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by smoldesu 3y ago
It's a bit silly to pretend like the Vision Pro was destined for surgeons and rocket scientists. We did the same cat-and-mouse routine chasing down real-world workflows in Windows Mixed Reality, and the US Army was the only organizatio
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by smoldesu 3y ago
To be fair, Linux is the backbone of the entire Quest lineup. If it was a limiting factor then I don't see why Oculus was so quick to market.
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by smoldesu 3y ago
There's ample room to criticize either OS, and given the opportunity I'd avoid either both. Nobody I've ever met will unilaterally defend stock MacOS. You criticize Spotlight, they say "buy Raycast!" You mope about
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by smoldesu 3y ago
Surprised to see a focus on companies like OpenAI, Google and Apple but nothing on Nvidia. They're the king, they run the market, they decide who does what and where they do it at. Nobody but Nvidia was invested in an HPC stack that ex
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by smoldesu 3y ago
> There are no open-standards for this VR road There's a few, actually. WebXR is supported by Safari but coverage is supposedly really weak: https://www.roadtovr.com/apple-vision-pro-webxr-support-safa... There&#x27
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by smoldesu 3y ago
> The whole thing takes 13GB to download You're one of the lucky ones, eh?
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by smoldesu 3y ago
> Which sucks for most devs but it's part of being the coolest. What if we determine that the "coolness" motivation is a scapegoat for anticompetitive behavior? AT&T could have argued the same thing but I'm not su
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IFixit: Vision Pro Teardown [video](youtube.com)
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by smoldesu 3y ago
> incorrect to argue that Apple being "walled garden" is causing Apple to take more from devs than other places devs can market their wares. I thought you just said that Steam was on an open platform that doesn't choose ho
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by smoldesu 3y ago
Because all first-world citizens are effectively targets of state surveillance? The narcissistic "but I'M a target" shtick is pretty funny, but I'd wager you're just as foolish if you think those people "pret
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by smoldesu 3y ago
Interesting, thanks for calling that out. Hopefully Apple will adopt this on iPhone and finally bring us sweet, sweet expandable storage!
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by smoldesu 3y ago
Granted, the pluggy-end of a battery is a pretty benign place to put it. Apple probably has warehouses full of these connectors that need somewhere to go now that OEMs won't pay to license it. Dropping it in a battery is sorta annoying
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by smoldesu 3y ago
> Involuntarily, my eyes welled up a little — I had experienced something beautiful. And that it was made possible by technology and a computer. For that one brief moment, I felt not the power of technology, but its joy. How much $AAPL y
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by smoldesu 3y ago
More or less precedented than notification surveillance? As far as I can tell this is no different from how the rest of the world (US included) operates.
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by smoldesu 3y ago
I don't think the parent wants to eat their cake and have it too; they're torn between having the credentials or abandoning them because it's embarassing. And who can blame them? I've never said the words "Y Combina
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by smoldesu 3y ago
The original Oculus Quest was pretty much that. Granted, they had an unrealistic amount of talent on their side and a decent history taking stabs at the whole "consumer VR" thing. But I mean, look at it - the first Quest was $300-
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by smoldesu 3y ago
They threatened doing it before: > It was rumored in February that Apple may be planning to limit charging speeds and other functionality of USB-C cables that are not certified under its "Made for iPhone" program. […] In respon
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by smoldesu 3y ago
"Why are you booing him, he's right?" https://youtu.be/75GaqVWqEXU Multinational companies exist insofar as we can agree politically. When we prioritize the economy, we create insane double-standards that enc
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by smoldesu 3y ago
> i'm looking at $970/mo on AWS for the equivalent compute of my 16gb macbook Why do I feel like saying the word "Nvidia" would start a shouting match with this guy?
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by smoldesu 3y ago
If you think your government is a cult, then move. Unless you live in an actual cult, nobody will stop you from leaving.
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by smoldesu 3y ago
It's not like the corporations were well-poised to offer us privacy in the first place. Apple complies with thousands of warrantless requests for data every year, them being mad at government surveillance only makes sense as a marketin
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by smoldesu 3y ago
If martians had built anything cool there we would have known by now. It's just not very likely there's much interesting up there unless you're interested in the little things.
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by smoldesu 3y ago
Just a fun anecdote I like telling, nothing against the company (or my ex =)) FWIW I also had consistent trouble with my debit account when traveling. After hearing all the perks I was expecting a concierge to materialize tableside with a f
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by smoldesu 3y ago
> AMEX's legendary customer-friendliness My ex once pulled out his AMEX Gold card at dinner and regaled me on every perk and detail of the program. After that he spent 30 minutes on the phone trying to verify his identity, since the
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by smoldesu 3y ago
In fairness, before Nitter (or even Musk) there was a highly inconsistent guest browsing policy on Twitter. One week you could read entire threads without logging in, the next week every inbound link would redirect to the registration pag
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by smoldesu 3y ago
Maybe this is a good moment to reconsider the acceptance of X links on HN. If users without accounts have no way to read the content, why redirect people there en-masse?
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by smoldesu 3y ago
> Developers absolutely do not have to develop for iOS. Europe absolutely does not have to sell iPhones.
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by smoldesu 3y ago
It's Europe's market. They don't run the world, so why should Apple object to their standards? There are plenty of alternatives. You and many other people saying the same things are ignoring the benefits of international busi
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by smoldesu 3y ago
My response was wholly based on my own observations. My mom sends me stuff from online all the time, I've watched family members and friends install emulators and YouTube alternatives like it was riding a bike. I'm very sorry if y
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by smoldesu 3y ago
So, what's the substitute for native apps or third-party browser engines? A webapp? This exact line of logic is why we have arrived at legislation like the Digital Market Act. Apple goes out of their way to ensure reasonable substitute

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