nycki

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[–] nycki 1 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Retroarch and Steam Link both have android apps and support controller mapping, but I don't know of any OS-level tools.

[–] nycki 2 points 8 months ago

why doesn't "one" rhyme with "bone"?

[–] nycki 18 points 8 months ago

I believe this is so they can make keyboards with a fancy "LinkedIn Button" on them, just like they're trying to do now with Copilot.

[–] nycki 10 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I finally hacked my 3ds, using the tools at https://3ds.hacks.guide. It was surprisingly easy, and gives you access to

  • homebrew!
  • emulators!
  • online play for most games! (see: Pretendo Network)
  • custom home screen themes!

I waited until Nintendo shut down their servers 'cause I was worried about bans, but now there's no excuse. Go liberate your 3ds, it takes less than an hour.

[–] nycki 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[–] nycki 48 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

Starting anything from scratch is a huge risk these days. At best you'll have something like the python 2 -> 3 ~~rewrite~~ overhaul (leaving scraps of legacy code all over the place), at worst you'll have something like gnome/kde (where the community schisms rather than adopting a new standard). I would say that most of the time, there are only two ways to get a new standard to reach mass adoption.

  1. Retrofit everything. Extend old APIs where possible. Build your new layer on top of https, or javascript, or ascii, or something else that already has widespread adoption. Make a clear upgrade path for old users, but maintain compatibility for as long as possible.

  2. Buy 99% of the market and declare yourself king (cough cough chromium).

[–] nycki 2 points 9 months ago

It's my favorite controller for Steam, yeah! I have gyro aiming set up in minecraft; right trigger half pull enables gyro-to-mouse, and left touchpad pulls up a bunch of menu hotkeys.

[–] nycki 3 points 9 months ago

If you want a budget controller with lots of features, go on ebay and get a used Dualshock 4 (PS4 controller). It's got a touchpad and gyro so you can do some interesting stuff with it.

[–] nycki 1 points 9 months ago

Please tell me the "Triple I Initiative" involves Solanum (Outer Wilds)

[–] nycki 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

But how many digits of the result do you use?

[–] nycki 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

That's basically my reasoning, yeah. Specifically, in floating point notation; if you get rid of all the mantissa bits, you'd be left with 1 * 2^0. I suppose it could be 0 * 2^0, but a leading 1 is implied, since virtually all numbers are nonzero.

[–] nycki 145 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (15 children)

Firefox had tab grouping first. Before Chrome. And then it broke support for it when they did the add-ons overhaul. I'm surprised bringing it back wasn't a high priority...

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