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Veraxus

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TL;DR; Our country is fucked. SCOTUS just made the unelected, unaccountable, oligarchy of judges the top law of the land, nationwide.

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Hi Bi, I’m dad.

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Emulation worked (and still works) great when Apple switched from x86 to ARM. It can be done.

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I use mine daily… primarily as a monitor for my laptop.

Now you might think that’s dumb, but I can go sit outside in the backyard, park, beach, coffee shop, wherever and work on a big, totally private, crisp and clear, glare-free anywhere monitor. I can bring it to the in-laws or on trips and even use it as a monitor for my Steam Deck. Or I can lay in bed or on the sofa or on a lawn chair and use the Steam Link app to play games from my PC.

Taken purely as a private, portable, omni-monitor, it’s absolutely worth the price for me.

As an AR/MR/XR device, it has some MAJOR software problems. Honestly, it makes sense they’d pause hardware development… it’ll be a couple years before there’s anything worth upgrading and they have a long way to go on UX, gestures, inputs, and even basic real-time object recognition and tracking. I bought mine knowing it was a Development Kit and planning to use it to get ahead on AR development experience, but I hit major roadblocks so frequently I’ve just about given up on every interesting use-case I went into this with.

VisionOS 2 is a baby step forward, but Apple has a long, long way to go before it makes sense for regular people. Heck, they aren’t even including all the cool new AI features in VisionOS 2, and it’s the one device that could benefit from that stuff the most.

So, yeah… it can still be worth it to certain people with specific use-cases, but I think it’ll be a solid 5 years before the software and hardware can reach a “normal consumer” level of quality and value.

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Two part answer: yes and no.

Default Straps: Bad

The included straps leave all the weight at the front of your head, so you will feel neck strain as a result of the constant weight imbalance. This is a common problem with HMDs… it’s not the weight, but the fact that it’s not balanced, forcing your neck muscles to compensate. Additionally, the design relies on facial pressure to keep the HMD in place… and while the “light shield” is not uncomfortable, it’s still pressure.

Aftermarket Straps: Good

HOWEVER, we are starting to see some creative after-market solutions. I am currently using a BOBOVR M3 Mini with some 3D-printed AVP adapters. To fix the weight balance problem I put adhesive tire weights on the back as a counter-balance (same thing I did with PSVR2). With this solution, it’s infinitely more comfortable than either standard strap… no neck strain, dramatically reduced face pressure… I can go all day. You can get the 3d printed adapters on Etsy, if you’re curious.

As for the eye strain/vision: Ordinarily I need reading glasses for normal things, but on the AVP I don’t need anything. There is no eye strain and everything is crisp and sharp and clear… without any Rx inserts.

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I blocked Reddit via PiHole and configured Kagi to never show me Reddit results. When I left that cesspit, I spent a week running scripts to ensure all of my nearly 20 years worth of content was overwritten. I’m here because Reddit can DIAF.

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Historically, Debian.

Right now, openSUSE.

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Nonsense like this is why I no longer use Ubuntu (or anything else downstream of Canonical, or anything with Snaps).

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Do SiriusXM next.

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Not to rain on the parade, but as long as we allow the reality-sized hole that is non-profits owning for-profits, this isn’t something I can get terribly excited about.

Adobe's Employees Are Just As Upset at the Company As Its Users: Report (petapixel.com)

Adobe’s employees are typically of the same opinion of the company as its users, having internally already expressed concern that AI could kill the jobs of their customers. That continued this week in internal discussions, where exasperated employees implored leadership to not let it be the “evil” company customers think...

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...for now.

  • See above convo about acquisition by Canva.
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Regulatory capture go brrrrrrrrrrr.

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I do like their laptops, but for literally everything else: the fact that I basically don’t own my own hardware.

I can’t install or distribute my own software without Apple’s arbitrary approval. When Apple decides it’s done supporting the products, I can’t even install a different OS like Linux because the hardware is completely locked down… they become paper-weights.

That is not how ownership is supposed to work.

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Same. We got a super limited deal well over a decade ago that they ran for a single Christmas. While our bill has gone up ever so slightly in that time, the extra cost is all due to misc “fees” rather than the base rate, according to the bills.

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That explains the Pi 5 pricing. They started the enshittification early.

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I think they’re playing the same game OpenAI is. Nonprofits can “own” for-profits.

No, it’s not rational or ethical or reasonable, but it’s a thing, because Capitalism gotta Capitalism.

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That they would/could access my work for any reason whatsoever… that they even have that ability, that’s not just a line in the sand for me, it’s the Grand Canyon. I expect any kind of cloud storage to be private and protected (e.g. encrypted at rest)… no back doors, no exceptions.

This is beyond the pale, and AI was never part of the concern.

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It’s really good these days. Kagi is still the beat, but if you want free, DDG is the way to go.

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Microsoft wants to lock up business dollars while the AI feeding frenzy is still fresh.

They do not care about any other markets or segments, which is why their products are getting so bad so fast for literally everyone else.

