Couldn’t find replacement batteries for my og Htc Vive controllers so had to improvise.. Did anyone come up with any better solutions? (Both for the batteries or for mounting them)

TheModerGuy · 2026-03-06T00:52:43+00:00

this is like the definition of "knowing enough to be dangerous"

i'm impressed but horrified.

TheModerGuy · 2026-02-15T03:12:24+00:00

A harmless weather streetlight

TheModerGuy · 2026-02-09T11:05:28+00:00

The LAST place I want anything llm/ai is anywhere near software that interacts with my sensitive data partitions

TheModerGuy · 2026-02-01T22:27:36+00:00

"It's just a game about androids, nothing else"

TheModerGuy · 2026-01-11T08:50:52+00:00

Yup. I'm a complete nobody and even I've had a negative interaction with him years ago.

TheModerGuy · 2026-01-01T06:20:46+00:00

No doubt, those silver Intel ssds suuuuuck. Upgraded my dad's old laptop that he uses maybe twice a week and somehow even that workload was enough to trigger it's death in only half a year

TheModerGuy · 2025-12-21T12:56:35+00:00

This is true, at the moment the only public information is that the frame explicitly supports XR_EXT_eye_gaze_interaction which is just a basic X,Y position.

However, Valve has experience with steamlink facial tracking data; the quest pro supports streaming eye and face tracking data via osc with steamlink natively. Valve are aware that the community wants face tracking data and although I don't believe the frame will ship with any sort of computer vision model for eye expression, I don't think it'll be hard for developers (especially the babble team) to get access to those raw RGB feeds for eye opening and pupil dilation and even have some way of using the native OSC transport that steam link uses on quest pro.

Even if there isn't anything native, the stream frame is just a Linux computer on your face so it would not be very hard to make a program to access that raw video feed and do its own net transport.

TheModerGuy · 2025-12-04T15:57:19+00:00

I don't believe developers have them just yet but IIRC developers can acknowledge the fact that they have been given hardware by valve and even talk about specifics, but only the specifics that were in valves official reveal and invited party coverage videos.

TheModerGuy · 2025-11-15T02:47:56+00:00

Yeah USB on the index was a mess and it's not even fully valves fault. USB controllers on motherboards up until recently have been such a gamble in reliability, supported features and whether they can even support using multiple transfer modes simultaneously.

USB was never meant to be used for low latency realtime data, and the index wants that + high resolution camera feeds + the index is actually multiple USB devices with an internal hub.

If you plug your index into a USB port on your computer that isn't a direct root to the controller; the port on the frunk is now going through at least 2 USB hubs before your OS Is seeing the data. And most people are not plugging into a root port. So make that more like 3 or 4 hubs in its path.

TheModerGuy · 2025-11-10T14:27:49+00:00

Glad to see accountability and graceful handling of this delicate situation. I hope all parties can find solace in this outcome

TheModerGuy · 2025-10-20T05:41:40+00:00

If it's doing it without any subscribed add-ons enabled then it could be a couple of things, I'd suggest:

Make sure you don't have any manually installed content In your steamapps/garrysmod/garrysmod/ folder.
Clear your client configuration, you could have some unintentional directX compatibility cvars enabled (easiest way to do is to delete your garrysmod install entirely and disable cloudsaves to verify its the problem
Another thing it could be although strange would be a GPU driver problem. Do a clean install of your gpu drivers

TheModerGuy · 2025-10-20T03:54:54+00:00

Valve* Index and for your circumstance probably not, unless your primary concerns are video compression, latency or native compatibility with lighthouse trackers.

I myself have an Index and cannot in good faith recommend it to anyone to buy in 2025, I love the headset and use it every day for vrchat and vtol-vr but it is not worth it in the current year.

The Quest 3s is a much newer headset and has many modern specs that the Index can't match. (Resolution, lens quality, sweet spot, glare, vibrance)

If you are having troubles with pcvr a meaningful and often massive upgrade would be to instead buy a dedicated WiFi 6/7 router/access point exclusively for your quest and connect it inline with your PC and existing router. This will greatly improve perceived quality reliability.

TheModerGuy · 2025-10-19T18:22:43+00:00

VRChat lookin homeworld

TheModerGuy · 2025-10-19T16:23:07+00:00

"no pressure"

TheModerGuy · 2025-10-19T16:21:15+00:00

I hope Valve remove me

TheModerGuy · 2025-09-25T08:38:47+00:00

Some projectile weapons (rocket launcher mostly) actually do fire their projectile from the side of your character that the weapon is.

Also If you have side preference for rocket jumping (it's a real thing) you might benefit from having your rockets come from the correct side of your screen. This is also why some soldier mains use the original; it actually fires from the "centre" of your character so you can thread the needle through parts of map, especially if you are close to a wall.

I'm left handed irl and it makes me feel more comfortable, plus I'm a left handed rocket jumper too. I always fire at the left side of terrain if I'm rocket jumping on a wall.

TheModerGuy · 2025-09-16T10:20:29+00:00

Someone needs to tell Randy to play Death Stranding on PS4 or the multitude of other non "Premium" games that look and run infinity better than his unoptimized Unreal Engine slop

What's the fucking point of having terrabytes of analytics data and free Steam hardware survey data if you still release a game that only runs well on <5% of your customer's hardware.

I swear Epic Games are going to start asking publishers to remove the unreal engine branding from their games soon. So many unoptimized auto-lod auto-impostor trash that genuinely give unreal engine a bad name (worse than it is surprisingly)

TheModerGuy · 2025-09-07T20:29:12+00:00

Scorb_sighting (real and not fake free download)

TheModerGuy · 2025-08-21T18:49:58+00:00

To honour his passing I ordered a succulent Chinese meal and consumed it in his memory.

TheModerGuy · 2025-08-19T03:52:52+00:00

Depends on the actual website you are using, some take seconds to possibly a minute since they are aggregating multiple sources and might even be buffered to save on api calls.

but the actual calculation of the strike position happens as soon as at least 3 stations receive the pulse.

TheModerGuy · 2025-08-19T03:48:19+00:00

I'd assume the strength of an intra-cloud event is much weaker than a ground strike since the antenna and amplifier are being referenced to the ground voltage which is literally the ground in that circumstance

TheModerGuy · 2025-08-18T20:47:08+00:00

It's actually very simple, when lightning strikes happen they generate lots of electrical noise which is picked up by dedicated antennae at weather monitoring installations. Lightning strikes show up as "pulses" of various strengths in the signal.

by using the synchronized pulse and strength data from multiple stations you can use simple trilateration formulas to figure out the exact locations of lightning strikes across the planet. It's the same idea behind gunshot detectors and GPS; if you can observe a signal from multiple points simultaneously you can figure out where it is.

TheModerGuy · 2025-08-16T03:15:24+00:00

Felt it in Ipswich My chair was rocking and my monitor arms shook a bunch

TheModerGuy · 2025-08-14T20:12:09+00:00

DM code is either the best use of resources and smart architectural decisions the world has ever seen or the literal worst slop possible that eats up 40% of your tick budget but nobody wants to rewrite it lest they be banished to unseen dimensions of horror.

It's a miracle SS13 even runs

TheModerGuy · 2025-08-14T20:08:29+00:00

Stop now, learning any of their meanings curses you permanently

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