I’ve detailed elsewhere in the thread, but this is about the G604. The G700s was a similar story before it, although it was easier to take apart (with the caveat that it was much more annoying the very first time - two boards are soldered to each other and the guides online instruct you to add a male and female header strip so you can assemble and disassemble it later with much less headache).

Honestly if the new shell had the same textured plastic as the G700s I’d consider my repaired mouse to be damn near perfect.

Donor switches? The ones that come with most mice aren’t very good, and if you’re extracting them they’re probably not new anyway.

You can buy some online that last much much longer.

I wholeheartedly believe that Logitech is intentionally using the older, rapidly-failing Omron D2FC-F-7N switches to make people buy more peripherals more frequently. Spending an extra 1-2$ on lasting switches should really not be too much trouble when they’re selling fancy computer mice that cost like 100$ now.

I looked up that part number, I don’t know it off the top of my head, just to be clear. This isn’t a niche special interest thing. You use your computer mouse more than you use your car and probably your phone.

My post is about my G604, but it mirrors my earlier adventures with the G700s. When the G604 was announced and then released, I felt like Logitech were actually trying to make a decent product again, and the tiniest bit of tech doomerism got lifted off my chest. Pity that it didn’t last.

I’d rather have some variety here on Lemmy, I feel like a lot of us are people who have a genuine fascination with technology who are disgusted with the state of it. My own posts are very skewed towards complaining about tech. I wanted this post to be more about sharing the banal but comforting idea of repairing something as seemingly unimportant but still used for hours per day as a computer mouse.

Switches are the easiest thing to fix, and the shell looks like it’s not made to disintegrate on the G600. So you’ll be fine. These older models are also much less tedious to take apart.

This post is about my G604. I consider this model (which they only made for a short period, mind you) to be the only attempt at a successor to my previous GOAT model, the G700s. That one had a rough grippy outer plastic shell and to this day I still think that’s the best possible material.

Replacing switches is dead easy once you become slightly comfortable with a soldering iron. You can buy a tiny Aliexpress tier macropad (“keyboard” with like 9-20 buttons), solder on and desolder the switches once, and you’re basically done with learning what you need to do to your beloved mouse. You can buy your mouse switches on there directly as well. They’re universal for the most part. I’d recommend the Huano White Dot switches. I used to recommend another type but those ended up with a manufacturing error that makes it impossible to guarantee that they’ll last. And you can get replacement teflon pads as well while you’re at it.

The alternatives, from what I’ve read, don’t have great support in Linux, so I might have to frankenstein this one to keep it going once the switches start to go…

I’ve tried a Razer Naga V2 for a while, and it seems like a direct response to the G600. I prefer the Logitech mechanical scroll instead of the (cool but ultimately not great) electronically-tensioned scroll wheel that it came with. But one of the interchangeable side plates was a ridiculous one with a ton of buttons and I used that to try to replicate my G604 setup.

Honestly, I’m fully sold on the G604 button layout, I don’t need any more than this. I like where they are spread out. Logitech just isn’t fucking trying anymore, and that’s the problem. The one good mouse that appealed to me after half a decade of no G700s ended up being made of self destroying plastic and using the same short life switches that were obsolete a decade ago.

IIRC I played it a little and it was just mobile microtransaction hell after a certain point, no?

I think I’m subconsciously holding back going back into Skyrim until Inigo V3 is released.

At least to me, Overwolf is the third or fourth iteration, following acquisitions, buyouts, restructurings, etc. The original FTB launcher worked perfectly fine. It’s mostly just obnoxious now and I make sure not to have it running in the background. No direct rent-seeking behavior just yet, I don’t have an account on there and it’s not a problem.

Right now I have it on my computer just use it to update packs that are only available there and then yoink them straight into MultiMC.

AFAIK it is owned by Curse and I guess those guys make most of their money from those godawful wikis and their ads.

I thought I’d check this before posting it, and it turns out it’s the other way around. Overwolf bought Curse. Worse, Overwolf is a company based out of Tal Abib… that’s two discoveries in one day. I was looking into getting a CaribouMini until I learned where that comes from. Less than two hundred kilometers away from me as the missile crow flies (and sadly, has flown). Great. Fucking great.

The shitty thing is that a lot of cool pack creators only publish through Overwolf, so I don’t want to delete it just yet, but I don’t like this at all. At best a minor security risk, at worst I don’t even want to know. I just thought it was just some shitty ad company’s Curse buyout as a billboard for more ads. For all the issues I might have with Nexus Mods, I don’t think they’re quite this bad. Concerning that this is the de facto standard repository of MC mods.

I think I should have been more clear, this is exactly what I’m asking about. I’m somewhat surprised by the reaction this post got, this seems like a very normal thing to want to host.

Doesn’t help that some people here are replying as if I was asking to locally host the “trick” that is feeding a chatbot text and asking it whether it’s machine-generated. Ideally the software I think I’m looking for would be something that has a bank of LLM models and can kind of do some sort of statistical magic to see how likely a block of tokens is to be generated by them. Would probably need to have quantized models just to make it run at a reasonable speed. So it would, for example, feed the first x tokens in, take stock of how the probability table looks for the next token, compare it to the actual next token in the block, and so on.

Maybe this is already a thing and I just don’t know the jargon for it. I’m pretty sure I’m more informed about how these transformer algorithms work than the average user of them, but only just.

I have a whole ass case of assorted fine Lebanese wine for Natenyahu, stashed away in my family’s old home in the mountains.

Here’s hoping he doesn’t get to it before I do.

