RaoulDook
@RaoulDook@lemmy.world
- Comment on There’s No Dancing Around It: Apple’s Vision Pro Was An Ugly Dud 3 weeks ago:
It’s really weird how you keep making this discussion about me as if I am the VR. It doesn’t matter to ME that you are choosing to miss out on something great, so my skin is not part of the equation at all. I’m just here to let people know that you’re wrong and that people can have a cool experience with that technology.
- Comment on There’s No Dancing Around It: Apple’s Vision Pro Was An Ugly Dud 3 weeks ago:
There’s the douchebag who shows up every time to shit on good technology because it’s not catering to their whims perfectly.
If you want that software, get to fucking work on it then. Make some kind of contribution beyond shitting on things.
- Comment on There’s No Dancing Around It: Apple’s Vision Pro Was An Ugly Dud 3 weeks ago:
It’s fine if you don’t want one, but my VR headset get used daily and was a great investment. Once you get used to good VR games, the rest of the video games in 2D just begin to pale in comparison. One example is Assetto Corsa (racing sim) which I could not win any races in in 2D standard mode, but when I played in VR my 3D sense of distance allowed me to actually race competitively enough to win for a change. Also it’s just pretty rad to drive racecars in full 3D view, getting the full experience of moving at high speed.
And it’s absolutely not true that there’s “no applications” for VR. You just don’t know about them because you’re against it. In my household the primary applications are gaming and exercise. There are a number of VR games that require the player to physically move a lot, enough to break a sweat on every session.
IMO the only thing wrong with Apple’s Vision Pro is the high price. I spent $1000 on my VR system and that was a lot. So when you get into the triple-thousand dollar ballpark, your market is just too tiny to grow into anything soon.
- Comment on AT&T says it won’t build fiber home Internet in half of its wireline footprint 1 month ago:
AT&T always sucks. Worst ISP I ever had.
They hate building anything that benefits the public. They will always not improve the infrastructure if they can avoid it.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Ask Siri if she knows who you are. Let another person ask Siri anything. Then ask Siri if it’s doing voice recognition to identify your voice.
There are a lot of companies already doing voice recognition on our audio data, but you don’t hear much about it.
- Comment on Solar modules now selling for less than €0.06/W in Europe 2 months ago:
It seems like China is putting a lot of efforts into becoming environmentally cleaner in the last few years though. I’m hoping that they’ve finally realized that pollution is bad.
- Comment on ‘Do not pet’: Why are robot dogs patrolling Mar-A-Lago? 2 months ago:
Well here we are, with all the signs of everything going as badly as possible fully present. Goddamn evil robot sentries guarding the fascist dictator-wannabe’s personal luxury habitat. At least down there, if one of those things malfunctions and hurts somebody it would have to be one of the worst people around.
This is certainly not the future I dreamed of as a child and young man.
- Comment on People born after 2000 have never seen the cosmic microwave background on their TV set. 2 months ago:
I think my mom still uses the last CRT TV that I had. Gave it to her when I bought my first 720p HD TV, as the old CRT was better than her old TV. Later on I also gave her that HD TV but she still has the CRT too.
- Comment on Terrified friends burn to death trapped in Tesla as doors won't open after crash 2 months ago:
Also to break glass, don’t hit the middle of the glass, strike near a bottom corner where it is less likely to flex against the impact. You may be able to take a seatbelt’s end and use the corner of the metal end of the seatbelt to break it if you have nothing else. Corners for breaking
- Comment on New Orleans subdivision on toxic Superfund site being cleared for solar farm 2 months ago:
Holy shit that story is bonkers. It’s like the secret of CHUD but real
- Comment on Sweden, Norway rethink plans for cashless societies over fears that fully digital payment systems would leave them vulnerable to Russian security threats 2 months ago:
I see cash businesses all the time that can operate without power or Internet. Festival / market vendors, food trucks, etc. It’s not hard to count money, give change, write down a receipt if needed.
- Comment on M4 Mac Mini Power Button Has New Bottom Location 2 months ago:
That would be no problem, unless your electricity is unreliable and you don’t have a UPS. I rarely use the power button on any of my PCs or Macs, except the one old PC that can’t do S3 sleep anymore (crashes on wake).
Are y’all not using sleep mode? Also the Apple M-cpus are extremely power efficient so leaving it on without sleep mode is a perfectly fine option too.
