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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 contr…

>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. I…

Unless the major investments are government funded. Last I heard, china was doing really well with quantum technology and maglev trains.

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 acces…

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 …

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…

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.

I'm so glad linux usually contains reverse engineered drivers that are open source so everything just works out of the box with logitech.

Their gaming mice have cabled versions which are really nice.

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 hou…

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…

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 t…

Its strange how the American version of compassion is to totally ignore homeless people rather than do anything to help them.

>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 af…

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 …

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…

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 el…

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 t…

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, i…

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…

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 alw…

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 …

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 fr…

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 …

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 the…