boatswain

joined 2 years ago
[–] boatswain 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Interesting, hadn't seen that before. Their site doesn't really show how they get their 29 button presses--is is multiple switches for each finger? How's the software for it and, most importantly: does it run on Linux?

[–] boatswain 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm sure it does for its purpose, but the D pad is something I use frequently to control movement in a specific direction, so I wantt to be able to, for example, strafe right for a second or two; track ball seems like not a great solution for repeated consistent input like that. Track ball seems like a better solution for doing things like moving a cursor to a particular location.

[–] boatswain 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah, the Belkin is just solid; it's definitely my longest-lived peripheral. I've never used anything by Razer; their stuff seems style over substance.

The DIY community here creates so much really cool stuff; I'm hoping someone else has already tackled this problem.

[–] boatswain 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

That looks close, but I'd want to swap out the track ball for a D pad, and I'm not sure how feasible that is

[–] boatswain 5 points 1 year ago

Figured it was inadvertent, yeah

[–] boatswain 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

FYI might want to rethink your choice of punctuation for your edit: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triple_parentheses

[–] boatswain 9 points 1 year ago

I had a similar issue recently on Garuda, and what fixed it for me was going into the BIOS and enabling Resizable BAR.

[–] boatswain 2 points 1 year ago

Just picked this up based on the up votes here, and I'm already a fan. Seems like it does what you want and nothing else, which is perfect.

[–] boatswain 3 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Sure but given that their previous language explicitly mentions Google why remove that unless they're trying to make people think that maybe they didn't use Google. It's a shady change, from a company whose CEO is already doing somewhat unhinged things.

[–] boatswain 16 points 1 year ago (7 children)

The issue is that they're using it but no longer being explicit about that use.

[–] boatswain 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Half of a bottlescrew or turnbuckle.

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