potato, tomato…

It was a slight exaggeration, but curl and libcurl are genuinely used pretty much everywhere. Including NASA space missions.

Yup, they have amazing specs for relatively low prices. The catch, as we agree, is in the QC.

Hey, if you already bought it, keep using it as long as it serves you. I’m still using the asus laptop that taught me this lesson, even after its touchscreen failed completely (about a month after the end of warranty) and it has a whole bunch of issues to watch out for, like sometimes staying partially on after shutdown and overheating in my bag. But it can still compute and run Linux Mint fine, so I’m not throwing it away. Just covered the asus logo with a sticker to save some face.

But now that you know, don’t buy anything new by asus. I hope for you that your Ally stays good for as long as you use it, but my experience and others’ suggests that in a year or two it’ll start to show its many flaws. The touchscreen is pretty important for a device like that, isn’t it? Good luck.

Daniel Stenberg isn’t a random person, he is the lead developer of curl which is the backbone of quite literally every networked device on the planet and outside of it. The curl project supports a very large number of protocols. His opinion does mean something here.

That said, this does need to be clarified in the Wikipedia page, and it’s still possible that his criticism isn’t actually relevant in the end. I’m still reading about this.

I’ll do you one better: do not buy ANYTHING made by Asus. That stuff’s built to fail as fast as possible.

I used to use Vivaldi and liked it a lot, why wouldn’t you recommend it?

(Nowadays I just use Firefox. No particular reason)

I’m not 100% sure, but I think it’s a coffee machine with the coffee blasphemously being poured into a bowl instead of a mug.

I am guessing that it’s different because they spend weeks and months on the ship. I don’t know about you, but I wouldn’t be too keen to enlist in the navy if it required not having my personal phone for months on end. They gotta make some concessions in policy to keep everyone sane.

Or maybe they’re banned but people sneak them in anyway.

Edit: then again, if they just snuck them in, they wouldn’t have any connection. They need wifi. So it’s probably allowed.

It’s an interesting thought, but no amount of software is going to conjure up new physical buttons. You pretty much always need to use the ABXY buttons at the same time as the D-pad, so this remapping trick wouldn’t be possible.

Interesting. I played Hollow Knight on Switch and joycons were my favorite option for this exact reason. The few times I tried with a Switch pro controller … did not go well. It’s too squishy, and I absolutely do blame the controller there! Presumably 8BitDo is much better and clickier.

Silksong I actually played on PC, with a keyboard. It was great for me, the biggest downside personally is the lack of rumble - I love haptic feedback. The game definitely plays better with a controller but the button layout on keyboard was totally playable.

That’s a good idea actually!

I don’t know what you mean, Hollow Knight is unplayable with accidental diagonals. Try attacking in mid-air while moving left, but then oops! Instead of an attack to your left, you do a pogo or an upwards attack. You miss your target, and you die.

I want this controller, but I am so annoyed that no controller on the planet comes with separated directional buttons for the D-Pad. Accidental diagonal input is the bane of my existence. The Nintendo Switch Joy-Cons have separate buttons and I freaking love it! But the ONLY reason they did that is to allow them to serve as ABXY when held sideways. No “real” controller does this.

The only option I’ve found to achieve this is to get a PlayStation controller (PS4 or PS5), and mod it with a kit that separates the buttons under the faceplate. But the extra features of the Steam Controller sound too good to sacrifice just for that.

The only D-Pad I’ve ever actually liked is the 3DS (XL), because it’s so clicky and never caused accidental diagonal input. Seriously, how do people accept this crap?

So yeah, I really hope the D-Pad on this is clicky. I’ll probably be buying it either way.

Yeah, perhaps they did. As it happens, I wasn’t using a VPN, but I do pay for one so I tried it. VPN to Germany -> site loaded. VPN to Israel -> same error. They literally just blocked the whole country using cloudflare… The country where most of the people they claim to have solidarity with live, and where presumably they’d want their message to be heard the most. Unless, maybe, it’s just a propaganda site that doesn’t actually care about Palestinians and instead has some other agenda? Hmmm…

Seems like the so called “Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign” blocks all IPs from Israel. Hilarious considering the number of Palestinians whose only way to connect to the internet is through Israeli ISPs… Which is either most of them or a very significant number of them. Solidarity, eh?

Yeah, if I use one it might work, but why would a site block me in the first place? It’s not something a legitimate news site usually does…

Link won’t open for me :/

Sorry, you have been blocked

You are unable to access ipsc.ie

Most large tech companies have offices in Israel. Israel positioned itself as a “high-tech nation” to a huge degree, and there’s tons of engineering talent here that companies rightly want to hire and capitalize on.

Whether that makes these companies “supporters” of Israel is up to your interpretation, I guess, but it’s more likely to just be the smart move without any political agenda. Not to mention that they’ve had offices here for years and years, well before Israel’s recent wars and plummeting of their international image. At that point the company already had lots of its workforce here and closing down offices would have been a shot in the leg.

Where does Bazzite fit into this? (Sincerely, someone who wants to switch to either Bazzite or CachyOS and can’t decide between them)