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Re: Meta outage

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Post by mrzaggy »

the42thdoctor wrote: post #109
ykonstant wrote: post #78

And rather than an indication that it is not working, I was just told to login again; since the attempts were unsuccessful, I was led to reset my password. Now I have no clue if the password has been reset properly or an old one is used, or login with google is used, or if I will continue to be logged out after they fix stuff. If your service is down, please say "my service is down".

That was my cue to check hacker news

Yup - same here...

I fear my initial attempts to 'reset my password' and getting that same security(at)facebookmail.com email with the SAME reset code, have not helped me - if only I'd been asleep, I probably could have slept through it.

At least Insty came back up - though to be honest I cant remember that password either and now terrified to try and recover or change that now too!

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Post by Solvency »

packetslave wrote: post #656
Solvency wrote: post #586

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"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.

You keep defending developers while I'm pointing the finger at corporate. But good victim complex.

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Post by sandspar »

fuzzfactor wrote: post #666
sandspar wrote: post #582

Earlier quoted context omitted.

On a psychological note, I think the threat detection part of our brain doesn't always notify our conscious thought that it's actively monitoring for threats. I've often noticed that when I'm carefully handling a hot frying pan then my ringing phone is more likely to startle me than usual.

When you've already got one threat on your hands you're less prepared for anything else.

That makes sense. I've noticed too that my brain seems to have a threat pre-emption module as well as a threat reaction module. For example, I'll sometimes be walking and texting at the same time, only to stop in my tracks and suddenly realize that there's a hidden stair in front of me.

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Post by bdangubic »

basilgohar wrote: post #350
fmsf wrote: post #292

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.

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 :)

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Post by samtheprogram »

YeBanKo wrote: post #678
fmsf wrote: post #292

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.

Have never had this problem. There must have been something specific to your scenario, like the game wasn't downloaded, or it's a specific title?

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Post by ZealousFerret »

fmsf wrote: post #292

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.

Quest is the best option right now

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Post by callalex »

fmsf wrote: post #292

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.

Whatever you do, get one of the all-in-ones that doesn’t require setting up tracking beacons. They are universally a pain and will cause you to never bother playing.

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Post by IggleSniggle »

YeBanKo wrote: post #678
fmsf wrote: post #292

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.

That's not a Steam thing though, but rather the specific software. Steam explicitly has an exit path for the user if Valve disappeared overnight that allows their downloaded games to continue working offline.

The difference being that we are discussing platforms, not the things that run on those platforms.

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Post by cesarb »

d00nut wrote: post #646
fmsf wrote: post #292

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.

Steam Index is great if you don't care about cords / needing a PC. Easy to do VRchat, IRacing, or even blade & sorcery game sessions for 3-4+ hours without any eye strain, headaches, motion sickness, or discomfort from the headset. It also fits over / around glasses Biggest reason not to IMO is of the rumors around an "index2".

> Biggest reason not to IMO is of the rumors around an "index2".

Another big reason not to buy a Steam Index is "not available in your country". The only VR headsets I've seen in stores here are the Quest 2/3 and the PSVR2; and the Steam store page for the Valve Index (and the Steam Deck) says "not available in your country".

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