JohnEdwa @ JohnEdwa @sopuli.xyz

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I can as all the buttons are in a row. Same for the AC and heater controls. I pretty much know them by heart so it takes a fraction of a second to glance where to roughly put my finger, and then I can count them out by feel while looking at the road.

Once they figure out how to make it 1/2 the weight and 1/5 the price, it'll go mainstream.

1. Tip for Apple: don't make your AR headset out of thick aluminium and glass with extra displays and lenses on the outside, and nothing to balance it on the rear.
2. The company that sells a $1000 monitor stand and $700 computer case wheels?

And seemingly nothing is actually deleted, just hidden. Boost for Lemmy currently has an interesting bug where any comment, deleted or removed, can still be seen by simply selecting "copy post text" from the menu, as the API will return what was previously there.

PSA, if you want to delete a comment or post, be absolutely sure you first edit it to be blank.

The votes are directly visible from Kbin for users as well.

Better hardware, sure, but only Facebook was reckless and rich enough to risk throwing so much money at it. The reason competing headsets (index, HTC etc) are so expensive are because those companies need to turn profit from selling the headset. Facebook decided to try selling headsets basically at a loss, and hope to get money from the oculus store instead. That resulted in really cheap headsets that were much more affordable to curious people to just buy and try without a $1000+ investment and a requirement for a gaming PC.

That's something basically only Google, Facebook or Amazon, and maybe Tesla/Musk, could afford to try.

1.8 billion is around 2% of their last year's net income. At least it's a bit better than the insignificant wristslaps companies tend to get.

The sacrifice might still end up being worth something as Facebook subsidised so much of the cost of the hardware in the push that they ended up selling over 20 million headsets introducing VR to a huge new audience. If that actually translates to long term VR users or fizzles down as a one-off curiosity we shall see in the coming years when those people are up for an upgrade.

Yup. Few years back I remember asking a small shop if they would rather I use cash or card, and they said that the card, even with transaction fees, was much cheaper for them. When I visited them recently they now had a "no cash" sign.

And most flying things aren't drones, they are radio controlled models, but you try getting people to stop using that term.
Android/Custom ROM is the name for them, even if it doesn't mean what it should. It's not that far off as that partition is usually set as read-only, so it kinda is a ROM.

The issue is that it doesn't automatically pop up the keyboard, you have to press steam + x yourself. I believe the support for it requires the game to implement Steam Input API which not that many games do.

Ah, recursive acronyms. GNU's Not Unix.

My favourite is the GNU Hurd project. Hurd stands for "Hird of Unix-Replacing Daemons". And Hird is "Hurd of Interfaces Representing Depth" :)

Then you can save a lot of money next time and buy something like a Nokia 2760. It does all of those for like $30.

That is not an issue with anything that is supposed to act as a HUD, as they project the image in such a way that it looks to be further away. They have to, because humans are terrible at looking at something that close to their eyes anyway.
Google Glass for example projected it so that the image looked like it was 2.5 meters away from your face.

Because they have. A ton - they paid Spez almost $200 million last year. But when you invest, spend, or pay out all of the money you get, on your tax sheet it says you didn't make any profit, because you don't have any excess money.

If you asked it to show you a picture of a Caucasian pope, you got a lecture. If you then tried to make it generate a Caucasian pope, it first failed, and then refused claiming it won't create imaged based on certain race or ethnicity.

So yeah, that's going a bit too far. This twitter thread is full of weird examples.

Reminds me of the difference between a pirate (the boat using kind) and a privateer - who was a pirate that didn't attack anyone from their own country, so their government gave them the permission to do it.
Russian and Chinese hackers are hard to pin down because they are beneficial to those governments, so you usually won't get any help catching them.

These two were caught in Poland and Ukraine. Had they still been in Russia, they would most likely never have been arrested.

It's not untraceable when your addresses are public so people can send you money, and if you want to exchange it for dollars you have to sell it somewhere - usually people even keep it on a public exchange which completely voids all of the benefits.
Kinda like having a VPN where you publicly advertise what IP you use, what sites you visit, and keep a list of it all on your PC that the police get when they raid your home.

VPN gives you privacy, and crypto is untraceable and cannot be frozen, but only if they are used right.

No joo. Toisaalta vähän huonommat näkymät ilman erityislupaa on hieman parempi kuin esim Amerikan tai Englannin malli jossa jokaisen lentokentän ympärillä on 5-8 kilometrin no-fly-zone pylpyrä jossa et saisi edes omalla takapihallasi lentää.

Mutta esim Tampere-Pirkkala ja Halli vois vähän rauhoittua sen alueen kanssa, valtava köntti sen 50 metrin rajoituksen alla toisin kuin monella muulla lentokentällä.

Suomessa jopa nuo lentokenttien kiellot on siinä mielessä järkeviä että se täysikielto on käytännössä vain suoraan lentokentän ympärillä, aika lähelläkin saa lennättää mutta korkeusraja on 50 metriä, ja ellei nyt ihan kentälle mene niin saat aina nousta vähintään läheisten puiden/talojen korkeudelle.

Really rather important feature in places like here in Finland, where your phone number (and car license plate) is directly linked and publicly searchable to your full name and address :)