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Can't get Xbox controller to work with 32bit Void Linux via USB


I've installed xone and xboxdrv.

The controller vibrates on plug in but the LED stays off, if I hold down the Xbox button it boots in Bluetooth mode.

Xboxdrv reports no controllers found.

lsusb reports the controller ~~and it has a file in /dev/js0 (or something similar).~~

Update: there's no js file in /dev/input

retroarch reports detection of Xbox controller on plug in.

I added my user to input group.

My system is up to date.

I installed the system with the XFCE build.

The controller works as intended on Arch, Windows and Android via USB and Bluetooth

Update 2: I installed jstest-gtk and it's not detecting the controller at all

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in reply to lonesomeCat

Is the controller listed in the output of "lsusb"? What does the output of "journalctl -b" say when you plug in the controller?
in reply to someonesmall


in reply to ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆

This article is kinda BS, they talked to a bunch of C-level executives at companies that have a vested interest in pushing LLM based programming solutions.

I have yet to see LLMs actually write useful code. I think this whole exercise is really flawed. We are trying to have LLMs do the part of a programmers job that we are actually good at, writing code and pushing us to only do the part we are worst at reading and understanding someone else's code.

in reply to randomwords


in reply to NightOwl

No, you don't get to suddenly now distance yourself and those you serve, the threshold was crossed a long long time ago, war has always been a racket, those making and selling weapons have always been complicit in war crimes, hell, massively responsible for them since they don't just make and sell, and advertise and test (hint: on oppressed populations) (E: and how could I forget - ~~lobby~~ bribe politicians and other policy makers), but most importantly profit from war. Fuck this noise.
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AI Company Asks Job Applicants Not to Use AI in Job Applications


"nooo don't just use our services for their naturally intended purpose"
in reply to uberstar

beginning to think that i should write a bot to automate job applications to ai companies and send dozens a day
in reply to GnuLinuxDude

Outsourcing companies are already doing that to drown out real applicants and convince companies no qualified people are on the market.
in reply to uberstar

"We need quality human-made data to feed to our AI so please don't give us slop we can't use"
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Gallant admits 'Israel' used Hannibal Directive during war on Gaza | Al Mayadeen English (2025-02-06)


cross-posted from: hcommons.social/users/adachika…

Gallant admits 'Israel' used Hannibal Directive during war on Gaza | Al Mayadeen English (2025-02-06)

english.almayadeen.net/news/po…
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“Former Israeli Security Minister Yoav Gallant admitted that the Israeli occupation forces were ordered to implement the Hannibal Directive—a controversial protocol that involves killing captives along with their captors—during the war on Gaza.”

#HannibalDirective #YoavGallant
@palestine@lemmy.ml @palestine@a.gup.pe @israel

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in reply to Peter Link

Your link is broken: english.almayadeen.net/news/po…

The images of the burnt cars came out almost immediately. Was I to believe the fire hose of Western government & corporate media bullshit or my lying eyes?

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Peter Beinart on “Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza”


cross-posted from: hcommons.social/users/adachika…

Peter Beinart, _Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza: A Reckoning_ (9780593803899 | Penguin Random House | Published by Knopf | Jan 28, 2025)

penguinrandomhouse.com/books/7…

#JewishCurrents #Zionism #Judaism
@palestine@lemmy.ml @palestine@a.gup.pe @israel

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in reply to Peter Link

proteanmag.com/2025/01/31/bein…

Critical review of Beinart's new book by Josh Gutterman Tranen in Protean Magazine.



'Existence is resistance': Palestinians tell Trump they won't leave Gaza


cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/25815419

By Lubna Masarwa in Jerusalem
Published date: 7 February 2025 10:27 GMT



'Existence is resistance': Palestinians tell Trump they won't leave Gaza


By Lubna Masarwa in Jerusalem
Published date: 7 February 2025 10:27 GMT



in reply to UltraGiGaGigantic

That's literally why i can't smoke as much weed anymore. I just start eating like there is no tomorrow. I was once in amsterdam and we smoked pretty much all day. There was a small carnival in the center and they had a food stand with waffles and one with burgers. I was so damn hungry that i ordered a burger and waffles while eating, rinse and repeat, i don't know how often i did this, but the waffle guy was fascinated and concerned at the same time. And i was as well, i'm a 75kg lanky tall dude. It was very late and i went back to my hotel with both hands full of food. An hour later i had to go back because i thought i was starving. I legitimately thought i was gonna die.

in reply to UltraGiGaGigantic

Unironically the place I last worked at

“Our 20-employee company made over € 8 million profit last year!”
I ask for a raise because I'm underpaid for the work I deliver.
“Ahh noooo see there is no more money for thag...”

Needless to say I quit. Citing them this as one of the reasons.

in reply to Fonzie!


in reply to UltraGiGaGigantic

I just went through this phase recently in Planescape Torment to see all the possible endings. Had to endure TTO boast about itself at least five times.


Gaza govt slams ‘double standards’ over released captives


in reply to Peter Link

Who knew that starving all of Gaza had an impact on the hostages? The Palestinians had little food to give the hostages, Israel on the other hand has plenty. What’s their excuse?


Just made the switch to Linux as a lifetime Windows user.


in reply to Moineau

I put mint on a separate drive over the weekend. My two outstanding issues are my already-niche pieces of hardware. My KVM doesn't pass USB devices to my other device for some reason. I'm reasonably confident I can figure that one out. My other issue is my HID NFC reader for my Yubikey. No official driver for Linux so I expect that one to be more tricky, though I'd appreciate if anyone can point me in the right direction.
in reply to Moineau

The secret of Linux is, if all your hardware works, it's actually easier to use for casual users. Most people nowadays use computers for web browsing and maybe playing media and light office tasks. A Linux Mint setup will have everything you need for that either preinstalled or ready to get fun the software store. If you don't need anything else, then it gets it of your way and just works. No viruses, little danger of malware, no crud to uninstall, no Microsoft account, no nagging apps, no ads, no attempts to upsell to paid cloud services or Pro, and no AI.

