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darth_helmet , to technology in Apple hopes to convince people to buy its $3,500 Vision Pro headset using free 25-minute in-store demos

It uses foveated rendering, so yeah it is effectively close to looking at a hidpi display across your entire field of vision, in a sphere around you. And you can use it effectively as a virtual monitor with a Mac, but you really have to design for the interface for a good experience

darth_helmet , to technology in Apple hopes to convince people to buy its $3,500 Vision Pro headset using free 25-minute in-store demos

This thing is overpriced but there’s no way Apple ships it if they don’t have the pixel density to render text in a way that doesn’t make your eyes bleed. It’s being marketed as a work device, after all.

darth_helmet , to games in What's up with Epic Games?

Another Epic con: they bribe devs to not launch their games on Steam and GoG, because their store isn’t good.

darth_helmet , to asklemmy in Resources for moving out of state or country.

Save up. Save save save.

Moving is expensive, and any new job is risky to start. The places you’re looking at are expensive because most sane people want to live there.

If you can find a remote job, start there: once you’re a remote worker, you can establish yourself at the job before you move. Once you’re confident that you like the job and aren’t going to get laid off out of nowhere, you won’t have to stress about paying rent while looking for a job in a new place.

Visit a city before committing, make sure it has the vibe you want. Coastal cities all have their upsides and downsides.

darth_helmet , to technology in Windows 10 end of life could prompt torrent of e-waste as 240 million devices set for scrapheap

I must have missed the cutoff by a couple of months. But here’s the thing: that cpu is still more than enough to drive 60fps on all the games I play, which includes typically demanding categories like fps, while running discord and YouTube and recording software. So the fact that Microsoft decided to fuck me over feels bad. TPM is garbage design from the hardware up, but I know to run secure workloads in secure places already.

The right thing to do should have been to force oem-licensed win11 to have TPM, and allowed retail versions to install with a pop up about security features which won’t be supported without it. Fuck Microsoft for not doing this obvious, simple thing.

darth_helmet , to technology in Windows 10 end of life could prompt torrent of e-waste as 240 million devices set for scrapheap

Corporate IT requires a backdoor on all systems, the only thing sticking out is how automated they can make that on windows and macOS. And they do need that backdoor, so that they can check on and force patches so that you don’t end up with anyone else’s backdoor. Pretty reasonable when you really think about it.

darth_helmet , to technology in Windows 10 end of life could prompt torrent of e-waste as 240 million devices set for scrapheap

I built a $1500 pc 6 years ago that doesn’t have a tpm. One gpu upgrade and this thing still does everything I want it for, including running modern games and VR with entirely acceptable performance. When windows 10 stops getting security updates, I’m just going to install arch on it.

darth_helmet , to technology in What DID Apple innovate?

If this guy isn’t rolling his own distro he’s basically a scrub like the rest of us.

darth_helmet , to technology in What DID Apple innovate?

Taking a thing and then improving it to the point that it has massively larger appeal has value, innovative or not.

darth_helmet , to technology in What DID Apple innovate?

The graphical user interface.

They don’t invent it (xerox PARC did), but Apple correctly identified that the user experience of existing computer systems was holding it back from being a thing everyone owns, and made computers a bad fit for many types of work that seem extremely obvious now (digital media creation particularly)

They did this more or less again with the smartphone: business folks and super nerds were the smartphone market before Apple. Now it’s the average person’s computer.

darth_helmet , to technology in What DID Apple innovate?

What do you think “improved” means in the OP?

darth_helmet , to games in Baldur's Gate 3 'Isn't Going to be on Game Pass', Insists Larian Boss

Steam has a two hour refund window. Watch a stream and then set a timer and try it out.

darth_helmet , to asklemmy in Is SMS 2FA broken/degraded for anyone else?

SMS is dogshit mfa, this is known

darth_helmet , (edited ) to technology in Ifixit gives fairphone 5 a 10/10 on repairability and maintanence

Running android puts rather a low ceiling on security and privacy

Edit: ok look y’all, I’m stoked that there are some privacy and security-focused routes for nerds to take, but aggregate security for the average user who goes to a store and buys what the salesperson recommends is an important metric.

darth_helmet , to technology in Driverless cars were the future but now the truth is out: they’re on the road to nowhere

One hundred years from now, it’ll probably mostly still be cars. Aerotaxis for the rich, maybe

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