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John Carmack pushes out unlocked OS for defunct Oculus Go headset

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Re: John Carmack pushes out unlocked OS for defunct Oculus Go headset

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Post by ThatPlayer »

kall wrote: post #103
soylentcola wrote: post #94

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Oddly enough, this is why I stopped buying iOS devices. With my old Android phones/the one Android tablet I got I was able to install something useful and pared-down once they became older and unsupported. They work fine as readers/browsers on my home network or as "fancy" remotes and local-network media players. The only old iOS device I haven't sold/tossed is an iPad 2 which is unbearably slow for most things, and…

Hm, I have an OG iPad that runs a few excellent apps (TouchOSC, Animoog, Samplr) well enough that it‘s still a worthwhile device with just those. TouchOSC in particular should get massive props. As of last year, it was still able to update and is solid and super responsive. The App Store still works and I can download the last compatible version of any app I own.

Except for Safari, which is tied to OS updates. And of course Apple don't allow other browsers on the store so now you're stuck on the outdated browser.

I know my old iPad has issues with Home Assistant's web interface for example.

Re: John Carmack pushes out unlocked OS for defunct Oculus Go headset

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Post by baby »

causi wrote: post #95

I'm really glad for what Carmack did. It's rather sad though, that support was dropped for this headset after only two years. As a reminder, the Oculus Go was released more than a year after the Nintendo Switch.

VR is advancing at an incredible pace really, I don't think it's sad.

Re: John Carmack pushes out unlocked OS for defunct Oculus Go headset

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Post by kingcharles »

what_is_orcas wrote: post #168
kingcharles wrote: post #159

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Yes, been a web developer since 1994. Framework churn is THE WORST. Ugh. Really, nothing in terms of outside appearance has changed. The web looks pretty much identical to when I was locked up in 2013. There are a lot more ads, and way more video ads. The Web uses up waaaay more RAM and CPU. Development, though, has been a bitch since I got out a couple of months ago. I want to use the latest frameworks, but I'm star…

I find it really interesting that you love TikTok. > it's actually fucking awesome for those of us with "neurodiversity". Can you expand upon that a bit? How engaged were you with social media before your sentence, and has that (or will that) change now that you've had some space from it? > we would see the occasional video on the news How does the picture that the media paints of the internet & social media compare…

I was really suprised about TikTok. I did a lot of social media marketing for nonprofits before I was locked up, so I was very into social media.

The thing with TikTok is that there are tons of videos helping, supporting and bringing awareness to issues such as ADHD, OCD, Tourettes, differing sexualities, gender identity etc, that are really refreshing and have really helped me to understand myself and my neuro-problems that caused me to get locked up. No other social network has that type of content.

Facebook was huge in 2013 and still relevant. Now I barely use it at all. I think Facebook has some big problems. I don't want to say it will go the way of MySpace as Facebook has been much better at adapting than MySpace was, and Facebook has some way smarter people and more money. It might even come back into trend again in the future if their "Meta" projects take flight.

The media only really shows the goofiest or cutest videos from social media. Nothing of any real worth. So my view of TikTok was very fucked up. TikTok is different for every person that uses it since your For You page is based around how you interact with the videos it gives you. I get zero people dancing on my page, and a lot of really smart content.

Also, for the first five years I didn't have any access to the news, for security reasons, so I was very cut off.

Re: John Carmack pushes out unlocked OS for defunct Oculus Go headset

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Post by kingcharles »

maximedupre wrote: post #145
pharmakom wrote: post #140

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I would definitely read a blog (or just follow up comments) about a technology orientated person jumping forward almost a decade in time and what they find really different. Are you a professional developer? Has framework churn been an issue?

Yeah that would be facinating

Ask away.

Re: John Carmack pushes out unlocked OS for defunct Oculus Go headset

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Post by userbinator »

buildbot wrote: post #34

This is tangential, but I really wish that their would be legislation, valid retroactively, to enable old unsupported devices to still be utilized. I think this goes somewhat beyond right to repair? Take for example digital backs for medium format cameras - these things are built in low numbers, with high end FPGAs and camera sensors, with JTAG interfaces ready to go and everything - but then forgotten about a few ye…

Right to modify --- i.e. what the automotive industry has had for around a century now.

It's why you can still get parts (aftermarket, usually) for vehicles many decades old. I wish companies like Tesla weren't trying to change that, however.

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Post by Cederfjard »

kingcharles wrote: post #159
pharmakom wrote: post #140

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I would definitely read a blog (or just follow up comments) about a technology orientated person jumping forward almost a decade in time and what they find really different. Are you a professional developer? Has framework churn been an issue?

Yes, been a web developer since 1994. Framework churn is THE WORST. Ugh. Really, nothing in terms of outside appearance has changed. The web looks pretty much identical to when I was locked up in 2013. There are a lot more ads, and way more video ads. The Web uses up waaaay more RAM and CPU. Development, though, has been a bitch since I got out a couple of months ago. I want to use the latest frameworks, but I'm star…

> I can't get anything back as the court owns all the identity documents that I have and won't let me have them. In fact, when I asked a couple of weeks ago they said they have no idea where they put them all.

This is perhaps not what you were expecting to be asked about, but I’m curious nonetheless. So when you reported to prison you had to hand in your passport, driver’s license etc? And now when you were released they claimed that they have misplaced them? How do you get new documents, family members vouching for you or something like that?

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Post by tshaddox »

titusjohnson wrote: post #151
tshaddox wrote: post #133

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How is that any different than wanting to archive a CGI website from the 90s with a URL structure like http://example.com/?query=foo ? Unless there's an index page with links to all possible query values, or you can work out how to manually iterate all possible query values, there's not much you can do. This doesn't seem to have anything to do with JavaScript data visualizations specifically.

That URL structure is trivial for a crawler to walk and index. I'm not sure why you'd assume that there wouldn't be an index page, such a site would have all desired links in the DOM, the crawler just sniffs those out and visits in sequence. There's no need to think that the links would somehow be 'hidden' from the user and have to be randomly enumerated... Not only that, but a site of that era probably also has a si…

> I'm not sure why you'd assume that there wouldn't be an index page

I’m not assuming either way. I’m just pointing out that either type of web site could choose to have an index page or choose not to have an index page.

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