golli
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- Comment on It Might Be Time to Admit the Great VR Experiment Has Failed 2 weeks ago:
I find it’s at least theoretically in the right spot for mass adoption. Something like a valve index or bigscreen vr paired with a strong gaming PC would of course offer a much better experience. But thats just not realistic for the masses.
Also Apple failed with their expensive premium device (although I guess it was always kind of a dev device sold to the masses).
- Comment on It Might Be Time to Admit the Great VR Experiment Has Failed 2 weeks ago:
It’s certainly debatable, but at least for the price it offers a lot imo.
The quest exclusives are of course frustrating, but it makes a lot of sense from a business perspective, considering Meta is trying to position themselves as the VR platform (similar to say android with smartphones).
- Comment on It Might Be Time to Admit the Great VR Experiment Has Failed 2 weeks ago:
If you don’t mind Meta/Facebook, then the oculus quest headsets are also very affordable hardware and deliver a good experience. I think the issue lies with content.
Smartphones or handhelds like the steam deck with flat screens could use plenty of already existing content made for screens. With VR you want different content that is made specifically for it. There is a decent amount of games (but still much fewer than for other devices), but honestly not that much more.
Additionally it also can only really be used at home, where most already have other devices.
It’s a chicken and egg problem. But imo if there were more genuine unique productivity tasks and experiences available through VR, we would see more adoption.
- Comment on PC gamers spend 92% of their time on older games, oh and there are apparently 908 million of us now 2 weeks ago:
Tell that to everyone playing games like path of exile (which i admittedly have also played too much of in the past).
- Comment on Tesla sales crash continues in Europe, with Germany down 70% 4 weeks ago:
Single Euro Payments Area it’s basically just your regular bank transfer in most of europe.
- Comment on Crypto exchange Bybit says a hacker took control of one of its cold Ethereum wallets, resulting in what analysts estimate was the loss of ~$1.5B worth of tokens 5 weeks ago:
What I don’t quite understand is how there is 1.5 billion in a single wallet. Or how are these things structured?
This article puts their total assets under management at $15.7b, which are held in different cryptocurrencies with ethereum at just above $5b.
So I am wondering how they have more than 1/6 of their Ethereum in a single wallet or were these multiple that were connected and got compromised through the same vulnerability? How expensive is it to have more individual wallets? Would it not be feasible to have it split in something like $100m chunks? Or any other more moderate size.
- Comment on Landing page for all my services 1 month ago:
That’s pretty much me aswell, besides that I didn’t even spend energy to try and learn others. Simple docker compose, simple ui and easy way to add services.
I am sure there are alternatives that allow for more elaborate setups and fancier things. But for the low effort I put into it, I got a page with some nice buttons with appropriate icons that scales to whatever screen size it’s displayed on. Only additional thing I did was enabled to show some basic info to see if e.g. SABnzbd is downloading something, which was also super easy.
- Comment on Can I lose a beer belly working out one day a week? 1 month ago:
Yep. Weight is lost through diet, sport might help but can also make you hungry. The main benefit of exercise is better health through increased fitness.
People should compare how much calories exercising burnes per hour compared to the simple act of e.g. switching sugary drinks for water. Especially when you aren’t fit to begin with, meaning you won’t for example be able to run for hours each week.
Intermittent fasting definitely is a good method. But it varies for everyone. Imo it helps to start with changing what you groceries you buy. At least to me the further away from the plate you implement caloric reduction the easier it is.
- Comment on Boeing Has Lost a Staggering Amount of Money on Its Starliner Catastrophe 1 month ago:
Thanks for the thoughtful reply, those are definitely some good arguments. Sadly you are probably right that in the end no matter the rules companies will try to game them as much as possible.
- Comment on Boeing Has Lost a Staggering Amount of Money on Its Starliner Catastrophe 1 month ago:
Makes one wonder why fixed price contracts aren’t more common compared to cost plus, with this being the perfect example in their favor.
- Comment on Dell kills the XPS brand 2 months ago:
Imo this kind of shows the basic problem with the xps line. As I understand it it was basically the premium consumer line, not something meant for business use. Meaning it had the nice specs on paper, but not the durability you’d need in a setting with extensive use and where downtime means serious money. But as you demonstrate this distinction was to blurry.
- Comment on Dell kills the XPS brand 2 months ago:
Yeah, sadly everything has to sound fancy. Imo this is partially to blame on consumers, but I do wonder how much of it is basic psychology vs induced demand that could be reversed if a company would stick with sensible product names for a while.
Instead of basic they could also go with something like “essential” or “home” that maybe have slightly less negative associations.
- Comment on The Great Migration to Bluesky Gives Me Hope for the Future of the Internet 4 months ago:
For me the bigger value is not in the quality difference between the two platforms. And don’t get me wrong, i agree that BlueSky is a lot better than Elon’s Twitter, but not as good as a decentralised Fediverse Platform.
The real positive is in the act of migration itself, because it shows that is still a possibility. So hopefully it proves sustainable.
- Comment on China powers up the world's largest open-sea offshore solar farm 4 months ago:
Not only construction, but also maintenance costs. I imagine they are harder to access, if needed, and salt water is hostile to any structure
- Comment on YouTube tests removing viewer counts — here’s what we know 5 months ago:
Is YouTube doing it with small creators actually in mind? Who knows, other than them?
I am pretty confident in guessing that they are not doing it for selfless reasons. Imo the reason is that the less information they give the user, the more you are beholden to the algorithm choosing for you.
- Comment on Why do cell phones have a data limit but home internet doesn't? 5 months ago:
How is 1€/day cheap for such limited home Internet? I guess it might depend on where you are, but unless you are in the middle of nowhere that seems expensive.
Here in Germany for example, which really isn’t known for its cheap internet, I can find options that offer 100Mbit Flatrates for 20€/month.
- Comment on China debuts a record-smashing 26 MW offshore wind turbine 5 months ago:
I am not sure how up to date and accurate this Wikipedia article, but that seems like another substantial step. Looking at the list I am quite surprised by the speed the scale of these wind turbines seems to progress.
Can someone more knowledgeable answer me some questions:
How likely is it that China takes over this industry world wide similar to solar? Specifically what role does (if at all) play logistics in this. Those turbines are massive compared to easily shippable solar panels. So I imagine they’d be much harder to transport and local production could have some advantages, but how much does that matter?
It does seem like all the new largest turbines in prototype phase are from China, but when you scroll to commercially deployed the western manufacturers show up more. Is this just due to different timings in their development cycles or have they dropped out of development for larger turbines?