I’m comfortable opening up a device like that and replacing parts if necessary, so I would buy one under the right conditions.

Consider:

• Is it a genuine DualSense, or a counterfeit?
• Does the seller have a reasonable return policy?
• Is the price low enough that you would still be saving money (vs. a new one) if you have to buy a new battery or stick?
• Calibration can compensate for mild stick drift, avoiding the need for hardware repairs.

Related:

https://www.ifixit.com/Wiki/How_to_Identify_PS5_DualSense_Controller_Version

https://www.ifixit.com/Device/PlayStation_Controller

The color of mead, which awaits you at the drinking hall!

Also, more of us should be advocating for site owners make their sites usable without JavaScript. It’s almost never necessary.

Allowing web sites to execute arbitrary code on your computer is not only a privacy risk; it’s also a security threat.

Not all gamers use Steam or Proton exclusively, or at all.

Some of us even make custom Wine builds.

This is a welcome change, regardless of whether you have a use for it.

Fast synchronization support using NTSync.

Nice. This is what turns that kernel 6.14 feature into a performance boost for some Windows games.

Before/after examples from early last year:

== Performance ==

The gain in performance varies wildly depending on the application in question
and the user's hardware. For some games NT synchronization is not a bottleneck
and no change can be observed, but for others frame rate improvements of 50 to
150 percent are not atypical. The following table lists frame rate measurements
from a variety of games on a variety of hardware, taken by users Dmitry
Skvortsov, FuzzyQuils, OnMars, and myself:

Game                            Upstream        ntsync          improvement
===========================================================================
Anger Foot                       69              99              43%
Call of Juarez                   99.8           224.1           125%
Dirt 3                          110.6           860.7           678%
Forza Horizon 5                 108             160              48%
Lara Croft: Temple of Osiris    141             326             131%
Metro 2033                      164.4           199.2            21%
Resident Evil 2                  26              77             196%
The Crew                         26              51              96%
Tiny Tina's Wonderlands         130             360             177%
Total War Saga: Troy            109             146              34%
===========================================================================

You are not overthinking it. Exploiting this would be a bit more complex than capturing a packet on the wire, but it is possible.

If you intend to use a passphrase for anything important, it’s best to generate it locally.

I wonder why the Favorites section is positioned away from the button that opens the menu. Seems inconvenient.

I don’t know whether Hollow Knight uses an input library (like SDL) that would allow controller tweaks, but it might be worth investigating.

Steam generally gets games with poor/rigid controller support to work via Steam Input, which creates a virtual device that behaves like an Xbox controller and maps the real controller’s inputs to it. You’re not using Steam, but this project does the same sort of thing, and might be helpful:

https://github.com/chrippa/ds4drv

I don’t know if it’s still maintained, but if it chokes on a new distro, one if its forks might work.

A bug that nobody knows about is not a bug.

Did you read the post? It says, “This 5.8% of players found 38% of all the bugs that affected everyone.”

Bugs that affect everyone are not bugs that nobody knows about.

And beyond this specific game, let’s remember that it’s very common for players to experience bugs without filing bug reports, but still complain (either to you or publicly) about your broken game. So you won’t have identified these bugs, but they will still be out there affecting player experience. If you don’t care about that, consider that they will also affect word of mouth and reviews of your game, and therefore your sales.

We’re all limited by hours in a day. That makes this all the more important: A bug fixed once is a bug that doesn’t consume support time (and budget) ever again.

A lot of extra work for just 5.8% of extra units, right?

Wrong. Bugs exist whenever you know about them, or not.

Do you know how many of these 400 bug reports were actually platform-specific? 3. Literally only 3 things were problems that came out just on Linux. The rest of them were affecting everyone - the thing is, the Linux community is exceptionally well trained in reporting bugs. That is just the open-source way. This 5.8% of players found 38% of all the bugs that affected everyone. Just like having your own 700-person strong QA team. That was not 38% extra work for me, that was just free QA!

Perhaps, but given how often governments issue themselves a free pass on things that they make illegal for everyone else, I think that getting this idea to work as we hope would require a lot of careful shepherding, and I fear that the leaders able and motivated to do this are often in the minority.

So let’s get some better leaders.

Wild guess: Does your system have more than one GPU? Is it possible that the wrong one is being used in Steam?

Why Deno?

Deno is sandboxed by default and does not allow filesystem or network access.

I’m glad to see they’re using the safety-focused option by default.

I wonder if they’re counting the SIMs in smartphones.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_Card

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Stadia_games

Of course, Stadia builds were not released to the public.

Cloudflare’s HTTPS service operates by being a man-in-the-middle: a third party that can snoop and even alter communications between a website and its visitors.

Cloudflare’s DNS-over-HTTPS service operates by sending a user’s domain name lookups to Cloudflare, where they can be collected, correlated, and tracked. This allows Cloudflare to monitor every website that people visit, regardless of whether those sites have any relationship with Cloudflare.

Since the first service has become popular among website owners and the second one a default in some web browsers, Cloudflare now has unprecedented reach into the online lives of a great deal of the world’s population.

There is nothing privacy-friendly about this.

You could decide that you trust Cloudflare, its employees, its partners, the governments and agencies that have influence over it, and any other parties who gain access to it, never to abuse its position. But that would be faith, not privacy.

Edit: Now, to tie this in to my original comment: Cloudflare is in a unique position to profit from its reach into people’s web traffic, at a large scale. Influence over a web browser, even in small ways, would allow them to expand that power. They might not be abusing their surveillance power… yet, but history shows that money is a very effective incentive for abuse. I am therefore wary of their involvement in a web browser’s development. I hope Ladybird’s administrative measures to protect against this turn out to be effective, and stay that way.

Did you mean to reply to someone else? My comment has nothing to do with VPN.

Good to know. I hope that’s sufficient to keep them insulated from this major privacy violator’s influence.

I can’t use archive.today anymore, since they introduced a third-party CAPTCHA (from Google, I think). It’s a man-in-the-middle that monitors every archived article I visit and every Lemmy post that links me to one. Obviously, this is terrible for privacy.

The CAPTCHA also demands permission to run mystery code on my machine before it will show me the article. Again, no thanks.

So I’m back to archive.org’s Wayback Machine. I’ll have to give ghostarchive a look, too.

the operating system does not interpret it in anyway.

*in any_way. ;)