@fanf@mendeddrum.org2026-03-29 17:42:03
from my link log —
Towards scalable dataframe systems.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.00888
saved 2026-03-29 https://dotat.at/:/6GM7U.html
@fanf@mendeddrum.org2026-03-29 17:42:03
@mcdanlj@social.makerforums.info2026-06-29 00:43:20
@pgcd@mastodon.online2026-04-28 18:00:43
Celebrating #GNUTerryPratchett day by reading Wee Free Men to my kids.
In English. for the first time.
So they can experience the rollercoaster that is my Scotti^H^H^H^H^H^H Feegle accent.
And be thankful it's only them who experience it.
@nelson@tech.lgbt2026-04-29 17:36:37
Wrote up my notes after using Bazzite for a few days. I've really liked this experience and may switch for real to using a Linux desktop for the first time in 20 years. But maybe not Bazzite, I'm not a fan of the atomic OS concept.
@lpryszcz@genomic.social2026-06-29 08:06:14
My wife went to do yoga on the beach this morning... Accordingly to her it was such a terrible experience: sun recently rising was already shining strong, the sand was making changing postures difficult, noises made by the sea were distracting... and sand everywhere was just so annoying...
I like to say: typical problems of the "privileged" people!
Contrary, I love the beach, especially in the morning, because there is hardly anyone and it's not too hot yet.
It …
@jerome@jasette.facil.services2026-05-25 14:13:02
Un Québécois a monté le Mont Everest Š 23 ans, le plus jeune Š le faire.
Il a raconté son histoire sur son Instagram
https://www.instagram.com/p/DYuxFJwk5kk/
J'ai lu beaucoup de livres sur l'Everest, c'est vraiment souvent trop téméraire et les gens prennent des risques i…
@philip@mastodon.mallegolhansen.com2026-05-27 01:56:57
@… Fair. I’m using mine as Airplay speakers, either from my phone or Mac, so in that sense I don’t get to experience that awkwardness.
@hex@kolektiva.social2026-05-20 10:01:28
I'm going to deviate a bit from my normal audience and focus in on #tech (especially #Security folks). I came across the practice from public health and emergency management and brought it into work. They seemed to have never heard of it. I'm curious how common my experience is. (Please boost for visibility)
Have you ever used table top exercises in your work (such as, to verify a runbook would work as expected)?
@markhburton@mstdn.social2026-05-23 08:34:51
Appalling standard of Primary Care in this article.
My experience is a lot better. Efficient web-led system but GP sees us if indicated/in doubt.
However there's little continuity: a big practice and a different GP (or pharmacist or health care assistant) each time. At my age I expect a named GP. One problem is the GPs are all part time (good salaries).
It seems some NHS GPs no longer ‘see’ patients, they process them
@rasterweb@mastodon.social2026-06-22 14:22:58
The sports medicine facility I go to for PT sent me a survey. The last question was a big text box to tell them about my experience so I wrote this:
“Overall a great experience. My only complaint is the bike rack in the parking structure that is super-cheap/poor quality and not even bolted down.”
#bikeTooter
@iam_jfnklstrm@social.linux.pizza2026-05-26 13:44:59
I've been looking at cars for some while (really need a new one) and found a Kia Ceed from 2019. Any day soon someone will drive it to me so I can have a look at it. It's looks good on paper and pictures - but I'm picky on the driving experience. And scared... it may be one of the most expensive purchases I've done ever (exept for bying my apartment). What if it breaks down.... I have nightmares and dreams of rolling in comfort.
@3sframe@social.linux.pizza2026-06-26 14:13:21
Job hunting is truly bizarre right now.
And I know, ghost jobs/AI screening/mass discrimination... But.
Found a remote job, met what they wanted and more. They wanted a unicorn and I fit perfectly with the job description. I have the certs, a portfolio, and experience to prove it too. These are niche skills so I doubt the pool is very large.
Threw in my resume and got rejected 2 days later without a call back. The email was from a real person and stressed that a real person…
@thesaigoneer@social.linux.pizza2026-06-22 03:31:17
A Graveyard of Missed Opportunities
Finally finished my reflection on OpenSUSE, which I started on June 10th already. Better late than sorry 😆
https://thesaigoneer.bearblog.dev/a-graveyard-of-missed-opportunities/
@laimis@mstdn.social2026-06-23 16:56:56
What a journey this release of #lucenenet has been on, two years in the making! Glad to see it come out and the world gets to experience all of the work that has been put in. It's such a massive effort by only very few contributors.
