I want it to be a successful product, that I can buy, and will be supported for a useful number of years. $800-1200 feels OK for that. $2000 feels like Apple Vision territory.
Jesus, man: haven’t you ever been excited about a thing before it’s on shelves? Speculated about a sports game before it’s over? Talking about your anticipation is part of the fun.
The ring of an eyebolt that used to hold the jackstay to Star of India’s main topgallant yard. Rusted through where water used to pool at the yard. I spent about a year, in 4-hour blocks, painting the main mast from top to bottom as a kid, and I can’t imagine a better way to experience San Diego bay.
Definitely. Of all the VR I’ve done, Alyx still stands out as the best - realistic graphics, interactive objects, puzzles that actually use the VR controls, great environments. It was what finally convinced me to get a VR system, and to get Index instead of FacebookVR.
It’s like 15 hour game with limited replayability. Some of the mods are pretty good, but also short. If Valve had a ‘loss leader’ introducing VR, it was Alyx, not the Index itself - supposedly cost $50M to develop. I was really hoping that there would be other studios follow Alyx’s example, but we come back to that conflict between relatively short gaming sessions and a big, immersive (expensive) experience. If the studios don’t think there’s demand to cover a 9 figure development budget, then they’re not going to make big, story-driven experiences, and the market will have mostly episodic activity-driven games, multiplayer arenas, and flight simulators.
The VR games I keep going back to all have that same kind of ‘workout’ vibe: lot of activity; short, episodic play. I think that conflict - short play sessions vs expensive gear - is one of the reasons VR is still a niche market. It’s like geek Peloton, but that also keeps devs from building the big, story-rich games that get media attention and get people excited to play. I don’t think anyone wants an Elden Ring or a Silksong like experience in VR. Beat Saber, Gorn, Gorilla Tag are great uses of the platform, but it’s hard to convince someone to drop $1000 for ‘fancy fruit ninja.’
I use the Valve Index with my glasses just fine. Probably depends on the specific anatomy of your face and geometry of your lenses. There’s also a bunch of options for prescription lenses for (at least some) headsets.
For me, the limitation of VR is the actual physical effort - standing, limited movement, swinging your arms - a couple hours of that, especially on a warm summer day, is just about enough. It’s far easier to lounge in a chair clicking buttons on a controller for hours. Like, Skyrim VR is amazing as an experience, but I just can’t get into it the same way as Skyrim flatscreen.
It looks like he’s split out the individual USB wires, run the power to the USB port, and the signal wires to different places on the exposed board, maybe to force fast mode in the charger. Then just buried everything in silicone for insulation and to keep wires from pulling loose.
legit places…
My university, 23andMe, Transunion, Equifax, CapitalOne, United Healthcare…
That girl can rant. Love her work, but always watch it at 2x to maximize the frustrated-teacher vibe.
Would you allow the converse: FoF to store data on your system? Data that could be CSAM - maybe encrypted, maybe not - ‘terrorism’ content, etc?
My problem with chains of trust is the Kevin Bacon problem. Sure, I trust my friends, but some of their friends can be a little sketchy. Plus, they don’t have any direct social contact with me, nor any personal consequences for betrayal. And nevermind the sketchy friends of the sketchy friends.
Federation has its uses, but trust is not one of them.
There’s twice as many non-collision accidents as all the collision categories combined. People just wiping out, which definitely sounds like too fast for the turn, showboating, etc. Not that women can’t do all that - it just feels like much more stereotypically male behavior.
General slip-and-fall doesn’t seem like it would be highly gendered. Do you find pool injuries are overwhelmingly one sex?
So, the US GDP is about $30T. Walmart revenue is about $700B, or 2.3% of GDP. Amazon, 2.1%. United Healthcare, 1.3%. Roughly one out of every 20 dollars spent in the US goes to Walmart or Amazon. That’s kind of terrifying.
This one, though, I know it’s going to. And then you can plane all the evidence back off, if you want, like a trip to the power washer.
In contrast to the housing bubble, where a lot of the value was in overpriced houses sold to individuals, this overpricing is almost entirely in tech stocks, and tech stocks are almost entirely owned by by the wealthiest 10%, even 1%. The tech billionaires have limited ability to divest themselves of their own overpriced companies and absolutely will lose money.
None of them are going bankrupt, they’ll all be just fine when the market recovers in a few years, because that’s the nature of capitalism. A bunch of peons, who convinced themselves that the bubble-value of their 401k meant it was safe to retire, will suffer, will have to go back to work - if you’re not an oligarch, losing money is painful.
That value could be dispensed fairly to workers. Jeff Bezos essentially gets paid in AMZN stock, and there’s no reason that stock could not be dispensed to workers just the same. 10, 100, 1000 shares to each of the 1M employees, every year. The fact that Bezos and his fellow capitalists have kept all of the business value to themselves and not shared it with their workers is how they have hoarded/stolen the value of their employees’ labor.
Rich and comfortable are definitely not synonyms. Rich is a relative descriptor that basically means to have more than other people, so obviously, we can’t all be rich. Comfortable is a state descriptor - shelter, food & clothing needs met, children provided for, time and resources for relaxation - everyone can have that.
Personally, I try to avoid wifi devices, because they tend to communicate through a central server, and it’s harder to be sure they aren’t secretly phoning home. Zigbee and Zwave intrinsically lack internet connectivity, so they are necessarily local-first. My network is Zwave - no experience with zigbee - and it’s been great. Devices all have a little QR code that you can scan to add the device to HA, whenever the device gets powered up. Good range of available devices, from switches & lights to environmental sensors. Most of my devices are Minoston or Zooz, bought from their websites; haven’t had any trouble. Honeywell thermostat. Aeotec outdoor thermometer.
I run HA in a container on an RPi, and I have some sensors running off the Pi’s GPIO. Actually started with the GPIO sensors and only got HA running because its visualizations looked easy. Those sensors include temperature, CO2 and airborne particulates.
Copyright line only mentions 2014, so I’m guessing it’s 10 years old and only BIOS.
Got a https://www.amazon.com/Vollrath-Carbon-Steel-Fry-Pan/dp/B001TA773I to use on my induction. Seasons very much like ground cast iron, seems to sear and brown much better than my stainless (and far better than nonstick). It’s basically a stamped steel sheet, mill texture, smooth but not mirror. I don’t use the stainless anymore. The bottom of the specific pan I got is not flat, but slightly domed, so there’s always a dry spot in the middle with a ring of oil around the edges, which isn’t great, but I was shocked how noticeably different from stainless it behaved. It’s a hot, flat surface: what else is there?