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Very true. I’m definitely softer on Zuckerberg and his company after owning a couple oculus headsets, my misery is less, I live another day. It feels like doing something I know I shouldn’t do but I can’t help but enjoy it.

Friday, am drunk. At least during the daylight I’ll be sober living my life.

Good news though, my workplace is attempting to form a union. Signed my card today. Fuck management, the spineless bastards.

It’s a birthday! Woo!

Meta will brick my headset unless I tell them my birthday within 30 days, and just by using the device it links to multiple emails, my phone number, phone, and laptops. The OS feels cooked to grab data and many of the TOS agreements say it explicitly.

https://www.meta.com/help/quest/articles/accounts/account-settings-and-management/why-we-ask-for-your-birthday/

I’m quite attached to sensodyne since I have gum/cavity issues (genetics…). I want the science in my mouth. I don’t know how much of that belief is just good marketing but I’m afraid to test it.

I’m portable because I like the idea of being able to move without it being a big project. I think most people are utilitarian in that they buy things that address a specific problem they have, though maybe people who like minimalist ideas would have a different threshhold for what constitutes a ‘problem’ and favour products that address multiple problems in the simplest way.

When I moved I did sleep in a sleeping bag for a bit, but practically it’s much easier to wash a duvet cover than a sleeping bag. Same goes for hammock vs. bed. My bowl situation started at 1, but I ended up washing this one bowl all the time and it felt wasteful and effortful. I still do eat breakfast out of the pot, but I would argue it’s the best solution and others should copy me :) I’ll happily sit in one chair for a couple years before deciding a second chair or a couch is a requirement.

I think over a long period of time I’ll still be minimal, but have more specific things. It is genuinely more pleasant to eat salad from a salad size bowl/plate, pasta from a pasta bowl, soup or cereal from a cereal bowl, a latte from a latte mug, etc. Minimalism to me will always be about min/maxing items to squeeze the most joy out of life because I need that lift. Being spartan is hard living.

I think of minimalism as an aesthetic or study in aesthetics that helps people live in gratitude for the things they do have. Minimalism has a core rooted in calm and pleasantness and I feel like if this ‘nomadic’ minimalism you’re describing fits into that then it could be a branch of minimalism. But the picture here is kind of depressing, haphazard, and I can’t imagine the person whose place that is would like to live that way for a long time. They did take a picture of it… I did that when I moved into my place but it was like ‘look how I’m living in squalor’.

They’re wondering if there is a subset of the minimalist community whose goals are specifically nomadic.

That’s amazing

Holy shit all this time I thought The Picard Maneuver was an entire sub and thanks to that meme earlier I see you’re an actual person. Finally clued in…

Good stuff too!

Also this seems like an idea worth trying. Cheap, maybe might work? Idk. I’m not inside hurricanes ever.

I ended up getting a Quest 3 : \ I’ll try it for a bit before buying accessories, but I’m thinking the ‘open’ interface and some 3rd party strap to deal with the warmth and pressure points. MR blew me away and the OS has improved a lot. I could see using this as a work monitor for an hour here and there. Weight is my biggest gripe. Hand tracking is neat but not accurate or precise, it gets the job done. Passthrough cameras are funny but it doesn’t really hinder the experience of moving around doing basic motor tasks.

The display resolution is good, contrast less so. I’ve only noticed this for movies.

It’s everything I expected, the only thing I wish it had was eye tracking.

Initial scores based on nothing:

• Visuals: 7/10
• Weight (comfort): 5/10
• Hand tracking: 4/10
• Software: 6/10
• Apps: 7/10
• Passthrough: 4/10

No PCVR. Definitely leaning to that. Thanks

Edit: so I got 512. I’ve already used close to 100Gb so that was a good call. My internet is crap and I like watching movies in the theatre, so I’ll be ripping blu ray and dvds from the library and leaving them on my headset.

ngl I’m waffling hard on this purchase.

I found some 128 Quest 3 locally and am trying to decide if that is enough storage.

Happening a lot now with the default to gpt4o instead of mini. It’s annoying, but… I’m just using it less.

I feel like lemmy is in a decent place right now. The main page is busy enough with a good amount of OC and alright discussion. It’s a lot to ask for 1000+ active niche communities. I have a few things that bug me and I’m not sure ballooning members would fix it: reddit-like anti-social behaviour, excessive reposts, and posts about MAGA people. I’ve blocked a lot of communities, some users, and very few nsfw instances.

Links to youtube in general kind of suck. I want to be on lemmy.

Aren’t they just trying to get into the news and aren’t we supporting those goals by talking about it here?

Genuinely don’t want to block this community but I’m on a 2 strike policy for this stuff. Don’t need it in my life. Don’t care.

I did this one year. It was better. It just feels like normal time. I don’t actually remember it being a problem at all and my morning/evening was better.