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    6 days ago

    On KDE Plasma, I would stick with Kate and hide/disable some the fancier interface features. It might seem like overkill, but since it’s built from common components that other KDE apps use anyway, the effective resource consumption will probably be light. And Kate is quick.

    On a Gtk desktop, you might try Mousepad. This is what I used before moving away from Xfce.





  • I’m talking about the whole stick, which most likely extends into the device. Not just the broken-off piece of the stick.

    If you’re determined to avoid opening the enclosure to do the replacement, you might consider drilling a post hole into the remaining piece of the broken stick, and printing a replacement piece with a matching post, but I think you would get better results replacing the entire part.

    Edit: Regardless of what new stick you choose, it might be worthwhile to reinforce it by drilling a hole in the center of its post and inserting a metal rod.

    I don’t know the particulars of these devices, though. It’s possible that the stem part of the stick might be too short to easily work with, or the potentiometer assembly might be resist disassembly. Good luck!



  • I think I would start by scouring the web for suitable replacement stick 3D-printer files. Once I had those, I would investigate what 3D-printing filament material is especially strong, and look for a place to print the files with that material.

    If there’s a hackerspace / makerspace in your area, someone there might be able to help.

    Edit: The idea here is to make something that is stronger than the original stick or any cheap plastic replacement, in order to address OP’s recurring problem. (I thought that was obvious, but there’s at least one rude person here who apparently didn’t follow.)




  • Not only because it’s a single point of failure, but also because it’s a single point of surveillance.

    Cloudflare can read and even modify the communications everyone has with sites behind its HTTPS service. And it can monitor people’s browsing through its DNS-over-HTTP service. And it can fingerprint people’s browsers through any of its services that use JavaScript, such as its CAPTCHA-like thing.









  • Even if you could expand the RAM and storage,

    You can.

    everything else is just sitting there waiting to be obsolete in a couple years.

    That’s what some people said about the Steam Deck. More than a couple of years later, it is still popular; clearly not obsolete.

    I just don’t get who they’re trying to make this for. You can easily build a PC with a reasonable budget that could easily tackle things this cube probably couldn’t.

    I think you’re overlooking the fact that most gamers have different skills and priorities than yours. Not everyone would find it easy to build a computer at all, let alone build a quiet and compact one with well-matched components, a tuned and convenient OS, and good support.

    This device is probably not a good fit for you. It probably is a good fit for many people outside of gaming PC enthusiast circles. Especially now that Valve has established its hardware as a well-defined platform for game developers to support.