I do, huge virtual high def 2D screens for entertainment is one of the use cases it absolutely excels at. For watching a movie, it's top notch.
That's not what most people think a VR/AR headset should be used for, but fuck them and the ignorant opinion they rode in on, it's amazing.

VR games are nice... but everyone plays games on 2D screens, everyone watches movies and tv shows on 2D screens. The AR pass-through and the high resolution are what make it great for virtual 2D display. That Apple hasn't worked out a deal with Sony and Microsoft for similar native game streaming is mind boggling, hopefully the steam thing is a pilot for the rest.

The price needs to come down, a lot, and being a solo experience is really a limiting factor for families. Think what you will about Apple, but passthrough+high res display with the virtual display use case could end up being more popular than the VR/3D game mode. My main problem is I have a family, I don't get to watch movies alone and I have to fight over the game consoles. I sure AF don't have time to fart around in a VR game and occupy the entire living room. But sit on the couch (with neck support ugh..) and watch the same thing as everyone else but AR augmented bigass screen, that's different, or playing a game on a second virtual display while also watching whatever the family wants to watch on the main tv. There are some really good use cases with widespread appeal, once the price comes down and more manufacturers figure it out. Stop thinking about them as just VR headsets.

Beats putting an 80+ inch tv in every room and the back porch and the hammock, and etc.

https://www.apple.com/apple-vi...

As someone who's been using Samsung phones for about 15 years, I had no idea there was a thing called "Samsung Messages". I tend to tune out all the shovelware that phones come with (and take steps to remove or disable them).

I really like Samsung phones, but their software ecosystem is abysmal. Everything they provide is inferior to other options.

On /. over the decades
"Why should I deal with ads, the internet is free"
"Why should I deal with paywalls, I can get the same AP article for free from a shittier website."
"Why should I deal with the news, I can get everything from Facebook"
"Why should I read anything ever it's all biased"

"Wants.. actual journalism" ... is some no true Scotsman bullshit, because you're either informed, read multiple sources and exercise critical thinking, or a moron.

To anyone that can't find "actual journalism", fuck you right in the ear hole with a rusty corncob. What will replace it... you're looking at it, morons.

It's probably worse than that, because it's so populist and infeasible it has to be on purpose. I think it's bait to give politicians something unwinnable to squabble over instead of playing games with electricity prices, and obstructing datacenter construction, things that are bipartisan and more likely to actually happen.

Half the world runs on VBA for Office applications (or used to, it's probably less now), and VBA for Office has never been officially supported by Microsoft. You're on your own if you choose to use it.

Dude the 85th percentile is literally a measure of what 85% of people drive when no signs are posted, based on their vehicles capabilities, road design, weather, and road conditions.

What are you arguing for, 90, 95%, the maximum, no limit? It's unreasonable to have no posted speeds, because half of you assholes just want to drive faster than the person in front of you and will unnecessarily accelerate to pass all the damned time on any twisty hilly road possible. Jesus Christ, you're not getting there any sooner. As soon as you finish passing and reduce your speed when you think the guy you passed can't see you anymore your average speed is no different. If you constantly fight upstream passing every single car, you still only shave seconds off your trip time and deserve every ticket you get.

Use a fucking GPS, just to drive across town even. Flip to whatever screen or setting shows your ETA. Now speed, and watch what it's all for. Fucking idiots.

It's more like the 85th percentile of observed traffic, and other factors are considered. Maybe it's different in some small towns, but not anywhere getting a fancy average speed monitoring system. Haven't you driven over those rubber hose sensor things laid across the road before, that's how they do the traffic study AFAIK.

https://www.ite.org/technical-...

It's almost our entire western coast and the single largest economy in the U.S.

Wherever you're from, they're not sending their best, huh.

"Nobody goes there, the line is too long"

Classic

Wait, there's abuse, like waiting at the bottom of a steep hill with a speed reduction. Automating the abuse, to wash hands, like red light cameras printing money for every slightly rolling right turn on red. An officer might be too embarrassed to do in person. Then there's average speed over some distance, and that's ... what?

