Ball-less, clueless idiots.
That's all I can say, and that's all there is to say.

Just like Microsoft Windows, or even Google...
Things that once seemed untouchable and impossible to beat, were beaten by changes in the tech landscape.
Yesterday, Toyota won with amazing engines.
Today, the engine is irrelevant, what has become relevant is the battery tech.
I myself spent considerable amounts of time on either SO or Google and thought: when are these ever gonna be repaced.
And here I am. I have barely touched either -- while still actively working -- in months and months.

They are irrelevant, and will become history.

Our health care is AMAZING. I had cancer and didn't need to worry for one microsecond about paying for treatment. I was operated on immediately (two days after discovery).

Get over yourself. I know there is a whole marketing machine pushing your third world grade health system. They are lies. Health here is free, amazing, and it works. And if you want to go private, you pay like $200/month and have full private cover. Which you don't need.

Don't believe their lies.

This has happened to me twice in the last 2 years. Unexplained hang -- I looked at it and went, why?

This has to be it

I rarely reply, but this is ridiculous.
This is straight out of conspiracy theory material. 15 minute cities are an AWESOME idea, aimed at stopping the sprawling madness. They were being talked about years and years and years ago.

You should try and live in a small, self-contained town in Italy or Spain, and actually understand how fucking gorgeous it is, not having to drive 45 minutes to do ANYTHING.

Electric cars will soon have more range than petrol ones. 120KWh batteries will become the norm. And please don't start with the bullshit about Cobalt (which is ALSO USED in ICE cars, AND is not even used in modern batteries) or conspiracy bullshit about how polluting it is to make power.

Really, get a grip.

The article failed to mention the most crucial part of this story... How disappointing!

So...

Did they catch the Snorlax?!?

This is pure PR for yet another semi-unknown cryptocurrency

I have a much much much better idea. I have only recently implemented it.
My home directory is on an encrypted USB stick. With USB 3.0, the speeds are insane.
My computer is basically a piece of white goods -- it has the operating system, it boots up, but it doesn't actually have _anything_ that belongs to me. Everything is in the LUKS-encrypted USB.
I have an entry in /etc/crypttab that looks like this:

H /dev/disk/by-uuid/XXXX-XXXXX-XXXX-XXXX- none luks

Which means that Ubuntu will ask for a password to decrypt it at boot time. And then this in my /etc/fstab: /dev/mapper/H /home/merc nobootwait 0 0

There is a full rsync backup of my data obviously. I used to use [Unison](https://github.com/bcpierce00/unison), but nowadays I just rsync it.

If I am out, I will connect the back of the USB stick to a pulley connected to my belt.

So:

* If somebody snatches my laptop they will get an empty box since the USB will stay with me
* When I finish work, I close the lid, suspend my laptop, and slip the USB key out
* When I am out, I use my throw away laptop (which is _identical_ in terms of configuration/use)
* If I travel, the USB key stays at home. I lose the convenience of local access to my data, and only bring a laptop with nothing on it.

Also, the USB key is totally unnecessary for the computer to work. It has all of my data (photos, etc -- everything "static") but there is no real reason for me to bring that stuff outside. That stays in my house -- encrypted.

Unfortunately, it's too late in the game to get this modded up... but it is the best solution. Maybe if a huge police operation was happening, and they were after your _data_ rather than your laptop, then they would KNOW to keep the USB in there. But for all uses, my solution is *the* solution. Courtesy of USB 3.0.

"What missed opportunities? VR is dead int he water. It makes people sick, is ridiculously expensive and the games are trash and in the very best cases are totally niche not making the hard investment worth it."

I stopped reading after this. You obviously have no idea.

"VR is dead. AR is the future" -- says who?

I thought today's Microsoft was more enlightened than Gates' or Ballmer's.
Instead, history is repeating itself. Microsoft doesn't exist on mobile phones. Bing has a 2.55% market share. The list then can go on: Web mail (does anybody still use Hotmail?), tablets, smart watches,

I guess "VR" will be just another item to the list of "missed opportunities" which will either be left alone, or will take billions and billions to catch up with (Xbox, Bing).

Oh well.

RecRoom has a substantial community of people who go *back* to it, with hundreds or thousands of hours.
Virtually everybody who uses VR has heard of it.
The point is that the VR market in itself is very small.
So OK, *huge* in the VR world. Maybe not in the gaming world as a whole.

Argue all you want, that's that it is.

The bet is that the VR world will eventually grow very big. The size of the cake will get much bigger -- and so will the Recroom slice.

Because if Facebook puts _all_ if its muscles cloning *anything*, it will eventually push it to extinction. Snapchat anybody?

You have no idea. There is already exactly what they are creating. It's called RecRoom, and it has a huge -- and growing -- community.

https://www.reddit.com/r/RecRo...

They are cloning it instead of buying the company -- which is what they should have done in the first place.

I am surprised nobody here mentioned it.
This is basically a clone of RecRoom. The Slashdot crown obviously doesn't know much of VR. RecRoom is a hugely popular platform, and they are discussing it in the ReddIt: https://www.reddit.com/r/RecRo...

I wish they had bought RecRoom, rather than reinvent it.

It's also possible that RecRoom will continue exploding, and Facebook's Horizon will be like Google Buzz.

What's really missing, is the ability for people to run their own world in their own servers.

One can only hope.

(Unfortunately, High Fidelity is a failure...)