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by moolcool 4y ago
All I'm saying is that it's not a coincidence that Adobe Acrobat and Dropbox are the top-billed apps for Meta Quest Pro
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by moolcool 4y ago
> But… Maybe just maybe they pull this off It would be bad if they pull it off. I dread the day draconian call center employers make their workers put on headsets and track their eye movements for 8 hours a day, all while charging them f
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by moolcool 4y ago
I think many cities will be caught off guard by how much cheap lithium-ion batteries are going to revolutionize transport in the next decade
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by moolcool 4y ago
Daria did this for the DVD releases
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by moolcool 4y ago
Yes, but that doesn't stop it from sucking. Also, they can do it with streaming media, but they can't come to my house and replace my DVDs. Just because it's technically correct, doesn't mean that it's not a bullshi
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by moolcool 4y ago
The future promised by the Windows XP era was so optimistic. Multimedia editing was truly becoming mainstream and democratized, and the future for independently created media was bright. "If this is what iMovie and Windows Movie Maker
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by moolcool 4y ago
You're right, but that doesn't stop it from sucking. Like every defense of Adobe and Pantone here are technically correct and rational, but that doesn't stop this from being a stupid problem which is deeply unfair to the cons
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by moolcool 4y ago
The comments here seem to be mostly litigating whether Pantone ought to be allowed to license colour names. To me though, the scandalous thing about this is that a piece of software which you paid for can work fine one day can stop function
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by moolcool 4y ago
> MS absolutely has the authority to copy, use, and even train their models on your GPL-license code, because you agreed to let them do that when you signed their EULA when you decided to host your code on GitHub. What about GPL code whi
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by moolcool 4y ago
I hate how Apple is becoming increasingly an advertising company.
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by moolcool 4y ago
If you don't think Apple had the same thoughts OP did during the design process, you don't know Apple.
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by moolcool 4y ago
I will die on the hill that PalmOS was primarily a marketing failure. They were always primarily thought of basic personal organizer devices, but the Palm Tungsten and Zire lines (Starting around 2003) had very strong multimedia and gaming
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by moolcool 4y ago
He dumps on the technology constantly in the video. I don't think any PM is happy watching this lol.
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by moolcool 4y ago
Embrace, extend, extinguish
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by moolcool 4y ago
Surveillance is the big one, I think. Speak to anyone who has worked at a call center. They track you like crazy, and keep every metric imaginable. Imagine how much worse it would be if they were enabled to literally track your eye movement
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by moolcool 4y ago
You can buy a phone that isn't powered by iOS or Android too, but you probably won't.
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by moolcool 4y ago
Not to be snarky, but this response feels like a very privileged perspective on the notion of consumer choice. Yes, you can "take it off whenever you want", but if you are in dire financial straits, and your employer makes you wea
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by moolcool 4y ago
Why? Because your virtual monitors will exist in Meta's dogshit virtual survaillence world.
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by moolcool 4y ago
No beatsaber allowed on company hardware until you finish taking 10 hours of calls in your virtual cubicle
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by moolcool 4y ago
Why is it that all news, including tech news, just fills me with endless dread nowadays? I surely can't be the only one who feels like this. Like what do we have to look forward to in the event that we don't have to face a depress
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by moolcool 4y ago
"By the end of this decade we're going to replace our workstations on our desks with a VR setup" Thanks, I hate it.
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by moolcool 4y ago
$2300 CAD*
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by moolcool 4y ago
You're looking at it from the perspective of a higher-end knowledge worker. $1500 to strap a 1984-esque telescreen on your call center employee and have them work from home instead of a cubicle would save a bundle.
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by moolcool 4y ago
This is what I've been worried about too. Meta isn't betting the farm on a shitty Second Life ripoff because they think consumers will want it. I think they're doing it because the end users are going to be low-level work fro
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by moolcool 4y ago
Imagine getting a job at a call center, but it's work from home. Unfortunately though, your work requires you to be present in the "metaverse", meaning you have to wear stupid goggles that allow your employer and Meta to cont
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by moolcool 4y ago
$2300 and their top-billed "experiences" are Adobe Acrobat, Dropbox, and LastPass.
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by moolcool 4y ago
I'm a software engineer, and for me gsuite is great-- more than enough. I think accountants will really miss excel though.
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by moolcool 4y ago
Pleased and surprised to see a Chesterton quote here!
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by moolcool 4y ago
> Insanely easy to believe. The role of UPS is to prevent data loss when power fails. If something is powered by USB-C it almost always already have its own battery preventing from that. That's a moot point though, IMO. Like if you&
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by moolcool 4y ago
The video referenced by this article is fantastic, well worth the watch.

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