FishFace

I am very lucky that I never had to use windows at any full time job, nor even in full time education post 18.

I was an edgy teenager and wanted to be different. I was already kind of into coding and it made it quite easy to try out different languages and environments.

In those days I had fun finding equivalents to Windows-only apps like MSN, and finding games that worked in Linux like UT2004 and TrueCombat:Elite. It was never a perfect solution so I always kept, and still do keep, a Windows installation around for gaming. I don’t give a shit if MS harvests my data - what are they gonna do, advertise to me? Good luck with that. But for day-to-day stuff I am far too used to how Linux works to go back. I figure Windows has improved a lot in terms of reliability and usability since those days (and if you don’t care about data harvesting or really old hardware, those are the remaining major reasons not to want to use Windows nowadays) so it might be that if I were in the same position today I’d never make the switch, but hey.

It means I don’t really like the religious OS wars that erupt here. Like OK, there are MS irritations we’re not dealing with, but what I am dealing with is that some esoteric combination of events means that a couple of times a week my laptop stops recognising my dock and all USB devices connected to it until I reboot - including if I plug the devices in directly to the laptop!

If I were just some random user who had just switched, that would send me back to whichever OS I had come from in an instant. So I feel like it’s important to be sensitive and empathetic to that.

I have a C2 with LibreELEC but last time I checked there were zero os updates for years :( any suggestions?

That would essentially mean the only reason to use Linux over Windows is ideological opposition to Microsoft, which is sheer nonsense.

I have dual booted since 2004 and this has never happened to me. Since 2016 I also didn’t take any precautions like I used to.

If you want an open source tool, you’re not going to have a proprietary font in it, are you?

But you’re right that I hadn’t thought about the borders.

The image editing part is already solved. The problem is the massive library of templates, which are copyright some unknown person, hence a legal liability. If you need to upload your own template you may as well use GIMP - it’s not like it’s hard to create a few text layers after adding the template. Prepositioning them and scaling them isn’t that big a deal.

All the information I found about the “creative suite” is that it’s Krita, Kdenlive, Darktable, etc.

I’m listening to music. I don’t want to pause the music to listen to something that I could just read.

Other reasons I don’t want to watch a video might include:

• I don’t have headphones with me and can’t play sound because e.g. I’m in public
• Watching moving pictures when I don’t have to is annoying
• Reading is quicker than listening to the exact same text
• I’m just on Lemmy while doing something else and can’t take that much attention away from the something else
• Videos - and articles - often have a load of extra fluff I’m not interested in, which is waayy easier to skip over if it’s written.

I like factorio but my friends always lose interest too soon

2 minutes every few years? What? Where are those numbers coming from? You’re going to plug the controller in for <1 minute/year!?

Why do you need to replace the battery after only a few minutes of use? Did you miss that you recharge it in the controller?

You only need to replace it when it no longer holds enough charge to be useful, which is going to be at least a couple of years. You’re not replacing the battery in your phone every couple of days, are you? Why would this battery be different?

Your edit:

I’m not answering the same questions yet again.

I did not ask any questions in my last comment that I had asked before. You have never said why you think you need to replace the battery in the controller often enough for a screwed-down battery cover to be a problem. You have never said why the battery not being AA-sized makes it take longer to replace, when there are many quickly-swappable battery designs out there.

You have tried to say that the Steam Controller won’t be like that - but without evidence and without acknowledging that you said something wrong. That’s not very good.

Yeah I’ve only seen the pouch type.

Why is 5 seconds every few days better than 2 minutes every few years? You just keep talking up how easy it is to replace AAs as if that’s somehow the only important thing? For it to be worse, it has to be worse than the alternative which you just don’t seem to understand is going to take up less time?

That is obviously not the case with the Steam controller.

How do you know? Do you have a preview?

But you’ve again completely ignored the point, which is that the non-AA alternative is quicker to swap, so the time to swap was never about the battery type, was it?

Once you’ve understood this we can talk about the point you never initially mentioned, but I’m not opening a new discussion when you’re being so willfully ignorant on the first one.

The problem as you’ve stated it compares replacing an AA battery (necessary very often) to replacing a rechargeable battery (only necessary when it’s health depletes after years), so your characterisation of it so far is unreasonable, which is why I asked again.

If it’s both you’ve failed to explain any inherent problem with non-AA batteries when it comes to the time taken to change them. I can change a the custom battery in my camera as quickly as any AA. Faster, even, than the typical AA sprung enclosure because of the housing.

Ok, and you’ll only have to swap this battery out after a couple of years, so what’s the problem?

Glad we’re agreed it’s about the access, not the battery itself.

I’m talking about the actual physical object and its characteristics. The part that affects time taken is the access to the battery, not the battery form factor.

It’ll take all of two minutes to swap the battery, chill out.

In your imagined world where the steam controller has AA batteries, the difference you’re taking about is the battery door, not the battery firm factor.

Swappability is not a matter of the exact size and shape, but how many screws are needed to access it etc.

I think laptop batteries are usually thinner than 18650s? All the ones I’ve seen are, anyway

I don’t think it’s cognitive dissonance driving them, I think it’s hatred of rootkit anti-cheat that bleeds into other client-side anti-cheat.

People aren’t very good at separating different but related things, it seems.