Maybe? I do kinda doubt that as the original addon was benign and did exactly what it said on the tin to fix a problem one of the founders had themselves - finding and applying coupons automatically, and there isn't an obvious way or need to monetise that.But they gained a massive userbase very quickly, which attracted investors like vultures ready to tear profits from those users. So even if they originally didn't plan to do much more than scan for coupons, after a few years of venture capital greed and tens of millions of investor money, they definitely were chasing profits by any means necessary. Money corrupts, after all.
And by the time Paypal was willing to pay $4 billion for them in 2020, it was blatantly obvious they were doing a lot of shady shit because there just isn't a way to monetise free users that well while staying above the board.
All of which is a damn shame, because the idea of an addon that scans and tries coupons for you is really simple and very useful :/
Both AGI and LLMs are types of artificial intelligence, as are things like OCR, speech to text systems, or chess engines, and a ton of other things, it's a vast field of computer science.
Honey is a great example of corporate greed and enshittification turned to 11. It started as a simple free extension for collecting and trying discount coupons, and turned to a massive greedy scam with enough financial backing to start blackmailing webshops for profit.
And no matter how they do it, it's clear they need to make changes; "everything is an Xbox controller and now just works" actually was pretty nice solution 20 years ago to fix the complicated mess that was PC gamepads with DirectInput, but it is very much outdated idea today.
Thankfully it appears changes are happening that might solve the issue in the near future, and all we can really do is wait and see.
Should companies using computers in general pay a tax for it, a computer used to mean a human that calculated - computed - things by hand, after all?But alarm clocks replaced knockeruppers, light bulbs replaced lamplighters, cars replaced coachmen, industrial robots replaced blacksmiths, we have no elevator operators, phone switch boards, traffic conductors, pin boys, link boys, ice cutters, scribes - the list of jobs made obsolete by technology during human history is massive.
Generative AI, while widespread and disruptive, is just one more to the long list.
typedef struct _XINPUT_GAMEPAD {
WORD wButtons;
BYTE bLeftTrigger;
BYTE bRightTrigger;
SHORT sThumbLX;
SHORT sThumbLY;
SHORT sThumbRX;
SHORT sThumbRY;
} XINPUT_GAMEPAD, *PXINPUT_GAMEPAD;
Changing any of that would break every single xinput controller and game made in the last 20 years. Modifications require a new API, which is exactly what GameInput is.
Researching this a bit more, there is an answer in the making already - GameInput. How long that will take to take over from every game using xinput is left to be seen.
Used Pebble is one option.If you can handle soldering in a battery, you can usually buy a Pebble or Pebble Steel for really cheap (just make sure it isn't a first batch glued shut model). Don't get a Round, batteries are really hard to find. Pebble 2 and Pebble 2 Duo will also need replacement side buttons, they disintegrate quickly.
Obviously they will have zero days of warranty though :p
It's not possible as xinput doesn't support gyroscopes, the controller simply doesn't report that data. The "Switch" mode is setting it to be a mostly standard HID/DirectInput device so that all of those inputs can be accessed, but that requires something (Steam Input) to sit between the controller and the game to map the inputs together, and the game has to also support non-xinput controllers - otherwise you are just mapping them back to xbox inputs.
The exception is a game that support directinput... well, directly. Like sim racers etc.
There is now the option of going "hardware" Steam Input as well, as is done by the HORIPAD for Steam, but it is something the controller has to do.
I'm willing to bet that without the Deck, most AAA games would have already jumped to requiring roughly PS5-level PC hardware now that last gen consoles are effectively dead.UE5 on the Deck might not be pretty, but making it run at all on it lowers the minimum requirements of a game tremendously.
They did have a shoddy ceasefire agreement from 2015 onwards where the "little green men" totally not anything to do with Russia fought in Donbas, until Russia invaded properly again in 2022. So technically 11 years 9 months, but seriously only for around four.
It should be an IRC clone. Having the voice and screen sharing is also kinda nice.
Instead it's IRC + MSN messenger + Ventrilo + Skype + TeamViewer + MegaShare + Wiki + Game server hosting + Forum and probably a few more I'm forgetting, and adding more half-working bloat all the time.
IIRC here in Finland they keep failing yearly inspections constantly because the balljoints and bushings etc are always completely shot as they can't handle the extra weight of the batteries and massive torque from the motors.
It's called OpenID and has been a thing for almost two decades.