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  • Sony made some significant changes between the PS4 and PS5 controllers. I don't know the details beyond the dynamic resistance triggers, but if you buy a controller board to make your own fightstick, it'll work with everything up through PS4 and then you need an additional daughter-board to make it work with the PS5.

  • Which format of video entertainment do you like better: Television Series or Movies?
  • Depends on the story being told. Some stories are perfectly encapsulated in 90 minutes, some need 90 episodes.

    That said, I find shows have both a lower initial commitment and a higher potential payoff, so I don't watch many movies.

  • Nitter is a read-only front end for Twitter
  • I don't really grok products like this.

    If you have a fundamental disagreement with a platform, continuing to engage with it, even through a condom, is still perpetuating it. It's maintaining that platform as still important and integral, and a place that others should continue to engage with. It's telling advertisers that it's still a place that's worth their money to maintain a presence on. It stymies the momentum in shifting to an alternative; why put the effort into a new service if people are still seeing your posts?

    It's like pirating Windows instead of moving to a different OS. You're still perpetuating the MS hegemony and telling software developers that Windows is the platform they need to develop for.

  • Ubisoft closes your account after period of inactivity and you lose access to games.
  • Seeing a game is Ubisoft makes it a total nonstarter. I refuse to have to have a separate account and be forced to log into it just to play a goddamn game.

  • What happens if you lose all citizenship?
  • As a citizen of the US, it's not like we entirely respect rule-of-law. We're all too happy to overlook enforcing laws against rich/famous/corporate, and all too happy to overlook legal protections for poor/immigrants/minorities.

  • Background noise requirements
  • When I need to focus, I have an entire playlist of Weather Channel type jazz. It's energetic enough to give me baseline stimulation but not so much to turn on party mode, and being instrumental means it doesn't steal the attention of the words part of my brain and wreck my ability to actually do work.

  • Seriously, what is with women's fashion these days? Any other 30-somethings lurking?
  • Can't speak on the rest, but I am so glad skinny jeans are finally going out of fashion. That couldn't happen soon enough.

  • Who are your "must follows" on Mastodon?
  • Mastodon isn't really about the "celebrity" follow how twitter was, it's more about finding your own tribe of weirdos. I second (third?) the idea of following hashtags, and then checking out those accounts that post to those tags.

    The other thing I'd like to mention is the people I see happiest on Mastodon have all migrated servers at least once. Get an account on one of the big main servers, explore, then move to a small instance that suits your interests and has people you like. That makes for a much more useful and entertaining local feed. Don't feel it needs to be a 100% match, it's more about the people (it's about the cones ).

  • What's the difference between the threadiverse and the Fediverse
  • Full agree. Get his product's name as part of the general term and it'd confuse people into thinking it was the original.

  • What's the difference between the threadiverse and the Fediverse
  • I've never heard the term "threadiverse". Where are you coming across it?

  • Does not having any social media presence have any negative impact on a person's social life?
  • Depends entirely on the person and what things they want out of a social life.

    For me, if I didn't have social media, there's a lot I'd miss out on. It's how two of my main social communities communicate any of their events, and it's a big part of a third. There would definitely be a negative impact for me if I nuked all my accounts.

    You can certainly build your life to have your definition of a thriving social life without it, but you'll have to go out of your way to find those groups that use other methods for communication.

  • Linux phones
  • Buddy had one. Second-hand, it seemed like a tremendous pain in the ass, didn't allow him to do most things, and in the end it seemed a moot point. The radios are all closed source/proprietary, it connects to closed source/proprietary/corporate-controlled towers, and you're sending data to people running totally insecure devices. Ultimately his use case was to just establish a VPN connection to his home computer and route everything through that.

    I can see getting into a Linux phone for the interest of the operating system and trying to push the technology, but if it's a security/privacy issue, I think you're much better off either using a dumbphone or a burner.

  • Migrating away from Fedora, looking for advice.
  • I think if you want meaningful recommendations, you have to say:

    • why you want to get away from Fedora
    • what you liked about Fedora that kept you there until now
    • what you hope you'd get from a new distro
    • any nonstarters that would keep you away from a distro

    Without knowing those things, it's just going to be people proselytizing their favorite distros rather than suggesting one that will fit what you're looking for.

  • Can you eat wood?
  • Depends on your definition of "eat".

    If you mean "Can be chewed and swallowed without causing undue harm", then, yeah, you can eat wood. Well, most wood, I'm sure there's some out there that are some level of toxic to humans.

    If you mean, "can be consumed as a source of nutrition", then, no, you can't eat wood. Humans lack the capability to digest it.

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  • I think at best it will be gradual, and it won't be Kbin that takes over, but the combination of Kbin, Lemmy, and whatever other applications that pop up that handle the same Fediverse link aggregation.

    Even then, there seems to be a resistance to Federated services by the bulk of the population, so if someone can make another centralized, capital-funded link aggregator, I'd guess that it would pick up more of the Reddit exodus than here.

  • So I wanna download a car...
  • In OP's situation where they're downloading a car, I think it's a safe assumption that the car has already been designed/engineered and OP is just printing it out and assembling it. This would be akin to a kit car, and modern kit cars certainly don't require specialized engineering skills to assemble.

  • How do I manage my inbox?
  • At it's core, whatever system you implement is going to have four buckets:

    • I need to see and deal with this immediately
    • I need to see this immediately, but can deal with it later
    • I need to see this at some point
    • This is a complete waste of my time

    When you set up filters/rules, it's typically safer to err in putting something in a higher priority bucket.

    Past that, it really depends on the email you receive. For mine, an easy differentiator is if I'm a direct recipient, just a CC, or if I'm getting it as a member of a group mailbox. I get a lot of automated notifications, and those are easy to sort based on source and subject line.

  • Latest build: Fingerpunch Ximi
  • I never found anything that I considered "budget". Even the cheapest split mechs on ebay are $100, and I don't think I'd trust any of those.

    If you give up the mechanical part and just want to try a split, I'm seeing those starting around $40 shipped.

  • Is there a split with 34 keys as the Sweep but stagger like the Corne?
  • When you say "stagger", do you mean not-ortholinear? If so, I'm confused as both the Sweep and Corne are ortholinear.

  • Twitter content now behind login wall?
  • It seems rather ironic to make that post on a fediverse service.

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