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Re:Devs are missing the point of VR on Monday October 10, 2022 @08:51PM (#33158192)
That NYTimes article recently did the same thing. Anyone that is serious about understanding the state of VR, but has no experience with VRChat is a huge red flag to me. You don't have to like the culture on VRC(I don't love it), but it is where most of the content and players are. In a way it could a good sign that VR is becoming more accessible, but it's still a bit annoying.
This looks beautiful! Slap a trackpoint in the middle and I will buy 3.
This is something I have been think about for the past 10 year as well. If we can get enough cheap power production, incinerating toilets seem interesting. And the growth satellite internet is a big win for this area.
Re:General Motors Streetcar Conspiracy on Wednesday July 20, 2022 @10:01PM (#32174918)
I have lived on a street with a street car for the past 3 years and I disagree with your perspective. I live in a different city, so variables are probably very different in a lot of ways. I find large trucks and motorcycles as the largest disturbances in my daily life (I work from home mostly). The train absolutely makes noise and shakes the house, but it's predictable. I no longer set alarms and I can use it to run my errands. And it is way better for the air around me than cars. Most of the US lives in a mono-culture for transportation and cars are pretty expensive.
Re:3D-Printed Homes for Sale in Austin on Saturday July 02, 2022 @07:21PM (#31963418)
Hopefully I can use this to print a cheap-ish shed or small barn in 30 years.
Re:Dear Spotify, can we just get a table of songs? on Saturday June 04, 2022 @06:46PM (#31625867)
Been using spotify since they launched a beta in the US (11 years ago?), but them constantly pushing services that are not music on their platform, and populating their recommended playlists cheaper-per-play songs, I am actively looking to move.
And was the best bathroom reading pre-smartphones.
Misread this as 'dyeing' and was very confused.
Re:Apple Music is the last library focused music service on Wednesday December 01, 2021 @06:04PM (#29410293)
I have started switching away from streaming services as well. Thanks for recommending Plexamp. It's awesome.
Hopefully this develops into a handheld, so I can use this to paint the walls in my house without spending hours taping.
Re:Engineering a modern-day typewriter in which less is more on Wednesday September 22, 2021 @06:54PM (#28623092)
This is somewhat tangential. My brother had brain surgery at a young age, and it severely effected his communication negatively. He had ten years of speech therapy, and through all of that he was writing things in word processors (maybe 2 hours every few days). If it was directed at you he would print it out and post it somewhere you would see it. He even wrote "Rules for Chipmunks", and posted it at chipmunk eye level; when we started to have chipmunks coming into the house one year.
Man, That's dark. "You went to X location a few years ago, now there's bad stuff happening there. Your google account is banned."

Leave your phone at home if your are going to protest, no matter what or where you are protesting.

Re:How WhatsApp enables multi-device capability on Wednesday September 22, 2021 @04:52PM (#28621639)
Is IOS blocking the feature?
Re:Cisco Modeling Labs on Tuesday August 24, 2021 @07:00PM (#28296039)
Thank you. This was the question I came to ask.
Thanks for posting the related video. I learned a lot
this is very non substantial, but it feels like we are starting the changing of the guard.
Re:Pandemic homeschoolers who are not going back on Thursday June 03, 2021 @08:53AM (#27380500)
I hate this title. Not a bad read though, and I guess it got me to click..
As an American, I see this as a right to bear arms in the modern day.
Thank you for making this open to the public, and thank you for your work.
Re:Verizon Sells AOL and Yahoo to Apollo for $5B on Monday May 03, 2021 @07:52PM (#27032403)
welp, there goes $5B in US pay tax money.... and still no national fiber network.
The next thing will be electron microscope scans of of the instruments the artists used. I'm joking. I really want well digitized vinyl
Re:What Happens When Our Faces Are Tracked Everywhere We Go? on Thursday March 18, 2021 @09:45AM (#26502607)
After learning that someone can get your cardiograph with a laser from 100 ft away, I believe the adversarial fight with privacy won't help us nearly as much as fighting for legislation.

Although I do think, as an american, we should rework the second amendment to include things like encryption. And change the 3rd amendment to privacy protection. I'm a little more worried about the people in my devices, than I am housing enemy soldiers at the moment.

Re:Unilever Says It Will Resume Advertising on Facebook on Sunday December 27, 2020 @11:46AM (#25552216)
People don't choose where they're born, they only get to choose what they do with what they've been given.
Re:What’s the best non-smart TV sold today? on Saturday December 26, 2020 @01:58PM (#25545518)
Wow, thanks for the heads up!
Re:I built a lay-down desk on Monday October 05, 2020 @01:19PM (#24689761)
velrco wristbands?
Re:I built a lay-down desk on Monday October 05, 2020 @01:17PM (#24689745)
I already do a little work in vr. I only work on one 1080 monitor in an Index. It's great for isolating yourself from distraction, but we have a ways to go for sure when it comes to UX. Pixel density, might be starting to get there, but it's still a compromise. I would guess it get there in the next few years with the big push at work from home, and all those Zuck-bucks funding development in portable VR.
Re:Ask HN: Do all VPNs suck? on Saturday June 08, 2019 @10:08PM (#20136560)
I know private internet access has proven in court that they don't keep logs, but still, trust.