baroffoos

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by baroffoos 7y ago
Valve has done a pretty good job at standardizing VR tech with OpenVR/SteamVR. All of the headsets except the oculus seem to have really good hardware compatibility. The vive controllers can be used with the pimax hmd, etc. Facebook se
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by baroffoos 7y ago
>It turns out that E.T. isn't a bad game after all. With a few simple changes we were able to dramatically improve an already good game by eliminating the most common complaints. If only they had the ability to remotely update games
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by baroffoos 7y ago
Unless the major investments are government funded. Last I heard, china was doing really well with quantum technology and maglev trains.
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by baroffoos 7y ago
I haven't used it personally but I was told that the RockPi ( https://rockpi.org/ ) is similar to the rpi but runs on totally free drivers. Having a backdoor with full system access is just not acceptable in 2019.
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by baroffoos 7y ago
OSs didn't implement it though. And they never would unless browsers forced it on them. The right approach is for browsers to bring it in and then when the OS supports it, default to the OS version. But right now I don't know of a
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by baroffoos 7y ago
So you are left with the choice of making something that works right now and will provide enhanced privacy for everyone or attempting to fight middleboxes and corporate configs and see a similar rate of adoption as ipv6. Once absolutely eve
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by baroffoos 7y ago
Its a little disappointing that after all of the years and revisions of the rpi. It still requires untrusted proprietary drivers to simply turn on.
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by baroffoos 7y ago
I'm so glad linux usually contains reverse engineered drivers that are open source so everything just works out of the box with logitech.
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by baroffoos 7y ago
Their gaming mice have cabled versions which are really nice.
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by baroffoos 7y ago
Rifles have none of the legitimate uses that gun advocates go on about so its a low reward but 0 loss situation to ban them. Unless someone is proposing you need to defend your house against a zombie invasion.
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by baroffoos 7y ago
You comment just confirmed my thoughts that people in the US often can't afford a car and are forced to go through any insane measures possible to use one since it is a requirement for life in the US.
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by baroffoos 7y ago
Its corporate green washing. Companies know that customers generally feel some amount of guilt over the products they purchase due to the environmental impact of them so they get the marketing teams to find some way to ease that guilt witho
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by baroffoos 7y ago
Its strange how the American version of compassion is to totally ignore homeless people rather than do anything to help them.
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by baroffoos 7y ago
>2. The U.S. is a rich country and more people can afford their own car or to take a taxi/rideshare. Is this true? It was my understanding that a large % of Americans can't even afford to buy a car and have to take out a loan a
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by baroffoos 7y ago
I'm happy to listen to alternative solutions on how the environment can be protected from needless product waste. And no, recycling doesn't come close to reuse/repairs. >Not every consumer wants or cares about this What co
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by baroffoos 7y ago
I don't mean to suggest that this is a simple problem to solve. But the importance of this is far to great to ignore. >How much stock should they keep around for the 10 extra years after 3 years on the market? (and what happens if t
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by baroffoos 7y ago
The problem is even though we can do this, the average user doesn't. They get the unsupported message and they then throw the laptop in the bin and buy the same thing again. All electronics makers should be required by law to supply se
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by baroffoos 7y ago
This is getting really hard with some devices. I got a bose soundbar at the start of the year and it comes with a remote that has a few basic features but it is almost impossible to use properly without configuring it via the app and the ap
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by baroffoos 7y ago
And even when they find out they don't really have other options without a lot of hassle and research. This is why I think the GDPR was great. Its not just "We are spying on you, if you don't like it then turn off your tv&quo
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by baroffoos 7y ago
I think the concept of a smart TV is a good one its just the implementation is always awful. It is useful to be able to stream content directly to your tv but every single smart tv I have seen has a slugish UI, is awkward, has random bugs,
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by baroffoos 7y ago
No, I don't do those things. Sharing a computer is a fairly uncommon activity for me and most people I know. And even if it is something you need to do every now and then it is always possible to add an extra layer to your kb config wh
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by baroffoos 7y ago
Thats a long list of requirements and yet none of them apply to me as well as the other people I work with. As a software developer I always use the same computer and I have never needed to type on someone else's computer
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by baroffoos 7y ago
I was using their RubyMine editor for a few years and really liked it but then I switched jobs and ended up using vscodium and found it did basically everything I needed but was free.
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by baroffoos 7y ago
This also makes me wonder if they house had any relevance at all other than a publicly available show of approximate income. If the researchers had access to all of the incomes of the people they researched would they have been able to buil
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by baroffoos 7y ago
No, the law does not and should not use maximum resources for everyone. It is clearly beneficial to not send whole teams of people looking for weeks for your stolen wallet like they would for a missing person. >The ROI calculations are t
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by baroffoos 7y ago
Like they woke up after the first decade of facebook "hacks". Or more likely they will continue on as normal until we stop using passwords as the only source of authentication.
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by baroffoos 7y ago
If your children are too young to call you for an issue then they should not be left alone while you work.
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by baroffoos 7y ago
At some point we have to admit that passwords have not worked and the general public does not understand how to use them despite decades of education attempts. This problem would be entirely solved if they enforced the use of 2fa
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by baroffoos 7y ago
Enterprise users love excel import/export. Potentially CSV as well.
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by baroffoos 7y ago
This list could be titled "Nice things users like but could live without" For most software it would be better to focus on making more core features or making those features better over all of the small (as in usefulness) but larg

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