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  • Oh I would never use bluetooth on PC, that adds input latency like crazy. I was talking wireless only ever over 2.4Ghz with the 8bitdo adapter. Even there the KK2 had really bad latency while all the others were fine. The KK3 Max actually comes with its own adapter to achieve 1000Hz wirelessly (I got only around 880, but still higher than all the others on stock which are usually stuck on 250 or 500Hz. You can overclock the PS5 to 1000 when wired but I never did).

    Also since you mentioned them going for an elite controller style with the KK3 Max, I wouldn’t count on its back pedals. Personally I find they make it impossible to hold the controller. I’ve never liked the back pedals on the Xbox Elite, and I like them even less on the KK3, while I found the one on the 8bitdo ultimate really nice (though I never used them anyway).

    As for the branding I have no clue. They did have a US/Target version of the KK2 Pro called the Zen Pro which was the exact same controller, just sold at Target. I think they’re just weird with their naming.

    On that note, I’ve also heard there is supposed to be more budget versions of the KK3 Max coming out over the year (I think it was two more), similar to how they had a KK2 and KK2 Pro.


  • Just want to mention that Guilikit now have the KK3 Max which has some improvements over the KingKong 2. It’s also possible to grab a PS5 controller and connect it to your switch with an 8bitdo wireless adapter.

    I have both Guilikits, an 8bitdo ultimate and the ps5 combo here. The 8bitdo ultimate is certainly the safest option of the bunch, but I like the KK3 Max most.

    The KingKong Pro 2 has some massive polling rate issues. If you want to use the thing wirelessly on PC, you’re stuck at 60Hz and it’s not even very consistent, which is awful compared to all the others. Not sure how it’s looking on switch since it’s difficult to measure that, but I feel like it’s similarly much slower than other controllers.

    The KK3 Max doesn’t have that issue, though I haven’t done any latency testing yet. In terms of Gyro, the KingKong Pro 2 was also pretty bad, no way I could play splatoon with that. I don’t know if that’s improved on the KK3 Max, I haven’t tried gyro yet so I can’t comment on it.

    While I’ve had no hardware failures with either of them (I’ve only had the KK3 Max since yesterday), they also don’t exactly give me confidence that they won’t. It’s not that they’re badly built, but in particular the stick caps and should buttons just feel like they might give out fairly early. I will say that I find them by far the most comfortable though, and I love the material they used, it feels really nice, especially compared to the 8bitdo ultimate’s cheap plastic. I also find the back triggers to be much better than the others. On the KK3 Max they have this new digital trigger mode and it’s awful, but the normal analogue trigger feels fantastic. On the KK2 the triggers were pretty nice also.

    PS5 controller’s battery life is awful. Also the experience can vary depending on the adapter used, the Mayflash Magic ones I found to be significantly worse than the 8bitdo adapter.

    The 8bitdo ultimate is just an allrounder. I don’t like the shape and materials used, as well as the way the back triggers feel. All those points are better on the Guilikit, but then again the 8bitdo certainly is built better and I can say that it has 0 polling rate/latency issues and its gyro works great, which is why I say it’s the safest options.

    Also, no matter what 3rd party controller you’ll get, you won’t ever find a replacement for the original Switch Pro’s HD Rumble stuff. In fact, Rumble is always a little awkward on all of these controllers I find.





  • I’m aware of nautilus-admin, but not only is it not maintained, imho it should be part of nautilus by default, and it has to open a new nautilus window when you use it. What I want is to drag and drop files to /usr/local and then get a password prompt to do the move. With nautilus-admin, I need to have the foresight to use “Open as admin” when going into /usr/local, but if I had that foresight then I might as well just start nautilus as root to begin with. Usually I just want to look into the folder, and only then realize I need to change something, which means a good old “go back up one folder, then search the local folder again, then right click, search for ‘Open as admin’, then get thrown into a new window, completely disorienting myself in the process”.


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    Personally I never understood why file managers in linux refuse to do operations that require privileges. Guess what, if I have Nautilus open and want to move files into, let’s say, /usr/local, I don’t want to have to switch to the terminal to do so if I already have the stuff copied within nautilus. On Windows, I just get an admin password prompt if I try to do naughty stuff. On Linux, we have the whole polkit system, but no file manager seems to ever use it. Tbf, this is not a nautilus problem, as no file manager seems to do this.




  • Treeniks@lemmy.mltoProgrammer Humor@lemmy.mlC Compilers be like
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    9 months ago

    Actually when it comes to C++ 23 library features, MSVC is ahead of both. In fact, as far as I can tell, MSVC is the only compiler that fully supports all C++ 20 core language features at the moment. So credit where credit is due, MSVC has gotten way way better the past few years. Visual Studio is still awful, but the compiler has become quite competent.





  • Haven’t seen anyone mention the Zed Text Editor yet. It’s only available on MacOS as of now, but I’ve tried it out a bit and once it’s more mature (and available on other OSes), I might switch over from Sublime Text. It’s got a similar speed as Sublime, but with LSP, vim emulation and collaboration features built in, whereas in Sublime I need to install packages to achieve the same. Also made by the same people who originally made Atom and Treesitter.

    I also want to mention Onivim. Unfortunately, development has stopped, so it’s not really a viable option anymore, but I loved the idea. The idea was to make a vscode/vim hybrid. To that extend, it’s written in Reason which allowed them to support vscode extensions, thus they didn’t have to create their own extension ecosystem, while still being faster than electron. As for the vim part, the entire editor could be controlled with a keyboard. They had a global shortcut to go into a “UI move mode” so to say, which allowed you to go to every single piece of UI you had on screen. Thus they were able to copy the vscode UI, but still be keyboard-only. It was a surprisingly effective idea, so I hope some people can revive it someday.