I think the competition for them isn’t Meta, games consoles or one of the headset makers for PCs.

The competition is themselves, they’re basically creating virtual Macs.

That’s why it’s priced how it is and positioned 80% as work device.

Will it work, for work?

They already make the best computers, and those don’t make people nauseous looking at them, and you don’t need to strap anything to your head. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

@thomasfuchs wish alt text could be disabled in app and just be an option.

@thomasfuchs Actually, Twitter sometimes gives you boobs *and* a Nazi.

(Alt text: Photo of Sebastian Gorka sporting man-boobs and holding a rifle with scope.)

@thomasfuchs My site's full feed includes boobs (and other anatomy). I hadn't noticed whether they have alt text, I'll check next time they go by.

Bluesky: I don't know much about it. But now I know a little more about it.

Reply guys: for the love of fuck don't reply with "that's unpossible", or "use flubbertwoot beta" or a link to the Mastodon roadmap.

Please think about why these are not valid or wanted replies to anyone who is asking to make Mastodon more useful for more people.

@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io git has a warning about -f not because that screws up repos, but because the Force Police will hunt you down and cause merge conflicts until the end of time

@thomasfuchs @ai6yr 🍿

@thomasfuchs @alexm elon is about to learn git

@thomasfuchs if many people talk about this, The Man With The World’s Most Sensitive Skin™ will get to change it…

@thomasfuchs That's his legacy.

I was ordering salt, just FYI.

We've been using Maldon for years, it's the best salt. And yes, one salt can taste very differently from other salt, even though technically it's all sodium chloride.

The shape and size of the salt crystals and additives (or lack thereof) make it taste and feel better than I like other salts.

@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io SCART? IDK...

@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io we must go back to the chonky laptops please ​:aamiyadeskbang:​

@thomasfuchs that guy with the CRT makes me feel so claustrophobic ugh, imagine having to get up to pee

@thomasfuchs I didn't see the CRT at first because I literally had the problem the guy with the laptop had -- my thinkpad fit very neatly right under the top of the seat in front of me and then the guy in that seat reclined it and wedged it so hard I thought the screen was going to shatter. 😬

@thomasfuchs I've acquired some original Apple logo stickers over the years, one decorates my new MacBook Pro M2

@thomasfuchs

I was thinking Apple should be flying a rainbow Apple balloon over their Battersea Power Station offices.

@thomasfuchs 💯

@thomasfuchs I want to believe it rendered in one, uninterrupted session.

In 1983 it would also have been impressive to find a display that could have done justice to this image. I wonder how many people looked at a 60hz interlaced version.

@thomasfuchs we sure this isn't a screenshot of Rfactor 2?

@thomasfuchs and now my iPad renders better than that real time while tracking cycling metrics live.

Tech is pretty cool

@thomasfuchs Furthermore, those name folks think moderation in 95% banning nazis, spammers and other obvious undesirables. They're maybe 5%, the other 95% of your time and energy is in getting rid of extremely popular abusers with massive fan clubs full of averagely normal people

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And that moderation is often an unpaid and extremely thankless task. People almost never contact customer service to say thank you, and you can tell many have not considered that before becoming a host.

@thomasfuchs That’s part of the reason if I make a server it’ll be for me and MAYBE a couple other people. Moderating myself is already a full-time job.