I do find my Macs increasingly difficulty to use, but like many things, Apple would consider quite a few of these features 'lost' as upgrades or part of the natural evolution of platforms. For example, getting rid of kexts is probably a good thing while the Settings app is straight garbage.
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FlagsAreFun commented on Quest 2 is outselling Quest 3 twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack... · Posted by u/tosh
I have the Quest 2, Quest Pro, and Quest 3
For games, I feel that the Q2 is still the best because most games haven’t upgrade their visuals yet and because the original controller has the best tracking. Also it’s about half the price of Q3. It won’t last for long and the frenel lens aren’t great compared to the new fish eye lenses.
Quest Pro has the best form factor. I like the open headset style. Since it has eye tracking, it also has the best performance for PCVR streaming especially for Steam since Steam link supports eye tracking
Quest 3 has the best performance and resolution. Resolution is now good enough for doing work in VR. Some games optimized for it also look close to PCVR visual fidelity. Wireless PCVR streaming is terrible though, and I’m not sure why.
Thanks for sharing your experience.
My time with PCVR streaming on the Quest 2 dramatically improved when I upgraded my wireless network, to the point now where I only wirelessly stream except for very high movement games e.g. F123. I thought there was nothing wrong with my previous setup and streaming (PlayStation and Xbox streaming included) was just terrible, but it turns out it was my setup all along.
FlagsAreFun commented on A Raspberry Pi 5 is better than two Pi 4S hackaday.com/2023/09/28/a... · Posted by u/MrBuddyCasino
They do have the zero, but it hasn't been updated in awhile and I wish it was. There are still tons of projects with benefit from these cheap microboards, even smaller than the pi. The Pis have become pretty powerful but also more expensive. It would be nice to have, like you're suggesting, a trade-off and it have a clearly good platform to use
They did release the Zero 2 W, which is much improved from the first model: https://www.raspberrypi.com/products/raspberry-pi-zero-2-w/
FlagsAreFun commented on Time to subsidize e-bikes? clivethompson.medium.com/... · Posted by u/lamontcg
I think the reservation is that when you offer subsidies for electric cars you can be damn confident that it will displace a gas car. For e-bikes it's less clear and they might end up displacing bikes for recreation which is arguably a net-negative.
I think instead of a POS subsidy I would make it a fairly substantial tax credit if you had fewer registered vehicles in your household than adults and keep it rolling every year. And for e-bikes specifically you can do the same sort of thing in addition, if you commit to not having a registered ICE vehicle for 1 year you get say an up to $2000 rebate on the purchase of an e-bike you can claim every so often like maybe 5 years.
This is the same for e-scooter rideshare schemes. Much of the evidence points to escooter use replacing walking short distances, so environmentally it can be a net negative overall.
FlagsAreFun commented on Raspberry Pi CEO: ‘Million-Unit Months’ Are Ahead tomshardware.com/news/ras... · Posted by u/mindcrime
It will likely take several months of oversupply before they become available at msrp. It will take time for all the scalpers to build up too much inventory and then as they lose the ability or willingness to keep bot buying everytime they become available, enough MSRP inventory will open up and start to cut into their scalping game. Then there will be a collapse for a while as they try to dump excess inventory below MSRP.
And meanwhile, more and more USFF PCs will roll out into second hand markets, which offer a much more compelling option than the Pi, unless idle draw is your main consideration. Its an unfortunate state of affairs, and I hope a Pi 5 can come around soonish to reinvigorate this market.
FlagsAreFun commented on Altstore: Home for apps that push the boundaries of iOS altstore.io/... · Posted by u/behnamoh
Reading this entire thread makes me wonder why in the world wouldn't people use Android. From Aurora Store, as the safest method, which by-passes Google play locality restrictions, through the likes of F-Droid, all the way to dedicated apk files or site-repositories of such, of course with all verifications carried out, for safety/security reasons, there is an incredible wealth of resources. And I'm not even considering rooting, and/or alternative OS images, to the vendor provided ones.
Android is not for everyone, just as iOS is not for everyone.
FlagsAreFun commented on Testing Raspberry Pi's New Debug Probe jeffgeerling.com/blog/202... · Posted by u/Quillbert182
I find it fascinating to see what the Foundation is turning its mind to now it has a seemingly high-volume, reliable supply of its house-design ARM chip.
I wonder if the future of Raspberry Pi products will be going even lower-end, rather than dealing with the complexities of making a competitive Pi n+1
FlagsAreFun commented on Australia's weird little time zone (2008) howderfamily.com/blog/aus... · Posted by u/BerislavLopac
If you’re interested in this odd Australian time zone, Lord Howe Island (10km long, population 350, hundreds of kilometres east of the mainland) also has its own time zone for half the year.
However, Geekbench is not that great (imo) so it does not necessarily indicate what you can expect overall performance to be or improve by between CPUs.