Uttar Pradesh: Because the American South doesn’t have a monopoly on worthless filth.

Creative labs made shit audio chips, at least post isa, they never figured out pci at all. Haven’t forgiven them for killing aureal either.

Turtle beach was quality, but overpriced and they completely focused on the pro market after a while, ignoring gaming.

Realtek makes garbage, I always bypass it with a good USB DAC (fiio usually) because the mobo manufacturers always route lines so it buzzed when the GPU started using power.

You are right that they killed the market, but only for people who don’t care, and you can pick up a banging used mellanox for cheap that gives you excellent sriov.

If only they were also monsters of incrementing the pcie device id when their chip revision breaks compatibility.

So you don’t spend forever trying to Google on your phone or other laptop that you have to pull and rebuild the latest kernel, without an internet connection, because only that one knows that revision K needs power management set before the link will come up.

So, you have excellent points.

Here si where so much of that falls down:

This is worse in the south, but Appalachia had it too: any federal or external program is seen by the ruling elite as a cash cow that they rightfully deserve, and often they genuinely believe that by taking the money they are protecting their community from being bribed into dependence on outsiders.

That’s an odd rationalization, but it’s what I’ve seen in many rural areas.

What you need is a true grassroots movement, and that article suggested as much, I’m just skeptical because you’re asking them to go against a decent chunk of what they consider heritage, as the Virginia lowlands were the rich tobacco farmers that originally mistreated the Appalachians and lead to their oppositional identity.

I’m sorry, but it was so un-wh40k.

I think they tried, but the soul was not there at all, you were basically doomguy with a different gun.

True, but it isn’t cheap, the effort costs more than you’d save in labor.

Couple that with the nightmarish logistics (lived there, it takes 4-6 hours to get in and out of the mountains over tiny roads not meant for trucks, that’s a lot of refrigeration), and the region just isn’t good for much economically.

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Firstly: the soil is poor. Lots of issue with soil runoff, and it’s not viable to irrigate basically at all.

Secondly: they don’t want to.

I think people forget how much mining paid for a while, even if the cost was the miner’s lives. It’s like the oil workers in the Dakotas, they like that work for the pay.

The only way you could agriculturalize that region would be having a mid to large agribusiness come in and industrialize it, which makes no sense because it’s cheaper and easier everywhere else.

They’re orphaned by geography. The tunnels helped but nowhere near enough.

The peace treaty was for 10 years.

And they made that treaty so they could partition Poland and invade and brutalize Finland, no other reason.

The secret protocol was very clear.

Also ends federal judicial contempt enforcement when the government ignores a ruling or injunction.

Good news!

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/16/us/louisiana-republicans-school-desegregation.html

One of the major jobs of the department of education was to enforce desegregation, now scotus has cleared the way for a new wave of segregation academies, like under Jim crow.

They have to be religious, but if your church is all white then your school can be too!

The south has finally risen again :(

Interesting parallel:

https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/german-soviet-pact

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molotov–Ribbentrop_Pact?Secret_Protocol

Russians loved the nazis, and agreed to split Europe with them too!

But then again, they’d been genociding jews, Ukrainians and everyone else for centuries by then, I suppose they saw kindred spirits.

I need to explain to people why this is so amazingly stupid:

You are literally giving Europe an excuse to put tariffs on American goods and services, which they want to anyway, to encourage domestic producers.

Also, you’re making it easier for them to buy directly from south Korea, Japan and even China, especially since those countries can’t sell as easily to the US.

For Europe this is an absolute win/win.

But honestly, this sounds like a way for Trump to put pressure on Europe to back off on Ukraine, as he probably thinks the EU is reliant on US LNG, which is kind of isn’t really.

It’s not Bluetooth - it’s WiFi, using a proprietary blob for authentication.

You’ve literally missed my whole point.

Playstation link is this exact same thing, and btw, both controllers are dual-mode bluetooth and “high-speed wireless interface”, which is basically wifi or wifi-direct or some proprietary variant.

My point is, why isn’t it like Playstation link which just presents as HID devices and usb-audio devices, without a driver at all? Same low-latency, they even do LDAC.

if your input is barely too late for one 125Hz poll,

So those polls are generally isochronous to the USB bus transaction state, not based on polling frequency of the CPU, what happens is:

1. USB interrupt URB comes in to HCI controller,.URB descriptor written to descriptor chain.

2. Controller adds to descriptor chain, once chain length > WAT (| Timeout), interrupt and start processing incoming URBs.

3. In interrupt controller, follow chain, push URBs onto usb stack queue, trigger handler tasklet

4. Stack processes URB, routes to proper class driver

5. Class driver checks if URB has file handle open (or has open ref from drivers like HID/input).

6. If so, poll or other input read() returns value.

Now it’s possible there are multi-input poll reads in games, and I’m doing linux of course.

For MSFT it’s URB -> IRP -> WDM filter driver stack -> kernel32/directinput or win32 input stack (WNDPROCs after routing).

In any of these cases, I’m struggling to see how interrupts would come in faster with the same code on PC.

See, the same code probably runs on both MSFT and normal hardware, so it’s going to have the same structure, unless you actually believe a dev team is optimizing input latency that much, that’s often the lowest priority, they’ll optimize video lag more because it’s more noticeable. The engines themselves use DirectInput, and that’s routed through to libinput in WINE, and the same for all devices.

Btw, DirectInput has a device-based interface, so it couldn’t poll like this anyway, basically each controller has its own input queue that is round-robin and pluck stuff out of their input stream when available.

In any case, you’re not getting the latency improvement, both because it’s so different in software and because nothing can appreciate this.

I’m not trying to be extra autistic for no reason, I’ve just had to make these decisions before, and these are how we have to think.

I can respect that, I just think there should be a lot of pressure on MSFT to reprogram firmware to support linux natively.

The kernel has been desperately trying to move away from these 1-off, quirky drivers as they’re impossible to maintain.

Firstly, it’s not a real hub, it’s an emulated hub, and you can do that emulating everything as USB 2.0.

Secondly you can have multiple hid interface endpoints on a single device.

Thirdly, you wouldn’t be polling, these would be hid interrupt urbs, and you can storm them 1 per micropacket if you want, they just show up in the ehci buffers.

Finally, no human is overflowing the hid interface like this, not even 8 of them.

Hid is what should be required.

There are a million standards already here, I’d they really want to they can extend hid or something.

This is just a scrappy proprietary driver for no reason :(

My point is that the PS link doesn’t need a dedicated driver, why does this one?

assume they didn’t want to emulate an eight-port USB hub on the dongle.

https://github.com/abcminiuser/lufa

Literally a kid did this in high school, this is without hardware support, just GPIO, but he also implemented the full stack on avrusbs and cortex-ms, and one thing he emulated was multiple devices on a hub.