I remember hear8ng during the development of the first steam controller, valve have put in a trackball emulator or behavior (whatever it’s called. I’m playing my “English is my second language” card) for the track pads.

I assume they didn’t abandon that and did put it as a configuration for the steam deck, and again still assuming, for the new controller.

If I’m wrong I’m happy to be politely corrected.

Also, hello fellow trackball companion 👋🏾

I’ve long had this problem of tracking the multiple manga (and anime) that I’ve been interested in since the 2010s. Back then there was this one reader site called onemanga and I had all my eggs on that. as usual it had to go down somehow (in their case, money) and that scared me into using MyAnimeList (MAL) and mangaupdates (MU) to track everything. On top of that now I add kitsu.io and anilist now.

I think if you’re going to move manually one by one from kotatsu and mihon, might as well add a couple extra steps to those sites to help track as well. I’ll admit though in terms of esoteric items, kitsu is the least, followed by anilist, MAL then MU as the highest chance to include weird stuff. I have to redo my MU list since I somehow got my old account deleted and who knows what weird manga I’ve tracked that got lost.

Eh, I’d say this is different than say scanlators complaining they’re not getting donations, or even sillier, people not paying them when the pay gate their scans and translations. Or scamlators beefing with each other because they accuse of stealing each other or some shit.

It is pointless drama that put a target on the devs though but they’ll pull through

Yeah I jumped the gun on this one tbh. The “better” news is that kotatsu has taken down their repos. It should still work as long as the extensions that get the manga are still updated and working

And the manga sites themselves still being up that is.

The real mihon discord mods have been really diligent to stop any questions asking for source and where to get pirated mamgas. They even dont allow to say official sources too just in case.

But regardless kakao etc wouldn’t care about that and I dont think hobby devs are going to challenge a C&D from a group of companies in court.

This is true. Some still use the last tachiyomi release til today so as long as extensions get updated it should be fine really.

And one of mihon devs did say on reddit they have backups of the source code. It’ll probably will pop up again under another name

Read on reddit that one of the mihon devs do keep backup of the source code so it probably will be revived in another name if they get taken down.

Fingers crossed nothing happens

Kotatsu bundled in the extensions that scrapes manga sites like tachiyomi used to so that’s the biggest sin that they’re targeted by kakao etc.

Give mihon a try.

This has instructions where and how to get the extensions.

Although kotatsu will work for a bit I think it’s best you start looking to migrate. But AFAIK there’s no easy way to migrate unless you use other sites to track your reading progress and read lists.

Yeah. I considered Kotatsu before when Tachiyomi shut down, but stuck with Mihon as it’s a direct successor. Although I use one of the forks though because… panda time.

Never really did tried Kotatsu.

After submitting myself to torture by back reading a bit of their discord’s general chat from the point of the two announcements, it’s a crashout and some pirates’ beef with each other.

So now I wished I reported on Kotatsu’s shutdown only, not this annoying drama.

Better back up your list somehow in case they go down.

But also just my luck as I submitted this post, Antsy updated on their discord lol.

Here’s the post:

Hello @everyone again,

Sorry for acting childish on the whole situation. 1.5 years of frustration bursted out with Kotatsu dying and iiTachiyomi pushing the “Mihon Community” thing. After a good night of sleep and staff being angry with me (love them) I’ve decided to end this whole thing again. I’ve 4 reasonable demands for iiTachiyomi. I won’t escalate it even if they disagree. But I hope the community will hold them accountable if they do.

https://xcancel.com/mihonapp/status/1986331231274082805
https://xcancel.com/mihonapp/status/1986331233522200961
https://xcancel.com/mihonapp/status/1986331235816440171
https://xcancel.com/mihonapp/status/1986331238148546834

Yeah I feel like they changed how the algorithm reacts to getting those requests. It used to be constant skirmishes with the suggested videos where I have to say “don’t recommend” until they stick.

Maybe I’m just misunderstanding the quote, but I’m pretty sure regional pricing have been around at least since 2010s.

Maybe I should RTFA

Oooooh.

I imagine it’s for when someone want to take a break from doom scorlling and indulge on slop

Recently yahtzee from second wind confessed to playing the YouTube games slop.

Context for those who don’t know.

https://youtu.be/eC1VZZ9bqnk

Apply workaround to view yt vids as needed.

I can’t figure out ledollarbean no matter how many times I said it out loud.

The same wsd also reported by Second Wind (old Zero Punctuation) and their experience is the same: way too sudden drop to be anything else except YouTube adjusting their algorithm.

In their video, Yahtzee said it could be related to Restricted Mode on youtube suddenly turns on by itself. Or at least that’s their hypothesis, since they checked that if that mode is on, a lot of their videos vanished from their channel.

Windows does this automatically

…what? TIL after all my life using Windows.

Someone I know (not close enough to even call an “internet friend”) formed a sadistic bond with chatGPT and will force it to apologize and admit being stupid or something like that when he didn’t get the answer he’s looking for.

I guess that’s better than doing it to a person I suppose.

I agree, as someone that was forced to use W11 work laptop. It also save states of the tabs open as long as you don’t close the tabs and close the windows itself.

This is probably just MS catching up to plenty other FOSS programs though.