vvoaterr

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by vvoaterr 5y ago
The original owner dropped it off somewhere when his YouTube app stopped working, which probably happened years and years ago.
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by vvoaterr 5y ago
Regarding ridiculously-expensive Apple heirloom tools: Go to eBay right now, and buy any Activation-Locked Apple device. It's OK, I'll wait. === ==== OK, now: try to use it to do something. Anything. Something as simple as write a
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Apple, Activation Locks, and the Great Database in the Sky
2 points by vvoaterr 5y ago|2 comments
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by vvoaterr 5y ago
Well don't tell Facebook, those greedy bastards. They'd probably provide the people in those countries with Facebook-only smartphones, or Facebook-only Internet connections, or something else horrible and dystopian like that.
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by vvoaterr 5y ago
Considering how Google’s treated AR and VR in the last 10 years, hyping people up then quietly pulling back support and finally cancellation after just 2-3 years, I don’t see this going well. They had a toehold 6-10 years ago which they cou
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Google discontinues the Daydream VR headset(forbes.com)
2 points by vvoaterr 5y ago|2 comments
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by vvoaterr 5y ago
There's a special kind of grumpy old techno-luddite, and I am describing myself here, who says "Ha! You actually fell for all that e-book and digital downloads trickery, buying DIGITAL-ONLY products with no way to be sure that yo
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by vvoaterr 5y ago
Once I used a brand new credit card with a $1000 credit limit at a Walmart in the deep dark of a Sunday morning at 2a.m., to try to buy a PS4 game system and a copy of DEATH STRANDING. The card was declined. I contacted the bank via phon
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by vvoaterr 5y ago
I didn't believe in the Metaverse when William Gibson or Neal Stephenson wrote about it, when people were selling virtual office space in virtual malls, when it was called SIM CITY or SECOND LIFE, and I don't believe in it now.
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by vvoaterr 5y ago
you mean, hedonic treadmill
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by vvoaterr 5y ago
you mean, hedonic treadmill
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by vvoaterr 5y ago
Why won't they just lift the regulations, so we can have the free money? --Maine
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by vvoaterr 5y ago
Anybody is welcome to download the Robinhood app, and buy FAANG/FAGMAN stocks with all your disposable income. Then you, too, will be contributing to the leading cause of the next "Great Depression", plus, you'll come
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by vvoaterr 5y ago
I came into these comments and one guy said "The machine I spec'ced out only costs $4300" and another guy said "They just put back the ports and features they should have kept in 2011" and I noped out of these comme
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by vvoaterr 5y ago
So, Council Bluffs Iowa GOOGLE data center, disguised as the Gable Corporation. Got it.
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by vvoaterr 5y ago
You may be one of the only ones, yes. I have never signed up for Facebook but if my family members have ever "uploaded their phone contacts to find more Facebook Friends" or if my relatives have ever uploaded pictures with me in t