@gamingonlinux I'm torn, initially I wanted to but at a leaked $99 it's a tad more than I'd want to.

I've actually started to use my Dualsense a tad more now too as finding more and more games support the haptic triggers which I do like.

@gamingonlinux with the caveat that I bought the last one and still have it somewhere and might have to justify the purchase in that knowledge

@gamingonlinux I know this an unpopular opinion™ but I got 2 of the originals, and they were and still are a big let-down

@gamingonlinux Without question. I love playing my Steam Deck docked on my living room TV, but always sad to lose the touchpads. I’ve got the OG Steam Controller, but it doesn’t have enough buttons, and the shape is funky (tho more comfortable than you’d think). This feels like the perfect evolution.

@gamingonlinux I thought I would but at $99... I think I'll save the money for the Frame which is what I'm most excited for.

@gamingonlinux nah, I'm still good with the old one 🙈

@gamingonlinux Only no because I'm a keyboard and mouse player. 😜

@gamingonlinux Secret fourth option:

Maybe when my DS4s crap out because I'm very happy with those otherwise

Kinda waiting on reviews tho, I guess. I have a pair of the old Steam Controller and it was a pretty mixed experience with them. The new one seems to address some of my gripes but a big one was that the build quality on the old controller was not great. It just doesn't feel super good to hold etc...

Optimistic, still, really want these to be great

@gamingonlinux not on its own, but with a Steam Machine if/when they appear.

@gamingonlinux Got two Steam Links, an OG Steam Controller and a Steam Deck. Gotta keep the family together 🤣

@gamingonlinux No, I'm not buying anything from Steam/Valve anymore. I could consider GOG-controller if they make one. 😉

@gamingonlinux

My "good" controller seems to have gone missing in the last month, so it's a well-timed replacement.

In the long run, I expect to have two, as the Steam Machine is also supposed to come with one - which is ok, I like some two-player games. But if I can get one now and they offer the Steam machine without, I'll likely go without.

@gamingonlinux I answered yes, but it's more of a "very likely." I'm in no rush, but my kid adores the original Steam Controller, and theirs isn't always reliable after ten years of being dropped on the floor and handled with sticky kid fingers. I think we'll get at least one of the new ones to replace the old.

@gamingonlinux

My PC gaming is 99.99% RetroArch, and at the moment, my old PS3 controller works fine. I know it won't last forever though, so when I need a new one I'll likely be mulling it over between a Steam controller or something from 8bitdo.

Edit: forgot to say "reviews will play into that decision" 📊

@gamingonlinux either when my current controller dies (which may be soon sadly) or whenever it gets on sale. Whatever comes first.

@gamingonlinux It definitely costs more than I would like, but it really looks to be the ultimate controller for the steam deck, especially with the dual touch pads.

I usually use an Xbox controller but occasionally have to swap to a PS4 controller due to it having a touchpad.

I really think the steam controller will take the place of them both.

@mjg59 I remember what a chore it used to be to get it to work properly.

@mjg59 PHP lost a whole major version release over it.

@mjg59 at least around here, people still do not seem to fully understand it which then ends up in, hey try not to use any Umlauts in the masterdata which makes me go gnarrr all the time.

@mjg59
The opposition in Poland was crazy, especially given that we suffered 3 competing codepages not that long before unicode arrived. The fights on the newsgroups were massive!

@mjg59 i know backwards-compatability but it's always striking that perl still needs you to do a whole dance for it not to break everything that is utf8 which is basically everything.

@mjg59 would you say that was mostly inertia and migration pain?

@mjg59 More features means more things that can break. Things are mostly fixed now, not perfect, but most of this renders correctly for me: https://antofthy.gitlab.io/info/data/utf8_demo.txt

@mjg59 It was still standardised faster on Linux than on MS Windows... Which is a pretty low bar.

@mjg59 Ah, I remember running webservers on 4 different ports with different Cyrillic encodings. Why would anyone want to stop doing that...
And I can still "read" the 7bit version of koi8-r, which obviously made it the best encoding.

@warandpeas

Alt text and panel order don’t match in the separate four panel strip

@warandpeas im old and on a phone and i prefer all panels in one so it loads and i can pinch zoom

@eniko i have played Minecraft but not Like That

@eniko does creative mode count?

@eniko I still don't know why I defeatened the ender dragon tbh. It took so long and all I got was a stupid egg I couldn't do anything with.

@eniko I've played many hundreds of hours in custom game mode servers, never really played vanilla minecraft though

@eniko There wasn't one when I played Minecraft :)

@eniko I played hundreds of hours, never went there xD

@eniko I'm one of those guys who only actually start playing after killing the dragon (and obtaining elytras and shulkers)...

