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Stadia Controller Rumbles and New Gaming Peripherals Supported By Linux 6.6 (www.phoronix.com)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Google is taking down the tool for switching the mode of the controller.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Right, but why are they doing that?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well, Stadia is dead. To be fair, I'm surprised they even included such a tool in the first place, from Google I would've expected to just kinda let it die.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I still don't get why it would be time-dependent. If they are going to release a simple tool with a single simple function like that, why not just release a standalone tool that can be run in perpetuity? Does it really require authentication with Google servers or something to modify the firmware?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Because Google doesn't do standalone tools. It's all web and they don't want to host it forever.

And no, because there are now third-party tools that can flash it that are standalone.