Just a little warning to potential buyers of the Flydigi Apex 5 or Vader 5 Pro controller. Back paddle failed on me after only about 2 months of use. I was kind of worried that the plastic the paddle was made of might break but that’s not what happened here. Instead, the little button that activates the press seems to have gotten stuck inside the shell so the paddle can no longer activate it and it just hangs limply on the shell.

This was a very expensive controller so one of the buttons failing after only a couple of months is really fucked. The Vader 5 Pro also uses the same style of back buttons so if you still plan on getting one I suggest you just remove or don’t put the back paddles on. I think I’ll just be going back to the Vader 4 myself, at least until I get a hold of a G7 Pro.

UPDATE: ¹¹⁄₂₇
Just a quick update, I purchased this item from Gadgethyper and they’ve been really quick and friendly with providing me with support. I don’t plan to …

Hey r/Controller,

John here. I have some really exciting news to share with the community today regarding my project, Prometheus 82.

GameSir has officially acquired the commercial license for the Prometheus 82 system. They are now using my input latency testing tool for their internal Research & Development and Quality Assurance testing.

You can verify their status on the official Licensee Registry on GitHub here: 👉Official Licensee Registry on GitHub

Why does this matter for us gamers? For a long time, we’ve had to rely on 3rd party reviewers to find out the real input latency of a controller weeks after its release. Seeing a major manufacturer adopt this tool means they aren’t designing “blindly” anymore.

They are investing in high-precision, sub-millisecond testing during the development phase. My hope is that this leads to a future where we can see accurate, verified latency data for controllers before we even hit the “Buy” button.

It …

My controller collection over a two year span. I have two of the same controllers for the ones I really like. My daily controller is the rainbow 3 at the moment, the capacitive sticks are really good. My second choice would the zd ultimate legend with the js13 pro sticks.

DISCLAIMER: Vader 5 Pro was provided by Flydigi for free for review purposes. All opinions are my own. Flydigi has no impact on anything.

I’ve got Vader 5 Pro from the first Chinese batch. So far I haven’t found any problems or QC defects.

First impressions and comparison to Apex 5 and Vader 4 are in the video as well. Full review will only be out on global release.

This video was made to help you to decide, whether to wait for Vader 5 Pro release or simply buy Apex 5 or much cheaper with discounts Vader 4.

ENJOY the video!

I was in the middle of playing a game once I heard something drop to the floor and realized the right trigger had fallen off. I liked this controller but this kind of quality seems very low. Never had this happen for any of my controllers. Is this common or am I the first one managed to do this :D

Popped to the aer store in London today to take advantage of the black Friday sale

Quick rundown

Left door: Evergoods CAP 0.5, 1 & 2. Middle: Transit Duffel 35, Tom Bihn Truck, AER Travel Weekender & miscellaneous Right: AER pouches and ALPAKA pouches Top drawer: patches Middle drawer: ALPAKA element tote medium Bottom drawer: miscellaneous pouches.

I picked up the Max EDC when it first launched in 2024, in the Earth Green X42 X-pac. Since then, it has followed me everywhere: work commutes, long-haul trips across northern Europe, and multiple runs through China, Japan, and around SE Asia. It has basically become my daily carry, replacing my AER Duffle 3 X-Pac.

My usual loadout: a laptop, an Alpaka Vertex tech pouch, a 1L YETI bottle, and gym clothes. Pretty standard, but the bag continues to surprise me with how much more it can swallow. It definitely carries bigger than it looks.

Capacity and layout

The front pouch is a workhorse. Gym clothes, random bits and pieces, scarf, beanies, whatever I need to toss in quickly. But anything you pack here will eat into the main compartment, so you have to be mindful of how you distribute bulk. Same story with the tech pouch area in the laptop compartment. When I load it with a mouse, SSD, and chargers, you can feel the intrusion into the main space.

Even with that, the bag rarely feels …

Back L-R: Osprey Transporter Panel Loader 20L, Alpaka Metro Backpack 12L, Bellroy Transit Workpack 26L, Aer Pro Pack 20L, tomtoc Travel Backpack 40L

Front: The North Face Borealis Backpack 28L, Osprey Sportlite 25L, Osprey Nebula 32L, Bellroy Classic Backpack (old, 16L I think).

