GlitterInfection @ GlitterInfection @lemmy.world

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I know this is a community designed to give us a place to hate on Apple and all of it's products, but I love the Vision Pro.

Ironically I use it the most for porn consumption. It's fantastic for 2D porn viewing of all kinds.

I can't wait until someone makes Apple Immersive Video quality porn. That experience would make this headset suddenly affordable to a lot of guys out there.

Nobody buys Apple products, they're too expensive!

Also:

Apple has a monopoly!

This petition is worded in such a way that it almost feels like lying.

Most games that shut down aren't doing so because they had an arbitrary ping home that breaks them, it's because hosting servers is fundamentally part of the game's multiplayer-oriented experience.

You're trying to use the former to backdoor in a way to force the latter to give you all of its server code.

Assuming this law were to go forward with even the most rigorous knowledge of the problem-space, and an intentional push to require multiplayer or server-based games to give you their server code after the game is shut down, all that will do is increase the risk involved in creating any multiplayer games.

Most likely this will reduce the quality and variety of games that get created going forward, which would ironically make preservation much easier.

This is absolutely right. It's reductive of me to say that recycling is bad for the environment; intentionally reductive.

People generally have a very hard time absorbing the fact that plastic recycling is a scam, so it's hard to start nuanced to actually get the point across.

But you definitely nailed it. I would argue that if it was reduce, reuse, revolt, the environment would be in a much better place.

Recycling was actively brought forward as a solution by the oil companies to push the blame of plastic use onto consumers.

So while recycling rare metals is always valuable, plastic is definitely not. Almost all plastic gets buried in landfills, and the only way to make this not happen is to not make products with plastics.

By creating and marketing plastic recycling as a solution that the consumers must take onto themselves, it allowed them to rake in profits by moving everything to cheap plastic alternatives.

We are now literally made of microplastics as a result.

I'm fond of saying that recycling is almost exclusively bad for the planet. It's true and people don't like hearing it.

As the London devs even said, they are really excited for this new content and performance update, and they asked you to put down your pitchforks.

This is going to be a setback for the modding that has been done, for sure. That is the contract the mod community understands when they build their creations. It's very evident at every step of the way that you are not using consumer grade products with ABI guarantees.

But Bethesda has publicly stated they went out of their way to try to reduce breakage of mods this time compared to the skyrim anniversary version. So we have to wait and see what that means.

But if you want to hold back performance improvements for everyone because a small niche within the modding scene will have to update their mods to work, that's not a reasonable ask.

I can almost guarantee that more people care about the free next gen update of Fallout 4 than will ever play the Fallout London mod.

I'm legitimately excited for the Fallout London Mod, so this isn't meant to minimize it, but modding, even in Bethesda games, is a much smaller niche than people on here seem to think.

Bethesda is legitimately doing something good for the game, for free, and they announced it two years in advance.

The only upsetting part of this is that they recently announced a launch date and it is coincidentally close to when Fallout London was planning to release.

If that one coincidence wasn't happening, then nobody would be complaining about this pretty cool free update.

At least not until after it releases.

I'm not sure there's a better way to put them, but I bristled at the two suggestions at a high level which tell me what to say or not say, and call out my being cis as a thing to be careful about.

I'm glad that I read them despite the bristling, because I found that they were things I wouldn't say or do, and they were reasonable suggestions.

But especially the cis comment made me kind of worried. As the platform grows these types of desired policies are going to be drowned out by the majorities.

All of the proposed solutions are intentionally not scalable ones, and seem designed to keep the platforms smaller and protected. This makes absolute sense especially when held up beside the marginalized peoples who are asking for them's experiences of being marginalized.

I hope that we can find ways that satisfy those needs even through growth. It would be interesting to see scalable opt-in solutions for this problem. It would especially be useful to integrate solutions into the protocol.

But in truth I was shocked to learn about robots.txt recently, and more shocked to hear how well-ish that type of solution worked until AI came along and ignored it. So it's anyone's guess as to how well similar solutions might work here.

What aspects weren't for you?

I had a similar journey but I spent more time with it and I found that it is very almost for me! I just wish there was more time and reason to explore the depths and less in-between (cut scenes, especially).

But it's a great game regardless!

The town I grew up in has lots of things named after the that guy of yesteryear, I think, but I can't think of any from when I was growing up there.

But San Francisco used to be almost entirely made up of that guys.

We have the world famous Bushman (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Famous_Bushman) who dresses up like a bush and jumps out at tourists.

We had the Brown Twins (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marian_and_Vivian_Brown) who were just fabulous older women you'd see out and about.

We have 12 Galaxies sign man (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Chu)

The Castro naked men which became the Castro men who wear cock socks sometimes.

And all sorts of others that aren't popping in mind right this moment.

Aww a catapult, I wanted a peanut!

I've never thought about this exactly, but I bet there are a lot of planets with 30 month years when compared to Earth's orbit of the sun.

This article says some funny things:

While more advanced features will ultimately require an internet connection

Ok, then?

On-device processes could help eliminate certain controversies found with server-side AI tools. For example, these tools have been known to hallucinate, meaning they make up information confidently.

What? How would on-device processes have any effect on hallucination in LLMs?

Or are you trying to tell us that this article was written by an LLM and that the whole thing is a confidently made up hallucination?

If you search for mod, it changes to modded for all of the search types other than User. And it's not just OP experience it, I see it as well.

That's bizarre. I can reproduce this.

Well, except for the tail...

It was honestly an incredible experience.

The flight had wifi and I had sprung for a seat with a charging port, so I was able to use it for nearly the entirety 6 hours of the flight with the exception of take off and landing.

I turned on travel mode before the plane started moving. I've heard that if you don't it can be buggy getting into travel mode.

After that I saw maybe one or two hitches. If I looked down the tracking would fail but otherwise it was smooth the whole way.

I would say that watching Mad Max with it projected out above the lake in Mount Hood was the best 3D movie experience I've had. That I was on a plane the whole time was almost inconsequential.

I also watched some youtube videos and wow presents+ videos. I could have used the in-flight entertainment as well, since it was streaming at high resolution through Safari.

I was able to text and do other stuff as well during the flight.

I felt a little self conscious wearing it when the flight attendant came by so I'd always pull it off my head each time. This messed with the volume of my bluetooth headphones.

But when I went to power down the headset for landing I saw someone else doing the same with his vision pro so I don't feel as bad about my wearing it.

Definitely an expensive device for the experience, but still incredible!

I went to the article expecting rage inducing decisions based on your comment, but your TLDR has no relation to the article whatsoever.

The article is pretty glowing about Threads and Mastodon, and its author seems to be excited by them being connected through federation. They seem hopeful that they can use Mastodon to continue to enjoy their Threads communities.

They also claim that the default Threads experience is way better than the default Mastodon one, especially for the average user, but the API of Mastodon makes for a way better experience in terms of third party clients and tools.

They were able to consume the Threads content chronologically instead of through the algorithmic For You feed that none of us want.

Generally this is the first article posted I've seen that was talking about this from a UX perspective, as well as from a Threads user's perspective, and I found it interesting to read.

That sounds like how I remember FF7 being.

Is this game a clone? It's definitely a clone. It's not a clone. It's maybe a clone. Is it a clone?

That's FF7.