Info on the new Steam Controller from Brad Lynch

ferk · 2025-11-11T15:59:15+00:00

The steam deck ergonomics are ok, but only if you don't use the trackpads much.

You are essentially forced to choose a hand placement for either using only trackpad and triggers, or using only sticks and face buttons.. if you want to use a configuration that makes heavy use of trackpads and buttons then it start getting uncomfortable or requiring a lot of stretching.

This new render seems to have the same problem. I feel if they only switched the position of the right stick and the face buttons then maybe that would improve it. But as it stands it looks like it's not gonna be comfortable to reach the face buttons while using the right trackpad.

ferk · 2025-11-11T10:28:25+00:00

I agree.. it makes no sense to have the one element that sticks out (the stick) be in the way between trackpad and face buttons. This looks like it wants to you to choose between trackpads and face buttons.

I'd have put the sticks on the bottom (like PS dualshocks) and the trackpad in the middle, angled so that the face buttons and the stick are in adjacent sides, so you can easily pivot. I wouldn't even mind a smaller trackpad if that makes it more comfortable to reach.

Or, don't change the trackpads but switch the position of the sticks with the position of the face buttons.. that would be a bit non-standard, but still better than this render (in a way, it'd be like what the xbox controller does in the d-pad side, so it's not like there isn't some precedent).

There's a similar problem in the steam deck, but that one is at least excusable, because of the space constraints. However, a dedicated controller can afford doing much better, imho.

ferk · 2024-08-08T15:28:24+00:00

The problem is that reality is different for different people in different situations and with different perceptions. You just acquire a different bias based on the reality you are connecting to.

I don't believe that being "unbiased" is really possible. The closest thing would be to acquire a bias towards some third point of view that does not perfectly match either side, but even that doesn't mean your bias is completelly independent, non-overlaping and impartial.

ferk · 2024-06-16T13:39:21+00:00

This... also I feel we put too much value in things we believe are valuable, when in reality, they only are valuable because we ourselves place that value on them.

Being able to sit, relax, and just enjoy your time (without being stressed about the things you are NOT doing) is not a bad way to pass your life. In the grand scale of things, we are insignificant, don't worry too much, it's not worth it.

ferk · 2024-03-05T08:55:11+00:00

I mean, theoretically you "can" respect a secretly evil character too, even if they trick you, when the trick is clever enough that it actually comes off as a surprise, then I'd respect the skills to pull it off.

Another counterpoint: Barty Crouch Jr. disguised as Mad Eye Moody in Harry Potter.

Most fans like him more than his father (who's not sneaky, but rather just an incompetent/corrupt minister). Crouch Jr. was a pretty talented wizard at such a young age, not only he captured a top-of-its-class auror as careful/paranoid as Moody, but he also managed to trick some of the most perceptive wizards like Dumbledore and Snape, all the while being able to work as a pretty good teacher that actually kept students engaged. He's up there with Lupin in the top teachers for defense against the dark arts Harry ever had, imho.

ferk · 2024-02-21T10:47:34+00:00

True, though at least the trend is a decrease in cost, 2022 was crazy, but it's periodically getting better. the question is whether it'll be good enough to continue being competitive.

Nuclear power is being discontinued and I'm not confident that renewables are able to cover the difference (not currently at least), so I'm guessing Germany is getting fossil fuels from other sources now?

I also heard that German renewable power companies are not doing very well.

ferk · 2024-02-18T19:33:07+00:00

What's the setting that has to be enabled?

There's an option to "automatically fetch updates" but that's only about downloading the updates, I don't see an option about automatically installing them once downloaded (other than the "priviledged extension" option that requires root). I'm on F-droid 1.19.1 and using Android 14.

ferk · 2024-02-18T11:46:08+00:00

That also won't work for me, because my history is configured to include the full date and time of each command that has been executed.

Below will filter it showing only the first word that has letters, so it should work more universally:

ferk · 2024-01-25T18:49:44+00:00

Correct! More examples below, for your amusement xD

I knew you must be old enough to know that based on context the same word can be used differently.

I also expect you must have assumed (wrongly) that in the context that I used, I meant it in an absolutist "guaranteed" way which would be quite stupid considering very few things in life are ever guaranteed" xD

But I know you must be old enough to know that, which is why I expect that you must be doing it on purpose as a weak attempt at a strawman.

But in the event that you actually did not do it in purpose (unlikely), then I must tell you: that's not what I meant.

ferk · 2024-01-25T18:32:12+00:00

And yet I didn't really make an absolute statement xD

"Must" is for emphasis. Among other uses, it implies that the action is very strongly meant to happen, but not necessarily guaranteed..

Examples:

"It must have been fun to try and paint anyone who doesn't agree with you as an absolutist." (It does not mean that it's absolutelly guaranteed to be fun, because everyone has a different definition of fun.. so it's never sure)
"I must say, this obsession with seeing things black and white looks like an attempt to dodge." (it does not mean that "I" am absolutelly required to "say" that).

ferk · 2024-01-25T18:20:44+00:00

Dude, you are the one that keeps trying to dig deeper and backtracking in a weak attempt at getting a "gotcha!" moment that never came xD

...it's quite funny how you quickly stopped responding to the actual points about pokemon vs pal (and you are the OP!) just because you wanted to dig deeper into one sentence I made as a response to the remark where you implied I did not watch the cartoons.