Sling: tomtoc Aviator-T33 3.5L

Would still like another sling option (maybe a slightly smaller Bellroy) but otherwise very happy with my collection. I accept there’s some overlap and over-consumption going on here tho!

Wanted to share my collection of waxed canvas bags (mostly from goruck) before I put it back most in storage. They are my retirement bags, bags I see aging well with me along the way when I get older. They are heavy so i hope im still in good health to carry them. Want to say these are my last last bags….

Currently just using the bullet dc 18L as edc and kit bag as gym/carry on bag.

List: Goruck- m23, shoulder bag, gr1 21L, gr2 34L, gr2 26L, Bullet dc 18L, kit bag 32L.

Ridgemont outfitters- ranger backpack, rider messenger, Gaucho duffle.

Evergoods- ctb26 griffin

I know. I know. Ozark trail is cheap junk normally. This bag though—is well above it’s value. $13 is amazing for it. It has a font pocket, large almost fully open main pocket with a large area for storage, a zipper pocket, and a standard open pocket on the back. It punches well above it’s price. Just thought I’d share in case someone doesn’t know about it. The zipper pulls it comes with are gray (and boring).

A dream I’ve dreamt for most of my life.

My old account of 6 years got locked where I embarked on a similiar type of trip for 2 years in central and South America. And this time, the journey takes me to Asia ~ a dream I’ve dreamt for most of my life.

I remember as a kid watching YouTube videos circa 2008 of certain YouTubers travelling to Thailand and the Philippines. I knew one day it would be me. And well, tomorrow evening that time has come.

Since I returned from Central and South America, I saved heavy and managed to create a runway for myself of approximately two years of travel around Asia. The journey begins in Tokyo Japan, with nothing more than 7 days booked in a hostel, and from there it will completely unfold organically just like I did in latam- guided by nothing more than intuition and surrender. No itinerary, no plan.

In no particular order I imagine I’ll [eventually] make my way through; Taiwan, china, Korea (including North Korea if their border opens), Thailand, …

After many years of one-bagging, I’m seriously thinking of rollerbags now (explanation below).

So I don’t know if this was just my experience, but these past 2 trips have been… annoying. Normally I’m fine with a backpack and don’t really think twice about it, but this time everything felt like work. The airports were packed, every checkpoint was overflowing, and even with TSA and Global Entry it didn’t matter. They kept redirecting people across the entire airport.

It wasn’t just “go to a different line.” It was:

“Sorry everyone, we’re at capacity here. All TSA folks please go to that (other terminal that’s way the fuck over there).”

And this kept happening. Different checkpoints, same situation. Then after going through all that, the gates always ended up being on the extreme opposite end, and you’d have to do full-on loops to get there. Not a short walk — I mean long stretches, backtracking, escalators, weird detours, all of it. It was like every gate I needed was miles away for …

Packing for a three month trip through Southeast Asia. This will be in a 45L Patagonia Black Hole.

May need to do some rearrangement for travel days to hit the 7kg carry-on limit as my partner and I have a third backpack which will be a checked bag.

First backpacking trip and first attempt at one bagging it!

I used to have some of the famous IKEA packing cubes. Someone give it to me on a trip and i give it to someone else after 3 years using it.

i try other packing cubes for my Osprey 26 + 6 and they don’t work as well as the IKEA ones. so after a long time avoiding going to IKEA, i go just for those packing cubes.

i may choose a bad weekend to visit it but IT WAS PACKED, i ask many time for employees assist me to find them but they really don’t know or don’t care to tell me. I used one of the computer to find the section and it just said TRAVELING, BAGS. i spend around an hour looking for those. in the Bedroom storage section, i look on between the section with the organized boxes, and i don’t find them (but they sell some bags with zipper to stores clothes around 1$.)

i found it in the weirdest part of the store: exactly between the Bedroom storage and Bedroom sections, there a part where they sell their blue bags with yellow handles and their rainbow bags, …

I have a short vacation coming up and wanted to modify my Ikea Pivring backpack for it. So I bought a roll of reflective tenacious tape and added a couple buttons to the front pocket so my umbrella won’t slip sideways and mingle with my water bottle. I used the tape to reinforce the mesh that is of the quality one would expect of a bag that cost $3-4 depending when it was bought. I wanted buttons instead of just sewing a seam down the middle of the pocket because the buttons will let me unbutton this and put a book or magazine in the pocket. And finally, I deliberately sewed the buttons in off-center because my umbrella is thinner than my water bottle and this lets them both fit perfectly. I also cut up the back a little bit to replace the built in foam with my preferred seat-pad.