My contributions have decreased substantially, now I just test the release and 1 on pushes or some internal discussions. That's about it. Not too sad …
@sean@scoat.es2026-06-20 03:34:27
I recently acquired an old Dell server for my homelab setup. I haven't touched real enterprise hardware in quite a long time. It's been a good [re]learning experience.
Let me just say this, though: putting a second computer inside the server for management (IPMI/iDRAC in this case) is genius, and it's a REALLY nice safety net.
(Short version for the unaware: independent console access and server configuration in a web UI on its own ethernet port. e.g. can reboot serve…
@LaChasseuse@mastodon.scot2026-05-20 02:30:38
The LibDems are pro-nuclear and hate nature. In my experience, people who get their knickers in a knot over seagulls generally hate immigrants as well and are bigoted with regard to LGBT people. It's the party for backwards people.
We humans have fished-out the food stocks that used to support gulls and polluted their air and water. The way to support them now while we sort out those problems are to make sure they get fed.
A gull that is not hungry is not going to try to stea…
@trochee@dair-community.social2026-04-18 23:43:05
Every paragraph rings true here, at least WRT my experience at work in the last six months.
We've killed a lot of sparrows.
The AI Great Leap Forward
https://leehanchung.github.io/blogs/2026/04/05/the-ai-great-leap-forward/
@cdarwin@c.im2026-04-12 18:08:33
𝗞𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗲 𝗣𝗼𝗿𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲.
𝗜 𝘄𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝘁𝗲𝗹𝗹 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗮𝗯𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝗺𝘆 𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘆.
I grew up in rural Iowa, where my parents, two siblings, and I lived in a two-bedroom, one-bath house.
My father was a farmer, and my mother was a small business owner.
As I grew older, I saw my neighbors lose everything as Iowa’s economy collapsed during the farm crisis of the 1980s.
That experience shaped how I see the economy
– 𝘴𝘦𝘵 𝘶𝘱 𝘵𝘰 𝘣𝘢𝘪𝘭 𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘳𝘪𝘤𝘩 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘱𝘰𝘸𝘦𝘳𝘧𝘶𝘭 𝘸𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘦 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘈𝘮𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘯𝘴 𝘢𝘳…
@cowboys@darktundra.xyz2026-06-22 15:24:42
“My kids will never experience it”: Cowboys legend Dez Bryant opens up on painful childhood trauma in emotional Father’s Day message https://www.sportskeeda.com/nfl/news-my-kids-will-never…
@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.ca2026-04-17 15:19:49
Calling all Audio/Video Nerds! I need to choose between these two semi-pro video cameras to purchase for work!
This #poll is only 6 hours so please vote and #boost!
In one corner!
Canon XA70: MSRP $3599
https://www.canon.ca/en/product?name=XA70
In the other corner!
the Panasonic HC-X20 $3799
https://www.panasonic.com/my/consumer/camera-camcorder/camcorder/4k-full-hd-camcorder/hc-x20.specs.html
If anyone has hands on experience with these cameras, or comparable ones, please do leave a comment!
We actually had our eye on a different one for awhile but time moved on and it's no longer an option.
@luana@wetdry.world2026-04-26 14:08:50
Hmmm the Garmins look interesting!
The Venu 4 (and Forerunner 970, tho that’s way too big for my wrist and more expensive) have most of what I want, and their phone app is optional!!
Not sure exactly what features I’d be missing with no phone connection (specially considering that it has no lte/mobile data), tho the phone app supports both iOS and Android so maybe once Bluetooth on Waydroid is a thing I could get that to work too!
I don’t think I’d be missing anything from my current Apple Watch (s5) or even from newer AWes other than the Ultras (which are also too big for my wrist, and too expensive). The Ultras have a depth sensor for diving which is really really cool, while the FR and Venu aren’t water resistant enough for that (Garmin has a way more specialised smartwatch for that, with a mostly non-overlapping featureset).
Both the FR and the Venu are rated for swimming, which is cool, but neither of those are proper for diving (I don’t really dive, tho that’s something I’m interested in trying out in the future). I think it should be safe enough for when I go around swimming in the pool or beach tho? Well, I don’t usually keep my Apple Watch on when swimming anyway. It’s just nice to know that if I were to get more sportive about that it’d be a possibility.
