Unlike popular console controllers, which have games designed specifically for them, the Steam Controller was created to play games originally made for mouse and keyboard, not a controller.

The goal was to have a single controller that lets you play your entire Steam library. So it has all the buttons and axes expected by XInput-based games, but compared to the other controllers it sacrifices simplicity in favor of flexibility. It has four additional buttons on the back and dual trackpads on the front, which makes it considerably larger.

I think if you had the back buttons act as modifiers changing input layers, you could play a MMORPG with this which requires you to have 20 abilities on hotkeys. I haven’t looked into Steam Input in years, though.

A BR disc contains much more than just video data. The BR player device contains user-hostile functionality.

For example, firmware updates for various parts of DRM, like HDCP key revocation lists, are distributed with commercial BR discs.

Your playback setup could become permanently broken because you inserted the wrong movie and now your player refuses to send a video signal to your TV, or it suddenly stops accepting discs it did before.

It’s just the time the manufacturer is willing (or forced) to be held liable for certain defects to be caused by manufacturing errors instead of expected wear and material degradation.

Unless something is mission- or safety-critical, replacing it before it breaks is wasteful.

It appears the main driver for the replacements are frequent gas service outages. Presumably they didn’t want to just replace that with an equivalent vulnerability to blackouts.

Also, a battery can add to the power of a standard outlet, so these stoves can have some serious output even without a 240V connection.

You greatly overestimate the capabilities of Firefox’s average user.

Would be just as vulnerable to automated SEO unless there’s a significant barrier to being able to label and vote, such as invitation-only groups.

And don’t we have this already, almost? Filter Mastodon hashtags for links or add UI for hashtags to Lemmy. Or use full text search.

Some websites that present cookie banners or other modal dialogs like to piggy-back starting an audible video to the click that dismisses the dialog. Most videos get ad-blocked anyway, so this rarely bothers me, but last week one news article with accompanying (non-ad) video hit me with sudden audio.

alle vergleichbaren Lebensmittel

Sind halt nicht alle, und das Zeug sieht auch cremig aus, wie Eierlikör.

How did they do that?

Actually, the map the flat earthers seem to use the most is the polar azimuthal equidistant projection (as in the UN logo). Trips not involving the southern hemisphere get distorted much less.

Nightly has this so I assume it will come to Firefox sooner or later.

I guess this is really a bug in KDE/Plasma’s themes, then? The window controls in the GTK3 theme should have the same look as the window controls in the icon theme.

They now use a zygote process like Chrome does. When a new process is needed, the zygote just forks.

In the old version, the main process used a classic UNIX fork+exec of the browser executable instead, which could start an incompatible process if the executable has been replaced.

With the zygote process, all code and data files are preopened, so replacing or deleting them does not affect the running Firefox.

As another effect, skipping the exec makes process creation faster…

A recent Technology Connections video mentioned people are configuring chargers to 48 A when they’re using 14-50 “50 A” sockets that are really designed for 40 A continuous current. Or they’re using aluminum wiring without corrosion protection, or not abrading the oxide layer.

If ever Firefox actually starts to disgust me and not just disappoint me, I’ll stop maintaining it and look at forks.

But it won’t be Librewolf, because the default settings are just a cargo-cult of self-contradictory “privacy enhancements” without any sane threat model that make the browsing experience much worse for little gain.

My mother would have trouble using a small phone at its default display scale. Large text, small screens and poorly designed UIs do not mix.

(Also: be careful, because the pineapple is just as interested in eating you as you are in eating it.)

Are you talking about the bromelain? It rapidly makes milk and milk products bitter and also irritates the mouth.

It’s about adding API to Vulkan for access to the hardware encoding units that you’re complaining about.

Cross-platform, I guess. However, the only platform of commercial interest (and that I know of) that offers Vulkan as the primary, supported API is Android.

Es ist echt grausig, insbesondere für all die kleineren Websites, die CloudFlare’s Free Plan nutzen und nur für die DTAG über EWR (New York) geleitet werden.