I paid less than that for a very good 64GB less than 2 years ago.

I get slightly bummed about this possible future, but then look at my crazy backlog from over the years and all of the old spare hardware I have kicking around. I could spend years just going back through emulators, let alone the literal thousand Steam titles built up and waiting to be rediscovered. Plus all the fan projects and indie studios that don’t require frame gen as part of their base spec.

We’ll be ok, we just may have to revisit the Old Ways a bit.

If you have a sunny window get one of those upside down hydroponic dealies and keep em watered. The more sun the better.

I just built a headless M8. I sold mine last year lol.

I have thousands worth of random modular, sequencers, groove boxes, software synths… It’s endless. I sold a ton the last few years. I own 5 guitars for “different purposes”. I have a Tracker Mini on the way tomorrow.

I’ve never produced a single thing I’d want to share with anyone. But I have fun making bleep bloops and that’s what I remember when I start to feel bad about it. I just wanna live in a musical spaceship and that’s ok until it’s not, so let’s just make cool sounds and not worry about it. 🤷‍♂️

I work IT adjacent in physical security systems (cameras, access control, intrusion systems etc.). Everyone looks confused when they ask what I have at home or what they should install and I tell them fuck all of this surveillance state/must know every time someone thinks about my house bullshit. I push back on a lot of corporate garbage as well and I’m lucky enough to work off a company that listens and balances security with privacy when I steer us that way.

I think this is pretty common in tech fields.

Of course. Which are enforced via law. Which doesn’t seem to apply to these people.

It’s defeatist I guess, I must so tired man.

Dude they’ll just change the law. Again.

What the actual fuck.

Did the robot hurt you?

…you posted the meme 🤣

Yeah, fuck people squeezing tiny amounts of joy into their lives!

I don’t have a Jeep or care to do the duck thing if I did, but man…calm yo tits people lol

Lol, no idea. She mentioned hers was melted and wouldn’t charge and asked if I wanted it while I was on that side of the country. The plastic around the USB charging port was completely melted/burned. Luckily the port itself is mounted on its own daughterboard and I just build/wired up a new one.

Ended up with a Quest 3 shortly after experimenting.

The Quest 2 should work fine for all of this. I got started down this path after rebuilding my sister’s that had caught fire and melted 😆

Quest 3 (until the Frame comes out and I can get the fuck out of Meta’s garbage).

There’s a Linux VR Discord that’s super helpful of you’re in that ecosystem, but basically look into WiVRn and ALVR projects, install, and play with configs. It’s easier to do than it looks but depends on your distro, video card etc.

On my system both ALVR then WiVRn installs were as simple as installing the packages and running them. Some games complained with WiVRn but all I had to do was add a string to the launch options in Steam that was provided by the launcher for just such a case.

Linux VR has come a long way for sure! Feel free to hit me up if you have more questions, or hell I’m happy to help in VR Chat/Resonite too if you just wanna chat about the tech lol, I’m one of the weirdos that still thinks this stuff is cool even if it’s never going to be mainstream the way corps keep trying to monitize it.

Edit: links help 🙄 https://discord.gg/QxrS6dcaa

I’m so ready for that thing to be real and just take over this shit.

I’m an idealist lol.

I run all my VR stuff on Linux and have for two years now. Beyond needing ALVR or WiVRn to stream wirelessly to my headset it’s painless and I get higher framerates than my friends on Windows.

Christopher Standin’

It’s very XCOM/Xenonauts for sure.