.

The season bursting forth from the winter darkness and cold, the metal coil as it bursts forth when released from compression, the source of water as it bursts forth from the ground, bursting forth someone out of jail, etc.

Homographs are the real problem - when two different words, over time, become spelled the same.

Sow, lead, close, bear. All have multiple etymologies where different words eventually became spelled the same. Those are the worst!

English is a truly crazy mashup of Latin, Greek, French, German, Celtic, Norse and more.

Great BBC article on this.

Oooooh. Drama.

Credit artists.
Cite references.

It’s the internet. Hyperlinking is foundational.

Huh?!

not gonna crop out that username? isn’t that an ad for Betty Bowers?

You’re literally the one calling names adverts, were the first to bring it up, and the other person didn’t say anything on the topic except in response to you.

Are you confusing OP with someone else?

This comment rivals My Immortal on grammar and spelling.

I would imagine it’s the pain for locals where housing costs a fortune and the city becomes a ghost town out of season.