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The power of stream deck is that some of the plugins are more advanced. Recreating these with hammerspoon or auto hotkeys can be difficult for some of them. For

The power of stream deck is that some of the plugins are more advanced. Recreating these with hammerspoon or auto hotkeys can be difficult for some of them. For example, exiting Zoom calls. Having said that I use my steam deck on my Mac to play audio and exit from zoom calls. On windows I had a bunch of scripts to launch tools that required multiple steps.

saurik 4y ago
To verify, the only thing those benefits have to do with having an extra custom hardware keyboard is that the company that made the software to do those functions thinks they can make more money selling a fancy piece of hardware, right?
- zamnos 4y ago
  That seems like a bad take, focused on the money changing hands aspect, and ignoring the other side if that transcation. Especially these days when you could totally build it yourself. Design your own PCB, build your own enclosure, solder all the switches up and write some microcontroller firmware to drive it. Or, y'know, you could just buy the product that someone else already spent the time building if you didn't want to do all that. Some people want a button that very satisfyingly clicks to hang up at the end of that zoom call with their boss/lover/employee/whatever. Some of them are even willing to pay money for one. Others want to build one themselves from scratch. Sounds like you're not willing to. That's okay, it's not like someone is forcing you to buy this thing. (Thankfully, desktop computers are quite open and let you connect random hardware and run random supporting software, and they aren't locked down like, say, iPhones, which you are intimately more familiar with than I.)
  - saurik 4y ago
    The person I was responding to was specifically and narrowly saying that the plugins and software were the benefit, not having the clicky button. They were saying this in response to someone who didn't want a clicky button anymore and had actively given up on using a clicky button, so they were defending the product on the merit of something that explicitly wasn't the clicky button: that having to recreate the software would be hard, and so that's why I guess that other user should buy and use a clicky button even though they realized they didn't really want to have to carry around a clicky button. If what matters to YOU is the clicky button, and you are in a good position to use the clicky button, great!! I have no issue with that, and I purposefully did not reply to anyone else who wanted such, as that is a consistent position. In fact, if someone had asked me "why do people use this product?", I would have said "many people want a clicky button, and so this company makes the clickiest of clicky buttons". But... how does anything you said here have anything to do with the context of the comment I was replying to, which explicitly was trying to sell someone who didn't want a clicky button on the idea that "the power of stream deck" is its software? :(

saurik 4y ago

To verify, the only thing those benefits have to do with having an extra custom hardware keyboard is that the company that made the software to do those functions thinks they can make more money selling a fancy piece of hardware, right?

zamnos 4y ago
That seems like a bad take, focused on the money changing hands aspect, and ignoring the other side if that transcation. Especially these days when you could totally build it yourself. Design your own PCB, build your own enclosure, solder all the switches up and write some microcontroller firmware to drive it. Or, y'know, you could just buy the product that someone else already spent the time building if you didn't want to do all that. Some people want a button that very satisfyingly clicks to hang up at the end of that zoom call with their boss/lover/employee/whatever. Some of them are even willing to pay money for one. Others want to build one themselves from scratch. Sounds like you're not willing to. That's okay, it's not like someone is forcing you to buy this thing. (Thankfully, desktop computers are quite open and let you connect random hardware and run random supporting software, and they aren't locked down like, say, iPhones, which you are intimately more familiar with than I.)
- saurik 4y ago
  The person I was responding to was specifically and narrowly saying that the plugins and software were the benefit, not having the clicky button. They were saying this in response to someone who didn't want a clicky button anymore and had actively given up on using a clicky button, so they were defending the product on the merit of something that explicitly wasn't the clicky button: that having to recreate the software would be hard, and so that's why I guess that other user should buy and use a clicky button even though they realized they didn't really want to have to carry around a clicky button. If what matters to YOU is the clicky button, and you are in a good position to use the clicky button, great!! I have no issue with that, and I purposefully did not reply to anyone else who wanted such, as that is a consistent position. In fact, if someone had asked me "why do people use this product?", I would have said "many people want a clicky button, and so this company makes the clickiest of clicky buttons". But... how does anything you said here have anything to do with the context of the comment I was replying to, which explicitly was trying to sell someone who didn't want a clicky button on the idea that "the power of stream deck" is its software? :(