DarkMetatron

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[–] DarkMetatron 5 points 2 months ago

Because on consoles that is the only possible way to install and use mods.

[–] DarkMetatron 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The XBOX One controller should be fully bluetooth hid compliant and it should work out of the box for at least all the buttons and axis. There are userspace and kernel drivers for the XBOX controller too (xpad and xboxdrv) but I don't have much experience with them or with bluetooth controller in general.

[–] DarkMetatron 13 points 2 months ago (3 children)

At the moment, my PS5 controller connected to my Linux PC via USB-C. It has perfect support due to official in kernel drivers from Sony and very little lag when used via USB-C.

[–] DarkMetatron 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

That sounds interesting, would most likely not be very popular with lots of people and a pain in the butt to implement but interesting.

[–] DarkMetatron 0 points 2 months ago

I never moved the goalposts, all I always said was that a forced and clunky date format like YYYY-MM-DD will never find broad use or acceptance in the major population of the world. It is not made for easy day to day use.

If it sounded like I moved goalposts, that maybe due to english as a second language. Sorry for that.

But yes, I think we both have made our positions and statements clear, and there is not really a common ground for us. Not because one of us would be right or wrong but because we are not talking about the topic on the same level of abstraction. I talk about it from a social, very down to the ground perspective and you are at least 2 levels of abstraction above that. Nothing wrong with that but we just don't see the same picture.

And yes using YYYY-MM-DD would be great, I don't say anything against that on a general level, I just don't ever see any chance for it used commonly.

So thank you for the great discussion and have a nice day.

[–] DarkMetatron -4 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Entire countries, like China, Japan, Korea, etc., use YYYY-MM-DD as their date standard already.

And every person in those countries uses YYYY-MM-DD always in their day to day communication? I really doubt that. I am sure even in those countries most people will still use short forms in different formats.

[–] DarkMetatron 0 points 2 months ago

Ok, then I am sure we will all be using that very soon, because abstract mathematic definitions always map perfectly onto real world usage and needs.

It is not that I don't follow the mathematic definition of significance, it is just invalid for the view and scope of the argument that I make.

YYYY-MM-DD is great for official documents but not for common use. People will always trade precision for ease of use, and that will never change. And in most cases the year is not relevant at all so people will omit it. Other big issue: People tend to write like they talk and (as far as I know) nobody says the year first. That's exactly why we have DD-MM and MM-DD

YYYY-MM-DD will only work in enforced environments like official documents or workspaces, because everywhere else people will use shortcuts. And even the best mathematic definition of the world will not change that.

[–] DarkMetatron -1 points 2 months ago (2 children)

For any scheduled date it is irrelevant if you miss it for a day, a month or a year. So from that perspective every part of it is exactly the same, if the date is wrong then it is wrong. You say that it is sorted in the order of most significants, so for a date it is more significant if it happend 1024, 2024 or 9024? That may be relevant for historical or scientific purposes but not much people need that kind of precision. Most people use calendars for stuff days or month ahead or below, not years or decades.

If I get my tax bill, I don't care for the year in the date because I know that the government wants the money this year not next or on ten. If I have a job interview, I don't care for the year, the day and months is what is relevant. It has a reason why the year is often removed completely when dates are noted or made. Because it Is obvious.

Yes I can see why YYYY-MM-DD is nice for stuff like archiving purposes, it makes sorting and grouping very easy but there they already use the best system for the job.

For digital documents I would say that date and time information should be stored in a defined computer readable standard so that the document viewer can render or use it in any way needed. That could be swatch internet time as far as I care because hopefully I would never look at the raw data at all.

[–] DarkMetatron -4 points 2 months ago (10 children)

The year is the information that most of the time is the least significant in a date, in day to day use.

DDMMYY is perfect for daily usage.

[–] DarkMetatron 1 points 2 months ago

Could be a cover to easy access a ssd slot and RAM banks.

[–] DarkMetatron 9 points 2 months ago

Yeah, they should have used the names in alphabetical order, like Ubuntu with their codenames.

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