I agree that they offer a good VR experience from a VR-feel standpoint- that said, Meta inherited all the best UX that came out of Oculus just to massively deteriorate it since then

Sick map of the Wheel of Time world! I’m still working my way through the fourth book in the series

Better yet, crack it open and find a way to load alternative firmware onto it

I’m OOTL on the news around this device, but if the joysticks that they install in the thing are just as shitty as the joysticks that they put in current Xbox controllers then there’s no chance I’d even consider buying one

I’m imagining some sort of an Iron Man situation

Is Pebble still alive? I quit using mine a long time ago because I wound up getting an AW, but I’ve still kept it somewhere

Gotta be Wii for me for the reasons you suggested. Great atmosphere and level design

But something about playing long, grinding balloon battles on DS with 7 other people on the school bus will always stick with me

Any FOSS alternatives to Pinterest out there?

Ah sorry didn’t know that. I’m still new to self hosting stuff

Obsidian has been working well for me though it may not have all the functionality you’re looking for

I’m more of a dinosaur earth guy myself

Holy

Bone hurting juice type post

I am not interesting

Fuck ICE

comic book evil levels of corruption

Something that’s become evident, too, is that a lot of people really can’t grasp how much money is being stolen by the rich. When the administration says that DEI initiatives cost, let’s just say, $200 million, it’s easy to say “well that’s way too much money!” But that amount is a pittance compared to $250 billion into the pockets of 5% of participants of only a single program. Regular people are so far removed from these numbers that we can’t even wrap our heads around them when we hear them

So this is decades long waste and fraud, but a significantly higher amount of money for handouts for the ultra-rich authorized by Trump, including money piped directly to his family, is fine?

From the PPP program:

More than half of the roughly $525 billion in [PPP] loans doled out through November went to just 5% of the more than 5 million recipients

https://www.forbes.com/sites/jonathanponciano/2020/12/02/new-ppp-loan-data-reveals-most-of-the-525-billion-given-out-went-to-larger-businesses-some-with-trump-kushner-ties/

In my opinion, part of what I think the message by liberals should’ve been for the last 10 years is not to just vote early and often, but to actually run for office. I can easily see how the critical deterioration of the average person’s mental health would make it challenging to reach this end. Our understanding of mental health still leaves so much to be desired

sites feeding content that use an algorithm to personalize feeds for each user are all compromised.

Not arguing against this at all because you’re completely correct, but this feels like a key example of governments being too slow (and perhaps too out of touch?) to properly regulate tech. People clearly like having an algorithm, but algorithms in their current form are a great excuse for tech companies to use to throw their hands up in the air and claim no foul play because of how opaque they are. “It only shows you what you tell it you want to see!” is easy for them to say, but until consumers are given the right to know how exactly each one works, almost like nutrition facts on food packaging, then we’ll never know whether they’re telling the truth. The ability for a tech company to have near unlimited control and no oversight over what millions of people are looking at day after day is clearly a major factor in what got us here in the first place

Not that there’s any hope for new consumer protections during this US administration or anything, but just something I had been thinking about for a while

Do you have a source for that? I’ve heard about this, too, but the evidence was dubious at best