I don’t blame you. I’m even tempted to get a Quest-something unit secondhand or something, if only because I’m pretty sure they’ve cracked it a bit better on the Linux side.

They’re making some progress on WMR’s controllers right now but they’re the most troublesome. Hand tracking works now! But a lot of games expect button input.

Seriously, we just need a good code leak or something so that hobbyist VR peripherals become more commonplace. Right now everything is focused on establishing lock-in to walled gardens instead of interoperability.

VR hardware should be just like getting a monitor / keyboard / mouse / flight stick / whatever, but they want to make it closer to a smart TV / phone so they can push you to throw it out and buy a new one every 6 months.

It got dissed.

What it did to deserve that, we might never know. . .

BigSkreen

Don’t worry, a not-insignificant number of users probably use “Forgot Password?” every time because they can’t keep track of the correct one. Lol

I suspect this is why we started to see all those “use a temporary password instead” options lately. XD

Okay, so eat the fucking coffee cup. I’ll wait.

Bortus enters the chat.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=URE8aPM6JFA

Stay too long as a coffee cup and you’ll remain a donut forever!

Let me know so I can hand them my Blender models I’m too lazy to RE-topologize. Ugh! Lol

“BEHOLD. A MAN!”

Often, when it grows past that, it can become… unsavory.

Exactly! Like the Internet, Linux is for anybody! . . .but not necessarily everybody.

Because I mainly game in VR and that’s still so far behind on LInux :(

This is a major sticking point for me too. I’ve got a dusty Win10 partition I haven’t booted in ages, and I was keeping it around mainly for VR, but then Microsoft had to go and just extinguish that too.

Monado is making impressive progress but it’s a huge pain because they have to reverse engineer stuff with zero help from the manufacturers, instead of simply interfacing with the hardware.

I refuse to let Meta have any of my money though. I hope a good affordable VR kit comes out that isn’t another hyper-proprietary blackbox.

Mine was studying global information stuff in school. Mainly used a software called “ArcGIS.”

I called it “Arc-jiss.” Which she laugh-hated because it sounds like “Arc-jizz.” XD

Yeah, you might use it to spy on your enemies to great advantage, but your mind is basically wide open for the Dark Lord’s data harvesting.

You know, the name is perfect! Why it has any customers at all is the mystery that shames the concept of human intelligence.

As far as I know those are all this asshole’s ideas too. He’s got some hedge fund called Lembas or something too, among others.

I’m surprised he hasn’t just renamed himself Sauron at this point. (While talking ahout saving the world through his wealth and power, of course.)

Typical villain arc: Some self-absorbed billionaire with a main character complex decides they like a cultural touchstone, completely misses the point ot it, and ruins it for everyone else for their own profit.

They just expected us to know how to use them.

And they still do. The “kids these days and their compyooturs” fallacy. Irks me to my core.

I was fortunate to have a middle school typing and graphic design class, and in highschool I learned hardware troubleshooting and stuff (A+ equivalent IT work)…but that “career path” of flipping computers that people downloaded the wrong screensaver on kinda died out.

Still learned a lot though! If the I.T field was still hanging out with buddies in some dungeon nobody visited, I might be in that field today lol.

Maybe I just don’t know where to look or what.

I always hear these stories but companies in my city tend to donate old machines to charities (cool if it works that way) or trade them in to their vendor or something.

I’m actually kinda afraid with all the tarrifs and crap that we’re gonna see secondhand hardware turn into speculative inflated eBay fodder because average folks can’t afford new anymore.

Still looking for this supposed mountain of <TPM 2.0 machines that are supposed to surface for next to nothing any minute now. 😅

Alongside that, this ““backdoor”” (diagnostic/troubleshooting tool) requires physical access

Can’t have an “evil maid” if I do my own cleaning around here.

😏 <br> 👉 👉

the likes of system76 have already made their allegiances clear.

Aw crap. What did they do? :(

Been somewhat out of the loop lately.

Localization. It’s not as easy as simply translating from one language to another!

Done right, you get something of foreign origin that feels like it was done in your backyard.

Done…less than stellar, you get “All your base are belong to us, someone set us up the bomb.”

Pic related

Something tells me this guy could talk about dicks all night slong.

All night schlong XD

Sometimes you get lucky!