I dabble in coding, linux, gaming, HEMA, LARP, e-mobility, carhacking, simpits and… parenting?

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  • So often connected devices have to be “overriden” again within Wine too.

    There are now still 2 entries for the same Model and Vendor id in the Wine reg. One for xinput. And this is e.g. prioritized by some games like Elite so they will only start to listen on xinput here, where nothing ever arrives. In that case references to xinput have to be removed again from the registry. Only to be auto repopulated by the next Proton upgrade in some cases or when the device enumeration changes for some reason. Pain.


  • I do this but that’s not all. There are some options that remap especially additional joysticks to SDL XInput Mapping devices automatically. Probably(!) back from the days where games could not deal with more than one joystick anyway. Layers in layers and sometimes it’s detective work to figure out why and where the device stopped working. Again. And this is before the terribly broken input system of some games is even reached.

    Random trivia: Touch panels count too.











  • regulations require electric vehicles to make some noise

    Even that is so dumb already. I’m happy I can still disable that on mine (it’s older than that regulation).

    Yes I know about the straw argument of blind persons - which usually say that is not really a problem. A rolling car emits enough noise. Heck even bikes can be heard. This is really only for the benefit of healthy people that learned for years “cars loud” so they rely on their hearing only and often walk in-front of bikes too not expecting anything else but cars. And this has to stop. This whole focus on “cars” and “noise” - the “car brains” need rewiring.