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Very cool post by, uh, the European Commission. Yay casual-tone governance. Does anyone have a link to some reputable third-party explaining the actual issue?

by unwind 4y ago

pohl 4y ago
Of course it's casual. It's a toot on Mastodon.
- nonethewiser 4y ago
  A toot? That can’t be the real name…
  - 4ggr0 4y ago
    tweet only sounds normal because we're used to it.
    - function_seven 4y ago
      That’s not the only difference. “Tweet” had a preexisting definition that’s pleasant: a bird’s chirping. “Toot” is slang for a fart.
      - 4ggr0 4y ago
        "tweeting" apparently means "to suck your own cock", which describes Twitter pretty well :) /s
        function_seven 4y ago
        Ha, my mistake was using boomer dictionaries. You can't sleep on Urban Dictionary. It's an essential research tool when brainstorming new product names!
        4ggr0 4y ago
        For sure! I'm not a native speaker and didn't know that toot was another word for fart, guess we both learned something new :D
lax4ever 4y ago
The issue is that the Joy-Cons joystick has what appears to be a design defect that, regardless of how much care is taken, means they have a high likelihood of developing what is known as "drift" or phantom movement without the joystick actually being engaged. This issue has been, at the very least, acknowledged by Nintendo, and for a few years now Nintendo has been repairing/replacing Joy-Cons for free (at least in the US) because of it. I don't know if there have been design changes, but Nintendo's public release response has been mixed in an effort to avoid as much culpability as possible.
- KennyBlanken 4y ago
  The entire controller industry has this problem. Even ~$200 controllers do this; the Xbox Elite 2 for example was/is infamous for it. Everyone I know who plays on controller complains about the failures. In +20 years of using mice, guess what I've never had fail?
  - causi 4y ago
    Hall-effect joysticks don't drift. I've also never had a 360 controller drift. Switch joysticks drift much faster than average.
    - gruez 4y ago
      >Hall-effect joysticks Is this standard for controllers?
      - delfinom 4y ago
        Nope. Hall effect joysticks were encumbered by patents though they are starting to expire off now
  - lax4ever 4y ago
    I'm not denying that eventually most controllers will drift, but the speed at which these controllers developed a drifting problem was much higher than what is expected on average, even for cheaper made third party controllers.
nouryqt 4y ago
Here's the official press release: https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_23_2106 https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_23_...

Very cool post by, uh, the European Commission. Yay casual-tone governance. Does anyone have a link to some reputable third-party explaining the actual issue?

by unwind 4y ago

Very cool post by, uh, the European Commission. Yay casual-tone governance. Does anyone have a link to some reputable third-party explaining the actual issue?

pohl 4y ago

Of course it's casual. It's a toot on Mastodon.

nonethewiser 4y ago
A toot? That can’t be the real name…
- 4ggr0 4y ago
  tweet only sounds normal because we're used to it.
  - function_seven 4y ago
    That’s not the only difference. “Tweet” had a preexisting definition that’s pleasant: a bird’s chirping. “Toot” is slang for a fart.
    - 4ggr0 4y ago
      "tweeting" apparently means "to suck your own cock", which describes Twitter pretty well :) /s
      - function_seven 4y ago
        Ha, my mistake was using boomer dictionaries. You can't sleep on Urban Dictionary. It's an essential research tool when brainstorming new product names!
        4ggr0 4y ago
        For sure! I'm not a native speaker and didn't know that toot was another word for fart, guess we both learned something new :D

lax4ever 4y ago

The issue is that the Joy-Cons joystick has what appears to be a design defect that, regardless of how much care is taken, means they have a high likelihood of developing what is known as "drift" or phantom movement without the joystick actually being engaged. This issue has been, at the very least, acknowledged by Nintendo, and for a few years now Nintendo has been repairing/replacing Joy-Cons for free (at least in the US) because of it. I don't know if there have been design changes, but Nintendo's public release response has been mixed in an effort to avoid as much culpability as possible.

KennyBlanken 4y ago
The entire controller industry has this problem. Even ~$200 controllers do this; the Xbox Elite 2 for example was/is infamous for it. Everyone I know who plays on controller complains about the failures. In +20 years of using mice, guess what I've never had fail?
- causi 4y ago
  Hall-effect joysticks don't drift. I've also never had a 360 controller drift. Switch joysticks drift much faster than average.
  - gruez 4y ago
    >Hall-effect joysticks Is this standard for controllers?
    - delfinom 4y ago
      Nope. Hall effect joysticks were encumbered by patents though they are starting to expire off now
- lax4ever 4y ago
  I'm not denying that eventually most controllers will drift, but the speed at which these controllers developed a drifting problem was much higher than what is expected on average, even for cheaper made third party controllers.

nouryqt 4y ago

Here's the official press release: https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_23_2106 https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_23_...