In other news today...
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@topspin said in In other news today...:
@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
@topspin said in In other news today...:
In “how the fuck can this be legal” news:
"Switch Joy-Con Drift"
I dunno...I mostly find legal jargon to be word salad.
EDIT: And I clicked through several links in TFA (
) and still have no idea what "joy-con drift" is.
It means their game controller hardware was defective, systematically, which they (at first) refused to fix. EULAs don’t affect the hardware and “you can’t sue us” forced arbitration is insane, either way.
From what I understand, arbitration in purchase agreements isn't entirely uncommon in the US.
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@Carnage if I buy a console at Walmart, I’m not signing a purchase agreement.
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@topspin In Quebec, if there is a contract that is attached to something that I'm buying, the merchant needs to make me accept it before he sells it to me. If he doesn't, the contract is null and void. Of course, I've never had to sign a contract to buy a console or a computer.
So Nintendo's defense would be useless.
See also: Windows license
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
@topspin said in In other news today...:
In “how the fuck can this be legal” news:
"Switch Joy-Con Drift"
I dunno...I mostly find legal jargon to be word salad.
EDIT: And I clicked through several links in TFA (
) and still have no idea what "joy-con drift" is.
Congratulations on your so-far either joystick-free, or very high quality joystick, existence. I haven't ever seen one not do it eventually.
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@Gribnit said in In other news today...:
@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
@topspin said in In other news today...:
In “how the fuck can this be legal” news:
"Switch Joy-Con Drift"
I dunno...I mostly find legal jargon to be word salad.
EDIT: And I clicked through several links in TFA (
) and still have no idea what "joy-con drift" is.
Congratulations on your so-far either joystick-free, or very high quality joystick, existence. I haven't ever seen one not do it eventually.
What makes you say that?
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@Gribnit said in In other news today...:
@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
@topspin said in In other news today...:
In “how the fuck can this be legal” news:
"Switch Joy-Con Drift"
I dunno...I mostly find legal jargon to be word salad.
EDIT: And I clicked through several links in TFA (
) and still have no idea what "joy-con drift" is.
Congratulations on your so-far either joystick-free, or very high quality joystick, existence. I haven't ever seen one not do it eventually.
My switch is several years old, and still hasn't developed it. Nor has my two 10+ year old F710 controllers. I had an off brand switch controller go wonky in a year though.
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@Carnage said in In other news today...:
@Gribnit said in In other news today...:
@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
@topspin said in In other news today...:
In “how the fuck can this be legal” news:
"Switch Joy-Con Drift"
I dunno...I mostly find legal jargon to be word salad.
EDIT: And I clicked through several links in TFA (
) and still have no idea what "joy-con drift" is.
Congratulations on your so-far either joystick-free, or very high quality joystick, existence. I haven't ever seen one not do it eventually.
My switch is several years old, and still hasn't developed it. Nor has my two 10+ year old F710 controllers. I had an off brand switch controller go wonky in a year though.
Might depend on the kind of games you play. Some of them require you to hold the joystick to one side so much that some people use a rubber band to assist keeping it there.
The real
is that Switch didn't fix this in software early on. If the stick is slightly off-center, that's a calibration issue. Even Windows has a joystick calibration utility, so I find it surprising if consoles don't. I wouldn't know though, because
.
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@acrow said in In other news today...:
@Carnage said in In other news today...:
@Gribnit said in In other news today...:
@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
@topspin said in In other news today...:
In “how the fuck can this be legal” news:
"Switch Joy-Con Drift"
I dunno...I mostly find legal jargon to be word salad.
EDIT: And I clicked through several links in TFA (
) and still have no idea what "joy-con drift" is.
Congratulations on your so-far either joystick-free, or very high quality joystick, existence. I haven't ever seen one not do it eventually.
My switch is several years old, and still hasn't developed it. Nor has my two 10+ year old F710 controllers. I had an off brand switch controller go wonky in a year though.
Might depend on the kind of games you play. Some of them require you to hold the joystick to one side so much that some people use a rubber band to assist keeping it there.
The real
is that Switch didn't fix this in software early on. If the stick is slightly off-center, that's a calibration issue. Even Windows has a joystick calibration utility, so I find it surprising if consoles don't. I wouldn't know though, because
.
You could "fix" it with making deadzones larger, but larger deadzones makes controllers shittier. And there are joysticks that will not develop drift, by not using resistive elements.
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My controllers don't have joystick drift - they have torque steer
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@Carnage said in In other news today...:
And there are joysticks that will not develop drift, by not using resistive elements.
Not using resistive elements is not a surefire fix. Springs get memory effects; the stick may actually self-center slightly off center after a couple of weeks of keeping it in an extreme position.
It gets worse with cheap springs. But even the best springs wear out.
