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Data is data in the same way water is water and electricity is electricity; nobody should have the power to dictate how you use it. I really wish we’d enshrine genuine net neutrality and shut this kind of nonsense down.

As an “infinity monitor” you can use anywhere, it is really great.

But it is not - as it was advertised - a “spatial computer”. I can’t even think of it as an AR device, because it is terrible at image recognition and tracking… something even an iPhone can do. I have no idea why that is the case, because the hardware is, theoretically, ridiculously powerful… but something is seriously, seriously wrong with the software right now… and it cripples the headset for what is supposed to be it’s one major use-case: spatial computing.

P.S. In case it wasn’t obvious, I bought one to develop for, and as a developer I’m pretty angry at how poorly it performs at basic AR tasks.

It’s entirely a billionaire decision.

Most of us humans have no power over this.

Debian + KDE Plasma, folks.

Believe me, you don’t need Windows.

Personally, I wouldn’t advocate for Ubuntu or anything downstream of Ubuntu (like Mint). Debian, at least, is free from Canonicals corporate shenanigans.

This is why I prefer live interviews. I tell them they can use whatever tools they want, search for anything they want, there are no restrictions. All I ask is that they share their entire screen (if not in person) and try to “think out loud” as much as possible. I then time-box each step (usually 15m ea in a 1-hour interview).

I am most interested in HOW they solve the challenges I set out for them. Whether they complete it or not is usually irrelevant.

Edit: Lately, though - I warn against AI. I don’t ban it, but every person that has tried to use AI in an interview has gone down in flames. AI simply cannot be trusted… and if you haven’t learned that lesson, and you can’t even tell when it’s giving you bad information… yikes.

Oh yay, jingoist lies and propaganda are making a comeback.

I’m sure they’ll remember to accurately point out how every government that has ever claimed to be communist was actually a right-wing dictatorship.

Communism and Dictatorship are opposites and not compatible at all. Communism, by definition, demands the “withering away of the state”. Putin is just a right wing dictator. He envisions himself as Russia’s literal Tzar, right down to using the crest on his massive estate compound. He has no interest in communism in either name or form.

Valves next game…

SQUEEEEEE!!!

it’s an Overwatch-style hero shooter

My disappointment is immeasurable, and my day is ruined.

Of course.

But why would you want to!?