Logistically, it’s super cheap marketing. Epic pays the dev a reasonable pittance ( assuming it’s not a free game, they do that too) you got to watch their ads during download/install, they got you email, they know what games you’re interested in. Your interests are for sale for sure, but for a free game, may be worth a throw away email.

The Index and the Quest are entirely different things.

The index is a monitor with sensors attached to it.

The Quest is a proprietary PC with an ecosystem, DRM and billion dollar company backing.

Rooting isn’t open source They don’t have anything to do with each other other than the fact that you don’t need to root open source devices. They lock us out of root because they don’t want us to control our own devices, They want us to use their stores, they’re walled gardens, and their support for everything which is very un-open source.

My point behind touting an open source mobile VR device would be that it would not need to be rooted.

I looked at the hardware you mentioned and while the open stuff looks very nice it looks very not available for anyone to purchase. Do you expect any of that hardware to be more available soon?

We’re a decade too early for open source vr.

That’s not a VR headset, You bought an expensive Facebook paperweight.

Same, We do more than groceries though, It’s kind of fun anybody that needs anything just pops it in there

Yes, and yes. But most of it’s because I’ve moved all communication over to it.

If I have anything that shouldn’t stick around it doesn’t stick around, If I need my grocery list from last month it’s there though.

That said, I really don’t have any interest in backups. It’s an ephemeral stream at best that is there when I need it. And there are parts of it disappear when they’re no longer needed.

The days where we presumed we could safely bitch about things to our friends over social media are clearly gone and privacy is of ultimate importance.

Pretend it’s 1984, and you won’t get yourself in trouble.

Anyone that has used rednote for more than 5 minutes knows that the Chinese people are actually pretty cool and welcoming and friendly to foreigners on their app.

And they also know for absolute fucking sure that the Chinese government has an absolute strangle hold on all the information that goes through there and your post about anything that shuts a negative light on the government would be immediately removed.

Of course, US social media companies are starting to act the same way about anything that’s not maga agenda. Shit’s getting censored right left and left as violent, while there are no limits on the amount of anti-gay, anti-gaza, anti-trans, anti-minority hatespeech.

If you don’t enter your password you are deemed suspicious. They’ll just put you in detention for a while to see if you’re a danger. Maybe the holding cells get full and they ship you off maybe you just sit there for a few weeks.

They don’t seem to give a fuck about what they’re allowed or not allowed to do this year.

Travel with a burner phone.

lol

I would, but they’d probably recommend her a good lawyer.

edit: even worse, I look at the fucking stuff and go ohh fuck that’s nice! Wait, I don’t want that… but wow, and it’s cheap too…

You know, you and Black Mirror are laughing, But my wife sends me links to products off TikTok all the fucking time and I’m not even on TikTok.

If you were going to pay, the one-time $119 sub is the only thing that makes sense.

Historically, I’ve never been sad about a lifetime software purchase. That said, none of them continued to work unchanged for a lifetime, but I’ve always felt I’ve gotten my money out of them.

In the end, everyone eventually enshitifies their product to make more money.

Playon stopped supporting their old model which just stopped working slowly over the following year as streaming companies changed their tech, while their “new product” which only had monthly fees kept working. I used it for enough years it ended up being something like $2 a month.

Plex nixed their plugins, then screwed over their offline viewing and offline sharing, then their watch together. My original lifetime was somewhere around $70 and I’ve used them for 15 years, that’s $4.60 a year :)

If it was propely implemented and didn’t get hacked

If it was properly researched and approved by DoD and used on authorized, secure devices which were running on secured networks, it would be fine.

The baseline for security has been pretty decent for years. It’s painfully restrictive which is why they’re chomping at the bit to make it easier, but just slamming a corporate product into use with secret data with no oversight has never been fine even if it was secure.

Breaks their TOS. My work forever, might get you shut down.

It’s just some circle of life stuff, fertilizer, carbon dioxide, light in, The algae produces more algae. It loads up on a bunch of carbon, some of the bloom dies off, by removing it, you take the carbon with it along with some of the fertilizer components. You add a little more fertilizer in and the algae blooms more and sucks up more carbon dioxide.

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Precisely, the worst thing that happens is jellyfin pulls open source or stops getting updates, At which point someone forks it and the next generation picks up the ball and we keep going.

If it’s open source, and it’s interesting and useful it will be maintained.

Playon, Evernote, Lastpass, there have been plenty of examples.

Whenever a company starts charging for previously free features, it’s time to GTFO, even if you’re on their pay side.

I’ve got lifetime Plexpass, but I can read the writing on the wall. It’s only a matter of time before they enshittify my product or stop providing updates. They’ll sunset Plex and start Plex+ or some shit, give em a year or so.

Get your Jellyfin installed and working, they can work beside each other. Tailscale if it’s just you, reverse proxy if you have the fam on in.

Dicey proposition, some mid and older genX grew up before home computers were commonplace.

When I was in my tweens, only really affluent people had computers. Schools had one single computer in a classroom or maybe a couple in a lab, and almost no one was computer literate.

It’s only difficult when you’re first figuring it out. Once you do, it’s not a big deal.

I’ve been using Photoshop and Gimp a lot over the last decade. There are a few things I like better in Photoshop and nothing I really like more in Gimp, but they’re both absolutely serviceable.

I wish content-aware patch came by default in Gimp and I wish Gimp had more user-friendly macroing, but if I’m drawing circles in my photo editor, my first thought is why the hell am I not using a vector editor.

Ansible if you want to do it the right way.

Or keep all of your configs in one tree and use syncthing on it If you want to phone it in. Turn on versioning call it a night.