I think the only disadvantage of the Venu compared to the FR is the lack of a Maps app, tho that’s totally fine ig. Also no HR while swimming and less storage. The FR is 2mm bigger than my current 45mm s5 apple watch, and I already find this too big. The Venu has a 41mm option which is what I’d get if I decided to go for it.
OH AND THEY BOTH HAVE SUPER PRETTY COLOR OPTIONS, INCLUDING A LAVANDER ONE FOR THE VENU!! 
(the FR has lots of very pretty options too!!)
This is mostly just brainstorming rn, but does anyone around here have any experience with the Garmin smartwatches? It’d be nice to see opinions from someone who owns one of them :3
#Garmin #SmartWatch #Fitness
@detondev@social.linux.pizza2026-05-15 10:32:20
Being in these fucking nests of iphone ui and tab lists and <div> and pun usernames and ai pop-ups strip literally everything of the sublime. Maybe I should force people into temples I created myself to experience my creation no matter the cost
@hex@kolektiva.social2026-06-06 11:56:43
I gave the Strangers in a Tangled Wilderness crew the significant challenge of trying to make me sound coherent in this interview with Inmn Neruin. I was managing some pretty significant sleep deprivation and a mild cold, but I think it turned out pretty good (despite my best efforts).
But I did talk a lot about my trauma related to some of my experience living in #rural areas, and in doing that I was definitely not as careful as I could have been to talk about that as a trauma experience rather than as reality. Some people get trapped in rural areas, but other folks live there because they find beautiful things.
Not only is #RuralOrganizing critical (Trumpism grew out of areas neglected by "the left"), but rural living can be beautiful and rewarding. I briefly mentioned growing up throwing knives. A friend of mine lived way out in the woods, and there's something special about having a playground that spans several square miles. Intertwined with the old settler colonialism, antisemitism, *phobias, and isolation, that is at the heart of a lot of my personal rural misery, there's also a joyous and feral thing that taught me a lot and, I think, helped me organize more fearlessly. That thing is both individualist and collectivist, in different ways, and I don't think it's well understood without experiencing it. There's far more nuance than I was able to offer (and I definitely could have been more careful not to play into anti-rural stereotypes).
I think I said, "no one wants to live there." People do. You do. So let me try to fix that by giving you a chance to talk about that. I also talked about how slow things move, how nothing changes, but there are also sometimes opportunities to change things in huge ways specifically because structures don't exist to stop those changes. So while I'm bumping this zine and interview, also I want to use this as an opportunity to welcome my rural comrades to help fill in the gaps:
What draws you to where you are?
Do you choose to live in a rural area vs urban, and why?
Is there any other thing I've said that you would like to correct?
What other things should folks know?
https://www.tangledwilderness.org/features/near-death
@ErikJonker@mastodon.social2026-06-18 07:45:06
I hope all mastodon instances quickly install Mastodon 4.6 so i can add people from their servers to my "Collections".
#Mastodon46
@brichapman@mastodon.social2026-05-15 00:38:01
Check out my latest article - "What is uniquely human in an AI future?"
https://www.brichapman.com/p/what-is-uniquely-human-in-an-ai-future?utm_source=bri-mastodon&utm_medium=social&src=mstdn
@benthos@mastodon.sdf.org2026-04-25 16:19:14
@…
I remember getting Sowiesoso on cd around 1993 (pre-internet), and thinking of it as this impossible to find thing. I think it was an import that I special ordered from a giant book in my local record store. Finding (and finding out about) music used to be a very different experience.
@Cognessence@social.linux.pizza2026-06-18 14:28:17
I have a slightly niche CD-production request:
I’m putting together a collaborative CD release to accompany an artist’s monograph (the CD will slot into the book). We’re organising the CD-production side ourselves and everything but the audio itself is outside my experience.
The pressing plant the artist chose doesn’t offer DDP creation, and my mastering engineer friend isn’t able to do this one. I’m not really in a position right now to buy DDP software and learn the workflow in…
@neverpanic@chaos.social2026-04-14 12:57:54
Could you use WebP to compress webpages? Well, yes, you can!
