Only if they have a historically authentic cable that’s about two feet long.

About $400, and remember that at the time I bought it the Quest 3 wasn’t even announced yet. The Quest 2 was the new hotness from Facebook and the Reverb G2’s resolution is superior which was also an important attribute for me. 1,832 × 1,920 per eye vs. 2160 x 2160. And at that time the cheapest Quest 2 was not $250, it was $299.

A Steam account is irrelevant. You’re building straw men to ignore the fact that a WMR headset itself physically works without any account requirement whatsoever tied to the hardware. But if you insist that ever having to type in a password for anyone is some kind of “gotcha,” which it isn’t, my Reverb G2 absolutely does work with every game that natively supports VR in Windows that I’ve tried which includes Elite: Dangerous, No Man’s Sky, MS Flight Sim, Asetto Corsa, Project Cars/2, etc. All of these games can be had outside of the Steam environment. Yes, it even works with pirated games. You don’t even need a Microsoft account to download and play free (not paid) VR games and “experiences” from the Windows store! If you absolutely insist, you can even play Oculus titles on it using ReVive.

There is no technological reason any of Meta/Facebook’s hardware products need to force you to sign in with a Facebook account just to work. A lot of people, myself included, will never buy a Meta VR product no matter how shiny or cheap they make it because of that reason, and where it comes from.

FYI, you can use a PSVR headset (at least the OG one) on a PC using third party software and not only do you not even need to log in to a Playstation account, you don’t even need a Playstation.

I’m just sitting here with my WMR headset which works perfectly well for all my games and software without needing an account from anybody. The only bugbear is that it’s tied to Windows (for now), but what else is new?

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FWIW, I use a Logitech G502 Hero mouse and a G512 Carbon keyboard and I do indeed use their “G Hub” applet to reconfigure the buttons and RGB shit, and all. I have never, not once, ever created or signed into an account to use it and this has not precluded me from using any feature I’ve ever wanted to. I have no idea why Logitech even offers the option to create an account to use for their app other than probably some idiot with an MBA at Logitech read about it and got the idea from his 2014 copy of “Techbro for dummies.”

And it’s very well known, yet somehow people continue to fall for it.

Hopefully this update rolls out here on .world soon. I don’t have any way to back this claim up, but I’ll bet you a Lincoln penny I’m one of, if not the, most prolific posters of images on here. I’m positive I have several outdated images uploaded that are no longer used in any of my posts because I’ve updated them with something else. It’d be cool to be able to delete those, even if for no other reason than garnering the feel-goods about no longer wasting a bunch of ones and zeroes on the servers for nothing.

So, if I’m reading this right it’s basically just a 17 paragraph essay that boils down to, “Sorry we suck at CSS and it took us a decade to finally get around to rooting out all the random shit from 2014 that was hard-coded to display as rgb(0,0,0) or whatever, which was a capability that in retrospect we really shouldn’t have handed out like candy?”

The TV Tropes wiki has managed to have a built in dark mode for at least the last 7 years. TV Tropes. Come on, guys.

I’m baffled by the section about “making a shortcut that darkens all the colors on the page.” I’m positive that’s the intent of that entire blurb, to dazzle people with bullshit in the hopes that they won’t ask Hard Questions, because no competent designer would ever try such a thing. It is a self-evidently moronic idea. You don’t fuck with elements you didn’t create and don’t control, like images and color swatches.

There are only really two viable possibilities, here:

1. If arbitrary user definable, hard-coded colors in content are permissible, you’ll have to accept the fact that the cards will fall where they may and some instances will inherently be suboptimal in either light or dark modes, or…
2. Accept that you won’t allow users to hard-code colors into anything outside of specific elements where that usage is valid, so users will just have to suck it up and pick from a list of preapproved color combinations with light and dark mode renditions.

What a casual strat. Real men wear one of those magnetic rings and use it to diddle their laptop’s Hall effect lid sensor.

My SO and I discussed that engagement rings shouldn’t be expensive.

Correct answer. This indicates that the two of you have at least some kind of head on your shoulders.

I used a literal piece of costume jewelry for the proposal. It was very shiny, but only $10. The point of this was, we got a “real” engagement ring afterwards and she could pick what she wanted rather than me doing it for her and getting it wrong. We ultimately settled on a moissanite rock which is, it must be said, hella sparkly. And significantly cheaper than getting a diamond which she’d be forever fearful of losing or smashing out of the setting, or whatever. After visiting quite a few jewelry places, believe it or not the place where we found the one she loved was at Walmart. I still feel sophisticated to this very day.

Fellas, if your chickie is more worried about how shiny a pebble you’ve brought her is rather than, you know, the person bringing it, what you have yourself there is a problem.

VHS was 2

VHS did have a halfassed copy protection technology attempted, though, which was Macrovision. It didn’t really work worth a damn in the end, but even in that area the media giants were already huffing on the DRM crack pipe.

It’s easy as long as you’re okay with only being able to fit probably 1-2 minutes of video, the resulting disk not playing in any consumer player ever, and probably not even being capable of real time playback on a powerful PC with a fast drive.

how is my calculator app going to find me a date?

You could turn it upside down and spell “boobies?”

I’d doubt this is a thing that’s unique to Lemmy, but A) moderatorship in general attracts a certain kind of individual and B) Lemmy as a whole seems to attract a user base with a fairly consistent mindset which tends to be overall left leaning and a little bit radical. A lot of the normies are probably still on reddit, or wherever the fuck.

…Says the chump who moderates three communities (one of which is dead), so everything I say on the matter may be bullshit.

There are exceptions, like the various infamous tankie instances. The thing about Lemmy instances is anyone with thumbs and a credit card to pay for hosting can create one and then make it their own ideological hobby-horse.

He can order it all he wants, but that doesn’t mean any branch of the military has to actually carry out an obviously illegal order. All it means is that he theoretically “can’t” get prosecuted for trying.

[Honk Honk]

Sewer Count: 999

A RealSteel Luna in titanium.

I understood the assignment.

finds themselves in a social circle or job environment hostile to Linux.

Ugh. Tell me about it.

I haven’t tried to run the latest Corel graphics suite in Wine recently, but the last time I did it exploded in my face so spectacularly I think my eyebrows still haven’t fully grown back. I really need that to work for… work. Basically everything else I already use is FOSS anyway.

That is patently false.

…Sometimes we also complain about Facebook or Tesla.

You’re conflating the tuner with the antenna. The person you replied to, however, is correct including the comment about the digital tuner boxes (which convert to an analog signal for old TV’s) being available for free during the analog to digital changeover back when.

Any piece of metal will work as an antenna, even for receiving digital broadcasts. It might not work well, but there is no magical difference between a “digital” antenna and an “analog” one, and since digital television is transmitted over pretty much the same original frequencies as analog was, old analog antennae are already quite well tuned in size and shape to pick up modern digital signals.

You just have to plug your 1940’s antenna into a 2009+ or so television. The antenna itself doesn’t “decode” anything. It just catches radio waves and passes the waveform along to the TV or tuner box. I still use the old 60’s era rooftop antenna that cane with my house, but plugged into my modern TV and it receives digital channels just fine.