The problem arises when you want to go beyond that, and there's no obvious path ahead,v then people not used to the Linux way of doing things may run into trouble. But 90% of users, if someone sets it up for them, will do fine.



in reply to hitmyspot

How is this not technology news, what does the word technology mean in your mind?
in reply to ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆

Certainly not automobile safety. This has nothing to do with technology, as in development, but is tangentially relevant being that Tesla positions itself as a technology company.

I don't see any posts here about all the other ev car companies. Technology can be technically be any progress or development, but I also don't expect to see tech posts about gradual iterations or improvements in the touchscreen operation of a lawnmower.

People come here to find out about new tech and the development of it. This is musk spam.

in reply to hitmyspot

Last I checked vehicles are a piece of technology, and a how a kind of a vehicle performs is very much a discussion about technology. I notice that you still failed to define what it is you think the word technology means.
in reply to ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆

As I mentioned, technology can mean any development. So I didn't define it, so much as point out that a strict reading of the word is different to what people expect posts about.

Forks and knives are also a technology, but are not relevant here. If you don't get the nuance, or disagree, that's fine.

If you and others think it's relevant, enjoy, but I'm pointing out that for others, myself included, this is spam and more appropriately posted to other communities including but not limited to
Elevtic vehicles communities (about 20 exist)
Enoughmuskspam
Cars communities (about 20 communities)

in reply to hitmyspot

Your displeasure has been noted. Amusingly, you still haven't actually said what it is you define technology as. Surely, you can give a clear definition of what it is you think technology actually is.
in reply to ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆

I have twice showed you that my definition is meaningless, as is a dictionary definition. There is none so blind as cannot see.

If you think the safety rating of a niche car qualifies as technology news, you're in for an exciting time looking at history books.

in reply to hitmyspot

Given the upvote ratio on the post, it's pretty clear that most people enjoyed seeing this. Maybe go do your pedantic gatekeeping somewhere else. The fact that you felt the need to write an entire diatribe about this is frankly incredible.
in reply to ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆

Lol, my answers increased in length based on your responses. My initial response was a single sentence. I'm glad other people are enjoying it. It seems to have led to some really interesting discussion.
in reply to hitmyspot

The rules for this community say:

5: personal rants of Big Tech CEOs like Elon Musk are unwelcome (does not include posts about their companies affecting wide range of people)


Start a new community with a tighter focus, and block this one, if you don't like it 🤷‍♀️


in reply to warmaster

I don't have a beefy machine to play game on, so installing Bazzite is useless for me.


Russia says it sees no positive steps from US on disarmament, RIA reports


The New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, or New START, which caps the number of strategic nuclear warheads that the United States and Russia can deploy, and the deployment of land- and submarine-based missiles and bombers to deliver them, is due to expire on February 5, 2026.

It is the last remaining pillar of nuclear arms control between the world's two biggest nuclear powers.

https://www.reuters.com/world/russia-says-it-sees-no-positive-steps-us-disarmament-ria-reports-2025-02-09/

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in reply to NightOwl

Russia criticizing the US nuclear arms policy is rich, given how they have both loosened their requirements on when they would use nuclear weapons, and have repeatedly and consistently have used nuclear threats as a military strategy since their invasion of Ukraine.

I guess they have to take this position as the US at least has working armaments and not just rusted, unmaintained, weapons.

in reply to htrayl

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in reply to NightOwl

Sucks the USA will be goaded once more into mass producing methods of deploying nuclear weapons.

You win this round Russia. 2026 will see a massive increase in American military. Just as you request.

in reply to MNByChoice

It might see a massive increase in nuclear warhead production and pointless vehicle production, but the US military will continue to decline. There aren't enough truly dedicated Trump supporters to refill what's been lost over the last 8 years, and we have a new set of veterans from Afghanistan to preach the pointlessness of war and the fact the US government will not provide you practically any support once you're used up to stall or eliminate new recruits.

The fact Trump's destroying the VA and has already indefinitely paused GI bill payouts just adds to that fire, where not even shitty but 'safe' benefits are not guaranteed.

No matter how far down the LLM rabbit hole the government goes you can't sustain a war without a massive amount of soldiers. The US doesn't have that anymore.

in reply to MNByChoice

LOL. The USA has been expanding nuclear first strike capabilities across Europe through NATO since the dissolution of the USSR. The USA designed NATO to counter the Russian military exactly, it staffed it with former Nazi officers who fought the Soviet military, and it expanded ever Eastward. And you think it was RUSSIA goading the USA into nuclear war? Are you fucking daft?



Kurdish rebels lose USAID funding for concentration camp


Blumont, a Virginia-based humanitarian aid group responsible for the management of two of Syria’s IS detention camps, al-Hol and al-Roj, was given a stop-work order on 24 January by the US state department.

The camp holds the relatives of suspected IS fighters and is mostly populated by women and children. Rights groups have for years warned that detainees are held arbitrarily without charges in inhumane and substandard living conditions.

No charges have been raised against the camp’s population. Despite this, they are unable to leave, with the exception of non-Syrian detainees whose countries agree to take them back.

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in reply to skaarl

Interesting. AP leaves out the word "alleged" from the title and mentions it later in the article.

Associated Propaganda doing a bang on job of lying even harder than TheGuardian.

in reply to geneva_convenience

For anybody curious what's going on in this region I highly recommend the podcast The Woman's War. Its a great listen by the same guy who does Behind the Bastards.