A bit of an older post, but still well worth a read, it's beautifully unhinged: https://purplesyringa.moe/blog/webp-the-webpage-compression-format/
@inthehands@hachyderm.io2026-04-09 20:20:12
Tips I can give you from my experience as a musicial weirdo if you’re looking to redevelop a sense of intrinsic purpose and meaning:
Beware of leaning on extrinsic validation (winning a contest, getting a grant, getting a job) for your psychological well-being. Those things may be important for practical purposes, but psychologically they are all empty calories.
Three •good• sources of purpose and meaning in your work that can sustain you:
- your own sense of satisfaction in your work
- sharing work via meaningful, sustained human connections
- the sheer joy of making and doing
@bammerlaan@mastodon.nl2026-05-19 10:58:10
I'm in the market for a reliable sewing machine—I want to replace my old Singer. I made a mistake at first, buying an old Bernina Virtuosa with mechanical/electronic issues (luckily returned).
A sewing machine repairman told me that early digital Berninas are risky, and he recommended a mechanical Bernina 930, 1030 or 1031.
A serviced vintage Bernina 930 is now on hold for me at a dealer.
Anyone here with Bernina 930 experience? #Sewing #Bernina #SewingMachines
@ruth_mottram@fediscience.org2026-06-13 09:44:45
Every year I am stupidly late booking family holiday as the experience of booking train tickets was toooo depressing.
This year (I'm still late), a reply to my post the other day about travel sickness on swedish trains reminded me of the railfinder.eu site and honestly - it's a revelation. Doesn't cover everywhere yet, but definitely going to be using it a lot more for international rail travel in Europe.
https://www.railfinder.eu
@jerome@jasette.facil.services2026-04-20 19:34:25
I'm lucky I haven't had a lot of health issues myself in my life... but what I got a lot of experience with is health issues for the 2 cats I've had.
I can't stress enough the importance of doing your own research to complement what you hear from your vet.
There has been too many cases where what the vet said wasn't fully consistent or incomplete VS what the real situation was with my cat.
If you care about your little friend, have a vet, but also, be s…
@lanefu@social.linux.pizza2026-06-20 14:33:04
It's funny how ive been a systems person forever, and homelabbing forever, using Linux forever, but these days I'm not a power user at all. I just don't have much drive to fine tune my user experience at all.... Even kicking the tires on an path for RSS-based consumption makes me realize how much fine-tuning I need to do in terms of managing and filtering content, workflow, etc.
But this is the price I guess I have to pay if I want to detox from doom scrolling.
@annsev@troet.cafe2026-05-14 11:30:38
Has someone in the community experience with #Pelikan 400N?
The cork in my piston fountain pen has shrunk. It needs to be repaired—has anyone else had this problem before?
#fountainPen
@mikeymikey@hachyderm.io2026-05-14 03:17:13
Nice things about the experience though?
Can confirm the Puck works with macOS.
Once you get past the Privacy setting configuration, Steam on macOS was able to natively update both the firmware of the Puck and the controller (needed to plug into each, one after the other) - which was pleasant to see, as that kind of thing can be overlooked
Also - in Big Picture mode they have a nice indicator for remaining battery life on the #steamcontroller
Overall, I think my primary usage for this will continue to be as a controller for #SteamDeck - but it's feels nice to have as an option for Mac as well
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@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.ca2026-04-26 16:47:10
The latest Trump wanna-be assassin:
“And I am no longer willing to permit a pedophile, rapist, and traitor to coat my hands with his crimes.”
…..
“I walk in with multiple weapons and not a single person there considers the possibility that I could be a threat.
The security at the event is all outside, focused on protestors and current arrivals, because apparently no one thought about what happens if someone checks in the day before.”
…..
“Oh and if anyone is curious is how doing something like feels: it’s awful. I want to throw up; I want to cry for all the things I wanted to do and never will, for all the people whose trust this betrays; I experience rage thinking about everything this administration has done.
Can’t really recommend it! Stay in school, kids.”
#usa #trump #theAmericanFascist #WHCD
@grahamperrin@bsd.cafe2026-06-06 04:41:22
@… in my experience, GNOME is more difficult, especially in a virtual machine.
294977 – x11/gdm: GNOME Classic on Xorg: unable to unlock the screen — <https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/sho…
@pixelpusher220@dmv.community2026-06-01 22:06:39
In Charlotte, NC visiting family and forgot to update my ad blocker. Got served this local ad for a "Tour The Titanic" experience with recreated room/hallways etc.