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@acrow said in In other news today...:
Springs get memory effects; the stick may actually self-center slightly off center after a couple of weeks of keeping it in an extreme position.
… isn't that what calibration is for? Or did they not include that feature?
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@Bulb That what I was asking a couple of posts up.
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Fat may protect against asthma and allergic reactions.
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What comes around goes around.
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@DogsB said in In other news today...:
What comes around goes around.
They are not the only ones.
Many of the newer frameworks support server-side rendering, possibly with ‘hydration’ which means you get the first page fully rendered but there is javascript that can process the events client-side and pull further data and fragments without full reload. Some even cover the whole range from completely static HTML over hydrated to client-side rendering with configuration. Here is an (unfortunately not very detailed) overview of web frameworks and styles they support:
Basically it tells you that if all users see mostly the same content, you should render server-side, while client-side makes sense mainly if there will be a lot of interaction with user-specific elements.
… and the latest hotness is
implemented e.g. by
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@DogsB said in In other news today...:
What comes around goes around.
Ignorant reporter (but I repeat myself) said:
We should note though that Deno is hyping its own approach, where most code runs server-side on Deno
That's not...
Ugh, why bother.
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
EDIT: And I clicked through several links in TFA (
) and still have no idea what "joy-con drift" is.
TLDR: Over time, the internals of the analog stick wear out, and instead of returning to the center when you let it go, it "sticks" a bit, registering as a slight movement in one direction. There are band-aid solutions, but the only permanent fix is to replace the joystick.
This also reminded me about a company that had been working on a replacement joystick that uses Hall effect sensors that shouldn't be subject to this kind of issue. The product is now available, although the official (?) Amazon listing has it "Currently unavailable"
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@acrow said in In other news today...:
The real
is that Switch didn't fix this in software early on. If the stick is slightly off-center, that's a calibration issue. Even Windows has a joystick calibration utility, so I find it surprising if consoles don't. I wouldn't know though, because
.
The Switch does have a joystick calibration utility, and if you have a drifting joystick you can use it to improve the situation a little, but it's not enough.
So far, my original Switch joycons haven't developed the drift problem, but the set I got second hand (which was roughly treated by a young child) had it, and I eventually replaced the joysticks
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Not sure if you can burn acorns in a stove, but if so, free heating!
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@JBert said in In other news today...:
Not sure if you can burn acorns in a stove, but if so, free heating!
I dunno, that's kinda nuts.
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These people were lucky...
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@JBert said in In other news today...:
Not sure if you can burn acorns in a stove, but if so, free heating!
What's their insulation factor?
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@JBert said in In other news today...:
Not sure if you can burn acorns in a stove,
Yes, you can. They burn hotter and faster than wood (higher fat content).
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@dkf Fat charring thread is
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@hungrier said in In other news today...:
I eventually replaced the joysticks
How hard was that to do? Do they use the same generic elements you can buy from all the electronics hobby shops?
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@acrow said in In other news today...:
@hungrier said in In other news today...:
I eventually replaced the joysticks
How hard was that to do? Do they use the same generic elements you can buy from all the electronics hobby shops?
It's a bit fiddly.
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@acrow said in In other news today...:
@hungrier said in In other news today...:
I eventually replaced the joysticks
How hard was that to do? Do they use the same generic elements you can buy from all the electronics hobby shops?
The hardest part is opening the controllers and putting them back together. The joysticks themselves are proprietary, as far as I know, but are plentiful in online stores (at least the normal, non-Hall-effect ones). Once you've got everything apart, it's just a matter of swapping the old one with the new, connecting the ribbon cable and securing the joystick with a screw (maybe two, I don't recall)
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
@Gribnit said in In other news today...:
@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
@topspin said in In other news today...:
In “how the fuck can this be legal” news:
"Switch Joy-Con Drift"
I dunno...I mostly find legal jargon to be word salad.
EDIT: And I clicked through several links in TFA (
) and still have no idea what "joy-con drift" is.
Congratulations on your so-far either joystick-free, or very high quality joystick, existence. I haven't ever seen one not do it eventually.
What makes you say that?
Apparently you don't use every joystick for an infinite length of time?
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@Gribnit said in In other news today...:
@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
@Gribnit said in In other news today...:
@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
@topspin said in In other news today...:
In “how the fuck can this be legal” news:
"Switch Joy-Con Drift"
I dunno...I mostly find legal jargon to be word salad.
EDIT: And I clicked through several links in TFA (
) and still have no idea what "joy-con drift" is.
Congratulations on your so-far either joystick-free, or very high quality joystick, existence. I haven't ever seen one not do it eventually.
What makes you say that?
Apparently you don't use every joystick for an infinite length of time?
Well, I don't, but again, not following why what I said has any bearing on my experience with joy sticks.
