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Cake day: July 1st, 2023

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  • I liked their feel for sure. I probably wouldn’t go out and buy any more from eBay or whatnot as I already have two, but they were solid and I definitely plan on updating mine.

    Can’t speak to their use after the Bluetooth update as I just found out about it, but they were responsive when I used them through stadia and work just as well, if not better, when wired to a computer.

    As much as I dislike Google, they did handle this stadia wind down and shuttering pretty well.

    Edit: The Bluetooth works just as well! These were my favorite controllers until the PS5 controllers came out (don’t even own a PS5 but picked up a couple for my mobile gaming).

    One thing I prefer about Dualsense over the stadia controller is that their buttons are really quiet. I still prefer the feel of the stadia controller, though, so for casual daytime gaming, I think these are gonna be my go to.




  • This is pretty much me as well. I may use results from a search, but, for the most part, I’m never signed in and I haven’t commented or voted on anything for quite a while.

    The comments seem less helpful or on point with new content from that site anyway, so whenever I am on it, it’s usually like a problem solving thread that was posted a year or more back.

    Edit: I’m only signed in on my main computer as I still have that login running, I guess.

    Also, idk what people are talking about with lack of content. It’s not oversaturated to the point that new posts get lost in the churn, but the communities I subscribe to have a fair amount of posts going on.

    I feel like people aren’t curating their lemmy feeds well or at all if they’re not seeing content. I will say that it takes some time to figure out which communities to subscribe to, but I think the majority of that is behind me and I’m catching up with interesting content through stuff like new community or trending community posts.





  • Totally, I mean a lot of my gripe with cars is about how they’re currently used and their safety and environmental impact.

    I recognize the need for low occupant vehicles, but definitely also see that we’ve blown past any reasonable projection of their use.

    As far as cutting cars out of cities goes, it’s pretty important to cut commuter cars as well. Commuter trains are safer, way more easily regulated and keep cars out of the city.

    I shed no tears for the owners of parking lots and ticket writers who would lose out with an increase in commuter trains. They bet on the continuation of inefficient forms of transportation and sought to capitalize on convenience, let 'em fail like commercial real estate and have the cities restructure their downtowns when the prices on those buildings plummet.


  • Exactly! When I took my test way back when, they didn’t even have me drive on a highway… Like, most of the crazy shit I see happens on or entering/exiting highways. I feel like mandating that in a test would keep a lot of people from danger.

    And I get that people need to get to work and do errands, but the standard for getting a license is so low that their convenience comes at the expense of public safety and increased private costs, medical, legal, tickets to police vultures that just fund further oppression.

    We treat driving as a necessity and cut all corners to keep selling environment destroying death traps to every member of the public. Driving is very convenient, but also inherently dangerous and the testing involved needs to accurately reflect the fatal consequences that occur wayyy too frequently.

    Even if the consequences aren’t fatal, victims end up with significant injuries and even life changing disabilities. Then they’re compensated fucking pennies by greedy, profit pinching insurance companies and any actual burden for their treatment, rehabilitation, or stabilization is then borne by the victims and eventually the state.

    It’s lazy, demented, and cruel, all the way around. I feel like states should have standing to fuck up auto manufacturers and insurance companies for the massive costs they shift over to the public, but we’ve never really had a justice system so that’s a ways away if it’s even possible.