Tempted to call and ask if they include the water experience as well
https://thetitanicexhibition.com/charlotte
@padraig@mastodon.ie2026-04-08 12:38:53
Just had a horrible experience with the AIB mobile app and website. Even though you use your phone to approve the sign in, you still need the ancient card reason just to send a payment. Disgusting carry on.
My mam couldn’t have done this bank transfer on her own.
#mastodaoine #speirgorm…
@hex@kolektiva.social2026-04-15 20:35:03
I realized something interesting today that I hadn't fully pieced together: living under #Trump is a pretty close approximation to being poor in a rural area, at least in my experience.
You're constantly afraid of authorities because any of them could randomly ruin your life. You randomly can't afford things (because some unexpected expense came up, or because some incompetent asshole decided to tariff something or start a war or whatever). Everything is terrifying, unstable, and unpredictable basically all the time. The only way you survive is with a community.
I knew Trump would take the rural vote way back because I recognized him as the crooked sheriff or good ol' boy mayor of more than a few little towns I've lived in. He's so deeply familiar, which is really triggering for the tiny number of people who managed to escape that kind of crushingly hopeless place.
So if this has all felt very terrifying and foreign, then perhaps use it to understand the people who find it terrifying and familiar. For at least some of those people, this has been an unpleasant return to (continuation of) an old normal. Understand why we say that things must change far more radically than that which lets a few people "go back to brunch."
@inthehands@hachyderm.io2026-04-11 16:37:39
Myst was my first all-nighter in college. A few of us co-played it, thinking together and taking turns at the controls, 2 or 3 people at a time, coming and going as the night went on. We started at 10pm, finished around 6am, then went to get breakfast. Wonderful experience, social gaming at its best. https://infosec.exchange/@0xabad1dea/116386607676409616
@markrsmith@smithtodon.org2026-05-30 21:26:31
My first experience with a battery lawn mower.
Our 15-year-old Honda gas motor works fine, but the handle broke in a way that makes it unusuable. We will sell it for parts. We bought a EGO Power LM2130SP 21" mower. It came with a charger, 7.5Ah battery, and the deal included another 5Ah battery. Shipped from Amazon in a week.
#EGOPower
@al3x@hachyderm.io2026-05-01 10:12:12
First experience with uv tool has been a disaster. I couldn't achieve anything I planned to (create an isolated environment for a project, pull in dependencies using pip, etc.). For every command I have spent a lot more time trying to figure out what command to run. It seems like I came to uv with my baggages and uv's take is rather different.
@kaiengert@mastodon.social2026-03-30 09:27:41
My "Widekey Keyboard" app is now publicly available in the Play Store for Android:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=de.kuix.widekeykeyboard
It has an unusual typing experience, but I hope it can be helpful for some.
(F-Droid …
@nelson@tech.lgbt2026-06-10 17:37:49
Had my first hard failure of the Linux desktop today. Wayland locked up 100% CPU, had to reboot. I've run into a bunch of bugs in various things. The bloom is off the rose, but I'm still really liking the Linux experience overall.
@hex@kolektiva.social2026-05-06 19:08:41
I have some sketches of an essay that I need to write, but I think it's worth brain-dumping a bit more in the mean time.
#LLMs are an attempt to make tech grow forever. But like, how many "your mom/a friend, but done by a precarious worker instead" apps do we really need? Everything right now is in the AI grift hole, but there's almost nothing of interest (even if you ignore the ethical concerns). Like, no, I don't fucking want a robot to lie to me about my groceries. That doesn't sound like a useful feature. There's a lot of useless shit being pumped out to prop up the bottom line, and a lot of people just want to be able to use their old phone for more than a couple of years.
No one is happy with this. No one wants this. Except the billionaires who are forcing us all to drink the capitalism koolaid, because they'd rather exterminate life on earth than live in a world where they experience consequences.
Nothing grows forever. That's not how literally anything in reality works, or has ever worked, at all in history. Some people think that the universe itself may work like that, but that's only an educated guess. Finite things don't grow forever. Every organism, every society, every technology, every dynamic and adaptive system we have ever known goes through a growth phase and then goes in to a stabilization phase. Or, following a Malthusian pattern, grows until it reaches a catastrophic point and collapses. Like lemmings. Or reindeer. Or cancer.
