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by caslon 5y ago
Yeah! I double-checked that post while writing my comment and noticed the picture was gone, myself. I'm guessing it's because he was using the Facebook CDN.
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by caslon 5y ago
It requires an Oculus account. There are ways to get a new one even now that don't require you to make a Facebook account. If you check the subreddit you'll probably be able to figure it out in about ten minutes. I make a habit
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by caslon 5y ago
To be fair, FPV equipment has always been made largely for outdoor use, hasn't it? I wouldn't be surprised if they found some way to mitigate it. The Q2 without a non-OEM facial interface isn't exactly tuned as well for outdo
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by caslon 5y ago
Some users have reported that the tracking cameras have gotten white dots in them from sun exposure, but the units that I've seen generally have a few dots in the periphery straight from the factory, so I think they're just not no
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by caslon 5y ago
> Personally it makes me feel a bit nauseous, particularly if there’s any movement (I get motion sick easily in VR but not normally in real life). My understanding is that about 20% of the population is like this and nothing is known to
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by caslon 5y ago
It's... complicated. It works, but there's a near-certain chance you'll eventually burn the display through the lenses if you do it wrong. It's the same reason you shouldn't leave any VR headset laying beside a wi
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by caslon 5y ago
The most critical thing in this piece: Get a better head-strap! He mentions it in passing in the article, but 90% of the strain from wearing the Quest 2 for extended periods of time can be traced to the garbage default head-strap. You want
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by caslon 5y ago
It doesn't matter what the underlying reason for pointing it out is, a Darwin Award is won, ultimately, by an idiot removing themselves from the gene pool, not necessarily by doing it in a funny way. And the HermanCainAward subreddit
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by caslon 5y ago
For anyone who isn't aware, it's a subreddit that takes the posts of people who brag about COVID being harmless and their lack of precautions and how they're voting against safety measures, and puts them side by side with ann
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by caslon 5y ago
The two biggest complaints I've seen: It's incredibly bug-filled. Not in the sense of, "Oh, this is crashy garbage!" like is par for the course in this space of software, but in the sense of "Wow, there are litera
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by caslon 5y ago
If you ask people who've been invited to Horizon, I don't feel like any of them would describe it as a game. It honestly couldn't even be classified as a "virtual world." Or even something as vague as "an exper
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by caslon 5y ago
Yes, you can.
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by caslon 5y ago
That was necessary to demonstrate that there was no need to falsely recall it. You could just read it. It's three lines, takes about thirty seconds to read carefully, and would have saved you the trouble of posting misinformation.
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by caslon 5y ago
It's literally three lines of actual content. It would not take you long to read it. The MIT License (MIT) Copyright © 2021 <copyright holders> Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this
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by caslon 5y ago
I know what rooting means, and I'd kindly ask that you read a comment before replying to it. I was stating that you can already make homebrew apps, and you can already use third-party, on-device app stores. I didn't say it was
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by caslon 5y ago
I mean, you can already create homebrew apps. Like, it's pretty much like any Android device. Just use adb to add any .apk you'd like.
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by caslon 5y ago
It isn't actually the only wireless headset. ByteDance has one, and I think I can recall a couple more, but I'm not sure about it. They are, however, the only company with good inside out tracking. Their competitors are pretty
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by caslon 5y ago
If you have anything other than an Nvidia GPU, ALVR works pretty well on Linux now. It's not direct support, no, but it works pretty well.
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by caslon 5y ago
If nothing else, they already don't stop you from flashing earlier versions of the Quest firmware, and some of them were actively exploitable. If there's any demand for something of that nature, I'm sure someone will figure
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by caslon 5y ago
The Rift is still usable without a Facebook account, without any particular "tricks." There's even a pretty well-documented "trick" to use the Quest 2 without one, but it would be silly to post it in a place with so
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by caslon 5y ago
Actually, it doesn't run that different of software from the Quest. The Quest is fully backwards-compatible with the Go, and Carmack has complained on multiple occasions about how they took out compatibility intentionally for the Q
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by caslon 5y ago
Solving problems for random people on StackOverflow helps them (the user, the corporation, and StackOverflow) make cash while not compensating you, and it also requires relevant knowledge and effort to communicate concisely and correctly.
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by caslon 5y ago
Unless the images are reversed, the writing would be backwards for anyone actually at the headquarters.
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by caslon 5y ago
People would have the right to download a binary from someone else who'd already compiled it. You're thinking of just having the binaries under a separate license, which isn't unheard of, but it also means that someone's
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by caslon 5y ago
It wouldn't be open-source, but there are a few companies that do something similar.
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by caslon 5y ago
For anyone curious, a hobbyist license for LispWorks is $500 for a 32-bit version that works on a single operating system , then $250 every year after that. If you actually want to release software other people can use, then it's $100
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by caslon 5y ago
It's fine to acknowledge that Firefox for anything but desktop sucks now. I do pretty often, actually: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26762431 But complaining about a problem that Mozilla's already gotten ri
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by caslon 5y ago
She left near the beginning of the year and we're nearing the end of the year.
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by caslon 5y ago
That person doesn't work at Mozilla or on free software at all anymore. It was a bad tweet, but it's past the time to reasonably hold that against Mozilla. Mozilla has a lot of problems, and it would be better to blame them for
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by caslon 5y ago
Shutting down isn't actually on the table here. In the best case, she wins. In the worst case, she goes back to her post-USSR nation that doesn't really care about international copyright law and continues to ignore internationa

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