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  • Having spent time testing the Switch 2 mouse controls I no longer think it's a gimmick, but it just cannot compare to a gaming mouse | PC Gamer

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  • Apparently according to other comments a mouse only works in games, but not in Switch UI menus. The Joycon works as a mouse in both.

    I would think a wireless mouse and a wired mouse are functionally the same as far as the device connected to it is concerned. The USB dongle of the wireless mouse handles the wireless part and then delivers the same type of signals to the PC/host device that a wired mouse would.

  • Having spent time testing the Switch 2 mouse controls I no longer think it's a gimmick, but it just cannot compare to a gaming mouse | PC Gamer

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  • Yeah it's definitely a different class of device. Did you see the mouse connected in any way, like as a controller, or did it just work in the right context (ie in game)?

    I wonder if they did it out of some abundance of caution for security, out of fear that some 3rd party controller might find a way to hack the device.

  • Having spent time testing the Switch 2 mouse controls I no longer think it's a gimmick, but it just cannot compare to a gaming mouse | PC Gamer

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  • Yeah, meanwhile the Joycon works in system UI, so you would think a regular mouse would also.

  • Having spent time testing the Switch 2 mouse controls I no longer think it's a gimmick, but it just cannot compare to a gaming mouse | PC Gamer

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  • Per my own testing with a Logitech M650, I don't think you can connect a mouse to the Switch 2.

  • Having spent time testing the Switch 2 mouse controls I no longer think it's a gimmick, but it just cannot compare to a gaming mouse | PC Gamer

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  • Are you sure? I tried, expected a mouse pointer to appear on screen, but it didn't. I used the same adapter I use to connect my mouse to my Android phone.

    Edit: Just tried again, both top and bottom ports, the USB-C to A adapter plus bluetooth mouse dongle work fine in my phone, but not in the Switch. This is using a Logitech M650. I don't think it can do it guys.

    I haven't tried connecting by bluetooth directly but I doubt that will work either. Using the Joycon as a mouse is pretty limited also - I can quite happily run my M650 over my belly and at any angle to control things, but the Joycon doesn't convert to a mouse unless it is horizontal. The find controllers page also doesn't really imply a mouse can be connected, just that you can use a Joycon in mouse mode.

  • My journey towards more European, open source, privacy-oriented, and decentralized alternatives

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  • It's only just about functional and clunky as fuck. But if you want to get rid of WhatsApp from your device but still need to talk to someone in it then it's a good shout.

  • My journey towards more European, open source, privacy-oriented, and decentralized alternatives

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  • Probably not. Back when the WhatsApp Pegasus vulnerability happened, there was a vector on iOS, but it was iMessages.

    I don't know any first hand details, but my suspicion is that the way WhatsApp on Android worked was via Facebook system apps bundled with the phone by the manufacturer. Back in the day, Facebook itself used to be a system app on some phones (making it difficult to remove), but gradually they moved away from that to having the Facebook or WhatsApp apps be the same as the one on Google Play, but there would be a separate system app that would be much harder to remove. I suspect this system app used various exploits for further data mining by Facebook (perhaps even gaining microphone access so they can present ads based on what you say?) and that the Pegasus hack got into WhatsApp, then simply called the system app to use its established exploits. One other thing that maybe points to this: the Pegasus hack would only sometimes be effective on Android phones, and researchers couldn't pin down why. To me, that suggests some other app or configuration variation.

    WhatsApp on iOS shouldn't have this vector, as Apple control both software and hardware on their phones, hence why the strategy was to go for Apple apps directly (as they had the direct access to system level permissions, like I'm alleging Facebook sometimes had on Android).

    Like I say, the exact workings of the hack are my own assumptions, and I understand that the WhatsApp Pegasus entry vector has been patched, but ultimately I don't think Facebook/Meta or any of their apps are trustworthy and encourage people to remove them from their devices.

  • watching pirated streaming sucks compared to OG torrent way

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  • I torrent on my media PC and stream from there.

  • My journey towards more European, open source, privacy-oriented, and decentralized alternatives

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  • WhatsApp is the big one, that shit is a proven vulnerability. It was literally the vector for zero click access to Android devices in the Pegasus toolkit.

    One way around it is to have a separate device for WhatsApp itself, then use WhatsApp4Web from F-Droid. It's basically a web wrapper for the browser version of WhatsApp, but it does run somewhat independently of the main WhatsApp device (unlike eg Threema where the website won't work unless the device has internet).

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  • I don't think it's you being paranoid, however at the same time your husband is perhaps more on the front line of things, so should have a better idea.

    I would say that as a journeyman lineman he'll be pretty decently qualified and probably wouldn't have as hard a time finding work abroad. It might be a tough sell with lower salaries on paper, but you often find that the standard of living improves and makes it more than worthwhile.

  • Malwarebytes "AI detection" giving false positive from pirated software?

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  • You could always take the performance hit and install it on a virtual machine. I've even heard of people who have an APU (CPU and GPU on the same chip) along with a discrete GPU, or just two GPU's, and they run the base operating system on the weaker GPU then run the VM and dedicate the entire good GPU to it, which gets near to bare metal performance allegedly.

  • Please help resolve a disagreement in our home

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  • Please help resolve a disagreement in our home

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  • As the Canada "tax holiday" starts, Walmart increased the price of an item by the amount I would have saved

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  • That's probably illegal.

  • It seems like YouTube have changed their link tracking to include more information

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  • Can't they be both? Potato potahto.

    Thank you for the correct terminology though.

  • It seems like YouTube have changed their link tracking to include more information

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  • So long as there's no extra suffix after, it shouldn't be so bad. So if you have youtu.be/?v=[video_ID] it's fine, but if there's a &si= or &pp= or &anything=, then that's most likely tracking and should be removed.

    ? is the start of the suffixes, & denotes a change in suffix. Every video has a v= suffix to denote the video itself, but everything else isn't needed.

  • It seems like YouTube have changed their link tracking to include more information

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  • Lmfao, this community has automatically removed the si= suffix in my second link. But it didn't remove the pp= suffix....

    Edit: Fixed, finally. It kept trying to convert my links all over the place. They're not meant to be links, just a clear description of the syntax.

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    TWeaK @lemm.ee

    It seems like YouTube have changed their link tracking to include more information

  • Installed #GrapheneOS several days ago on my Pixel 8. It works great without any Google services!

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  • Any ROM works great without Google Play Services. If anything, having MicroG installed makes things work less - I have a banking app that works fine on my old phone, without Google, but won't work on my new phone because of a CPS Profile mismatch.

    MicroG is a house of cards that is very difficult to get stacked correctly. Most apps work fine without it. For those that don't, use something else, or just a web browser. Hell, you probably shouldn't be using so many apps anyway, given that you really can't be certain what they do when they're closed source.

  • Surprise! Nintendo Tracked Down Alleged Switch Pirate in Arizona via Reddit Posts and Repair Orders

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  • I don't think he quite did that, actually. From memory he ran a few "shops", but these didn't really sell anything and were just download portals to install pirated games directly from the internet (rather than downloading to a PC first and then copying to an SD card or installing over USB). However, I think he did take donations for early access to new titles, which would have been hard to get elsewhere at first.

  • Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ @lemmy.dbzer0.com
    TWeaK @lemm.ee

    So I finally did the math on data brokerage and worked out how much we're all being robbed

  • Videos @lemmy.world
    TWeaK @lemm.ee

    My Favourite CGP Grey Video: The Tale of "Tiffany"