Is everything the way I want it? No, I could stand to lose a few pounds and be a bit stronger, make more money etc.

But I am comfortable and feel no angst.

Almost 190k on my explorer before I wrecked it. Never had any major mechanical issues, or even many minor ones.

Nah this is painful to use unless I have my arms almost fully extended. And I’m not even that big of a person.

Much like the OG controller, ergonomics are not valve’s forte.

Ok buddy.

in the context of a user who knows basically anything about the two platforms

Why? You can know about something and just not care. Or care, but care about something else more.

I use android and iOS daily and I could never go back to an android phone being my main phone. Android has many advantages, but at the end of the day I care about none of them.

Does it officially support Kobos? From what I can tell you need to program it to work with whatever device you’re using, they don’t typically “just work”

Sure in the gigantic wall of text. Also it doesn’t tell you why, or what to do about it. All they’d have to do is say “run dist-upgrade to update these packages.”

I’ve had quite the oposite experience. My PS4 controller never gave me any problems for the 6ish years I had it. But the OG steam controller is the only controller I’ve ever broken. I like to think I treat my stuff well because I’ve never had any issues besides stick drift on any controller I’ve ever owned. But in the limited time I used a steam controller I managed to break it twice. After the second time I just got rid of it.

Like 6 months ago I found one at a thrift store and it’s rough too. I should dig it out before the new one arrives.

Bomb proof is not how I’d describe the OG steam controller. Maybe a bomb? They were not built well.

f I sub to something I want to see new content every time I refresh lemmy,

That’s the problem, lemmy’s algorithms aren’t smart enough to do that. Posts made around the same time tend to show up around each other. Particularly with scaled sorting, hot is a little better, but shows older content. As long as the posts are spaced out per community I don’t think people will find it annoying. But like I said I had 1.5 pages full of just programmer humor posts. Back to back to back. And if I refreshed it didn’t change, because lemmys algorithms are static.

Right now as I go to my default page 6/20 posts are orange cats. In a few hours it will be what other community a cluster of posts it decides to make.

When the original content is from is less important than when it’s posted here. Lemmys sorting algorithm isn’t very smart. When all of the posts are made in a batch it shows them all together. I don’t want to see pages of 90% one community.

Once a day the top post from reddit? Great, I’m cool with that. 30 random ass posts from 2 days worth of reddit all within 20 minutes? Annoying as shit, awful. Don’t do that.

At least space the posts out. No more than 1 per hour. And even then that gets annoying when one community is dominated by one poster.

The CPU may not use too much power, but the chipset and all the supporting circuitry will. Supporting 4/8channel memory aint free. And RAM can use a ton of power too.

Not with TrueNAS, ZFS is a RAM hog. They suggest 8gb minimum, and you really don’t want the minimum AND adding more stuff on top. That said 16gb isn’t too painful.

If you want a NAS on the cheap my preference is just get any cheap “normal” PC, a case with a good amount of HDD bays. Move the drives into the PC, and you have all the expand ability you could dream of. You can find plenty of DDR4 machines for cheap now. Then as ram prices come down you can go up to 128gb of ram as long as your board has 4 slots.

Anything on craigslist/FB marketplace will work.

The steam deck is like a foot wide so the vertical grips are comfortable with that. The vertical grips of the controller that’s 5”(?) wide doesn’t seem as great.

Reviews are already out. At least reviewer reviews. The touchpads are slightly bigger.

And by 10:00.1 it will be sold out.

Does anyone know if it functions as a normal xinput controller on windows without using steam?

The Controller requires Steam or the Steam Link app. I tested it on GeForce Now via my iPhone and while it did connect over Bluetooth

That doesn’t bode well, but thats also on an iphone.