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@hungrier I see. Literally, considering @Carnage 's post above. When you first said "swap the joystick", I was thinking they'd have one of these:
https://www.sparkfun.com/products/9032
...Yeah, I guess a Nintendo console wouldn't use a Sony joystick from a decade ago. Now that I think about it.
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
@Gribnit said in In other news today...:
@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
@Gribnit said in In other news today...:
@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
@topspin said in In other news today...:
In “how the fuck can this be legal” news:
"Switch Joy-Con Drift"
I dunno...I mostly find legal jargon to be word salad.
EDIT: And I clicked through several links in TFA (
) and still have no idea what "joy-con drift" is.
Congratulations on your so-far either joystick-free, or very high quality joystick, existence. I haven't ever seen one not do it eventually.
What makes you say that?
Apparently you don't use every joystick for an infinite length of time?
Well, I don't, but again, not following why what I said has any bearing on my experience with joy sticks.
The wilds of Boomzilla Defensive Mode are too weird and old-man smelling for me to navigate long. Some will say that experience with the failure modes of a tool class is linearly correlated with experience with a tool class. Some will die in hot pursuit while sifting through my ashes.
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@Gribnit said in In other news today...:
@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
@Gribnit said in In other news today...:
@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
@Gribnit said in In other news today...:
@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
@topspin said in In other news today...:
In “how the fuck can this be legal” news:
"Switch Joy-Con Drift"
I dunno...I mostly find legal jargon to be word salad.
EDIT: And I clicked through several links in TFA (
) and still have no idea what "joy-con drift" is.
Congratulations on your so-far either joystick-free, or very high quality joystick, existence. I haven't ever seen one not do it eventually.
What makes you say that?
Apparently you don't use every joystick for an infinite length of time?
Well, I don't, but again, not following why what I said has any bearing on my experience with joy sticks.
The wilds of Boomzilla Defensive Mode are too weird and old-man smelling for me to navigate long. Some will say that experience with the failure modes of a tool class is linearly correlated with experience with a tool class. Some will die in hot pursuit while sifting through my ashes.
You never know just how you look through other people's eyes.
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
You never know just how you look through other people's eyes.
I haven't put much thought into this, but I assume you must at least first remove them from the cranium, since it's not see-through.
You probably have to remove the opaque bit around the optic nerve too.
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@DogsB Poisoned cheesecake?!
The she-devil!
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@dkf said in In other news today...:
@DogsB Poisoned cheesecake?!
The she-devil!
I suppose her lawyers tried to get the plea down to "assault with a tasty weapon".
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@dkf said in In other news today...:
@DogsB Poisoned cheesecake?!
The she-devil!
I hear it goes great with Polonium tea.
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@dkf said in In other news today...:
@DogsB Poisoned cheesecake?!
The she-devil!
It's not the poison that gets you, it's the betrayal. Cheesecake isn't supposed to hurt you....
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The Ice Giants have awoken. I mean, not officially announced, but, read between the lines. This many "arctic aerial incursions" can mean nothing else.
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@Zecc said in In other news today...:
@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
You never know just how you look through other people's eyes.
I haven't put much thought into this, but I assume you must at least first remove them from the cranium, since it's not see-through.
You probably have to remove the opaque bit around the optic nerve too.
Actually they pop in and out pretty easy. And, you can surround the nerve with pickups, if you don't feel like using needle probes.
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@Gribnit said in In other news today...:
The Ice Giants have awoken. I mean, not officially announced, but, read between the lines. This many "arctic aerial incursions" can mean nothing else.
Rimthurs is the proper name of the ice race of giants.
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@Carnage said in In other news today...:
@Gribnit said in In other news today...:
The Ice Giants have awoken. I mean, not officially announced, but, read between the lines. This many "arctic aerial incursions" can mean nothing else.
Rimthurs is the proper name of the ice race of giants.
Well
ed. Any pronouns I should be aware of?
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@Gribnit said in In other news today...:
@Carnage said in In other news today...:
@Gribnit said in In other news today...:
The Ice Giants have awoken. I mean, not officially announced, but, read between the lines. This many "arctic aerial incursions" can mean nothing else.
Rimthurs is the proper name of the ice race of giants.
Well
ed. Any pronouns I should be aware of?
Moist.
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Officials warned the controlled burn would send phosgene and hydrogen chloride into the air. Phosgene is a highly toxic, colorless gas with a strong odor that can cause vomiting and breathing trouble and was used as a weapon in World War I.
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@acrow said in In other news today...:
Palestine
I think we can now officially consider this word cursed.
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@Dragoon said in In other news today...:
they don't trust Mountain View
I used to live in Mountain View. I don't trust it, either.
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Today in the headlines are all I read
It was a good death. One we would all like.