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Quest 1 becomes near-E-waste Apr 30 (lemmy.nowsci.com)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago (2 children)

My worry and the main reason I've not jumped for one, is that with the requirement of a Meta account and stuff, Meta could decide to just have all their headsets of a certain generation stop working after some date even if you only use desktop streaming.

Are there any known workarounds/safeguards against Meta remote control of the device?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago

I have used my pi-hole to blacklist all the oculus, meta and facebook domains, so I don't get firmware update pushes on my Q1.

BUT, I did have a weird out-of-sync issue with Virtual Desktop a few months ago when I thought I had properly version locked.

All I ever wanted my Quest to be was a monitor. The fact that they could brick a monitor because they feel like it's obsolete, is asinine.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I found THIS, but there are some caveats.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Thanks for the research. It seems like their discontinuation of Oculus accounts made some of the steps harder or less effective, and I'd worry about messing something up.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

I took a second look after you replied and holy shit you're right it is very involved. I'm just going to take my chances with meta still and if they burn me I got my several hundred hours of Skyrim VR in. Enough to justify an Index.