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That part wouldn't be an issue, but swapping which hands have your action buttons vs control stick would be a mess for a while, lol.

All developed nations are going to realize they are in a population crisis in the coming decades. It's no surprise to see bigotry/xenophobia/conservatism hurting the future of a nation, but it's a bit surprising to see how popular it is across the globe.

I mean, I'm in the US and we are batshit stupid about it too. It's been the joke all my life about how Social Security won't be there when I retire one day. So hey instead of adding some of our most efficient workers (low pay, high labor output) to the tax base, let's commit crimes against humanity! Yeeeeehaw!

We all know the brain drain started in academia, but I'm surprised I don't hear about it in just about every field.

Just yesterday I wiped the drive and installed Linux on the 3rd old PC for the LAN setup I'm putting together, literally "for the children!"

It's an i7-920 from 2008. It has TRIPLE channel ram, baby. I installed Linux Mint Cinnamon and it was as quick and painless as usual.

I already get the warm fuzzies when I walk into the room and find my 3rd grader playing on my PC instead of their tablet or even the console. Our first LAN party is gonna be sweet.

I have no idea how similar the settings screens are, but in the iOS voyager client there is some kind of option if you go to:

settings

general

other

open links in...

You drive a Hemi? Balls to the wall?

Yeah that controller might just have a hardware problem.

I've had pretty good luck with Xbox controllers from multiple generations, but it sounds like a LOT of people have problems with them. Even the elite controllers! It's a shame because their shape and layout work great for me, and I'm sure the same is true of other people with broken controllers and no spares.

Controllers needing to be updated is dumb in a way, sure. But as somebody who has worked in the design/manufacture/test of embedded electronics & software systems, I know the development of those dumb little accessories was a massive project, and there's so much potential for bugs or security issues down the line. After a quick search it looks like MS claims it was over $100 million in R&D for the xbone controller, and that's 15 years of inflation ago.

Back around the same time It was part of a $10M project at my job and that thing took over most of the damn company!

Oh same here. I'm hopeful that valve brings us a linux phone, not a gaming phone. I've never really gotten into gaming on mobile either.

However, if they DO make a linux phone, I'm sure it will be Steam branded and have all kinds of gaming-specific tweaks.

But again, to me that just sounds like it will have good hardware specs. So not a problem!

I wonder if Valve would ever get into the Linux Phone market.

But for the platform itself to be open, I wonder how much would have to be recreated.

Oh yeah, Woodstock '99 was his peak!

Looking back through my spotty memories, it's like Kid Rock had his rise in the late 90s and then vanished from the face of the earth after I saw him at Woodstock '99.

...well then they resurrected the brand a decade or two later to help elect the worst person on the planet to the most powerful job on the planet.

I think better questions to ask first might be things like "Can I pass the controller USB connection to windows in a VM?" which is probably yes, and "Can I just never update this controller?" which I would normally say is a yes, but it sounds like yours has issues.

Eww, an activist doing something to bring attention to their cause?

So now that's on their permanent record and all they got was trying to save some human lives or inspire others to!

I'm not a big fan of theocratic countries myself, but if my choices for the state of the world tomorrow morning are two theocratic countries or one theocratic country next to a field of charred bones, I think I could pick the former pretty easily.