Magnus Åhall

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I built an arcade machine from scratch (MAME for arcade games) and had a coin button to begin with. Mostly meant that it was too easy to just spam the coin and start button (sits beside one another) and just "pay" our way through games.

I built coin slots with tokens falling through a light sensor and now it is a little more work to "pay", and also a slight shame introduced to the gameplay when your pile of tokens are significantly smaller than your friend's :)

We're trying a little harder now to play better.

A not-very-user-friendly software is MoltenGamepad (https://github.com/jgeumlek/MoltenGamepad).

It is configured only via config files, but can take any input and create virtual gamepads (xbox gamepads can be specified) which works everywhere I've tried them in Linux.

I'm using it for playing gamepad-only games on my arcade machine, which has an ipac controller board acting as a USB keyboard. I can map keyboard buttons to the virtual controllers.

Also used it to play a game with physical gamepads that wasn't supported by that specific game.

MessagEase is a nice keyboard built for mobile devices, using 9 keys for typing with swiping to access some of the letters.

Numbers and special characters can also be accessed without having to switch mode.

on *Permanently Deleted* · c/technology · 5 pts · 1y

"Crime was always with us, he reasoned, and therefore, if you were going to have crime, it at least should be organised crime."

I'm also using it to script sessions of workflows with many programs, for instance a dev environment with a lot of microservices. Some windows with multiple panes each.

This kind of reminds of the BlackDog: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/BlackDog

It was a small computer that easily fit in a pocket and only had a single USB port. That was connected to a computer which powered it, and it connected as a virtual CD-ROM drive.

On that was an xming X11 server. The BlackDog ran your applications outputted through it. The applications it ran could also access the Internet through the host computer.

Exactly this. I am a very social person when among people, but pay a price for it afterwards, as I'm drained of energy.

Introverts gains energy by being by them selves. Extroverts needs to be with other persons to gain energy,

That said, most people are not neccessarily completely one or the other.

I understand where the misconception comes from though. Seems likely that being introvert often leads to not be very social since you're "punished" for it by your own mind.

I'm using a 49" monitor and dividing it up in virtual X11 monitors/screens for flexibility. Running a tiling window manager with lots of virtual desktops, but with fullscreen support separate monitors are still needed. Wayland are still missing the support for dividing up the display, which is probably the last thing keeping me on X11.

I'm running a couple of Vaultwarden instances, and it would be really nice if Bitwarden employed Garcia to improve the Rust backend. But as the bitter cynic I am, I guess it is an effort to shut down and control as much of the open source use of Bitwarden as possible.

The worst case, someone will most likely fork Vaultwarden and we can still access it with Keyguard on mobile and the excellent Vaultwarden web interface :)

on Best Email Client · c/linux · 2 pts · 2y

Same - Evolution offers one thing Firebird dosen't - connecting to the work cloud Microsoft account!

We have had the opposite problem in the past. A cert provider requiring us to exist in certain international directories of companies took weeks of waiting around on bureaucratic red tape.

Then they didn't even call us to verify our existance, place of business or anything (yeah, this was one of the big certificate providers a long time ago).

Their website was horrible, and their support wasn't better.

LetsEncrypt though hasn't failed me once since it was setup, and that is over hundreds of domains with thousands of renewals.