@philip@mastodon.mallegolhansen.com2026-05-12 04:22:21
Booking a rental car for Iceland next month.
I see electrics are finally becoming an option for rentals, so that's what I booked.
Excited and a little nervous to drive electric for my first time ever. I mean, I've test driven them at the dealership, but it'll be the first time I need to navigate the world of charging an electric car. In a foreign country no less, it'll be an interesting experience.
@tomkalei@machteburch.social2026-04-23 07:38:38
BTW, this is 21/21 now:
#lean
@rasterweb@mastodon.social2026-06-03 18:48:33
I wrote this in a discussion where someone was posting anti-ebike stuff:
“I’m a cyclist who switched to an ebike last year due to health issues. As a bonus it also allowed me to bike to work. I ride as courteously as I did on my acoustic, maybe more so. It’s about the rider, their experience, and the respect they show others, more than it is the bike.”
This seems like it’s shaping up to be a rough summer for responsible ebike riders who read the comments.
@pkraus@berlin.social2026-06-14 18:15:54
This might be a long shot, but if anyone wants to do a #PhD in #Chemistry or #MaterialsScience in #Berlin, I have an open position in my lab at @… :
https://www.jobs.tu-berlin.de/en/job-postings/204252
The project is on modelling and measuring electrical conductivity of materials. I'm looking for someone with experience in DFT and python, also willing to work in the lab. Feel free to reach out by email or forward to anyone you think might be interested.
Funding is confirmed at 100% TV-L E13 for 2 years.
@luana@wetdry.world2026-06-21 18:54:34
After my awful experience with share sheets on Android, and due to the complete lack of a share sheet in Linux: Can we have a xdg-share-sheet-portal thing or something?
I'm saying this thinking of postmarketOS, as from my Android experience I'm predicting that an even less streamlined sharing process on a phone wouldn't be great either (but to be fair at least file managers on Linux let you copy files to clipboard, so there's no way it'd be worse than whatever the fuck is going on in android)
@teledyn@mstdn.ca2026-04-10 02:54:28
Folks who know me tend to describe me as a level-sort, good to have around in a panic, nothing about pre-festival pre-show post-everything crises seems to phase him, catastrophic data failures, structural issues, you name it, I was somehow there and apparently welcome.
but give me just ten minutes with a Windows or OS/X machine and you'll experience my sailor's vocabulary! I cannot imagine, from that, what might ensue should someone force me to rely on some LLM. I did have the experience of my youngest INSISTING I believe his 2025 Civic GPS when I bloody KNEW my route would be as fast and less trouble, but hey, he's my youngest, gotta humour youth. I still bitched about it.
@luana@wetdry.world2026-05-17 13:44:26
Artists of fedi: if someone is commissioning you for a ref sheet, is there some quantity of references or provided details that gets too much or too specific?
In the past I’ve seen an artist saying they like receiving references, so I made like a pdf with references and like everything about my sona with as many information as possible. I then sent that to a friend that has more experience than me on hiring commissions and asked if they thought it should be more specific, tho they replied saying that it actually had way too much information and that could limit the artist’s artistic freedom.
So I really don’t wanna send something that’s way too much info, but also I do want the refsheet to actually reflect how I imagine my sona
@mikeymikey@hachyderm.io2026-05-14 03:12:55
Ok - here's my #macOS (Tahoe) specific #steamcontroller #gaming #steam personal experience, having tried it out:
So - it works!
BUT
The setup process from Valve does you no favors. While their help guide (https://help.steampowered.com/en/faqs/view/33E8-5EDF-24E6-4CFB#mac) has a Mac specific setup section - the on-screen setup in the Steam client itself does not help out Mac users at all
The guide mentions you need to grant Steam "Input Monitoring" permission - but until I did this, Steam didn't even agree the controller was connected (via USB directly or via the Puck)
And then the second permission "Accessibility" was explicitly necessary if you wanted to do a mouse and keyboard game and it needed to move the cursor (I chose Scritchy Scratchy as a test for this specific reason, especially since they just added macOS support)
Another downside: the default keyboard and mouse layout for the controller maps shoulder buttons to scroll up and down - but only a single increment per press! I had to reconfigure it to enable turbo/repeated scrolling events.
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