justgohomealready

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[–] justgohomealready 3 points 1 year ago (4 children)

They have, I have had Voice for some three weeks now and Vision for at least one week. OP should check if their app is updated.

[–] justgohomealready 12 points 1 year ago

The article you referred to appears to delve into the actions and subsequent consequences faced by Jimmy Zhong, a 28-year-old computer expert from Athens, Georgia. The narrative begins when Zhong reports a theft of a substantial amount of cryptocurrency from his residence, leading to an investigation unveiling one of the most significant cryptocurrency crimes in history .

In 2012, an individual pilfered 50,000 bitcoins from Silk Road, an illicit dark web marketplace. The valuation of these stolen bitcoins soared over time to surpass $3 billion, marking one of the colossal mysteries within the cryptocurrency realm for many years. Nearly a decade post this heist, a grave mistake by the perpetrator enabled the IRS-Criminal Investigation division to resolve the case .

Jimmy Zhong, known for his partying tendencies and also for his exceptional computer skills, was the person behind this massive theft. His downfall was linked to his report about the crypto theft, which was a cover-up, and his robust digital home surveillance system which perhaps played a part in his identification .

Following his conviction in 2022, a raid on his Georgia residence led to the confiscation of approximately 50,676 bitcoins, then valued at over $3.36 billion. Zhong cooperated with the authorities and forfeited the stolen assets .

This tale highlights a significant event within the cryptocurrency community and demonstrates the long-term investigative efforts that can span several years before reaching a resolution.

[–] justgohomealready 80 points 1 year ago (29 children)

A Kobo e-reader. I now read much more than before because of the convenience, and I also became a book pirate. It has paid itself multiple times on the money I've saved in physical books.

[–] justgohomealready 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah, but is it abandoned? I've been having some issues lately, and there have been no updates for a while, now.

[–] justgohomealready 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Peace in which people need to have "protection rooms" in their houses and then end up slaughtered anyway is no peace, at all.

[–] justgohomealready -1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Any app that moves the camera (or thw whole world) without user input will make people sick, it's just a law of good VR. Any app that doesn't render at a stable 72fps+ will make people sick. Any app that simulates things that make people sick in real life, will also make people sick in VR.

On the other hand, any app that keeps a stable 90fps, that uses teleport with a very short fade instead of thumbstick movement, and that never messes with the camera position, will not make people sick.

Most people who have tried VR and have felt sick, were basically victims of awful, non-optimized VR experiences, and awful VR hardware like Google Cardboard and variants.

[–] justgohomealready 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The "Tuscany Villa" is an ancient demo that I tried in the Oculus DK1 in like 2014 or so, and it made me sick for hours. It uses very fast continuous movement instead of teleport, and it has a set of stairs that will make you instantly throw up if you try to climb them.

It's is perfectly possible to create VR experiences that will not make anyone nauseous, Moss being a good example.

[–] justgohomealready 5 points 1 year ago

I read this as "40-70% of VR developers don't know what they are doing". What needs to be done to avoid motion sickness has been known for a long while now.

[–] justgohomealready 2 points 1 year ago

There's a very effective solution - predefined parking spaces, and after getting a scooter you can only park them in one of those predefined spaces. It works that way in a lot of european cities, and it works well. The problem is the ability to leave them anywhere, it was chaos before they implemented the predefined parking spaces where I live.

[–] justgohomealready 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Mandated parking zones are very effective because you can't really end the trip if you're not on a parking zone, meaning that you keep getting charged until you park it in a parking zone.

Here you could leave the scooters anywhere for about a year, and it was nice because I could take one right to my doorstep - but my neighbours took them inside their house, and there were scooters everywhere taking up sidewalks. Around a year ago, it changed and now there are predefined parking spaces, around 50m or 100m from each other. I haven't seen "abandoned" scooters outside of parking spaces for a few months now, and a lot of people still use then anyway.

[–] justgohomealready 2 points 1 year ago

Where I live, people in rental trucks go around at night gathering low battery scooters and unloading fully charged ones. Apparently you can make good money doing that work and recharging them.

[–] justgohomealready -2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Listen - the meteors that fall on earth every day are usually in an orbit similar to that of the earth, at more or less the same velocity. Can you picture that? There's dust flying around with the earth, at more or less the same speed, and that dust sometimes falls into our atmosphere and lands on someone's garden. That the normal situation.

This specific object came at the earth two times faster than any star around the solar system is moving. It crashed at the earth moving faster than everything else around us - and pieces of it survived the impact with the atmosphere!

That's why those spherules are special - regular meteors are made from iron and, if they entered the atmosphere at that speed, they would have competely vaporized. This one impacted the ocean, pieces of it were found, and it turns out it is made of some alloy we'd never seen before (and that's why pieces of it survived, because it's not iron like regular meteors).

Do you understand now the significance? I would recommend you read the article before replying again.

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