This is great even from the standpoint of wanting to go to Mars since it means setting up camp in a cave is now possible to try out much closer to home first. Kinda like sleeping in a tent in your backyard first. Makes the moon that much more exciting to know there's caves too.

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Yeah no... Voting Trump in the hopes of him being better on Gaza than Harris would have been is absolutely delusional.

Trump played a part in causing October 7th by not involving Palestinians in any discussions and moving the US Embassy to East Jerusalem. The Great march of return riots occurred directly as a consequence of his actions. He has not said anything good when it comes to Gaza and his support for Israel was always unwavering.

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Haiku is really very different from what Linux used to be, it's single user with one mandatory GUI and lots of fairly interesting features from BeOS. Not saying this to discourage anyone from using it, I quite like it, but Linux is Linux and Haiku is Haiku.

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@selfhosted@lemmy.world audiobookshelf is really good and one of the most important selfhosted platforms for me. I use it for both podcasts and audiobooks through my phone's browser and avoid the need for a platform-specific app and proprietary subscription-based services.

@volkris@qoto.org @sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al there's absolutely more to being decentralized than just using "decentralization techniques". Those techniques just mean it could be decentralized in theory but isn't at all in practice. At least not for now.

It's like saying your service is "decentralized" even though you run and control it all because you use load-balancing with your web servers.

This is great, could always use better Android email clients and Thunderbird is quite good on the desktop at least.

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Guessing their sudden desire for peace is very selectively applied. @news@lemmy.world

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Some important differences in the specs. It's not the same SoC, should have like 20-30% more GPU power, then there's their whole wireless streaming system (comes with the dongle). Could potentially do something better for audio but it certainly cannot be Index quality in that regard.

At the end of the day Meta does still do the console thing of subsidizing the headset with the software and Valve doesn't always do that so how close or far it lands in price is going to depend on that too.

@utopiah@lemmy.world @ampersandrew@lemmy.world seems like there's more potential for hardware upgrades than with any other headset that since the system has separate modules for compute/optics+display/tracking and audio/strap/power but sure, no XR headset is going to be very upgradable given the harsh constraints on size and weight.

@Gullible@sh.itjust.works There isn't a problem that could not be solved by legislation here. The police is already able to give tickets to self-driving cars in some states. You can certainly argue that the megacorps aren't inclined to care when the amount of money involved is tiny but then again that problem exists in most places just as much when it comes to fining rich people. You could always up the amounts if the politicians are willing to do that.

The more consequential thing that can already be done currently is grounding the entire fleet if there's a good reason for that so it's not like officials are completely helpless.

@Beersux1516@lemmy.zip what do you mean? Isn't a hearing assist feature potentially very useful to lots of people? Everyone can struggle in a noisy environment and not everyone has perfect hearing.

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@JackbyDev@programming.dev @return2ozma@lemmy.world well that's still Waymo's argument I think. Elon is a bit different in many ways...

@MoonlitSanguine@lemmy.zip @jcs@lemmy.world it would certainly be good for it to be relatively affordable but they're really not promising it will at the moment since they only said aiming it to be cheaper than an Index.

@MicroWave@lemmy.world some more channeling of that "Let them eat cake" energy

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I guess the only one that I feel strongly about is Echo VR. Although I think it is possible to still play that through 3rd party workarounds? Can't imagine the community is there in the way it was before Meta decided to pull the plug on that one though.

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Things like Freenet or ipfs where your node doesn't provide just networking but also storage.

Could be too obvious to mention here but a fediverse instance of some sort, lots of different software you can run besides the usual suspects like Mastodon or Lemmy/Kbin ranging from the more niche microblog platforms like Misskey forks (writing this on a Sharkey instance) to things like Bookwyrm for tracking your reading habits and connecting with other book lovers.

Distributed computing like distributed.net or Folding at Home.

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@cryptocurrency@lemmy.ml only somewhat indirectly related to cryptocurrency in that it is just part of the broader trend of making it possible to track all monetary transactions but I definitely don't want to see this become a thing.

Besides the privacy implications, I could see it meaning you need to own a non-rooted mobile phone using one of the major operating systems to pay for anything. We already see that kind of thing with other things so going cashless seems like it could easily lead to that becoming universal for all payments. #cashless #cryptocurrency

Are there any significant Discourse forums that federate with ActivityPub currently?

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It's can be a useful server with a built-in UPS if there's any services you'd like to isolate from the rest that you're running. One example is backups as you want a backup system to be fairly well isolated but anything sensitive would qualify.

You could also make use of it for purposes where the hardware can speed things up, I think that GPU could help with encoding etc.

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@virtualreality@lemmy.world might be a little early to expect hearing about them... aside from the Xbox one that I thought was just branding for your standard Quest but that one would probably do better if unveiled at an Xbox event.