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by kj99 3y ago
Because you own NFTs, you are now incentivized to talk up NFTs, which have zero fundamental value.
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by kj99 3y ago
Vox also tried too hard to stick to a coherent narrative that fit their own political outlook, which is normal for journalism but I think falls apart even more quickly when you try to provide context over time.
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by kj99 3y ago
I think this is a take that gets missed a lot. Reportedly, they can only make 1 million of them this year. Apple has close to a billion customers. It only has to be useful for 0.1% of them at this stage. It’s certainly good enough for tha
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by kj99 3y ago
I don’t think it works like this - the current AVP is incredible, but I can’t think of a single friend who I’d actually recommend it to. I’ve demoed it to (regular non-tech) people over FaceTime, and they are completely blown away by it. I
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by kj99 3y ago
It’s not a gaming headset. For this, Quest 3 is a better choice.
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by kj99 3y ago
Irreverent and accurate. Not a bad take. It’s pretty obviously true that we don’t know what how the use of this device is going to unfold, and they lightly make fun of that fact without being unduly cynical.
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by kj99 3y ago
Right - so 2560 x 1440 is the default for a 5K studio display or old 5K iMac. 1920 x 1080 is the default in MacOS for a physical 4K monitor. Note that these numbers are half the actual pixel count in each dimension because MacOS defaults t
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by kj99 3y ago
Hasn't it? Are you head of a consumer sentiment research company with access to an unpublished report?
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by kj99 3y ago
Do you hear yourself? There’s nothing ‘vengeful’ about not trusting a news outlet that has lost its objectivity. As for the rest of your comment - the logic simply doesn’t follow unless you believe axiomatically that the NYT is trustworthy
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by kj99 3y ago
Maybe - although I watched that one and was ok.
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by kj99 3y ago
No because the review is a dishonest hit piece. I’m super sensitive to nausea in VR to the point that I’ve had to drop out of an interview process to work in the space in the past. Not one other reviewer has mentioned nausea, and I’ve been
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by kj99 3y ago
What a hit piece. He’s absurdly negative right from the beginning. I guess we can see why Apple declined to provide them an early review unit. The device is not perfect, but this ‘review’ borders on absolute bullshit. Harping on about ‘vi
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by kj99 3y ago
Why not just buy a Mac? It really does sound ridiculous to ‘justify’ the price this way.
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by kj99 3y ago
Are you using it at 4K, or in downscaled 5K (which I agree is disappointing)?
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by kj99 3y ago
The 3GS was light years better than the original iPhone, and by that time it had things like actual GPS, the App Store, and usable mobile data. The original iPhone was seriously limited. Ironically many of the things you are identifying ab
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by kj99 3y ago
It is for me. However it wasn't in its default configuration, where it was actually downscaling a 5K display to 4K. When I changed the display settings on the Mac to actually 4K it got a lot clearer. Not sure why the huge screen is r
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by kj99 3y ago
2+ hours, yes. My sessions with it have been 2-3 hours, with short breaks for bathroom, refreshments, etc. within that session, and a longer break between sessions. A couple of 2-3 hour sessions in a day is reasonable (and I've done i
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by kj99 3y ago
The article was written last year.
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by kj99 3y ago
The scenario here is that people are believing this article, which is simply incorrect.
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by kj99 3y ago
And yet he's just wrong. AVP does do a good job of mirroring a single 4K display. It doesn't do any more than that, not multiple displays, and although it will do a 5K display, it doesn't do it well. However for the one th
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by kj99 3y ago
Doesn't seem as though he's produced any new material since receiving it.
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by kj99 3y ago
Ah - fair enough. It sounded like it was one of the reasons he was interested in it. Agreed - lots of pros. Not sure 'cons' is the right word, since there is no competing product, but I wouldn't recommend it to just anyone.
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by kj99 3y ago
I'm not sure why you'd draw that conclusion. I overheard a random group of people talking it at the dog park yesterday morning. Then I had breakfast with a friend today who isn't in tech at all, who does corporate conflict
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by kj99 3y ago
True - I just found it surprising that someone bought it and was then disappointed that it didn't do something that was never suggested it would do.
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by kj99 3y ago
They may not have been the first in the category, but those products were arguably a generation behind what apple introduced. Fitbit in particular was like comparing a flip phone to an iPhone.
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by kj99 3y ago
The Apple Watch was 2 years behind other smartwatches? How so?
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by kj99 3y ago
Yeah. It’s weird. Even the analysis of passthrough is so off. If I look out of my window with AVP on, it’s obvious that I’m looking at a comparatively low res screen, but if I look at digital content, passthrough seems perfect because it’
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by kj99 3y ago
Blink works great. Not as a local terminal, but it’s very good for remote shells.
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by kj99 3y ago
Apple only ever promised it would mirror one 4K display. They announced that clearly when they introduced it. It does that as well as the promised, but nothing more.
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by kj99 3y ago
“friend of iFixit Karl Guttag has a blog post explaining why using the Vision Pro as a replacement for a good monitor is “ridiculous.” … This, says Karl, makes for a virtual Mac display with low enough PPD to see individual pixels—not quite

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