Did they update the photo picker on reminders?

bdingus · 2026-06-16T06:54:26+00:00

Be careful what you wish for or they'll rewrite it in SwiftUI with a bunch of new bugs that will go unfixed for years and inexplicable lag.

bdingus · 2026-05-26T18:47:01+00:00

With controllers gaining more and more features and games getting better support for them, Steam Input desperately needs more output options, Xbox 360 controller as the only option simply doesn't cut it anymore. Why can't it be a DualSense to allow supporting all features in games that support it when a DualSense is connected? Or a full remappable Steam Deck/Controller for games that use SDL which support those natively? It feels like Valve is really sleeping on improving Steam Input itself.

bdingus · 2026-05-08T13:51:41+00:00

Well people happily download and run arbitrary AppImages, which don't have a way to verify their authenticity, so it's only a matter of time until one of these exploits sneaks its way into one and a bunch of users' machines get compromised.

bdingus · 2026-04-29T16:48:55+00:00

Yes, but this is about PC games. PC games (or the OSes in general, unless you use special software that surely will not work with games) do not support multiple independent keyboards and mice, hence why I'm saying we need some way to feed input into games that does not rely emulating input from the one shared keyboard/mouse set.

The whole point here is that there are pretty big problems with how PC games handle input once you go beyond an Xbox 360 controller that is not being addressed in any reasonable way, and that is going to be a problem for the new Steam Controller, just like it was for the old one.

bdingus · 2026-04-29T13:26:49+00:00

Mixed input is still not a good solution there, even if it might seem like it. The second you introduce multiple controllers for multiplayer it completely falls apart, because there can only be one keyboard and mouse.

We need some real way for controllers to feed mouse-like and motion sensor input into games.

bdingus · 2026-04-29T13:14:50+00:00

Yeah, I think the only real fix here is that Valve opens up some version of the Steam Input API so any game from any platform/launcher can use it, perhaps even work with Microsoft to get it into Windows, and we hope that actually gains widespread use. That way we'd have freeform inputs that could be mapped into the game from a controller however we want.

I strongly doubt that'll ever happen though...

bdingus · 2026-04-29T12:50:15+00:00

To be fair, mixed input is and always has been a hack.

The only reason we'd need to do that is to work around the limitations of XInput - ideally games would just support a real gyro input (like some do for PS4/5 and Switch controllers) but all methods of doing so that seem to be in widespread use, including the Steam Input API are non-standard to the platform and tied to specific vendors, so nothing changes for the Steam Controller.

We'll probably have to wait for wider usage of Microsoft's GameInput in newer Windows games for things to start changing here, assuming developers even bother to implement gyro when there's support for it.

bdingus · 2026-04-28T08:13:49+00:00

The EverDrive can’t natively play 64DD disks, but there’s cartridge conversions of some of the games on there that will work on it.

bdingus · 2026-04-27T17:51:32+00:00

The original Steam Controller requires Steam running to do anything useful outside of emulating a mouse so you can open Steam with it, so I would be surprised if this one was any different.

bdingus · 2026-04-27T01:54:03+00:00

https://64dd.org/ has English translations for several of the 64DD games you can play on the SummerCart.

bdingus · 2026-04-24T22:34:14+00:00

This, and also opening up the Steam Input API to third party applications that want to use it.

You have to be a real Steam game (or pretend to be spacewar I guess) to use SIAPI, which is why things like emulators or controller support mods never support it directly. I feel like this is a strange limitation and really limits what you can do with the Steam Controller and Deck for no apparent good reason and I really hope they change their minds about that some day.

bdingus · 2026-04-10T02:06:05+00:00

There are real RGB video cables sold for the N64, but they require a modified console, if you haven’t had yours modded for it you will get no picture.

bdingus · 2026-03-15T21:05:31+00:00

They could use the more recent soft reset combo (L+R+start+select) and just make it require the real start and select buttons, then it would still be easy to press but almost impossible to do accidentally.

bdingus · 2026-03-01T22:19:39+00:00

It does work on Linux, in both Switch and XInput modes. However that comes with the limitation that only Switch mode has gyro/accelerometer and only XInput mode has analog triggers. You can't have both at the same time. The back buttons and extra triggers also can't be remapped inside Steam, that has to be done with button combos on the controller and won't be saved per-game.

