China isn’t allowed to use advanced expensive US models. And US nationals can’t afford advanced expensive US models so they want to use Chinese models.

What a weird situation. Huh?

Gooners don’t use Apple products anyway. Right??

DoorDash supplanting meals on wheels is terrible. I don’t mean to argue otherwise.

I think awareness of the options was really low, though. And that’s probally what I’m speaking to. And I expect my ignorance was shared. I see your point though. And I can see how I was speaking from ignorance there.

While maybe more people are aware of a way to deliver food and basic supplies in the era of DoorDash, I never really meant to defend them. It just made sense to me that the pervasiveness of DoorDash is improving access. But it’s definitely not improving affordability. Not at all, holy shit.

Pizza every day isn’t great.

And those other contexts were not as pervasive as DoorDash has become.

Oh, that’s probally true. But those were a long time ago. And the users were still self selecting and in the right headspace.

We have crossed a threshold with the internet and awareness of possible places to be a shithead at these days. If you know what I mean. A certain mentality bands together to seek out how to fuck these spaces up, now.

It’s like the early days of VR. The social spaces were great until VR got cheaper and more common. Now you need to hunt out the good groups and social circles and they are hard to find.

Well, it’s definitely tangential. The only overlap is how their refunds don’t actually fix anything and there is no path to actually addressing the original customer intent. A new order would be more money, and a gamble on the same error happening (maybe even intentional neglect by the people at the restaurant). And having to go out and get it yourself breaks the whole reason you engaged with the company at all.

It’s a very broken customer service system they have. And it has to be that way to keep their margins.

It’ll take a lot of effort to keep the systems from being exploitable like that, I expect. And maybe so much structure will be needed that it’ll become rather un-fun.

I use to be excited about such systems and ideas in games. But I’ve come to realize that players will break and ruin anything you put in front of them.

It’s like DoorDash giving you a partial refund and not actually getting you what you ordered when there is a fuckup by the restaurant.

How satisfied are you with your customer support? I didn’t get what I fucking ordered!

It makes this supposedly being an American phone even more ironic.

woof. Why can’t platforms just be themselves.

Also, Twitter tried this under Elon and recently changed their minds after, I assume, it didn’t work out like they had hoped?

“It will be a federated decentralized face database that lives on each users phone.”

Yeah, it’s really sad.

The irony is off the charts.

Yeah, I need to use similar for those.

A short, like 2 or three foot, USB extension cable might help you out if you do run into USB 3 interference issues.

lol, and it’s probally because someone got through to him that most of these projects look impossible to finish in a reasonable timeline. And that there is not yet proof that the demand will be there for what they are specifically building at the end of the timeline.

He gets to act like he’s making a compromise when really he’s just covering his ass.

3D video isn’t a stepping stone for VR. It’s just one application that VR excels at.

It’s like saying photographs are a stepping stone for screens.

For the 3D video one, VR headsets perfected it. It’s actually awesome now. And looks the best on the newest devices like the Vision Pro.

But, VR devices are slow to catch on.

Anyway. I say this to just note that 3D movies and video has continued to improve despite the format supposedly being dead in the eyes of your average consumer. Apple currently has the largest 3D movie selection ever assembled from one vendor. And it’s the only place to watch 3D in 4K. Blu-ray does not have a standard/specification that supports it.

3D movies have been around for many many decades. And only recently have they become “perfected” from a visual fidelity POV. The hardware form factor needs more refinement though. I’m just reinforcing your point about how at least one of the technologies has not and will not go away.

Any of the companies framing it as a utility hope you don’t think too deeply about it.