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As a principle I think it is a good idea to avoid any technically unneccessary coupling of hardware or software to something else that is not strictly user-servicing, else the priorities are inverted in favor of the vendor's priorities and not your own.
I have been in the industry for the last 25 years and have done more “technically unnecessary” things than there are grains of sand on Earth :)
Looking at the Downdetector home page [1], it looks like many more services are having outages, not just the ones owned by Meta, including: - Google - YouTube - Google Play - T-Mobile - X (Twitter) - Discord - TikTok - Pokemon Go - Snapchat It looks like they all have the same failure point. [1] https://downdetector.com
Its mention should honestly be banned from this site.
I was considering buying the Quest 3 this morning, this outage is timely. The fact that I can't use my perfectly working headset to play an offline game because facebook is down, makes me wonder if I should go for a different provider. Any recommendations? Excluding apple vision pro since it is too expensive.
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"The metaverse is the future of this company! We've hired the very best brains in the world to make these 1998 era PS1 polygon avatars!" whole company goes offline
The Metaverse engineers and AI researchers don't actually run the infrastructure, but by all means, keep shitposting. It's so clever.
I was considering buying the Quest 3 this morning, this outage is timely. The fact that I can't use my perfectly working headset to play an offline game because facebook is down, makes me wonder if I should go for a different provider. Any recommendations? Excluding apple vision pro since it is too expensive.
I could not play a steam game on a PC in offline mode when my internet was down. This issue is not exclusive to fb.
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> It's almost never actually an outage impacting all of FAANG at once. Exactly. If you click through down detector when things are _up_ you'll see people still complaining that $site is down. Could be a local power outage or even a flaky connection in their own home. Down Detector is one of many signal sources and should have a "credibly" score associated with it that's proportional to the number of people complainin…
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Have you never seen The Website Is Down? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uRGljemfwUE
The answer is: way more people than a software developer might think. Ask anyone in IT, or go to anywhere bugs are reported and read a handful.
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I have been in the industry for the last 25 years and have done more “technically unnecessary” things than there are grains of sand on Earth :)
why are you smiling about that?
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> It's almost never actually an outage impacting all of FAANG at once. Exactly. If you click through down detector when things are _up_ you'll see people still complaining that $site is down. Could be a local power outage or even a flaky connection in their own home. Down Detector is one of many signal sources and should have a "credibly" score associated with it that's proportional to the number of people complainin…
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The Quest 3 is kind of the obvious mainstream consumer choice for a VR headset. Standalone wireless headset, reasonably powerful chipset, can optionally stream from a PC either wired or wireless, good optics/resolution, decent controllers/tracking, large game library, large suite of features (including hand tracking and color passthrough), all for a reasonable price. Not sure any other headset really competes on all…
can we really call it standalone if you need it to phone home to Meta? and doesn't it require an account one of their services too? they did a fantastic job with hardware. I just wish they didn't couple the software so tightly.
I view VR headsets and their peripherals as no different than a mouse, keyboard, and display.
Companies requiring all this nonsense to use your device, put in that light, is ludacris.