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@Entropy, @MetricIsRight, awesome, thank you both.
I still have a set of spares, but once I’m through those, I’ll get the hall effect ones.
My current gripe is to get the right rail to fit tighter so the right joycon does not lose connection. I’m thinking of adding some teflon. (One of the screws’ heads is too worn out to disassemble fully)
@Entropy, do they also feel good? I heard conflicting reports on that part. @slimerancher
@JonDorfman, right, but Hall effect analogue sticks themselves have existed for a long time, so that technology in general (except any novel addition) is (most likely) not patented anymore.
@JonDorfman, I did a quick online search for Nintendo’s JoyCon patents, and interestingly found a US one from 2023 (2020 in Japan) about what looks Hall effect analogue sticks:
https://patents.google.com/patent/US20230280850A1/
@JonDorfman I wonder how they would do that while also not violating patents on JoyCons that I suppose Nintendo has.
I have not checked, but would be surprised if they do not.
@JonDorfman, what legal challenges?
@slimerancher, de gustibus, I guess :) @TORFdot0
@TORFdot0, Phantom is the best character in _any_ Mario game IMHO :blobaww: @slimerancher
@StarServal, you mean patents (not copyright), since it is about inventions.
And there is at least one hall effect controller patent that already expired. It is from 1988, so hall effect joysticks are not a new thing at all.
@arsenics, Yahzee had a review of it, if you’re interested:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rW32ml-OLxY
@Squirrel, there is a demo, if you’re interested.
@privsecfoss I would absolutely love to get back to #XMPP as my main (ideally only) IM, but in time some things made it hard to do so:
- it’s extensible and not all clients support all modernly needed extensions - the #Jabber XEP solves this (on paper/standard level)
- loads of spam - again, tackled by Jabber XEP bundle and clients that fully implement it
- and ultimately, 90% of my contacts there never pop up anymore - network effect problem
@CosmicSploogeDrizzle, that just made it more interesting to me.
In the video it seemed like Sonic moved differently than in the classic 2D games.
@picandocodigo, check out other Zelda videos by TerminalMontage for where it came from.