I disagree. I started playing VRChat during the pandemic and it made me find a VR 'underground' EDM rave type group that I've spent thousands of hours with. Events in a AAA game studio level map are held every other weekend. Now I do side work with that same group that runs a 350+ person in real life VRChat rave in multiple cities every few months where tens of dozens of my VRChat friends show up and we spend a weekend together. VR has done the opposite of make me antisocial.
As a natural introvert, it is one of the best things to happen to me, and the most social I have ever been in my life.
I agree about work, but they are definitely for communication. VRChat is very successful. I play thousands of hours of VR social apps every year and you couldn't get me to do remote work in one. It's my escape and out from the negatives and stresses of reality.
I own a valve index and spend probably 2000hr/year in it playing social 'games' like VRChat. There is no way you could get me to do remote work in it. VR to me is for escaping reality and the negatives that come with real life.
I also am not optimistic hearing the $3,000+ price tag when most consumer headsets are below $1500 and an environment with games, activities, social apps etc. has already been created for them.
Those are the most popular outspoken right wing identity politic beliefs that the government absolutely does not care about. They're plastered on 'news' networks and 'news' radio every single day and the FCC does not care.
>They're investing massive amounts of money, and they seem to be miles ahead of everyone else (well, it doesn't seem like there is anyone else).
Who are they ahead of? They have a standalone headset which has fairly limited performance, and FB Horizons which looks like something you could make in Unity in a few days. With things like VRChat, Neos, Cluster, and others available, they definitely aren't ahead and are lagging very far behind in my opinion. Their increasingly poor reputation will even limit what they can do in a VR/AR space.
Meetings are smooth for me on Teams now after months of struggling but I still get near 100% CPU usage and my Macboook can't stay in a call for more than around an hour on battery. The UI is a confusing mess with too many things integrated into it. "Keep It Simple Stupid" needs to be more ingrained into Microsoft software. I do like the ability to raise hands and also the "meeting is ending in x minutes" notification however.
I would also consider joining a company in the future that doesn't use teams as a form of communication.
What's the difference between that and say, changing your brake rotors and brake pads? There's a level of danger there if it's not a professional doing it.
I play a concerning amount of VR Chat because it helped me greatly during COVID while I was single. It is an amazing experience, but I find it very dangerous for society in some ways. It has improved my mental health I think, but it's limiting my real world socialization so I don't know if it's that healthy.
You can very easily replace your real life with it outside of work and bills, and get all of your social needs from it. As someone with crippling social anxiety, it removes something that triggers my social anxiety and I'm able to easily make friends. People are more open, identity just isn't a thing because everyone is anything they want to be, people are more open to being 'close' to other people and forming relationships with them. I've been comparing it to the early internet in the 90's and 2000's, especially since the entire game outside of the base code is something like 99% community created by artists with great creativity.
I dance a lot in VR in EDM clubs which I have never done in real life. The other night I went to a real world concert and I danced for the first time in my life. I felt confident and knew other people didn't care, finally. People started talking to me, they were interested in me. I honestly didn't even know how to process it until the show was over, but it was definitely because of my gained confidence in VR.
The hacker news base and similar forum & social media 'nerd' spaces are no longer their largest customers. They've moved away from power users. Most people now using Windows, Android 12, iOS, don't care and only want a working machine that goes to the internet, plays netflix/disney+, and works with their social media websites/apps. It's about convenience instead of possibilities and tinkering.
Except for the part where the CIA had plans to extrajudically assassinate him.
>“That the CIA also conspired to seek the rendition and extrajudicial assassination of Julian Assange is a state-sponsored crime against the press,” she added.
>In response, the CIA and the White House began preparing for a number of scenarios to foil Assange’s Russian departure plans, according to three former officials. Those included potential gun battles with Kremlin operatives on the streets of London, crashing a car into a Russian diplomatic vehicle transporting Assange and then grabbing him, and shooting out the tires of a Russian plane carrying Assange before it could take off for Moscow. (U.S. officials asked their British counterparts to do the shooting if gunfire was required, and the British agreed, according to a former senior administration official.)
Saying he could've just come out at any time is absurd.
>use a sim card bought with cash and never give out that number
This is near impossible now. I tried a few years ago to get an anonymous phone to activate an anonymous twitter account and you have to provide too much information to activate the sim card across the major providers and other companies that use their infrastructure.
Manjaro is one of the only distro's I've used that has nuked itself during updates. I moved to Endeavor because I was sick of the Manjaro maintained repos.
>Arch is not something for people that want to just use their devices. It's something for people who love to tinker.
I've been running Arch (Endeavor w/KDE now) as a desktop for probably 7 years and I just use my device. I get updates that break small things in KDE, or give me major screen tearing in Firefox once in awhile, but nothing that "breaks so often". It's pretty good and solid in 2021...
My landlord noticed electric bill going up (combined with rent) and a lightbulb moment happened when we realized we've all been at home over the winter and its 220+ hours more of heat and other appliances every month.
I really like my current company and will be of the first in the office at least 3-4 times per week. I agree with your points, but also understand that it doesn't fit everyone's life.
My social interaction has pretty much always been online since a kid and most of my long term friendships and social interaction came from in-person work. I miss the people who genuinely made my day better on a consistent basis at work, and I get almost none of that remote. Being single through COVID has been hell.
I also have zero work/life separation. I enjoy the routine, the excercise, less distractions than being at home. I feel like I could absorb more and know a lot more of what was going on.
It's based off of amateur radio yes. As a ham this is actually really really cool. A Raspberry Pi is able to transmit detectable WSPR off of it's 10dBm output from the GPIO and an antenna if you have a callsign and want to try it.
There is a database & map of current WSPR activity on all amateur bands. I frequently use it for propagation indicators.
As a natural introvert, it is one of the best things to happen to me, and the most social I have ever been in my life.