Nope. Headset has a motions sensors and gyros and orients to the environment using its built-in cameras. The wands have lights tracked by the headset cameras as well as their own gyros. Works pretty well. I think the wands can lose tracking from the camera if they’re down by your waist, but the gyros take over at that point and you’re probably just pointing them around down there.

The original Rift and Vive both had external doodads you had to deal with, but the Quest is completely self contained.

Dear Mr. Huang,

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All you have to do is invest 20 billion in my company, Al Is Awesome, LLC, and I will purchase 19 billion worth of NVIDIA cards to get my project off the ground.

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CEO, Founder, Al Is Awesome, LLC

Probably not immediately, but they’re both on Snapdragon ARM chips, so very possibly in the future.

Like much neurochemistry, this information is practically useless–as pointed out in the article. Increasing Orexin does not increase motivation, though removing does decrease motivation.

The hope is that by learning what chemicals are associated with what brain states, we can chemically influence the brain into these states. But that’s not how any of it works. The brain responds to the totality of the situation, and adapts in response to the environment. The neurotoxins are the result, not the cause.

Adding a chemical to the brain has the same logic as adding smoke to logs in the hope you get heat.

Yes. I played Half Life Alex via my wifi, even.

Came for technology news, stayed for the Mesopotamian undergods.

You either learn what the commands mean and do, or you trust the person who wrote them. There are no shortcuts.

If someone is giving you a long list of commands to run, that’s pretty sus. Usually what I need is done with 2-3 commands.

Be extra cautious about any commands that install software, especially from untrusted sources. There is no good way to vet software.

Yeah, there’s reading the bill of rights, understanding what it means and how it was intended, and it’s another thing to understand how it’s been thoroughly chipped away at, year by year, state by state, decision by decision. You would legitimately be shocked and horrified at how many exceptions there are, and this MAY fall within one of them the–the border exception.

I found using an app, like Voyager, got me over the hump, but I’m finally comfortable with the desktop web by now.

Other advice: three main categories are suscribed, local, and all. Go to local because first, because it’s kinda fun to run into the same people all the time, and susbscribe to what interests you. Then when you run out out of subscribed threads, look for more groups you can subscribe to in all. And I’m pretty aggressive about blocking groups I will have no interest in.

You can also block declared bot accounts in your settings.

Yeah, and in a very cold room and for a very long time. But legally they have to let you in at some point.

lol i think the inference here is that I point to the group who enjoys their echo chambers as I hunt for my own?

Exactly that!

I think it’s generally more lefty here and perhaps more pessimistic than other places.

The real difference is that there are just FEWER people, so conversations aren’t so liable to get into votebaiting and there is a broader range of discussion. You can still get downvoted, but your comment won’t disappear under a hundred of other comments within minutes, so you don’t have to be so performative.

Anyway, here’s a pretty typical conversation: https://sh.itjust.works/post/65630392

It also feels like people are more ok with understanding less and less about the world around them, so long as they have an echo chamber in their phone that aligns with their worldview.
I’m not looking for an answer or an action, just an acknowledgment that the world feels to be on a downward spiral.

lol on your lack of self awareness

but to answer your question: but there’s plenty of doomers here. the only people pulling me back from the brink of despairing nihilism are the commies who want me to believe in their utopian vision of the future, but at least we can agree the present sucks.

Are you spitballing like me or is this your field? Because you’d need to know the percentage of the metal present in the coin to weigh it; gold and silver are too soft be pure. That introduces problems of debasement, a coin from an earlier minting might have a higher content than a later printing, and multiply that by all the different city-states, and you have a potential headache.

Yes! Or even better, make it 1234 or your birthdate and let them guess it on their own.

A lot of women say they stop using apps because the vast majority of their male dates are just looking for sex.

Those men have learned that just asking want sum fuk? will be unsuccessful, so they learn to play along with whatever minimal romance/interaction they think is expected of them, but they leave quickly if they don’t get it or, worse: they pretend to be interested in a relationship until you have sex with them, then they leave.

From what you’re describing, your date is one of these men. Sorry.

Where are you from, OP? You might get better advice from your locale.

Correct.

Your linked source only applies to civil matters (think lawsuits for a slip and fall).

Yes.

Yes, if you’re not a citizen they can do that. If you are a citizen, they can not deny you entry.

I did some more digging and came across a reddit post with more details: https://www.reddit.com/r/tvtropes/comments/4cpfrg/tv_tropes_and_censorship_they_changed_it_now_it/

TV Tropes and Censorship: They Changed it, Now it Sucks (YMMV)

It got enshittified. The owners wanted to make money, so it’s crammed full of ads now. And apparently there’s censorship?

But it looks like there’s a fork here:

https://allthetropes.org/wiki/All_The_Tropes:Why_Fork_TV_Tropes