It's 1am, I'm about to fall into exhausted sleep, but first an update on my #gameDad joystick swap, I'll tell y'all the whole sordid tale tomorrow but have these two highlights in the meantime:
1. Gulikit hall-effect joysticks are mockable clownshoes nonsense, people only think they're good because they're comparing them to broken Nintendo Switch joysticks and they only work at all because Nintendo made an excellent calibration system to try to squeak a few more months out of their crummy Switch joysticks.
2. Linux has two joystick APIs and it's not easy to find out which one your software is using, but the important part is that they both suck.
🐰 Gee Dan, wasn't the start of this thread all about doing happy little quick repair jobs so you could get back to doing your cosy nightly ritual which involves playing open source games on a tiny little handheld Linux computer with cute little joysticks
🦝 buddy lemme fckn tell you smth
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