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Heres a good question. I have this old third party 15$ xbox 360 controller that is absolute DOGSHIT.

It hurts to use the joysticks and aiming sucks etc you get the point, theres even some white paint on it from a year ago when household members were painting the walls.
And the reason I don't replace it is that it never fucking drifts.
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How come this piece of shit has NOT drifted yet when i had top of the line xbox controllers drift MUCH sooner
 
ProudSkibidiTolietAryan said:
How come this piece of shit has NOT drifted yet when i had top of the line xbox controllers drift MUCH sooner
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Larger deadzones so they're less sensitive and precise, but the wear that causes drifting takes much longer to affect them. During the eighth gen, Sony and Microsoft both massively cranked up the precision in their sticks.
 
Smaug's Smokey Hole 2 said:
I've edited video over RDP on a laptop that was 1500km away and other than the slight sound latency(a real problem when trying to sync sound) it was fine.
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Except you were running RDP on a computer with an operating system.

Slav Power said:
Except learning Linux isn't hard.
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Linux is no harder to use than Windows 3.1, which everyone had to learn back in the 90s.
 
Spaced Outside Cargo said:
Did this benefit literally anyone besides racing games?
Controller based games arent usually known for their precise fractional movements and even at their best it’s usually still at a disadvantage to mnk users.
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Gaming hardware went from something designed so a 15 year old could abuse it with minimal consequence to flagship products marketed towards 30+ year olds as premium products
 
Smaug's Smokey Hole 2 said:
So you don't think an OS can be slimmed down into a terminal-like system?
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Using a thin client to remote into a different machine isn't the same thing as remotely hosting your operating system. It doesn't matter how thin you make the client, you need the software that orchestrates your local hardware and enables it to run programs to run locally. Period.

A VM is not a remotely hosted operating system for your computer. What you described is a remotely hosted VM. That VM is not scheduling application time on your local CPU cores. It isn't managing page files for your SSD or memory tables for your RAM. It isn't managing PCIe traffic for your USB devices and GPU.

When I remote into a Linux VM from my Windows laptop, my laptop is not remotely running Linux. The server is running Linux.

Anyone who thinks a cloud-hosted operating system is even possible has no clue how computers actually work, and surprise, most of the people who think this will happen are the same Linux midwits who think your TPM device sends telemetry to Microsoft.
 
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Judge Dredd said:
Thanks, I appreciate it, but no need. I don't need a new PC. My basic bitch 6600 gpu and 5600x cpu build is working great. It does what I need it to do.
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I would get second, third, etc. cheap, modern x86 systems just to mess around with, and have backups. I have one designated solely for HTPC, and an OptiPlex MFF ~1.2 liter mini PC for travel (used it with a portable display). All with 32+ GB of what was dirt cheap DDR4, luckily.

I'm tempted by the $65 i3-1115G4 signage box to eat my own dog food here and try out a dual-core in 2K26, but I don't really need it. I have four Skylake-Comet era desktops that work great, and I'm not usually using more than two of them at once. I need to check out other things, like a KVM solution.
 
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Moore’s Law is Dead is claiming that Samsung will announce in January that they will be ending sata SSD production.

 
Slav Power said:
I'm talking about how the whole "Microsoft will force you to use Windows in a cloud" fear mongering
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I've never heard that. I was talking about computer companies forcing you into low end hardware, so anything that needs any degree of processing power (video editing, gaming) you will be forced to use their shitty cloud services. It's dumb and I don't think it'll work, but when has that stopped companies throwing billions at something.
 
4090 Chad said:
Moore’s Law is Dead is claiming that Samsung will announce in January that they will be ending sata SSD production.

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Makes sense. It's a market better left to lower value-add companies in China and shit. Fabbing modern NAND storage and then bottlenecking it with SATA just doesn't make sense.

Also I had a weird "I'm old" moment recently when I realized that USB3.2 is almost twice as fast as the fastest SATA connection. Completely caught me off guard because SATA still feels relatively 'new' even though it came out when I was a teenager.
 
Judge Dredd said:
I've never heard that. I was talking about computer companies forcing you into low end hardware, so anything that needs any degree of processing power (video editing, gaming) you will be forced to use their shitty cloud services. It's dumb and I don't think it'll work, but when has that stopped companies throwing billions at something.
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Apart from the required super-high connection quality, companies' reckless past behavior has people convinced that relying on their services isn't worth it.
Every time they randomly turn off a service they promised to keep running for years, they are hurting the idea of SaaS.
 
Curry Teafag said:
Apart from the required super-high connection quality, companies' reckless past behavior has people convinced that relying on their services isn't worth it.
Every time they randomly turn off a service they promised to keep running for years, they are hurting the idea of SaaS.
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This is why it's kind of a fools errand but we also got to this point specifically because the last 10 years had almost every single software vendor aggressively switch to a SAAS model and immediately start backsliding on reliability

ten years ago people were so gung ho about this new paradigm that they were selling $2000 chromebooks. Which is laughable now.
 
big pauper said:
ten years ago people were so gung ho about this new paradigm that they were selling $2000 chromebooks. Which is laughable now.
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I could think of having one of those as a Moonlight streaming device, if I had no PC left.

Stratos Sphere said:
he also could be in recovery mode.
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I had literally explained it. It's a setting for the Windows Terminal.
 
Curry Teafag said:
I could think of having one of those as a Moonlight streaming device, if I had no PC left.
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At one point, the Acer Chromebook 516 GE with 16-inch 1440p 16:10 120 Hz screens, the Core i5-1240P (refreshed to 120U in 2024), and 8 GB RAM were being dumped on the refurbished market for around $200-250. It was billed as a streaming game device around the time that Google Stadia still existed (although there are other surviving services like Nvidia GeForce Now). Google was also testing Steam on ChromeOS around that time, which is being discontinued on January 1, 2026 for whatever reason (maybe a conversion of ChromeOS to Android).

x86 Chromebooks should be the easiest to get Linux or Windows installed on. They almost all have soldered memory except for some Framework units.
 
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