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- Comment on And they even get a seizure when you take their ipads away 22 hours ago:
read … on my RISC-V PineTab
Because it’s not powerful enough to play a video. /s (sorry, just teasing)
- Comment on Meta Quest 3/3s XR headsets finally rooted after 2 years 1 week ago:
It is indeed a risk AND you must pin your current OS version, so no new update including no new feature (not sure which one one would need for now though) but more importantly no security updates.
That being said… if you do not actively try to mess it up, i.e. doing precisely what has been warned against NOT doing, it should be safe.
In doubt, if you can’t afford another headset, have no actual need for rooting and have never done that before, definitely safer to wait.
- Comment on Meta Quest 3/3s XR headsets finally rooted after 2 years 1 week ago:
Good point, based on how much Meta spends on their XR department I wouldn’t be shocked if the hardware itself is also losing money and used as a kind of innovation-washing marketing strategy. That said I’d still recommend buying 2nd hand so that it’s cheaper and doesn’t register on their book as a sale. Also no purchase information shared with Meta.
- Comment on Meta Quest 3/3s XR headsets finally rooted after 2 years 1 week ago:
Recommendations
- Valve Index but it’s not standalone. It’s “just” a headset so what you do with it is up to you, no need to register anything with Valve, nor have Steam (even though SteamVR is convenient) and works on Linux. With Proton even the latest indie VR games work. IMHO also Half-life: Alyx is in itself worth it.
- Lynx-XR1 that can already be rooted lynx.miraheze.org/wiki/Rooting_Process (which I did few months ago) but arguably their customization of Android isn’t as convenient as what Meta did. For tinkerers though and if you can actually get one, it’s great. Also no account required.
There are others, e.g. simulavr.com which is standalone and Linux proper (not Android), but I haven’t tried so I can’t vouch for them.
- Comment on Meta Quest 3/3s XR headsets finally rooted after 2 years 1 week ago:
- Quest 3: v79 5115411.12900.520 (August 7, 2025) and below, to about version v71.
- Quest 3S: v79 117688.9900.610 (August 6, 2025) and below, to about version v71.
according to github.com/zhuowei/cheese/tree/main?tab=readme-ov…
- Comment on Meta Quest 3/3s XR headsets finally rooted after 2 years 1 week ago:
Well I would ask you to reconsider reconsidering. It’s a very neat technical fear, arguably even an important one… but you would be giving money to Meta. So unless you really have to, because you work in the domain, maybe try to recycle a 2nd hand headset for a cheaper price and tinker with it as much as you want? Maybe even contribute to the rooting process by finding ways to remove the Meta account requirement altogether?
TL:DR: nobody needs a XR headset but if you do and you want to get a Meta one, get it 2nd hand.
- Comment on OpenAI eyes world’s largest valuation for private company in stock sale talks 1 week ago:
Rational economical actor hypothesis? Nope we’re just back 4 centuries at least en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulip_mania
- Comment on Meta Quest 3/3s XR headsets finally rooted after 2 years 1 week ago:
Rift isn’t standalone so “just” using OpenHMD should work, cf lvra.gitlab.io/docs/hardware/#xr-devices for more comparability checks.
- Comment on SpaceX says states should dump fiber plans, give all grant money to Starlink 1 week ago:
Because of physics.
Pfff, physics, pesky detail! Clearly you are not a true visionary like Musk! /s
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- Comment on Perplexity AI is complaining their plagiarism bot machine cannot bypass Cloudflare's firewall 1 week ago:
puts on evil hat CloudFlare should DRM their protection then DMCA Perplexity and other US based “AI” companies to oblivion. Side effect, might break the Internet.
- Comment on Microsoft Is Now Being Sued Over Sunsetting Windows 10 2 weeks ago:
Which VR headset? Don’t have problem with Valve Index or Quests.
- Comment on Florida sues some of the biggest porn platforms, accusing them of not complying with the state's age verification law 3 weeks ago:
block the site from being acessed from florida though if they choose
How? I do not think we know of a reliable way, DNS blocking get bypassed by alternative DNS ( and ISP probably do not have per state DNSes) , IP blocking get bypassed via VPN, etc. They can say they did put in place something but it is like puttimg a fence without walls around, it is just symbolic.
- Comment on Spotify fans threaten to return to piracy as music streamer introduces new face-scanning age checks in the UK 3 weeks ago:
they just cannot live without an algorithm to recommend new music to them
They might want to try LMS and its github.com/epoupon/lms?tab=readme-ov-file#music-d…
- Comment on SEC says it will deregulate cryptocurrencies with 'Project Crypto' 4 weeks ago:
easy to transfer to other countries
Also easy to transfer with IBAN and relatively cheap … so I guess other countries that do not rely on IBAN?
