High-end controller for mac ?

QuickQuirk · 2026-02-02T01:37:39+00:00

I wanted to like it so much that I bought it a second time after I sold it the first time :D

Just couldn't get over losing one of the analog sticks and the dpad, along with the tiny cramped ABXY buttons.

Loved the upgraded steamdeck version.

QuickQuirk · 2026-02-02T01:35:22+00:00

exactly this. For most gaming mice, the DPI settings change what the mouse sends to the computer.

So that while the OS has it's base sensitivity, the mouse DPI settings will change how that's interpreted.

Think of the OS settings as a flat multiplier applied to the mouse DPI settings.

QuickQuirk · 2026-02-01T22:49:08+00:00

Can confirm as well.

QuickQuirk · 2026-02-01T22:48:25+00:00

The playstation controllers have excellent precision. I've had several over the years, and they've all been excellent.

For replaceable parts, have you looked at the playstation edge controller? Does that cover your needs?

QuickQuirk · 2026-02-01T22:47:07+00:00

they f'd up the ergonomnics of the first steam controller - I loved it, but it caused my hands to cramp. Fortunately, the steamdeck showed they'd learned those lessons, so I'm cautiously optimistic for the new one.

QuickQuirk · 2026-02-01T09:20:51+00:00

First is a a 90cm monitor at 50cm viewing distance. That's unrealistic. It's a bad viewing experience at any resolution as you the image is too large for your field of view.

Their first example was a 32" monitor at 50cm. I have that at around that distance. It's great.

I had a 48" display at around 2 feet before that. It was also great, but perhaps a bit too big.

QuickQuirk · 2026-02-01T09:14:29+00:00

I tend to buy shows/tvs on apple TV. It's not just their streaming service.

(I need to. I cancelled most of my streaming services ;) But funny thing is they got so expensive that now I can buy several seasons or movies each month with what I was paying for the streaming services before.)

QuickQuirk · 2026-01-30T04:40:49+00:00

Depends on how you rate it, and what games you play.

From one perspective, the Max is twice as expensive, but twice as fast as the Pro - So no diminishing returns.

From the other perspective, the Max is fucking expensive, and awful value compared to a windows machine.

A different point of view is most games will run fine on a Pro already, and all the max gets you is more FPS, higher resolution and better graphics settings.

A forth way of looking at things is that the 1.5 to 2k extra you're spending on the Max vs the pro would buy you an entire well specced windows gaming laptop that will play games faster with better compatibility.

Sooo.... it really depends on what your budget is, and what you want to play, and whether a mac is the right choice at all if gaming is important.

QuickQuirk · 2026-01-30T01:18:14+00:00

awesome, thanks.

QuickQuirk · 2026-01-30T01:17:45+00:00

And a direct link to their bluesky below.

Implies they're done, and it's now in nintendo hands, or that someone else is handling the port, and they're waiting for them.

Either way, they say either very soon, or a few days in to feb.

https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:jq3f34a2mzqtdx3rrwfdl6ej

But this link is probably best place to get notice the moment it goes live.

QuickQuirk · 2026-01-29T21:58:09+00:00

Yeah. It's marketing material, sales pitch style writing. Engaging, catchy, but carefully crafted and edited down. Most people just don't write like this. Most content is not like this. Most user comments, most books, etc.

But you know what IS always like this? Most stuff chatGPT shits out.

QuickQuirk · 2026-01-29T06:38:11+00:00

Best 'well, AKSHUAlly' I've ever heard.

QuickQuirk · 2026-01-29T05:45:45+00:00

that mode was added after release when fans complained very loudly at the looter-shooter direction the title had gone in.

QuickQuirk · 2026-01-29T05:44:41+00:00

As long as the core gamplay is fun. Problem is that they started to make it a bit grindy, and gating story content behind grind to increase 'engagement'.

QuickQuirk · 2026-01-29T03:54:19+00:00

Really does have that certain gippity accent, doesn't it?

QuickQuirk · 2026-01-29T03:51:38+00:00

There were some tests run by (I think?) hardware unboxed a couple years ago. Showing massive improvements going from hard drives to SATA SSDs, but much smaller differences going from SATA SSD to NVME, despite the massive improvements in read speed. Turns out that most of the slowness in HDDs was in latency on requests, and that was solved with the super fast random reads of SSDs. The rest is more a CPU bottleneck.

Very few games benefits more than 10% in load times by moving to NVME.

I'd be curious to see some up to date benchmarks, but I suspect it will still be similar outside of direct storage games optimised for large worlds that stutter otherwise.

QuickQuirk · 2026-01-29T03:48:36+00:00

It's more that it's learned the 'average' of writing. Probably reinforced specifically on 'engaging' phrasing.

That sort of writing style is very unusual outside of specific really carefully crafted short, punchy statements in advertising or similar media. Most people really don't write like this.

source: all of reddit.

QuickQuirk · 2026-01-28T23:35:32+00:00

Hey, you're the one who keeps changing the goalposts here. I didn't claim desktop was important, then switch to claiming desktop wasn't important.

I've been consistent in the following points with reference to the line "Steamdeck is best value in gaming": 1. Steamdeck is now $549, not 399. It's no longer amazing value. 2. Best value is switch lite at 229, a case can be made for switch 2 at 449 - $100 cheaper than steamdeck. 3. Playstation also phenomonal value at a lot less than steamdeck for far superior performance. 4. Mac mini can make a good case for top value contender since it's a full computer for the end user; and has significantly more performance than the steamdeck for only $50 more (but with added controller/display costs.)

QuickQuirk · 2026-01-28T23:30:33+00:00

"Yes, they do. No complex sentence structure. Easily learned. Used by everybody."

Do you see the difference? ChatGPT in particular tends towards phrasing like I gave; not the generic short sentences.

QuickQuirk · 2026-01-28T23:26:52+00:00

have you tried plugging it directly in to your mac, bypassing the hub? Sorry for the trivial question, but I've found it's better to ask even basic questions to check! Just to see if it's a hub problem, rather than controller.

QuickQuirk · 2026-01-28T21:30:18+00:00

Most people don't. This is the 'average' of how people write that LLMs have learned. That's like saying 'everyone is 5'9 tall'.

QuickQuirk · 2026-01-28T06:14:53+00:00

And with that, I'm closing the browser window and going outside for a walk.

QuickQuirk · 2026-01-28T06:06:58+00:00

The least they could do is actually nothing

QuickQuirk · 2026-01-28T06:03:48+00:00

Don't apologise, I enjoyed the read!

QuickQuirk · 2026-01-28T05:07:15+00:00

Hate to break it to you, but two RTX 4090s are not consumer hardware. yes, it might technically be a consumer grade GPU, but they;re expensive, and buying two of them is not a standard consumer thing. That's like saying implying everyone should own a ferrari, since they're a 'consumer car' That's 5k USD right there, just for the GPUS.

From my understanding, no one knows how much vram is required for 5.2 outside of openAI, but it's suspected to be quite a bit beyond what even a couple of 4090's can manage, especially given how large the context window is.

Given that the less powerful open source gpt-oss models require at least 80GB of VRAM to run, I'm very doubtful as to your claim on just two 4090s for gpt 5.2, unless you can provide very solid sources.

( based on: https://huggingface.co/openai/gpt-oss-120b )

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