@nprofile1q... how is Eevee improper? Genuine question

@nprofile1q... I see. I have a different way of looking at it:

You can really feel how angry at Unity they were, to the point they just remade it """properly""", as in actual decent coding standards and well thought out APIs. Except the way they've gone about it was to go bullet-point by bullet-point down their complaints list and shoehorn Unity features into Source 2, without regard to why Source 2 did things its way.

@nprofile1q... What is this about?

@nprofile1q... I'm not going to stand here and say it's a good solution, because clearly we have abandoned this workflow before modern web devtools.

But I use XML as the source of my webpage, and it uses an attached XSLT stylesheet to generate the HTML representation.

It runs directly in the browser, so no build step needed. And it's a web standard, so no JS required to do this either.

And while XML might set off alarms on some people's brains, XSLT as a template library on top of it is surprisingly good. The query language is sufficiently powerful, rather than being a strict "drill down a tree-of-objects" you can pull info form anywhere in the source document. So you can genuinely organize your source document to be semantically interesting or easy to edit, without worrying about how to feed it to the template engine.

@nprofile1q... First of all, commiserations. I know very well the situation. Being poor sucks in how everything becomes a fucking quest.

That said, if you feel like embracing the quest, try taking a peek inside!

If it's the scrolling that troubles you: Mouse wheels usually use optical sensors, which means they rarely break down really, but also are very susceptible to dirt. Even a single hair in the wrong place can cause an incorrect reading.

If it's the clickability: Douse the buttons in contact cleaner. Wait for it to evaporate before plugging it back on. If it still gives you grief, then you may want to replace them.

Fortunately mouse wheels usually use the readily available classic 4 leg push button which you can harvest from some unused clicky appliance you don't need, or bought for a few cents. (as opposed to proper mouse buttons, which use a more specialized and expensive part)

I appreciate you may not have a soldering iron, and it may be hard to justify even a cheap one for a one-off fix.

@nprofile1q... Batatas 👍

@nprofile1q... The cool thing about microcontrollers is, they have very little RAM, so the current conditions barely affect them 😂

The microcontroller development board I got is about 2~3EUR on the usual Chinese imports websites. I also got a 15EUR bag of assorted modules to play around with, then ~10EUR more in wires and breadboards.

(Prices converted from BRL, your mileage may vary)

These development boards are programmed and powered over USB, and can power a reasonable amount of components off it, you don't need any fancy tools.

You might even scrounge some stuff for cheaper if you look in the used market depending where you live, some people buy some kits then never do anything with it.

As far as hobbies go it doesn't seem like it's very expensive to enter? Please correct me, I probably need a reality check. It sure can get expensive if you wanna do advanced stuff and need to buy a logic analyzer or somesuch, but there's a looong runway before that is even close to necessary.

@nprofile1q... making a dictation recorder device using the ESP32 microcontroller

(Yea phones and computers exist, but I want something with clacky buttons and no screen)

@nprofile1q... i read "it nerds some twerking" and was very concerned

@nprofile1q... @nprofile1q... what are you, a web developer???

@nprofile1q... I am logged in and get rate limited even though I open GH maybe once a week. There's a whole thread of south americans that are basically locked out.