It is if you compare it to a regular controller, but from what it offers - touchpads, back buttons, hall effect sticks, gyro, full remappability etc - it’s more comparable to something like the PS5 Edge and those are almost twice the cost.

And be grateful that we didn’t start calling it “apping”, even though the term “program” is effectively extinct these days.

I would really want to know what kind of a use-case results in using a 386 or 486 computer in 2026 in such a manner that not being able to install the latest kernel updates would in any way be an actual issue.

Reminds me of how I got taught to google shit like 20 years ago before social media and SEO: don’t ask “how can I do x”, write “doing x”, as that would find you a website explaining doing the thing and not some BBS post of a person asking about it.

One argument is that gambling requires the chance of a loss - you go to a casino, make a wager, buy a lottery ticket, bet on a horse race, you can lose your money and end up with nothing.

But buy a Labubu, a Lego minifigure blind bag, MtG booster, or a video game lootbox, and while you don’t know exactly what, you will always get something in return for your money.

Then again, “taking a gamble” is a term used for many things, like when you buy a used car without extensively checking the condition first, because you don’t know what exactly you are getting…

AI code is like alternative medicine, it’s called that when it’s bad and doesn’t work. If it does, it’s just called code. And the issue isn’t using code made by AI, it’s when people who don’t know how to code think the AI does, and blindly do without checking. That’s very unlikely to happen with the Linux kernel, as the entire project is basically just one constant code review where it really doesn’t matter if bad code was written by a human or an AI.

Even Torvalds has used AI to help with his projects, because it would be kinda silly not to.

Bah, first people complain when suddenly they can’t turn their computers off, now they complain when they can’t turn them on…

AFAIK it’s a fedia (mbin) compatibility issue with Lemmy in general, some links posted aren’t federated properly and instead just show up as the thumbnail image from Fedia.

Probably something that is going to be, or already is, fixed in a newer Lemmy version, but some instances are a little slow to update.

As an actual highway-legal car, certainly not. But there are plenty of other categories you can stuff random vehicles way easier that could still be useful, such as the European L6e/L7e Quadricycle.
The US equivalent is the NEV.

Combining concepts is one of the core functions of a generative image AI - fairly sure nobody trained them on of videos with athletes made out of pasta either.

But they were trained on images of both naked people, as well as tons and tons of stock photos of children in swimwear and bikinis, so they know how to combine the two to create images of naked children.

All bicycles are velocipedes, but not all velocipedes are bicycles.

But are you sure it means two wheels, and not every other wheel? Maybe we should call them twicecyles to avoid the confusion.

The unofficial one was leaked a month ago :p

Agreed :)

And no matter how they do it, it’s clear they need to make changes; “everything is an Xbox controller and now just works” actually was pretty nice solution 20 years ago to fix the complicated mess that was PC gamepads with DirectInput, but it is very much outdated idea today.

Thankfully it appears changes are happening that might solve the issue in the near future, and all we can really do is wait and see.

They could expand the Xbox controller API feature set tomorrow

No, they couldn’t. There’s over 20 years of legacy hardware and software that expects Xinput data to be returned exactly in this format:

typedef struct _XINPUT_GAMEPAD {
  WORD  wButtons;
  BYTE  bLeftTrigger;
  BYTE  bRightTrigger;
  SHORT sThumbLX;
  SHORT sThumbLY;
  SHORT sThumbRX;
  SHORT sThumbRY;
} XINPUT_GAMEPAD, *PXINPUT_GAMEPAD;

Changing any of that would break every single xinput controller and game made in the last 20 years. Modifications require a new API, which is exactly what GameInput is.

Researching this a bit more, there is an answer in the making already - GameInput. How long that will take to take over from every game using xinput is left to be seen.

It’s not possible as xinput doesn’t support gyroscopes, the controller simply doesn’t report that data. The “Switch” mode is setting it to be a mostly standard HID/DirectInput device so that all of those inputs can be accessed, but that requires something (Steam Input) to sit between the controller and the game to map the inputs together, and the game has to also support non-xinput controllers - otherwise you are just mapping them back to xbox inputs. The exception is a game that support directinput… well, directly. Like sim racers etc.

There is now the option of going “hardware” Steam Input as well, as is done by the HORIPAD for Steam, but it is something the controller has to do.

I’m willing to bet that without the Deck, most AAA games would have already jumped to requiring roughly PS5-level PC hardware now that last gen consoles are effectively dead.
UE5 on the Deck might not be pretty, but making it run at all on it lowers the minimum requirements of a game tremendously.

It should be an IRC clone. Having the voice and screen sharing is also kinda nice.

Instead it’s IRC + MSN messenger + Ventrilo + Skype + TeamViewer + MegaShare + Wiki + Game server hosting + Forum and probably a few more I’m forgetting, and adding more half-working bloat all the time.

IIRC here in Finland they keep failing yearly inspections constantly because the balljoints and bushings etc are always completely shot as they can’t handle the extra weight of the batteries and massive torque from the motors.

[EDIT] Here’s the (in Finnish) news article about it. The list of most failed electric cars for their first inspection (4 years old) in 2024 were:

• Tesla Model 3, 49% fail, most common issue: rear axle.
• Renault Zoe, 19% fail, front axle.
• Tesla Model S, 16% fail, front axle.
• Tesla Model X, 14%, N/A
• Porsche Taycan, 12%, manufacturer’s compliance plate (it’s placed so that it gets damaged really easily :p)