So we write a JS library that you can pull in with your favorite client-side JS package manager that pretends to do ID and face scanning, but just green-lights everything. It tells the user “ok, look at your screen and 3… 2… 1… ok, we got your face scan now hold your ID up to the screen and 3… 2… 1… yup, you’re 100% over 18 all right, yessirree.” And we only admit it’s not actually doing shit in the fine fine print. And anyone can lock their content behind that and if the state of Mississippi or whoever comes after the website admin, the website has plausible deniability. “It’s whaaaaaat? I was scammed? Really? It doesn’t actually verify? Oh, well, I’m so very sorry Mr. state prosecutor sir, I never realized. I’ll get that fixed right up. Wouldn’t want innocent seventeen-and-a-half-year-olds exposed to any mention of… whispers: nudity.”

So put an SQLite database on a Luks-encrypted partition or a Luks-encrypted filesystem in a file.

Lay still in bed with the lights off and my eyes closed. If the reason why I can’t sleep is noise, I’ll put in an ear plug. (Only one, because my other ear is on the pillow and blocks everything out.

This one is easily a contender for my absolute favorite Nerdcore song.

Staaaaaaahp

It’s usually not terribly noticeable except on certain games (I think Celest was one example I heard) or if you’re speedrunning (which was why it bothered me so much specifically). Basically, pressing one of the D-pad buttons can often register a different D-pad input even if the operator of the controller presses in exactly the correct part of the D-pad.

The way the D-pad is constructed is that the part your finger makes contact with is a plastic piece that pivots about a “post” and when you tip it one direction or another far enough, it presses on a pressure pad on the controller’s motherboard. The problem is just that the “post” is about… maybe half a millimeter shorter than it ought to be, so it pivots a little less than it should and pancakes a little more than it should, resulting in the wrong pressure pad being hit.

That’s already way ore info than you asked for. Lol. But if you want even more info, this YouTube video has a simple fix and this 3D-printable part on Thingiverse is about a more sophisticated fix. I’ve tried both and can confirm the latter is a little bit better in my experience. The former fixed the misinput issue, but made D-pad down a bit less responsive. The latter, I have no complaints about.

Well that’s disappointing. I fixed my Switch 1 Pro controller with the Scotch tape trick and later 3D-printed a replacement D-pad. Of course, both of those required fully disassembling and reassembling the controller. But it did the trick. (The latter better than the former. More info in another comment I made on this thread.)

The Switch 1 Pro Controller had plenty of issues too. I have to wonder if the Switch 2 Pro Controller has the same janky d-pad issue that basically every Switch 1 Pro Controller (except the ones modified by end consumers to fix the issue) had.

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Democracy? What democracy?

Just imagine. Apple could make it a microtransaction bidding war. If you hit the “end” button it says “override caller’s preference not to let you hang up for only 75¢.” And then it puts on the caller’s screen “Tommy has initiated a bid to control hanging up privileges. The current bid is 75¢.”

Say what you will about Roblox, but I have to respect, if nothing else, the fact that they’re kindof an intellectual-property-optional zone. It’s unlikely you can think of a video game that there isn’t a super-shitty rip off of on Roblox.

I mean, what do you think of Steve Martin? I don’t know about you, but I think he’s one wild and crazy guy.

Yeah, ok. I’ll concede Betterhelp too.

Exactly. Day 2. ;)

Firefox, Plex, and VPNs I can understand being surprised about. But the rest of them… I mean of course they were going to milk you for money. Was there ever a time when any of those didn’t?

“Eat this if you want to live.”

Hold my beer.

And throw in a side of pork belly.

Maybe they matched the donut placement to the sign. Did you ever think of that?