The bag with the buttons

The inside of the bag which I cut apart to make this little pocket

With umbrella and water bottle

My GF who has a 53% success rate traveling in one bag with an Osprey …

Hello everyone,

this is my first post in r/onebag but definitly not my first time travelling light.
As said in my title, this ist my setup for a 7 Day trip to Georgia, with 2,5 Days in Kutaissi and then a one day journey to Tibilissi. I hope to also see a bit of the countrysite and go for a few smaller hikes.

As a backpack I bought a Decathlon Quechua MH100 20l. Which, for now, seems great for that small pricetag. Might do a review after the trip. I hope to take this one as “under seat luggage”. Let´s see if that works, because this one is a bit to high in terms of messurements.

I´ll only list the stuff that I dont show in the picture, which is:

- My phone (Nothing Phone 3a)

- Jeans as my only pants on this trip

Toiletries (Which is a Decathlon UL toiletry-bag. Before I´ve always just used a plastic bag. But this seems a lot more organized)
- small toothbrush

- travelsize deo, toothpaste, medication (incl. some stuff against the sh*ts, ibuprofen, etc.), shampoo, …

That custom print duffle is wild!

With the Black Friday sales currently on, the Transit Briefcase 20L (TB20) seems like a deal compared to Daily Tote 24L. But I was previously considering the Daily Tote. Wondering if anyone has experience with both?

My use case is generally for home to office and then back to home. Most likely won’t be driving, i.e. will be taking the train. As I am changing to a more formal workplace environment, was thinking a briefcase / tote would be more suitable than my trusty GoRuck. Plus, I am pretty sure it was my GoRuck which destroyed my last dress pants, and my Levi’s (which lasted longer). Not gonna risk it any more.

Generally, expecting to carry a laptop (within 16”), tech bag with cables, mouse, Yeti 1L water bottle, some papers, a notebook, and some pens. Wouldn’t be expecting to fit in gym clothes and some toiletries, but if that’s doable, that would be great too.

My concern with the Daily Tote is that in general, my experience with Tote bag is the …

What do you have in your CAP1? I have a Tom Bihn Size 1 HLT, Tom Bihn, size 2 HLT, Tortuga Tech Organizer, and an Evergoods CAP1.

I have a wall charger, 6 ft. USB-C cable, 6 in. USB-C cable, a power bank, and wired earphones. For me the Tom Bihn Size 1 HLT is perfect and with enough room for wireless ear buds and a lip balm. I think if I want more space I would go to the size 2 HLT or Tortuga Tech Organizer–the CAP 1 takes up significantly more space.

I thought I would like the CAP1 a lot but I found the these other organizers to be more lightweight, take less space, and and easier to access its contents because they act like smaller purse-style pouches as opposed to the CAP1 which is more like a tri-fold wallet and a little more finicky to use (requires more surface area to access all the contents). Purse-style means one hand can securely hold the pouch and the other hand can access its contents easily when you’re standing up or in tight space and don’t want to …

Do you have any long term experience on this comparison?

It looks like the MPL22 gets most of the love, but the CHZ22 just looks so much cleaner in my eyes. If it were just for looks, my mind is made up, but I’m looking for some other perspectives. Owning a CPL24, I can imagine going without a clam shell this time, but of course it cannot hurt to have it.

Thanks!

I’m looking for a rectangular, ~10 lb ruck weight that will fit in the MPL22 Kludde laptop sleeve. Ideally with the handle cutout on top rather than flipping it on it’s side. I think this may fit, but I’m not sure: https://titan.fitness/products/10-lb-ruck-weight. Anyone know of anything that’s a good fit? Thanks