- Comment on what video game deserves to be in a museum? 4 weeks ago:
Half-life: Alyx
- Comment on YSK: Deezer, the music streaming service, is owned by a company whose Founder and CEO is a Russian Oligarch with connections to the Kremlin and donates to the American Republican party. 4 weeks ago:
Potential paths that could be interesting :
- LMS as full solution with Web interface including recommendations and with live instance to test
- Github tag github.com/topics/music-recommendation-system
- mahalanobis distance as plugin for bliss github.com/Polochon-street/blissify-rs?tab=readme…
- Yandex Yambda model huggingface.co/datasets/yandex/yambda
- API to rely on SoundCloud developers.soundcloud.com/docs/api/…/open-api#/tr…
- Comment on YSK: Deezer, the music streaming service, is owned by a company whose Founder and CEO is a Russian Oligarch with connections to the Kremlin and donates to the American Republican party. 4 weeks ago:
Thanks but maybe I’m a bit slow, how does that work?
Say I use
mplayeroraplayto play from my local~/Music/directory, or even VLC to play from my minidlna server on my RaspberryPi. Say I play a tune namedtune.oggwhich has metadata saying “Tsunami” by the artist “R3HAB” and it ends. How could my player then pick the next song, from my library or elsewhere, not randomly but rather because it’s related somehow to this song? - Comment on YSK: Deezer, the music streaming service, is owned by a company whose Founder and CEO is a Russian Oligarch with connections to the Kremlin and donates to the American Republican party. 4 weeks ago:
Any way to get recommendations while pirating?
- Comment on Lemmy is a tech literate echo chamber 4 weeks ago:
curios
Maybe you could become CuriOS… like operating system curious? OK I’ll see myself out.
- Comment on PSA on privuhcy 4 weeks ago:
It’s not a “community” it’s a video server. I’m sharing video content I made.
I could open up the federation aspect and letting you and others comment, helping it to scale, but for now I chose not to.
There are PeerTube instances doing that though, i.e. federating, allowing comments from the instance, other instances, also content that is paid for. My instance though again is not like that.
I find it surprising that someone on Lemmy makes assumption about centralization. My instance does NOT try to reproduce YouTube yet I believe, I hope at least, does provide again potential “content” to viewers. It’s never going to be YouTube but for me that’s OK, in fact I would argue, that’s better.
- Comment on PSA on privuhcy 4 weeks ago:
I did some live streams in the past. I share the link to my instance below. I can’t speak for large audiences.
- Comment on PSA on privuhcy 4 weeks ago:
You don’t think the link I give helps potential viewers by showing there is content out there?
- Comment on PSA on privuhcy 5 weeks ago:
Be the change you want to see. Here is my instance video.benetou.fr even if nobody cares, I tried.
- Comment on introducing copyparty, the FOSS file server 5 weeks ago:
Thanks for making the video but also for providing non Youtube link. Maybe there is a PeerTube server that would enjoy hosting it.
- Comment on PSA on privuhcy 5 weeks ago:
Even better: PeerTube or InternetArchive or (Web)Torrents but definitely not a Google website fueled by surveillance capitalism.
- Comment on The next time you hear someone say they're just vibing in life without a job, just look at this image. 5 weeks ago:
Just skimmed through the thread and its filled with strawmen or plain misunderstanding.
Nobody is criticizing someone for having rich parents, even if said parents got that money from exploitation, heck even slavery.
No the criticism is that someone rich, thanks to their parents rather than their own effort, is promoting a way to reach such a position in life by replicating a path that is not real. If you have rich parents and you promote “making stuff” or writing a book, which you actually did yet never meaningfully contributing to the lifestyle you are promoting, you are basically dishonest.
TL;DR: nobody cares about that specific person or that situation, we are just tired of lies sold for profit.
- Comment on Something is wrong.. 1 month ago:
developed a new thing about which to worry: what have I forgotten to check?
Well you can make rules so that you can automatically rectify things without having to even check.
Then… you can worry about things you haven’t automated properly!
- Comment on Google Keeps Making Smartphones Worse 1 month ago:
Can’t easily help there. Maybe you can find someone local who could help. Best of luck.
- Comment on Google Keeps Making Smartphones Worse 1 month ago:
banking apps and cash apps
Unfortunately that’s prevents from switching to Linux proper over (hopefully deGoogled) Android.