Closest thing I can think of would be Big Screen Beyond, which I believe will support 3DOF mode without trackers at some point (you should confirm this), and according to YouTuber “Sadly It’s Bradley” is decent for productivity work.
But actually resolution is extremely important for that kind of work and only the highest resolution headsets available today can actually work well for that.
The reason I have the iPhone is that they make better choices for a lot of things, not specifically that it is a walled garden. I still wish I could take a system with that design, then sideload, or root, at my own discretion, without every update being a risk that the root will be broken. It's a rather expensive computer and I wish I could use it as a more general purpose computer for certain things.
Odd that the article author lists “Data as an instrument of coloniality: A panel discussion on digital and data colonialism” as an example of them doing nothing - digital colonialism is an important subject and one that many larger institutions seem afraid to cover.
Yeah I have always liked OLED tech for the blacks and colors. It's good to hear that you haven't had to connect your TV to the internet. I have some vague memories of news stories about TVs connecting to nearby open networks and stuff like that, so I don't like the idea of network hardware in my TV at all. Maybe if I get a well known brand it would be okay. Something to think about for when my TV dies. Just before moving I had been playing Xbox on a monitor I found by the side of the road, and somehow my 2008 TV feels like it has WAY better blacks and colors than that old monitor, so I feel like I've upgraded anyway!
I recently pulled my 2008 46" Samsung LCD from my storage unit and started using it again. It lasted a few weeks until the capacitors gave out. Then I dug around some forums (literally "badcaps.net") located the right values, rode my bike to the local hackerspace, dug through some bins to get the parts I needed, swapped them out at home, and now its going strong again.
I could have bought a 4k TV for $300 but it would be full of surveillance hardware, and I hate that. This TV doesn't even have a network connection, it's just a big monitor. Works great!
8k seems amusing, but definitely seems like a point of diminishing returns.
It sounds like Tesla has a lot to prove to skeptical truckers, so a big number on range can head off some criticism.
I think what people are saying is that there are a lot of 80-100 mile trips that this can serve, where the criticisms aren’t really a big issue. But more range still means expanded use cases.
Well I asked it to write about intellectual property as if it were me on hacker news ("Write about intellectual property in the style of Hacker News user TaylorAlexander") and it failed. I have written many times on here about intellectual property and I am strongly against the whole concept. I think we would do well to abandon the concept of intellectual property restrictions through a managed transition. But ChatGPT just gave a somewhat pro-IP response, saying
"I would say that intellectual property is a complex and important issue. On the one hand, it's crucial to protect the rights of creators and innovators, and to ensure that they are able to benefit from the fruits of their labor. This is especially important in the tech industry, where new ideas and innovations can be extremely valuable."
That is not remotely what I would say and that is also not how I write. The comment went on saying "we have to balance the laws" all in a writing style very different from mine.
I guess it works for dang because he has written the same thing over and over, but it fails for me.
Barry I’m just being honest. If you don’t change your behavior you can expect more of the same. Whether it’s being downvoted or being accused of being a jerk, I can see there is something about this that bothers you.
But let’s stay focused. Would you be willing to watch one or both videos I posted? Or no? There’s a lot of people out there that could benefit from your understanding, and all it would take is a few minutes of your time. Please consider it. I’d appreciate it too. Thanks.
Thanks for recognizing it. I have enough privilege that I am insulated from this kind of thing, so I have the energy to be patient. And it helps me develop my rhetorical skills. Cheers.
Barry I appreciate that you recognize my good faith efforts. But I want to highlight that queer and gender nonconforming people are regularly marginalized and othered in this country and around the world. It is genuinely tiring to them to be dismissed regularly in their daily life and then to encounter people online who want to play this up as some culture war with two legitimate sides. I personally would not label you an "unbeliever". As I have said, these people just want to exist and have people like you deal with that without getting upset.
Some people like me have a little extra energy to sit down and explain it, but you cannot regularly expect marginalized people who have to deal with so much day to day to then spend energy educating you on the facts of the lives of queer and gender nonconforming people. They are far, far too tired from everything else to spend that energy educating you.
But I have given you a choice. A couple of videos from a respectful white southern man who I wholeheartedly endorse for his explanations. I watch his videos every day and to be honest I so far think he always has great takes.
So I have given you an opportunity to learn another perspective, and I encourage you to check it out. But if you don't, and you continue to act as the victim of a culture war that does not actually harm you in any way, then I promise you you will continue to be downvoted and kicked out of any space with open minded people.
I genuinely wish you the best. But I do not endorse this notion of dogma and unbelievers. This is about common decency and respect. This is about the lives of real people I respectfully think you haven't yet had the opportunity to understand. But consider checking out those video links. It would be an act of good faith to help your fellow people who just want to exist in peace.
It’s a space that is inclusive of queer folks. If someone can’t handle that, then yeah, they probably aren’t mature enough to safely interact with those people. Every space needs to have some rules in the event that someone gets nasty. Someone who gets upset when they encounter a non-binary person is probably going to make those people feel unwelcome. So you can either protect the vulnerable people or you can allow the bully to push other people out. But whoever is organizing that space can consciously decide, or they can let the bully decide for them.
By the way, you seem to have this really charged, negative view of queer spaces. Which I respectfully want to suggest is a misunderstanding of those spaces. I mean, if you go in all angry and complaining about other people, then sure, they’re gonna (rightfully) kick you out. But that’s true of most places if you show up and act like a jerk. The truth about these places, and being queer in general, is that this is a beautiful space of happiness for so many people. Being able to express gender openly without judgment is a positive, empowering experience for so many people. All you have to do to fit in is accept that. You don’t have to like it, though that is encouraged. But if you get so upset by someone existing as their true self that you have to argue with others, you’re probably not a good fit for that space.
I want to suggest you listen to the YouTube channel Beau of the Fifth Column. He’s got a lot of great takes he explains in a way I think you’d understand. And sometimes he talks about stuff like this.
Anyway I’m non-binary. I’m taking hormones and expressing my gender in ways I never knew I could (wearing clothes I “wasn’t supposed” to wear). It feels great. All I really ask for is that you accept me for who I am. And I hope you see that I’m able to be kind to you even though I know you think I’m a “pronoun person”.
Edit: Here’s a couple videos from Beau of the Fifth column talking about gender. He’s a white guy from the south who explains things in a non judgmental way and I think he has a good perspective, but I’ll let you decide:
If someone thinks inclusive language is a sign of hostility, then I think they have misunderstood the situation. I’m happy to have open source contributions from anyone, but I do share my pronouns in posts and on videos and I can tell you that the very small number of people who have gotten upset by that were angry unhelpful people who were more interested in complaining about language than contributing to the community.
Ostensibly yes. Or maybe Apple has missed the mark on their apology too...