It makes things so frustrating. My boss insists on using VOIP on his cell phone because according to him having a data only plan and using VOIP is cheaper than getting a regular mobile plan.

Most of the time I talk to him it's just constantly cutting out and the call quality just isn't the same. Even when it's behaving reasonably well it just has weird behaviours and often times you have to call two or three times before it really works.

I keep on telling him he needs to switch it out, but he's really stubborn about this.

I've never had a monitor that required specific drivers. Even the old EDTV that I have works just fine with no special drivers. Runs at a weird 1440x900 resolution.

I have the Office 365 family plan and I think it's a great deal $109 CAD a year is a pretty good deal considering I get 1 TB of cloud space for each family member. Even if you don't count MS Office, it's cheaper than any other cloud storage service. Plus it's really nice to have MS Office available on my computer. Nothing else comes close to Excel.

They want 35% of the phone to be produced locally. Does any modern phone meet this criteria?

It's not just developing nations. They have low-wait delivery services in Europe too.

This is the biggest problem. They are adding so much stuff that people never asked for. Cars aren't affordable because they just keep on adding on features. Some of it is is mandated for "safety" or for "efficiency" like mandatory backup cameras or tire pressure sensors.

But people can use their mirrors or turn their head. They can check their tire pressure with a $20 gauge. There's no need to complicate cars so much and make them inaccessible to regular people. Unless this is all the end goal to make it so nobody can afford a car to reduce overall ownership and cut down on pollution.

I wonder what kind of hardware they run it on

Probably just modern hardware running virtual machines so that they have reliable hardware while staying compatible with older software.

It either needed to be cheaper or offer way more in terms of functionality. For $3500 it needs to be able to plug directly into a PC to be used for gaming and other applications that can't run directly on the headset.

It has screen mirroring, but that's pretty limited and can't be used for applications that need low latency such as gaming.

It seems the main selling point was to be able to use it for productivity. Set up a bunch of windows and work with them in virtual space. But for $3500 you could just get a bunch of monitors and some arms and have a much better experience.

You couldn't even take the headset off without all your windows disappearing and having to go through the entire process of setting everything up again, which could be annoying if you have a lot of applications open. Sure it has pass through so you can just continue to wear it, but sometimes you just need a break and want to take it off your head. Having everything reset when you take it off is just unbearable.

I was browsing around AliExpress the other day and found a whole marketplace full of various devices that you rest your mouse on to simulate mouse movement.It operates without needing any software so you can't detect it by looking at the running tasks. You'd have to analyze the mouse movements and somehow determine if it's actually doing anything useful.

A quick Google says the install base of Quest 3 is about 900k to 1.5 million units. But another article says it might not even be 500k. Apparently Meta isn't releasing numbers and it's really hard to judge.

That's not really that high. Compared to other products like game consoles that are actually mainstream, and it's really just a drop in the bucket.

As a comparison, the Ouya sold about 200K units, which kind of shows the scale. If the quest 3 is only a little more popular than the Ouya, why would anyone think it was any kind of success

I think it really depends on the source of the copied text. If I'm copying from a web page, I don't want to maintain any of the formatting from the original webpage. But if I'm copying from one part of a document to another part of the document, then it should probably keep the formatting it had when I originally copied it.

Even at $400 is more expensive than a lot of Android Phones. And that $400 will only get you 64 GB of storage and a 4.7" screen with big bezels and a single camera lens.

A lot better deals with stuff like the Samsung A54 for instance. Maybe the iPhone SE has more horsepower, but the A54 has more than what most people need.

Also, even "normies" like to be free to do what they want with their phone. Just better customization and not being quite as locked in.

I read so many contradicting numbers. Stuff like this where Apple apparently has close to 60% of market share in the US, but then reading the article in this post says new activiations are around 33%.

Why such a big discrepancy?

As far as I'm aware TPM is a function of the motherboard, not the processor. My motherboard has a TPM header, so I'm assuming if I installed one it would fulfill that requirement. The processor list that they support is a whole different list.

Not sure why the requirements on CPU are so restrictive. I've go a desktop from 2015 with an AMD A8-7600 APU and it's not on their list of supported CPUs for some reason, so I've never had it ask me to upgrade. I'm not sure where they came up with the compatibility requirements.