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by account42 1mo ago
What makes that way more correct than comparing the actual final total someone pays in the US vs what someone pays in AU?
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by account42 1mo ago
The Index was an OK device back when it came out. It's far from fantastic technology now.
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by account42 1mo ago
> I think Valve’s plan is that some of their engineers wanted to make the device. That was the plan. I don't buy that Valve is actually that much of an adult daycare center as you imply. Their past projects haven't just been wh
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by account42 1mo ago
They do sell to over 50% (based on purchasing power) of the market for high end tech gadgets though. Selling a physical product around the world isn't that easy and they can't just ship there without ignoring regulations since the
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by account42 1mo ago
Does Valve collect that data or the owner of the device?
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by account42 1mo ago
That's not the whole ecosystem though. Past efforts from Valve & partners did not produce any killer app either.
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by account42 1mo ago
A charitable reading would be that gp is talking about products from Facebook where they have the technological ability to abuse you in whatever way they want, and not open source projects that they happen to have had some involvement in
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by account42 1mo ago
It's so weird to me that people would even consider buying a device from Facebook of all companies.
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by account42 1mo ago
Balance is only one thing, total weight still matters very much.
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by account42 1mo ago
The onboard processing costs a whole lot more than a PC you already have.
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by account42 1mo ago
Even with some compute on board you could save most of the additional weight by making it tethered.
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by account42 1mo ago
The Index is almost a decade old and has pretty crappy screens compared to what they could use today.
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by account42 1mo ago
But as gp correctly points out, with ARM there tend to be additional technical challenges for that compared to your normal PC even if Valve does nothing to intentionally lock it down.
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by account42 1mo ago
Same here. It was so weird to see all these VR developers claiming you can't have smooth locomotion when that works so much better for me than disorienting teleports where my brain has to rebuilt my frame of reference from scratch ever
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by account42 1mo ago
I think without the VR-bait parts like the starting room I would consider it to be the worst Half-Life game. There were some people trying to make it run without VR but I don't remember how far they got.
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by account42 1mo ago
It doesn't just crash Mesa but freeze the entire GPU last I tried. Kinda surprised that Valve has cared so little to fix this considering how much effort they have been putting in those drivers and into the game in the first place.
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by account42 1mo ago
I can confirm that all the flights I have been on this year we were told not to use power banks. You can have one with you (well you have to since you're not allowed to check large lithium ion batteries) but you aren't allowed to
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by account42 1mo ago
It's also become a whole lot more hostile to anonymous visitors, hence the topic under discussion. That's not just narrative but a fact.
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by account42 1mo ago
Technical competence can be acquired as needed. Or more likely the other way around, the government creates an entity that provides this competence to other government entities.
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by account42 1mo ago
ISPs and infrastructure in the Internet are generally considered common carriers unlike social media platform who can do whatever they want. I don't understand why you think this would be hard to define at all.
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by account42 1mo ago
> What's missing is something the same for any and all official messaging - imagine something like Twitter, but for governments, various institutions, politicians, public figues and all that, a degree more separated from the regular
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by account42 1mo ago
> Shops, cinemas, B2B consultancies etc generally make money by selling something people want. There are plenty of dark patterns and enshittification in all of these as well. Tech is just way ahead of the curve but the rest isn't in
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by account42 1mo ago
Companies also have to stay within the bounds determined by the rest of our society. For example just dumping your waste in the next river is more profitable than disposing it responsibly but its bad for everyone so we don't let compan
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by account42 1mo ago
> you dont have to consume its content That's the issue though, it's not Twitter's "content" and I'm not trying to "consume" it. I want to be able to read and see what others including public offic
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by account42 1mo ago
It's usury that's the root of this evil. Always has been. Whether it's private equity or public shareholders, when you have someone getting more and more money for simply putting in money then that value has to be extracted f
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by account42 1mo ago
It used to be that when your house is the size of a city or even country that it isn't just your house anymore and you don't get to set the rules on your own. When a platform becomes big enough it should be treated more like a uti
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by account42 1mo ago
The "content" in twitter largely isn't monetized, only the platform profits via rent seeking on other people's writings.
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by account42 1mo ago
You don't have to make it your business model to sell people's attention to those wanting to manipulate them.
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by account42 1mo ago
And bullying the little guys also harms their brand image, or at least should.
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by account42 1mo ago
No, the way we as a society react informs what laws should exist, not the other way around.

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