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Why wouldn't they enhance it themselves, like Twitter has been doing for months? Once they make signing in mandatory and implement per-user rate limits the information will disappear from the internet and will only be available to people who are paying in some way.

Who would have thought that their truck would need a $5000 extra to be usable outdoors? Who buys a truck to keep it indoors?

With the Vision Pro you can sort of see the real world in nearly real time with some distortions because the cameras don't match your eye positioning, and the dynamic range is clamped to what is supported by the cameras and displays, and everything is at the same focal distance, and your peripheral vision is limited. It's definitely not the same class of device as what has traditionally been called AR.

A small number of people have been to varying degrees living in VR headsets and they've been alright, but it's not for everyone. Besides the weight and having to manage the battery, you run into issues like the cameras having difficulty in dark environments or when objects are very close. After enough hours the motion sickness goes away.

The Vision Pro, despite Apple's marketing, is not AR. AR devices like Hololens allow you to see AR overlayed on top of the world. VR devices like the Vision Pro allow you to see the world behind the headset through cameras. VR isn't really new either, but VR headsets that you can realistically wear continuously like in Apple's ads have yet to come out.

If you're a paying user, Proton Mail Bridge is supposed to automatically work around your government trying to block it: https://proton.me/blog/anti-censorship-alternative-routing

That file is disturbing. Why does it do everything via external processes and shell commands? Stuff like calling ls -l to list files in a directory is not portable, and parsing the output of commands intended for humans and building shell commands without careful escaping is dangerous.

You can, but few people will. It's not the image Apple wants the device to have. In their promotional videos, the people are constantly wearing the headset and never plugged in.

Well less than 30 minutes at a time is good because the Vision Pro battery only lasts around two hours and you can't swap batteries without turning it off.

You can do a lot of things with the Vision Pro that you can't do with other headsets, but I don't understand why anybody would want to manage their calendar events in VR, and it seems like there are a lot more things that you would want to do with the Vision Pro that you can't. If it were really an AR device like a modern Google Glass it would make sense, but with that form factor and a battery life of two hours it can't really become part of you like that.

You don't actually need DDNS. If your provider has an API you can update your addresses using the API. https://kb.porkbun.com/article/190-getting-started-with-the-porkbun-api

The Android version of VLC can play DVDs with menus, which is weird because the desktop version can't out of the box for legal reasons.

If it's implemented correctly, a smart card or phone unlock does not need internet connectivity to work.

Isn't "silent majority" the term used by the American far right?

Without proportional electors, in a close election where the swing states--the only states that matter--vote near 50-50, the outcome is essentially random. In the states that vote 50.1% for one candidate, 100% of the votes will go to one candidate, and in the states that vote 50.1% for the other candidate, 100% of the votes will go to that candidate. Random noise in how votes are aggregated, from the district level up, can theoretically lead to wildly unfair results. In the worst case, all voters in 49.9% of states (by elector count) vote for one candidate, and then all voters in 49.9% of the voting districts in the remaining states vote for the same candidate, but 50.1% of voters in the remaining districts vote for the other candidate, that other candidate's ~25% of the popular vote becomes a majority and they win the election. The required popular vote percentage is even lower if you factor in how California voters are less than three fifths people (closer to one fifth than two fifths, even) compared to Wyoming.

That would make sense, but that's not the law. In most states, the electors can vote differently and it still counts, and in only some of those states is it even illegal for the elector to do that.

It's not FOSS, but Symfonium should be able to do that.

What does Biden's polling or blood matter? Do we get a choice? The red party candidacy will go to Trump and the blue party is apparently planning to skip the election and keep Biden as president until he inevitably dies of old age because they've opted not to hold any debates.

Voting reform hasn't happened, so without a miraculous level of coordination and turnout from like-minded voters, Biden being reelected is the best outcome we can hope for. Without a way to ensure a majority of states will vote third party (remember we still have the electoral college with unequal representation and most delegates are able to vote however they want, and many states first count votes by district), voting for a third party candidate is half a vote against your second choice. If you're in a state where your vote actually matters, you can vote for a third party out of protest or because you really think the third party candidate is better, and then your least favored candidate can win as a result.

Wormhole on F-Droid? ShareDrop? FilePizza?

It varies by state. If you're selling into certain states, your chickens must have at least a certain standard of living. Unfortunately, eggs probably aren't often shipped across state lines, in which case it doesn't mean anything for farmers in other states and they can still abuse their chickens. https://cagefreelaws.com/

It wasn't always like this. Back before companies understood "minimum viable product" things were better. Now companies do the "minimum" and then never come back to finish what they started because they can't see a profit in it. It's obvious in the way Microsoft has been replacing the old, working parts of the OS with new parts that look more modern but don't work as well, and rarely improving the replacements to reach parity with what was replaced.

How can the Vision Pro be a winner if it doesn't exist yet?