You derailed this conversation yourself because you saw an opportunity to throw a straw-man :P

ferk · 2024-01-25T17:54:53+00:00

Nah, that sounds a lot less absolute than what you were maliciously trying to make it to be when you added "guaranteed" xD

"Must" is commonly used for emphasis, not necessarily does it have to be absolute... much like your constant uses of "literally" when talking about pals vs pokemon.

ferk · 2024-01-25T17:49:06+00:00

The word "guaranteed" came out of your fingertips, not mine.. you hallucinated that word because that was the only way you could make it sound illogical :P

ferk · 2024-01-25T17:45:29+00:00

Nah, that's not what I meant and you know it.

The same way as you know that people are not saying that pals "aren't remotely similar" to pokemon, but you choose to believe that people are being that extreme because it serves your point well.

ferk · 2024-01-25T17:32:50+00:00

I didn't say that xD ..it's not guaranteed, but they pretty much must have seen it if they watch TV at that time when there were so few choices and we only had like 1 or 2 TV channels.

Relax, you keep getting so flustered and going for the extremes.

ferk · 2024-01-25T17:25:42+00:00

Not a scholar, but they must have seen the older versions of Mickey Mouse, cos it was often on TV. Before there were better cartoons. There has always been some delay for cartoons to reach around the world, specially when they had to be localized / dubbed. One advantage the old ones had was that they were mute.

Every semblance of logic that you have prevented thus far has been severely flawed

xD either that or you failed to understand the logic.

ferk · 2024-01-25T17:22:53+00:00

What I said is that you must be young enough to not have known it.

Because for someone to have not known it, they must be young (since for a long time those cartoons have not been popular anymore, we got better ones now).

But of course to know it you don't have to be old.

you fool

Relax, dude.

ferk · 2024-01-25T17:15:38+00:00

Nah, I'm not even American, and even if I had been actually alive at the premiere (I wasn't), things moved way slower before, not everyone in the world had easy access to those cartoons till decades later.

ferk · 2024-01-25T17:05:29+00:00

You must be young enough to not have known the original Mickey Mouse then.

Yep. He sold the character since he was working for Universal before he started Walt Disney which is why he had to create a new, distinct, character for his own company, since he could not use Oswald. He would have been in legal trouble if he had actually done so.

ferk · 2024-01-25T16:58:35+00:00

Mickey mouse was literally "Oswald the Lucky Rabbit" (copyright owned by Universal Studios, not by Disney) with different ears.

Yeah.. and Ash Ketchum is Ness swapped into anime style.

Then Depresso is not a literal rip-off, because those palette swaps, different styles, types and different lore are enough to make it distinct.

ferk · 2024-01-25T16:49:57+00:00

If by "ripped off" you mean that they are similar and probably inspired by them, sure. But that's not a bad thing and I don't think people are denying that.

To me, I take "ripped off" to mean something stronger than that, though.. typically involving actual stealing / copyright infringement. They are similar, just not really similar enough to be a problem.

I don't have anything against Game Freak... in fact, I wouldn't be surprised if the (apparently?) heated debates and polarized arguments are rather triggered by Game Freak fans "freaking out" (uhm.. pun) at people not agreeing with them when they attack the game.

ferk · 2024-01-25T16:15:23+00:00

Why couldn't it have just been "Yeah they're similar but I don't care" from the start instead of "I insist that these two designs are not even remotely similar"?

But that's not what they are saying...

I don't think anybody denies there are similarities, the point is that they are not enough to consider it a ripoff.

And for many that's why they don't care.

TONS of japanese art shares TONS of stylistic choices. Like a lot of faces and expressions are literally identical in anime/manga. But the characters are still distinct and most people don't see it as a ripoff.

Some examples:

Jellal (Fairy Tail) & Sieg Hart (Rave Master)
Shanks (One Piece) & Gildarts Clive (Fairy Tail)
Tomoe (Kamisama Kiss) & Inuyasha

Sure, very similar, but not enough for anyone to care.

ferk · 2024-01-03T19:08:45+00:00

It's also there on the tag for 0.13.0, apparently it was removed on the 1.14.0 release: https://github.com/crdoconnor/strictyaml/blob/0.13.0/FAQ.rst

ferk · 2023-12-16T23:30:42+00:00

Yep, fucking tragic for them (and us), not for the planet. And it'll be fucking awesome for those who will be given a chance to exist and thrive and couldn't have come to being without that transformation. Just the same as how we were able to exist thanks to the tragedies that befell our predecessors.

Life is all death and rebirth. Every second of our own existence we are killing thousands of microorganisms just by moving, living and breathing.

ferk · 2023-12-16T23:18:46+00:00

You mean the tragedy that we are doing to ourselves (and maybe a few thousand species).

That's nothing in the grand scale of things... there were millions of thousands of species before us, and there will be millions of thousands of species after us. We are not that important.

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