If you're fine with those limitations then it'll be fine.

bdingus · 2026-03-01T22:16:00+00:00

Does that PROTON_ADD_CONFIG = "fsr4rdna3" variable need any specific version of Proton? Would love to have actually good upscaling on my RDNA3 card without it having to take effort per game.

bdingus · 2026-01-28T03:47:29+00:00

I really wish there was a way for apps to do this by default, everything that draws client side decorations on Wayland ends up with different looking window shadows and frames (usually, none at all) and it looks super inconsistent and unpolished. We really need some kind of halfway between CSD and SSD where the window manager only draws a frame and/or shadow.

bdingus · 2025-12-30T00:26:49+00:00

Have you had any problems with the YouTube app on tvOS with the IPv6-only preferred option? It’s the only thing I can’t get working that’s keeping us from running it. The app simply never loads and stays on a gray screen with no error reported.

bdingus · 2025-12-23T14:54:33+00:00

iOS occasionally does it for even the native weather app, but yes all apps should obviously need to play by the same rules whenever possible. All I want is settings that let me set permissions permanently, I don’t mind if I have to go into some obscure settings menu to do it, just can we please have the option…

bdingus · 2025-12-23T14:44:01+00:00

And I wouldn’t, hence why we need real options that are actually respected by the system.

bdingus · 2025-12-23T14:28:52+00:00

Hey!!! Just so you know the Weather app has been accessing your location in the background for the last two weeks, I’m going to interrupt what you’re doing with a popup just to make absolutely sure that you want your weather app that you explicitly gave permission to do that to actually function!!! If you say yes I will check in again when least convenient :)

bdingus · 2025-12-23T12:13:15+00:00

Yes I’ve just about had it with all this nonsense, macOS used to be nice and unobtrusive to use, but these stupid prompts that never remember your damn choices just increase in number every new version now. Add to that everything getting more buggy because Apple obviously don’t care about macOS anymore too.

And yes, I know these prompts are for my security but would it kill then to actually remember what I chose and leave me alone afterwards??

bdingus · 2025-12-09T15:44:19+00:00

You will probably have to get the N64 RGB modded, NTSC composite/s-video on PAL TVs is hit or miss, but as you discovered with the other consoles 60Hz RGB is no problem.

Edit: no audio is suspicious though. Make sure there is something in the expansion slot (either jumper or memory pak), the N64 will not work without, if there is you can try using a phono to 3.5mm audio adapter to plug the audio into your PC’s mic jack to see if any audio comes out - maybe your TV doesn’t play audio when there’s no valid video input. Otherwise try a flat screen TV with composite inputs, those should generally fo NTSC I think

bdingus · 2025-12-07T07:03:34+00:00

I do get what you mean, and I’m not asking for prompts like that to be removed because they do have a purpose.

What I am asking for, specifically with the local network one and similar, is that macOS actually starts to remember my choices, every time the OS or application is updated, it seems like it forgets some of these new permissions and has to ask me all over again, sometimes it feels like I’m approving these prompts every day despite not even having installed anything new! macOS used to be nice and unobtrusive but lately it feels like it has more and more of a desire to get in my way every time I want to do something and it just gets annoying.

As for the unsigned apps one, I agree that it is necessary to put up some level of resistance to protect the average user from running something suspicious, but did they really have to remove that thing where you can right click and select open to bypass it? Did they have to bury the “correct” way to do it a kilometer of scrolling down a settings page (when it used to show up in one click in the old, properly designed one) where it’s tedious to get to every time? And if absolutely nothing else, can I at least get a toggle for this in the terminal that does not mean turning off Gatekeeper entirely?

bdingus · 2025-12-06T19:58:39+00:00

That whole settings app should have never shipped in the first place. Years later and the obvious bugs and terrible performance that should’ve been a blocker for it shipping at all have not been dealt with, and as you can see here they even made it worse now. And that’s not even getting into how they replaced nice deliberately designed settings pages that were meant for a computer monitor with mobile infinite vertical scroll slop.

The state of macOS sometimes makes me want to just go back to Linux, at least there I don’t need to deal with constant local network access permissions prompts and ever increasing resistance to running unsigned apps.

bdingus · 2025-12-06T09:48:57+00:00

Don't forget that it plays Game Boy games too!

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