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You're not wrong. We've reached a point, technologically, where there is little-to-no true innovation left... and what I mean by that is that everything is now built on incredible amounts of work by others who came before. "Standing on the shoulders of giants", as it were. And yet we have a corrupt "patent" system that is exclusively used to steal the work of those giants while at the same time depriving all of humanity of true progress. And why? So that a handful of very rich people can get even more rich.

Veraxus ,

Kbin was my entry into the fediverse after the Great Reddit Enshittifying and Great Reddit Exodus.

But progress stalled and the site itself started to fall apart, so I moved over to lemmy.world.

RIP Kbin. 😔

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Is that project going to maintain Manifest V2 support?

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I thought that was the normal spelling of “capitalist.” 😉

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Stop stealing my brainwaves!!!

But you are correct, nonetheless.

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How about the whole “sure you already paid for a year of Prime Video, but now you need to pay us again or we’re going to ruin the thing you already paid for” situation?

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What a boring dystopia we live in.

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Yep. I will happily contribute to something with community ownership that I believe in. I will not, under any circumstances, provide free labor to a private entity.

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Google’s unbelievably incompetent AI or the “info”?

Because the info is wrong, but this is an actual screenshot of the outrageously stupid (and frequently dangerous) stuff that Gemini says.

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Affinity really needs to start making official Linux ports. It’ll work in Wine, but is a bit janky.

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Oh fuck. I didn’t realize they’d been bought… let alone by another god-forsaken cloud-subscription-based business model.

Affinity is as good as dead.

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Debian + KDE Plasma

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Fair. In that case I’d recommend openSUSE.

I try to avoid things with Red Hat or Canonical stink on it (which is why Kubuntu and Fedora are out)… and it’s more friendly than something more barebones like Arch.

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Thank goodness. Such a useless technology.

Scratch that... it's not useless, because it's great for scams and fraud. It's actively harmful.

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Well, that's just great. Another reason for corporations to force everyone into the miserable, counterproductive dumpster fire that is MS Teams.

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The customer is never just a customer... even if you are paying. You are always the product now. Always.

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No, but it's the only one that big corporations know/care about... primarily because of MS's aggressive "look, it's basically free and TOTALLY the same thing, we promise" marketing strategy.

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Not just dirty… the temple was meticulously maintained, so that “dust” was myrrh, which was used as incense day and night. Not surprisingly, myrrh can cause miscarriage when taken orally.

So what the scripture actually says is “If the husband is jealous, try to induce a miscarriage. If it doesn’t work, well, then it’s God’s will.”

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I don’t consider myself Christian purely because of the word’s connotation, but I am absolutely on board with everything Yeshua taught… including full-blown pre-Marx communism.

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Became? Always was… even at the end of WW2. Albert Einstein, who was Ashkenazi Jewish himself, even opposed it. Taking away a native populace’s land and giving it over to outsiders has always been, and always will be, controversial.

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so which are you choosing?

I think most people will choose what they can actually afford. The fact that things cost so much and people aren't being paid anywhere near enough to compensate for the skyrocketing price of consumer goods, including vehicles.

Whatever the reasons, there is a very serious and dangerous disconnect between the prices of American goods and the spending power of the average American. Unless we do something about that - and I do not mean short-sighted, punitive, protectionist measures like tariffs - China is going to drink our milkshake.

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The international buzz right now is that they are legitimately very good.

https://www.theautopian.com/i-drove-a-bunch-of-chinese-cars-and-they-are-amazing-how-china-learned-to-build-better-cars-while-the-west-was-sleeping/

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Until the US government doubles the price to protect our own garbage auto industry.

Though maybe if they take that money and funnel it into subsidies for own promising upstarts like Rivian and Aptera... but no, that would mean our corrupt officials wouldn't be able to plunder it for own big donors. What was I thinking?

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On the up-side, I can cancel subscriptions whenever I want and only subscribe to one or two at a time when they have something I want to watch. I could never do that with cable.

That said, pricing is getting way out of control. I will not tolerate ads and we're getting to the point where purchasing content makes more financial sense than subscribing to things that load you up with caveats unless you pay premiums.

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Unfortunately, you are absolutely right. 😞

And also, even when it is... it's "buying" (with quotes), because in this brave new digital world... you don't actually own anything you "buy".

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TL;DR; “AI bad, they made some
t-shirts, and the owner says some stupid crap sometimes.” 🙄

As long as the results remain the best and they don’t screw me over, I’m happy to keep paying for them.

But lets be honest, even Duck Duck Go is better than Google these days. It’s fine if folks don’t want to pay for search, but you’ll have a better experience avoiding Google, either way.

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You know, pairing an LLM with Playright is actually a pretty great idea. But that's something I can totally roll on my own.

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Does lemmy have any communities for unintentional "yo mamma" jokes?

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I'd say literally any distro other than Ubuntu.

I even avoid downstream distros now.

I've mostly settled comfortably on Debian due to it's stability. Nothing whatsoever against Arch, though.

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