Seems like VR technology is moving backwards. All I want in an HMD is something that runs OpenXR and plugs into the GPU in the back of a PC. Last HMD on the market to do that was the G2... great hardware shit optics.

Now they all have their own hardware on board which needlessly adds cost, heat and weight of course proprietary walled garden app stores. Even shit like Pimax requires a goddamn "account" just to install.

If you want to connect to PC you either have to fork out another $100 for a proprietary cable or suffer with needless quality and latency hits over shit wireless transmission schemes. This isn't even some ultra low latency high bandwidth 60ghz scheme but just plain old WiFi. They don't even care.

Instead of foveated rendering we get foveated compression and tripling down on proprietary walled gardens and data collection.

Getting rid of the penny saves $56 million dollars a year and costs shoppers $6 million dollars a year. 50 million dollar savings means everyone saves a dime and a nickle each year.

Suspect when you factor in friction such as updating systems and handling upset customers that 50 million dollars would look like a rounding error.

Might as well mint coins according to an optimal golomb ruler with a length around 100. That way you would only need any two coins to express any amount under a dollar. If there is not a perfect match some kind of bankers rounding algorithm could be employed to fill in the gaps. I'm sure everyone would appreciate the massive savings and it would be totally worth it.

... use those points to buy stuff at the Apple store?

Wait! Never mind. It turns out that I can buy an infinite number of Linux installs with them.

And your dog will play with you because you have a pork chop tied around your neck.

That smells a LOT like BS. I'm just going to eat all this food in your pantry to make sure you don't get food poisoning, and such.

Compare, instead of the nobleman charging rent, the herdsmen do get together and own the commons in common, working out a fair deal between them for sustainability.

As for the NYC situation, if there's a glut, why don't prices fall? Where are the buildings for sale cheap to someone who wants to do a residential conversion?

Exactly.

Imagine all the flip-phone hipsters being denied boarding.

No shade, it's probably better for your overall wellbeing to use a flip phone.

And the hipsters have Leica 35mm mechanical cameras if the need arises.

> it's also in the user, as he got a mail during his stay

People check email on vacation?

What an odd thing to demand.

Would the $20 ONN sticks from Walmart work better for you?

I have an puck-style device of theirs which is just an Amtel SoC with GoogleTV Android on it. Probably doesn't get updates but then you don't let them have unfettered access to the Internet either.

I've sideloaded Jellyfin, SmarTube-Next, etc.

I used to have a half dozen Fire sticks and have removed all but one, in a kid's bedroom. They haven't banned Jellyfin ... yet... but aren't they dropping Android as well?

This.

The Emperor's New Clothes is quite applicable here. It's not enough to point out that he's naked as a jaybird, but that this has become "common knowledge" and one is now safe to act on it without negative consequences.

Just try to step up and say that your company isn't going to bite on the AI bait and the market will knock points off your share price.

There's an interesting book out on that topic.

... Pittsburgh is my favorite team!

And when did America finally shutdown its re-education camps? I believe you called them boarding schools.
Here in Canada, the last were shutdown in the 1990's and they involved a lot of abuse, including sexual and was all based on race and the goal was cultural genocide on those pesky natives.

Yes, but half the people have below-average intelligence.

We won't have a stable society if they're constantly scammed.

And I know some High-IQ people with no street smarts who got scammed by "Raj from Microsoft Support".

Really some dude from a trailer park might have a better BS detector, having lived a less coddled existence.

... put it in the bid specification. Spare parts, maintenance manuals, etc. It's what the commercial airlines do.

Can't get anyone to bid on such terms? Well then, you let too many suppliers merge, creating an oligopoly that isn't in the best interest of the nation. Or if its collusion between the manufacturers, set a trap for them and then it's off to prison. Goodness knows you've got enough FBI agents sitting in bars, waiting for some dirt bag to walk in and hire a hit on an enemy.

Yeah. But you're going to fail that Concours d'Elegance trophy class with fake parts.

The company standard for servers is RedHat 10. RedHat 10 does not support 32 bit applications.

The legacy app is running happily on RedHat 9.

...laura