Logitech held out on moving some of their more niche products to USB-C until they were forced by the EU. I'm sure when the author _started_ their journey they had not released the Ergo S yet, looks like it came out September '24.

I also gave up on waiting for the Ergo S and grabbed a Kensington TB550. The name is awful, but the trackball is excellent.

Even odds on which one will still be going in 10 years time.

Yes, but before that he was helping Zordon and the Power Rangers.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0106064/

Haha, good times!

I was an active and fairly early Reddit user for many years, but the brutal changes to satisfy financial goals drove me away as well.

I think it’s interesting to see a flagging platform with a user base that will consistently post and upvote “fuck spez” celebrated here as a success, but I suppose the only thing that matters at this level of discussion is the almighty dollar.

Would love to see a “knob feel” category for these in addition to the visual observations.

I guess with less users and moderators they have more time to explore their hobbies over at reddit now.

Reddit has always had a ton of stupid irrelevant side projects. Remember "creddits"/ReddCoin, the "social cryptocurrency" they were developing? Hard to believe that was a decade ago. Harder to believe that in retrospect, they should have just done it, been ready when the crypto hype wave came and exited/IPO'd as billionaires.

On the other hand, that big pixel board thing they do once a year is a great idea. Some of these other things also led to fun community behaviours.

Not once a year, it was supposed to be a one off in 2017, and they did it again in 2022 and 2023.

The 2023 one in particular came right after /u/Spez started cracking mod heads, and was full of "fuck spez" right up until the end.

Fewer. </davos>

In my experience 8BitDo makes nice products, but given the audience I have to ask... did anyone else's hands preemptively cramp just looking at this thing?

A couple thoughts on what it's primary use-case might be:

1) The thing is so small that it can fit in your pocket and you have it with you "all the time" to use with your phone/tablet/Switch console, whenever the mood strikes, even if you're away from home.

2) You have a cheap, perishable controller that you don't mind lending to visiting family/friends with small children who want to play your Switch console, but you're afraid they will break your $70 Switch Pro controller.

TBH, I've been thinking about these for my young kids. The small size is a plus in that regard.

Ultimately users will go where the package maintainers are. There are more people out there willing and able to write Ruby today than Perl (Fink) or TCL (MacPorts).

I'm sure someone will start a macOS package manager based on python and yum to signal the waning days of those technologies.

MacPorts has 36k active ports. Estimates I see online for the number of Homebrew formulae are less than 5k. TCL isn’t difficult to write and most Portfiles are just a bunch of whitespace-aligned key-value pairs.

I'm secretly hoping for a makepkg / pacman-based replacement to homebrew, to have the same set of commands and package naming conventions across mac / win / linux

There was one, and you can find it here: https://github.com/orgs/archmac/repositories

But it is unmaintained (it seems its author has moved on to Nix).

Wasn't there one? I know there is Nix for macOS, though it's probably not very maintained.

The Darwin nixpkgs is actually pretty active and healthy, in my experience.

Another Mac native (though much older) choice is Path Finder, which I used and loved for years before Finder stopped sucking.

https://www.cocoatech.io