I really want to see Valve champion PCVR as much as FB has been pushing stand-alone VR. There is a decent-sized market there, but it feels like more and more large players are existing VR, leaving FB/Meta as the only one left standing (see Microsoft killing WMR, Sony pretty much abandoning PSVR despite it being the #2 selling VR platform). And as much as I commend Meta/Oculus for their innovations and continued research in this space, I don't think it's in anyone's best interest to see the market get monopolized by Meta.
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The latter statement is pretty disputed to be honest. Between France and Belgium having an ongoing dispute, and the first reference to the dish being Spanish, it's a bit up in the air: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_fries
Yeah, that's about right. Even so, I'd wager the majority of people owning a cottage or boat are older than the millennial generation.
Having moved here from Sweden (and having just returned from a trip to Sweden) that 50% number is highly inaccurate when measured against the entire population. Swedes these days find themselves very much in a similar rent/purchase crunch we see in Canada, with most young people struggling to find affordable housing. The generation that owns those cottages and boats are the older Millenials, Gen Xers and Boomers, generally speaking.
Knowing drug cartels and how they operate in Mexico, the bag of money is the least likely part of that scenario. Generally not having your entire living bloodline killed is enough of a motivator.
You're not wrong, but as privacy conscious consumers we have more ways to force Microsoft and other tech giants to bend the knee than just disengaging with their product and leaving less savvy users to fend for themselves. One such example is legislative action, take a look at how the EU has been wielding their internal market to force companies into more pro-consumer practices. Another is class action lawsuits, there's a long history of successful suits resulting in lasting change.
You might not agree with me on whether those options are the right path forward here, but I feel that we, as security and privacy conscious owners have a duty to speak up about these things for the majority that can't or won't due to their technical abilities.
Why does every mention or discussion of any annoyance in Windows immediately turn into a "install Linux" thread on here?
Sure, Linux might solve the immediate problem for the affected individual (and probably introduce a bunch of new ones as Linux isn't always as easy to use as advocates try to convince people it is) but it doesn't solve the larger issue - Microsoft needs to be held accountable for horrible design decisions and anti-consumerist practices.
Not everyone can, or will, switch to Linux. No matter how hard people champion that cause. And even if they do, it's a process that will take time. In the immediate, lots of people stand to benefit from Microsoft not pulling this sort of bs, and it's entirely justified to complain about it to make them walk back this decision.
This is a good example of how social media is ruining society. By allowing antisocial assholes to platform themselves, we amplify their voices and provide a veneer of legitimacy that they a) don't deserve, and b) threatens the functioning of society as a whole. While c) they get to grow their assholery into a "movement" 🤢
I'm hoping it'll make it in eventually. Kind of like with NMS VR support.
Still one of my favorite tracks to break in a new subwoofer with.
Wait, what? How do we even know it has a VR mode if no Nintendo hardware exists that renders anything but the Labo kit in VR?
Didn't they introduce Oculus accounts because of the complaints about having to use FB accounts?