Mazesecle

Elitist a bit strong

Hmm you're right sorry, I don't know the specifics of e.g. your comment in this case, but it is frustrating when information is shared publicly, that might be of interest to someone, but the language used creates a larger barrier than needed 😕 And having a translator tab open in my browser just to translate every comment and post I read on the Internet one-by-one is not feasible. (I know e.g this is just one comment, but I'm talking about the bigger picture in general)

(In any case, thank you everyone for engaging in the discussion I started! I didn't expect so many answers 😅)

francophone instance

But, the community is hosted on lemmy.world, is lemmy.world francophone? 🤔 (Or you mean the original post?)

Δηλαδή θέλεις να μου πεις ότι εσύ όταν είσαι στο Διαδίκτυο κάθεσαι και κάνεις αντιγραφή-επικόλληση κάθε πράγμα που βλέπεις σε υπηρεσίες μετάφρασης;

Μπορείς απλά εσύ που κάνεις το σχόλιο να κάνεις τη μετάφραση για τους άλλους

Το να γράφεις μόνο στη γλώσσα σου είναι ελιτιστικό, περιμένοντας είτε όλοι να ξέρουν τη γλώσσα σου, είτε ότι μόνο όποιος ξέρει τη γλώσσα σου είναι άξιος της πληροφορίας που γράφεις

Σε κάθε περίπτωση, κάνει την διαθεσιμότητα περιεχομένου στο Διαδίκτυο χειρότερη

Ρε, ψήσου να μιλάς κι εσύ αγγλικά, όπως έχουμε ψιλοσυμφωνήσει όλοι στο Διαδίκτυο

Αλλιώς δεν βγαίνει η φάση να μιλάει ο καθένας τη γλώσσα του

...which nation?

I can live with the risk of losing my steam account

Well that's you, most people wouldn't like it very much if the suddenly lost all the games they paid for :P

(The best option, of course, is to buy from GOG or itch.io etc, in order to own the copies of games you buy)

Where do you see if a key is bought with stolen credits card data?

Of course you can't 😅 What I searched for is news articles about this happening in the past

• These keys don't magically appear from somewhere, developers need to generate them on Steam's UI and give them to sellers
  • Maybe they sell them in bulk? It probably benefits them, since they can sell like 10.000 keys or sth at once, even if they are at a lower price
• I tried to search, and only found one case where the product being sold was bought with stolen credit cards.
  • But this can literally happen every time you buy sth from a random Amazon store... E.g. the mouse pad you're buying can be from a larger shipment ordered using a stolen credit card
• Of course it's better to pay the full price on e.g. Steam. But if you're between buying the game from a key store, vs thinking of paying 10 times the price and always putting it off, I think the developers might even benefit because:
  1. they get money from the key seller, even if it's less
  2. They probably benefit more from the larger online user base, more reviews, recommendations to friends, hype, etc etc
• If it was that shady and problematic, Steam would start banning users registering keys sold on CD key stores (e.g. I think Xbox already does this)
  • The only thing I kind of worry about (but not related to us as consumers for now), is that Steam probably currently doesn't have a lot of benefit, since they're losing a sell, and still need to provide the bandwith and online matchmaking etc; so I'm hoping instead of mayyyybe banning users in the future, they could like charge users or developers like €0.10 for each key used or sth

(Edit: I read "privacy" instead of "piracy" 😅 But most of those still stand)

Thank you for this tip! I saw your comment and I checked my 2FA app, Aegis, and it has a "Steam" option as well!

(When creating an entry, you can just select "Type: Steam" instead of "TOTP")

But that is my point: downvoting the news will not keep people from using it; the people who will want to use it will find it anyway.

In any case, people still want to be aware about it, especially the people who disagree and downvoted it, so they should have upvoted instead, in order to have a proper discussion about the issue they supposedly care about.

Trying to bury it in downvotes to make it disappear from "Hot" does the exact opposite.

Wow, so many downvotes probably from people hating the news, this is not what the downvote button is for.

It's about if a post or comment contributes or triggers interesting and engaging discussions.

Specifically for news articles, I find it important to upvote if I'm glad the article was posted at all, since it helps raise awareness about an issue etc, or if I probably wouldn't have found the article posted on another platform, so maybe I wouldn't have learned about it at all.

Even if it's fake news, it's better for me to be aware that misinformation in being spread about the issue, with people in the comments explaining why it's fake with sources etc.

The upvote/downvote button is not a change.org petition for making a problem go away by disagreeing with it.

Saw the title and I came here to say that I have the 8BitDo Pro 2, I didn't need to customize the buttons a lot, but if you really need to do this I'm not sure I've seen any other controllers that support this feature, even on Windows.

Same goes with updating the firmware. While researching it, I found that they provided a firmware update for a 2.4GHz controller to make it work with Bluetooth (!). I’m not sure I've seen many controllers with upgradeable firmware in general, let alone the company choosing to make it support Bluetooth instead of forcing you to buy their more expensive controller in their lineup.

I like the build quality, I don't know what you mean but i.e. my Pro 2 of course is not going to have the same build quality as a €200 controller that has metal parts etc.

It was also nice to see that it has a button to change the input mode, which I guess it would be more useful if I had to connect it to consoles etc (but I think I remember I did need to use it once when Steam input was misbehaving or sth)

Oh also I was surprised by the battery life; I think it was advertised as having 12 hours, but after 2 years of using it I happened to notice that I had 25-30 hours of playing time in a game and I hadn't charged it (now that I'm looking at their website it says 20 hours, but I think there's been another revision since I bought it)

Last thing I really liked was the removable battery: when your battery needs replacement, with other comparable controllers you either need to buy a new one, or try getting inside the case and solder one yourself etc. Meanwhile my controller comes with a rechargeable LiPo battery, for which you can buy an official replacement, or change it for 2 AA batteries, either rechargeable or not