Checking out the Lemmy side of the sea—

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Cake day: July 2nd, 2023

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  • I can’t directly answer the question, as I don’t use one. But I would like to mention that I put on a pair of joystick caps which are frankly pretty thin layers of silicon all things considered, and now the Deck won’t fit inside the case unless I firmly hold it closed and then pull the zipper.

    The case is designed to fit it very snugly, it would seem! But third-party cases usually have more give inside for covers and joystick caps etc.






  • I use the AmazFit Band 7, the last sensibly sized watch that exists it often feels like.

    Weather fails to sync, but then it’s probably the least important feature on a watch. The only feature I really wish Gadgetbridge could do that even the official stack can’t is “nap mode”

    As a narcoleptic person still recovering from major depression, I wish I could either press a button to silence the watch and set a “smart alarm” for 30 minutes. Even better if it would turn on automatically if it detects me sleeping during the day!

    The only other thing GB can’t do is stand in for the phone-side ZeppOS API functionality, but who needs that, let’s be honest!

    Fantastic battery life to boot. I have gone two weeks after forgetting to charge it while wearing it almost 24×7!






  • Yeah, that’s a pretty huge con honestly.

    My sheer frustration with all this tiny to grievous papercuts with Tailscale years on got the best of me— Even the Android Magic DNS bug only got fixed last month. But hey, I’m still using it, instead of ZeroTier so that’s something :D


  • ZeroTier pros:

    • Exit nodes don’t break if I lose wifi for a moment
    • Works with custom DNS setups out of the box
    • Allow-LAN actually works on Android, rather, is the default
    • No member limits for free
    • No need to disown devices and putting them into tags to be able to set SSH ACLs
    • Works out of the box with other overlay networks and VPNs

    ZeroTier cons:

    • No freemium tunneling feature
    • No convenient browser-based SSH that only admins can use for some reason
    • Not nearly as sexy

    Candles are punching above their weight these days, it seems


  • Often as a lazier way to press the face buttons for slow games. But also custom turbo patterns for fast games. E.g.:

    • In Genshin Impact, the back buttons are all face buttons, but with select ones set to turbo for automatic item pickup, or dialog skipping, etc.
      • Also very comfy to use them while swimming
    • In Hades II:
      • L/R4 are the two shoulder buttons for comfier portal/character interaction
      • L/R5 do autoattack and autospecial on turbo
    • In Valheim, one lets me Dodge with a single button press instead of the chord the game demands you use
    • In Balatro
      • L/R4 switches hand sorting modes, which has no in-game shortcuts, still
      • L5 restarts a run on long press
      • R5 quits to main menu and resumes with a multi button sequence, to “soft reset”
    • In Tabletop Simulator, the most common actions like clicking, selecting, flipping a card, and drawing, are all mapped to the back buttons for ergonomics, freeing face/shoulder buttons for more advanced stuff
    • In Minecraft, various back buttons are used to enable different overlaid controls when clicked/pressed based on the modpack.

    Etc etc!