Unless that's straight up hidden from the public I'm not seeing how it's possibly abusive. And speed limits aren't always abused anyway, come on.

Shitty speed limits are usually shit for a good reason, there's a turn at the bottom of the hill so the speed reduction is placed at the top to give you time. Or my favorite, going through an intersection it reduces from 40 to 30 at the far side, but coming the opposite direction the 40 sign is placed at the far side again, making it asymmetric.. and counter intuitive because there's no 30 sign facing you as you enter.. that part may be abusive. From an engineering pov these all make sense though, the visibility is different on both approaches to the intersection for example. But the cops waiting at the bottom of the hill instead of around the corner, or the cop watching that intersection and farming tickets for driving 40 twenty feet in front of the 40 sign, THOSE are abusive. If those two things were automated they'd get voted out of town as fast as that right turn on red camera was in my small town.

OK grandpa, what are you talking about propaganda and refrigerators? You want me to fax you a copy of the Radio, Westinghouse, G.E. pages from my grandparents encyclopedia set, or can you ask your nurse to tune the Internet receiver to Google.

You're talking about the time that commercial broadcasting was brand new and Westinghouse was a GE rival, they made industrial equipment, home electrical appliances, trains, radios etc.

This is like ten seconds of reading.
https://earlyradiohistory.us/1...

How do you reduce a G.E. scale industrial powerhouse to "refrigerator manufacturer" and the advent of commercial broadcasting to "propaganda", as if the top two electrical equipment manufacturers in the country would not be involved in the brand new market of commercial radio broadcast. Really weird take on a pivotal time in American history, just saying.

I missed this.. how are we supposed to make sense of these numbers from the expanded OS Version table?
This distribution looks more like what I'd expect real Linux desktop gaming usage to be. So there's what, ~10 other versions of MacOS reporting in with each .05%
And for Linux there's like a hundred or more at .05% each? What's in that long tail, there are a lot of distro choices out there, but these aren't crusty old mail servers, they're gaming systems that someone went out of their way to respond to the HW survey? The top five add up to 1% and I'm having a hard time believing there are actually many desktops below that.

OSX 2.35% +1.19%
MacOS 26.3.0 64 bit 0.55 % +0.40%
MacOS 26.3.1 64 bit 0.49 %+0.49%
MacOS 26.2.0 64 bit 0.23 %-0.21%
MacOS 15.7.4 64 bit 0.14 %+0.14%
MacOS 15.7.3 64 bit 0.10 %0.00%
MacOS 15.6.1 64 bit 0.10 %+0.04%
MacOS 26.4.0 64 bit 0.07 %+0.07%
MacOS 15.5.0 64 bit 0.06 %+0.06%
MacOS 26.1.0 64 bit 0.05 %+0.05%
MacOS 12.7.6 64 bit 0.05 %+0.05%

Linux 5.33% +3.10%
Arch Linux 64 bit 0.34 %+0.15%
Linux Mint 22.3 64 bit 0.27 %+0.13%
Ubuntu Core 24 64 bit 0.14 %+0.06%
Linux Mint 22.2 64 bit 0.07 %+0.02%
Ubuntu 25.10 64 bit 0.06 %+0.06%
Manjaro Linux 64 bit 0.06 %+0.06%

There were clear spikes in Covid cases, you can see the shadow of the infection rates through the numbers of deaths from all causes. That's what you were hearing in the news was the left side of each of these waves. People kept thinking it was over, it'll be over in the summer, blah blah blah, then everyone would hear the reports in the news of things spiking and they'd stop going out as much, self isolate and then it'd slow down for a bit. Rinse repeat, I remember it vividly. Every damn "re-re-re-reopening" we went through.

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/...

It matches state level data, and other countries, it happened way before the vaccines were available, deaths are deaths, this isn't a categorization problem or spikes in testing, the sums of deaths are accurate over time, and I'm really fucking done hearing any other stupid explanation.