Oh that’s a good point. I have only ever encountered these on Lemmy or similar places where you are clearly clicking a link that starts with “xn——————“ and then seeing how it ties together on my phone’s browser.

Maybe we shouldn’t be using these. I did find myself looking at domains with emojis in them, weirdly enough for someone who doesn’t use or really like them. But the fact that this extends to basically any Unicode character is an absolute security black hole.

Unless the standard is extended to have more guardrails/to make it impossible to resolve domains with the most egregious fake characters. Or better, to make characters interchangeable the same way domains aren’t case-sensitive.

The learning curve for understanding the actual web and its protocols looks more and more insurmountable to me every day lol

Good thing I gave this thread a quick scroll before joking about feeling represented properly here as a non queer person by the boring plain beige one.

Welcome to today’s 10,000. Today’s episode is about Punycode. It’s basically a standardized way of putting unusual characters in a domain name.

The way the link is shown in your interface/client, it’s giving you the encoded version that looks nonsensical. But if you click on it, the link in your browser’s address bar will more likely render properly.

I’ve seen this done with URLs that contain emojis, this one contains katakana (?) characters.

This might be the best way to go about it. Wireguard has an iOS client and it should be easy to set up. I’ve done this for dumber devices, should be okay.

Or frankly, some others here are mentioning that logging in to one service doesn’t automatically log you into all of them. So maybe I’d be giving my family member more flexibility by not limiting them to a small number of servers as defined in the configs, since each one needs a file and picking among them is annoying if there’s an issue.

That said, going from 5 euro a month for Mullvad to 5 + 10 to add Proton does add up, and to be honest, a second free Proton address and a second Mullvad subscription (and investing in a more local solution instead of getting tied down to Proton Drive) might be better for me.

But I haven’t made any decisions just yet. The 500GB of storage might just end up swaying me.

I feel like the dialogue in the last panel is unnecessary.

Et tu, Phoenix Jones?

I really do think there’s a very definite before and after. At one point, he seemed to figure out exactly the cadence and wording that young men especially wanted out of a wisdom-dispensing fatherly figure. He got a lot of mileage out of whining about that one Canadian law proposal, at a time when transgendery things were (for better or for worse) less understood by most people. So even if you were sympathetic to them, there was a chance that what he was describing would raise your eyebrow. In my case I didn’t think I had anything against them, but he painted this picture of a law that could be easily abused, even if it was ostensibly in good faith. And he was careful not to comment on whether or not he thought it was one. Didn’t matter that the narrative he was peddling was pretty much fiction in the first place.

And then COVID broke his brain, and he very suddenly became terrible at hiding his power level. Part of his audience just knew him as that guy who wrote that book, but after selling increasingly political books titled “All you need to do to live (part 4, last one)” and “All you need to do to live (part 5, okay no this is the last one I promise.final)” that illusion also fell apart.

Right now most of the people who looked up to him at the time, even those who both still are (and even those who acknowledge) that they are right wing, think he’s lost the plot.

It’s not a great reassurance that those who let go of him may still have probably been swayed net-rightward by his stuff. But his spiral and widespread perception as a laughing stock, and as a clear example of lack of moral integrity on the right, is also a major piece of what he represents now. His red crying mug in his messy room has become a meme with a life of own. This is what he really is: a pompous, pontificating, fragile prick who can’t even use the good parts of his advice for his own sake. Even if it’s as simple as touching grass and cleaning up your shit.

I think he’s a fascinating case study of the grift economy. I genuinely think that if he was truly the conservalib old-soul psychology professor with an interest in the way Christian theology and vague folktale cosmology influence modern worldviews and narratives, he would definitely be someone I’d pay attention to. At least for his areas of expertise. I still yearn for someone like that to exist. Shitheads should not monopolize any topic.

But we know now that he was always mad as a hatter, that he was trying to get famous a decade before he actually did, and that his actual beliefs don’t deserve an iota of public recognition. That the ways he couched them are the sum total of what he was bringing to the table.

The mythological Jordan Peterson isn’t necessarily a bad guy, the original character, as played in like 2016. The actual one is a pathetic, and now failed cult of personality grifter, an enabler of great evil.

I hope he feels a fraction of the pain he has caused before he kicks it.

Edit: changed some things to be less winding.

Thing is, even with how bafflingly evil Google is, the one corporate service I could see myself paying for is the YouTube subscription. I use the phone app a lot, it would make sense for me.

The problem is that they’re notoriously ban-happy with paying VPN users, due to some of them using their exit countries to pay less for a service. Thing is, if I tried to pay for premium from a country I’d exit from, I’d be paying more compared to where I am. I’m perfectly content overpaying slightly for a few things online with this situation, I don’t buy much, I’m fine. I also don’t know where the line is. If I pay for my account with a card from my IRL location, using the pricing for said location, will I get my account suspended after I jump back on the VPN? It’s not like they’ll publicly announce a clear breakdown of what is and isn’t okay.

Google knowing I use a public VPN on Google services is not an issue for me. I don’t do anything sketchy, I really just want an uncensored internet out of the eye of my ISP.

It’s the most popular sporting event on the planet in a country with 300 million people, this is nothing like the Club World Cup that was held this year. The lack of tourists might not be a problem, save for maybe atmosphere.

This chart, with the huge ticket prices, is why the US was chosen.

I remember seeing this or something like it before. I know it’s good for the cow, but still, freaky to see.

DankPods my beloved as well. He’s not very technical with software so it’s quite interesting to hear him talk about it.