Its funny because a sizable chunk of the fediverse has a server/network rack in their home. Myself included.

Granted its not running any modern ‘ai’ like stable diffusion or LLM’s.

Lotta early 2010s models are also telemetry free but have newer safety systems and probably less miles on them.

I swear to fucking god if the pedophelia gets him in less trouble than a consensual act between two grown men I’m gonna scream.

Though the idea of him blowing a naked Bill Clinton hammering on his six sax is at least funny.

Yeah that’s my exact issue. I’m not interested in gaming on the things built in chipset. Were getting to the point where resolutions are high enough that these can become viable monitor replacements.

Imagine the apple vision with the openness of a standard PC. Snapdragon based ARM chips get in the way of that. No standard firmware like UEFI/BIOS, no mainline GPU drivers, and most devices built on them give no way to change is signing keys like secure boot on PC or pixel devices.

They’re going to have to do a lot of work to maintain the openness a PC gives from the get-go. Is it possible? Sure. I just don’t have much hope anymore.

their desktop OS. Not any.

There is no standardardized firmware interface like UEFI or BIOS, and most device drivers for snapdragon arm chips are not available mainline.

This won’t be as open as the steamdeck unless they put a lot of work into it that I’m not sure they’re willing to do.

Its a better architecture but it has no standard firmware implementation that allows you to implement an OS across a broad spectrum of chipsets and boards from all manufacturers (like UEFI).

Sure you can make a generic arm image, but a lot of hardware drivers are not properly implemented in mainline kernel. For most hardware, such an image would be mostly useful to developers and tinkerers looking to see what’s technically possible. Unless they want to try writing/forking drivers themselves.

To pretend this will be as open and user modifiable is goofy, I kinda doubt well get official support for non-steam OS’s.

Even if we do, would we be able to change the signing key to make sure its secured from evil maid, a-la safeboot?

The interest for me isn’t at just the idea of a gaming device, but an open source friendly face-mounted general purpose computer. Like apple’s HMD without the vendor lock-in.

Also you’re right about the price, not sure where I saw $1300. My bad.

I get why they didn’t put an x86 chipset in it, but I’m still upset about it. Putting any desktop OS on your handheld is neat, but doing on your vr headset is industry changing IMO.

What really gets me is they couldn’t at least include a sensor array for preexisting steamVR tracking, especially since the controllers seem to be an a direct downgrade from knuckles/index controllers.

No one paying valve 1300 for an HMD is looking to put ease of setup over bleeding edge VR tech. If they are, make it a cheaper side product and actually compete with meta…

Edit: My bad, they didn’t announce price yet. Not sure where I saw $1300…

If it’s the right price it’d be a bit more understandable, even if it wasn’t the rumored magic HMD I wanted lol.

Whats ominous about a communications dish?

Read this and immediately ran over to kiss my boifriend. Nice to have some good news for once.

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Okay, maybe not that specifically, but more generally, to move the car when it cannot, for whatever reason, move itself.

Even if that reason is alchohilism.

Don’t most cars also have the little hidden keyhole next to the shifter, specifically for this purpose?

Every major tech company has a stake in chromium. Google could die tomorrow, and someone would bankroll it for their own selfish use.

You thing Microsoft, Apple, or Amazon wouldn’t jump at basically owning the development of the worlds most popular web browser?

The interesting thing about simplex is that (IIRC) the chat protocol is unencrypted and sits atop an encrypted transport protocol call SMP.

That is to say the encryption is divorced from the rest of the stack, and a lot of the hardwork of making it is done.

Of course its going to need lots of maintenance, but the open source community has proven itself capable of maintaining secure implementations of encryption alogrythms.

This is especially true if we continue to take upstream upgrades from SimpleX and strip the crypto VC bullshit out of the codebase.

Its a great way to buy vpns/seedboxes/burner VoIP lines/SMS author servcies/hosting/hrt/drugs and take anon donations.

Its not how I’m going to pay my roommate to get her back for a bill or something. Especially when its already attached to another transaction that’s related to me or my close friends by whatever card they used to pay the bill.

Even if I did, I could send them a qr or text of a wallet RX address. Copy/Paste already exists. You don’t need to integrate crypto into it.

now is the time to add monero

No, fuck that, no crypto integration. I want a basic simple fucking messenger that’s open source, let’s you own your own data without owning the server, allows for new easy anonymous identities, and can be handed to your grandma.

SimpleX was the only thing that fulfilled this. This aggression will not stand, man. Like that was the one thing that ticked the boxes.

There was some comment I read a month or two ago about not trusting it because it was VC funded. I knew they where right, but it was nice while it lasted…

Get a CRT, or buy a new TV and just don’t connect it to the internet.

The difference between a disconnected smart TV and a dumb one is basically zilch.

If you’re getting anything which has a native res higher than 480p, I’d recommend looking into up-scalers like the ossc or some of the offerings from Retrotink. Even modern TV’s have shit up-scalers.

Also make sure you’re using Scart/RGB or Component where possible. Composite, or even worse RF, looks like cookie in most places.

Even if you have to settle for S-Video through a koryuu, it will look better than composite for something like the N64 where RGB or component are unavailable for un-modded consoles.

Mission failed successfully: I’m bringing my enby instead and you can’t stop me.

I do as little as possible while taking as much resource up as I can.

Also I spend a very sizable fraction of my time hitting my weed pen in the parking lot instead of actually working.

Just do the minimum to not get fired and rack up the companies expenses as much as possible. They’d just replace you with a cheaper, and more efficient replacement any who.

Yes bet so are console platforms.