The OS is the worst part of Meta Quest. It has to be rebooted often or it gets frame drops or outright freezes. Our house reboots every time you use it just to be safe. Whenever you switch accounts it forgets your home environment and your boundary. Lots of features look like they are untested experiments because the UI makes no sense. (ex: It displays instructions right over top of the things you need to click on). The browser is flaky.

Great hardware, awful OS.

I expect taking a client list from one company to another is illegal even without a noncompete.

Who thought that the tracking device was not being used to track them?!?

It's amazing these things memorize some text and some image motifs and can read English with semantic prediction, obey even structures for executable code creation, and emit coherent English in topic with so few parameters.
You could not code most of those and even apply the most advanced compression and have the result fit in a dvd. And yet there you are managing it.
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This is very hard to explain or imagine. What am I missing???

Just be sure to stop by your local polling place to pick up your mail-in ballots on the way! Show them to our helpful staff for an extra free gift!

He did not make a statement about quality, he made a statement about perception. It may be changing now, but as recent as 2022, owning a Tesla was a status symbol in China.

I figured they skimped on both when providing the ones that come with the printer. Is that not the case?

Dangit! I thought this stuff was struck down by the courts! I didn't realize any of the major manufacturers were still doing this. grrrrrrrrr.....

He mentions why it looks old on the home page, point number 12.

So how about we develop those things instead of developing a proprietary competitor?

LOL, that was a rare deal and I'm impressed that worked out for you. I've seen people throw out inkjet printers and just buy new ones every time instead of buying ink cartridges, only to find that the cartridge that came with the unit lasted for about 50 pages. This is a lose-lose situation since the printers are loss-leaders: the manufacturer sold the printer at a loss hoping to make money back on cartridge sales, so they lost money. The customer wasted money because buying the printer didn't actually get them as much ink as they wanted.

I had a 4L. Since then, it has been Epson and Brother. I avoided Lexmark because they tried this same BS a while ago.

I have been seeing this same story repeat in various forms since before the year started with the number two. I don't understand why this keeps coming up. Lexmark tried putting chips in their ink/toner in 2003 and lost that case even up to the supreme court. The Magnuson-Moss warranty act was passed in 1975 and was intended to prevent this kind of shenanigans. Obviously at the time nobody was putting computer chips into vacuum cleaner bags, but it is the same spirit.

This just should not be a discussion any longer! Settled! Done! Kaput! Go away!

Why do you fear that? That's exactly what I want! Everything is already too cloud-connected, and AI is increasing that dependency. We are on course to a world where every application needs full-time internet connectivity. Moving AI out of the cloud rental space and onto the end-user is exactly what we need to prevent that.

What are you talking about with the foreign credentials thing? I am an American who works with a great many immigrants whose degrees are from outside the US: off the top of my head: China, Canada, Ireland, England, Iran, India, Netherlands, and Germany. Mostly India and China.

Anything that goes slow enough to be captured into an orbit will eventually spiral inwards.

Well, most of it (when we're talking matter not already in another black hole). Ordinary stuff orbiting near a black hole gets torn apart by the enormous tides and forms a disk-like structure similar to a gas giant's rings. Interactions among it and with the black hole's magnetic and gravitic fields can eject a bit of it in a pair of jets out along the axis of the disk, powered apparently by the rest of the stuff falling in.