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Too many well meaning, yet messy, complicated, risky and buggy services each try to drag potential customer into their swamp.
Each has a gold nugget and we need layer that aggregate, filters and simplifies whatever exists for end user.
I am excited about dedicated servers. Yes, dedicated, not cloud servers in AWS or something like that. I am interested in running my own server for decades, but nowadays, since about 2 years, you get extremely powerful and reliable servers for already 40 bucks a month. That is amazing. The power you can deliver today compared to the costs reached a very good ratio. This was unthinkable 5-7 years ago and open a lot of…
This whole bite and switch let-move-on-cloud religion must end.
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For $300 the Quest 2 is the product of the decade. Buy one, seriously, just buy one. I paid 2200 for an iPad pro M1, but I haven't spent an hour with it since I got it 3 months ago. The oculus has 100% of my attention. I watch YouTube, browse the web, online shop, socialize, work, play games with it. I have the extended battery and run 2x 5 hour charges down a day. You want to see the future ^ it's for sale.
It requires a Facebook account and an internet connection, no? All the Quests were bricks for the duration of the Facebook outage. I bought an Oculus Rift CV1 and it was an insulting experience. Huge amounts of enforced updates, internet connection abuse, and general Facebook shenanigans. Fool me once... I will buy one when it's an open platform or standalone peripheral. Not before.
As for open standalone platform, Lynx will soon become available. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/stanlarroque/lynx/
Imagine web technologies that are inherently private, no third parties or servers, and yet more social than current social networks.
The goal of such a technology is to be divisive. Separate the population that wants to broadcast or silently lurk from those that wish to share and engage.
YouTube and the content creator industry (and the surrounding hardware tech) excites me. I follow a channel on YouTube called "The Best Ever Food Review Show", a super high-production values travel/food TV channel produced by a guy from Minnesota who bootstrapped the operation himself. Imagine having the camera equipment (anything from Sony RX's to BlackMagic) and computer hardware (PC/Mac) and software (Premiere, Da…
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For $300 the Quest 2 is the product of the decade. Buy one, seriously, just buy one. I paid 2200 for an iPad pro M1, but I haven't spent an hour with it since I got it 3 months ago. The oculus has 100% of my attention. I watch YouTube, browse the web, online shop, socialize, work, play games with it. I have the extended battery and run 2x 5 hour charges down a day. You want to see the future ^ it's for sale.
> For $300 the Quest 2 is the product of the decade Would you also pay double that amount? That's how much it costs where I live and probably in many other places too. And you can say what you want, even $300 is not an amount I want to risk going down the drain because Facebook had yet another wave of "oops you're banned now too bad" events. I will not even touch anything Facebook for free nowadays, to be honest. It'…
Decentralized Finance - seems some very interesting things could come out of this.
3D printing in the consumer space. I have heard they print jet engine parts now. I can only imagine what people who tinker at home can come up with as the technology improves.
Hardware based ML models, imagine having a gpt-3 model on a chip that fits in your pocket? This would be something right out of a William Gibson novel.
I'm excited by the idea that entry level embedded stuff like Arduino and RPi will keep feeding a new generation of tinkerers, in the same way PCs did (speaking as a child of the 80s). With the amount of plug and play sensors and code nowadays, it seems like imagination is the only limiting factor for inventing useful physical things. I suppose this has been going on for a while now, but I'd say we've yet to see the d…
Like you said, imagination is the limiting factor, and I enjoy seeing these kinds of projects popping up in the wild.