@eniko I have, and it made me sad. Poor dragon. The dragon was just there, living happily, and I slain it for no reason

@eniko The last time I played Minecraft, the Ender dragon didn't even exist yet... 😅

@eniko Once, with a some friends on a server we had running for a few months. Most of my Minecraft time over the years has been spent just building and exploring though.

Also, maybe this is unusual, but I rarely bother with mods. The vanilla game has been plenty entertaining and most mods or (worse) big 'ol mod packs seem to just pile on needless complexity.

Which is weird because apart from the portal storms I've enjoyed Vintage Story which appears to be forged from weapons-grade complexium.

@eniko a few times, a lot more in multiplayer

@eniko I've never even made a portal

why would I?

@0xabad1dea I must know, what kind of pen gives that ink effect? (It's so pretty!)

@0xabad1dea I copied you

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Photo of a few words written with a fountain pen. Text say "Hoping that others won't hear / is nof the same as / not speaking; / hoping others won't find out / is not the same as / not doing. The paper is a rhodia n°8, white with thin blue grid in a narrow format; pen (not pictured) is a twsbi eco purple translucent; ink is diamine inks monboddos hat, a very dark purple

@SwiftOnSecurity thank you for your service.

@SwiftOnSecurity brilliant

@SwiftOnSecurity

@SwiftOnSecurity

@SwiftOnSecurity as a developer who is still trying to finish a port of a script from py2 to py3 because of this exact reason: please don't. Very fed data formats or streams include encoding info, and just debugging such an impossible thing would just drive a poor dev like me maintaining a 20yo+ stack towards the insane spectrum.

@SwiftOnSecurity That is fucking evil! ⚡️

@SwiftOnSecurity horizontal and vertical whitespace can also give ’interesting’ results.

@SwiftOnSecurity gruesome but so much fun thank you!!!

@NanoRaptor I wonder if retro-briting could even recover from that.

@NanoRaptor tobacco smoke?

@NanoRaptor Looks like cigarette smoke damage

“they can’t force FreeDOS or ITS users to implement age verification!” you know, I don’t think the fascists give a single fuck if you spend a relatively short period of time jacking around on increasingly expensive retro hardware before it dies and/or is priced out of your grasp. I think if they force you to do that as the only way to experience a computer you control, they’ve won.

@nina_kali_nina have you considered Mia Rose as your desktop environment?

I can stretch loooon, maybe I can cover a lot of your desk

@nina_kali_nina can't speak firsthand to its gayness, but Haiku seems like it might fit your other criteria

@nina_kali_nina
OpenBSD! (But OTOH how would I know, being old and cis and straight and probably a troublemaker)

@nina_kali_nina i mean, i am hardly the expert, but you seem to have picked like the two least gay options.

@nina_kali_nina OpenBSD is Canadian

@nina_kali_nina FreeBSD? Is that still a thing? Saw a screenshot once, and wanted to fuck it.

@nina_kali_nina NetBSD, but with a pride flag. 🥳✨🏳️‍🌈
GayBSD fork ETA when?!

@nina_kali_nina I have no idea wrt an answer to this, but will watch with curiosity.

@nina_kali_nina ... now that you made me think about it, OpenBSD looks gayer, but NetBSD looks queerer...

@nina_kali_nina why not FreeBSD? It’s a while since I last looked at BSDs, but I believe FreeBSD was the more desktop oriented one, that and Dragonfly.

IMHO NetBSD is kind of a “research” project these days. Not sure anyone uses it in anger, or as a desktop OS.

@nina_kali_nina HaikuOS? it starts getting software now with QT (I think)

@nina_kali_nina This is like asking which shovel is more like a love sonnet.

(For the record, I voted NetBSD because they have greater platform diversity, which seems philosophically gayer?)

@nina_kali_nina I did not expect this. Does that mean it's straight, or is everyone gay? 😅

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50% for both

@nina_kali_nina Super curious how your experience goes. I've gotten BSD-curious in the past and these were the two I settled on as what I might want to use.

But then, you know, learning a new system and everything. I just didn't have the spoons for it at the time.

@nina_kali_nina @nuttx, kolibrios, @redox - plenty of choices to try after BSD flavors 🙂

@nina_kali_nina NETBSD works on the Wii and (I think) Amiga. Seems pretty gay to me (also pretty Gary, as my phone insisted)

@nina_kali_nina plan9 is downright homosexual

@nina_kali_nina trans rights. :3

@nina_kali_nina netbsd is notorious for running on anything. Strong pan energy.

@nina_kali_nina @libreleah i know you have dome thoughts on this >.>

@0xabad1dea they didn't even check for typos 🙈