- Comment on M4 Mac Mini Power Button Has New Bottom Location 2 months ago:
Just like a Raspberry Pi needs a dongle for a power button, except the Mini has one already.
- Comment on Talking to dead people through AI: the business of ‘digital resurrection’ might not be helpful, ethical… or even legal. 2 months ago:
Yeah the Max Headroom show covered this topic back in 1987
- Comment on Selfhosted alternative to google keep/onenote/evernote/goodnotes? 2 months ago:
Nextcloud has a Notes app too
- Comment on Inside the U.S. Government-Bought Tool That Can Track Phones at Abortion Clinics 2 months ago:
A Faraday cage is supposed to be grounded, so aluminum foil isn’t the same thing. Maybe you could turn the phone off, wrap it in foil, and then place it upon a conductive metal surface that is grounded, such as a 240v kitchen appliance
- Comment on Inside the U.S. Government-Bought Tool That Can Track Phones at Abortion Clinics 2 months ago:
What else would you suggest to do about it?
- Comment on Has "Self-Driving" devolved? 3 months ago:
In a non-Tesla car I’ve driven, there was an autopilot cruise control mode that just used cameras. In practice it only works out well if you’re driving long distance on a highway with low traffic. It’s still nice to have (much better than having no autopilot cruise mode) but I don’t trust it around multiple lanes of other cars doing unpredictable shit. Also quits working in the rain when the cameras are obscured.
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- Comment on Altech’s sodium chloride solid state battery exceeds expectations 3 months ago:
There’s still room in car design for bigger batteries too. Could be used in cheaper electric cars with a less optimal power to weight ratio than LiFePO batteries would yield.
- Comment on There you go little guy 3 months ago:
I don’t want the law changed where I live, because these cameras are prohibited!
Several states in the USA prohibit speed cameras and traffic light cameras, because a citizen must be able to face their accuser when accused of a crime. This is a great example of freedom in the USA, where we do not let machines automatically issue fines against human beings.
- Comment on Amazon tech workers leaving for other jobs in response to return to office mandate 3 months ago:
Prime is not a money saver. It’s a money waster that tricks you into buying more stuff just because “the shipping is free” but you can often get free shipping without Prime or Amazon. Just wait until you need enough stuff to meet the store’s free shipping threshold to make an order.
- Comment on Rockstar Games DDoSed Heavily By Players Protesting New AntiCheat Code 4 months ago:
Right, I bought that shit in 2014 I think. Haven’t played it in several years.
- Comment on How come LED Light Bulbs only last for about 2-3 Years? 4 months ago:
My experience has been that they last for more years than I tend to notice which ones are which. I’m not mad at all about their longevity.
I had 2 LED bulbs that I know for sure that I bought prior to 2015 that only recently failed. Those bulbs lasted at least 9-10 years. The rest of my bulbs I haven’t kept up with but those 2 older ones looked very distinctive with aluminum heatsink material for their bottom halves.
- Comment on USPS rolls out EVs and charging infrastructure as part of $40 billion modernization plan 4 months ago:
Man the russian-oil-propaganda-polluted trumptards are going to lose their shit when those goofy looking things start delivering mail. Communist mail trucks from O’Biden! Etc
- Comment on Somehow USB disks are still the easiest and most reliable way 5 months ago:
It’s really not if you have the right setup at home, instead of using somebody else’s servers. Like nobody has a NAS or their own servers?
It’s much nicer not worrying about who can get to my files in the cloud, when they’re not in the cloud.
- Comment on CrowdStrike Isn't the Real Problem 6 months ago:
Well they could still just blacklist all 3rd party drivers except storage drivers. Many categories of 3rd party drivers could be excluded fully during a selective recovery boot process.
- Comment on CrowdStrike Isn't the Real Problem 6 months ago:
The OS should be mature enough by now that it could automatically recover from crashing on the load of a bad 3rd party driver. But it was not, wtf.
- Comment on Portable CD players are back and now work with wireless headphones 6 months ago:
I agree about ripping the CDs to files, but disc rot is not a big deal to worry about if you’re storing the CDs properly away from sunlight and heat. Recently I’ve been going through my collection and ripping old CDs of stuff I didn’t have in the digital library… and all my CDs from the 90s that I’ve tried are still good. Many of these are 30+ years old and still sound perfect
- Comment on Eric Andre and the millennial experience 6 months ago:
Danson hit the ranch so hard his hair went white
