Meta is desperate for content and use cases for MR, and nothing comes up. They have been doing jams, they have funds to give to developers, and everything that comes up are basic wave shooters or simple ports (downgrades, really) from VR to MR.

Microsoft has probably figured out that, except for the military, it’s a solution in search of a problem, at least in the current form factor ans with current limitations.

I can imagine it being easier for a human teacher to come out with that sort of nonsense than for chatGPT or Claide to say something like that.

Most AV software is pretty useless and practically malware by itself.

Man, just let it go. You have been schooled, just take it and learn.

The solution is not living in the middle of anywhere, two hours away from civilization. If you lived next to the mall, you could go there by foot.

They track you in a million other ways, what do you care anyway.

I actually have one of those “youth clubs” close to where I live (also close to a university). It’s this huge, modern building full of what looks like hotel rooms from the outside. Only ever saw female teenagers and older ladies there, but yeah it’s hard to get a feeling from the outside of what it is about. For a long time I imagined it was like a correction house or something like that.

Thank’s for the context!

I actually used vapes (the “real” ones) to stop smoking. It took years, but having the capability of controlling how much nicotine I had in my vape liquid was key. Eventually I brought it down to zero, and was able to stop.

This said, in europe the market is being flooded with disposable, colourful vapes - and those are an abomination. Just thinking of trashing all those lithium batteries makes me angry.

People also don’t need cheese or cake, and they have it anyway.

Right, next the native americans will take the US back because historically it’s theirs? Russia started a war, stop looking for excuses to cope.

I’m sorry, who started a land war in February 2022?

the idea that people were crushed with tanks is disputed in academia

There are photos of people clearly crushed by tanks?

How is attending a far-right convention and fucking up diplomacy with Spain state business?

If he went to a furry convention would that also be state business?

He was huge in the 80’s and 90’s amd did some big scale acts like disappearing a whole bridge and stuff like that.

The idea is not to get the power back to earth, but to have power on the moon. Without power, you’ll never have humans living there.

Yeah but a car is mostly made of engines and bolts and wheels and stuff like that, you know.

Some beggars do indeed see it as a job and make substantial money, that is just a fact. Doesn’t mean that there are not people in real desperate situations and needing any help they can get.

Gen Z are adolescents or young adults now. Gen Alpha are the little kids. We’re getting old.

And for businesses, VR simply has not proven to have a cost benefit worth even the initial capital investment, without even taking into account ongoing IT costs due to damaged equipment.

That’s just not true. Companies of all sizes are using VR for onboarding and training with much success and a huge return on investment. There are also a lot of location-based and VR arcades making a nice profit.

VR may never go mainstream, but for businesses there are a lot of use cases for which it is valuable.

More infrastructure for cars = even more cars on the road, as simple as that.

You want to fix a gridlocked city with awful traffic? You start taking lanes out and making them exclusive for public transport, and you build big sidewalks and a cycling lane. Now you can get where you want to go in 10 minutes using public transport or bike, or you can sat in traffic for an hour - magically, you’ll see traffic getting better and less cars on the road.

It’s not as if this is some mistery - it has been done in many cities around the world and it works. The alternative is the american way, “just add one more lane”, and you guys live with the results.