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Have you been abroad since before June 23rd 2016?


Yes, but I think the post-brexit transition phase tricked me into believing the change wouldn’t be this drastic. Sigh.


Fun fact: "British citizens had their .eu domains suspended on 1 January 2021 for three months, and then deleted on 1 March 2021 after a grace period to allow EU/EEA citizens to update the registration information to show their non-UK address."


Google is regularly ranked as one of the top 5 most recognisable brands in the world. It's not some niche techy thing to know what Google is.

A few anecdotal experiences on help desk for, at most, a few companies, don't really change that.

Regular, normal people on the street use 'Google' as a verb for 'searching on the internet'.


Yea just Google it, and hope Google does not direct you to some phishing website that steals your private information or that offers you to download malware.


You can repeat that theory, or find out the truth with practice.

Do some support.

It will make you understand the world a lot better.

Hell, it will change your whole perspective on many, many things. You will be a better engineer and a better businessman.

You won't get out a few anecdotes out of it. I promise. You will get an entire field study.


Yes, all kids will be able to make it back to the school easily...


In the US the school bus drops off food at the bus stops.


I can't find any reference to this on Apple's website. They simply they a USB3 cable is required to get USB3 speeds, which I assume they don't ship in the box.


There are also plenty of clips for Xbox or PlayStation controllers that whilst being a little top heavy, are quite comfortable and work well.


Just because the term "social media" came later and was popularised by certain kinds of social media networks, it doesn't mean it doesn't encompass regular old fashioned forums too.

What is this right now other than a social interaction about a piece of media (the article)? This is a very arbitrary distinction for you to draw.


see comment below. you are wrong no matter how nerdy your logic.


I'm just here for the spectacle of someone using the "you are nerdy, therefore wrong" argument on hacker news, of all places.


you're here for the upvotes and validation that your comment was witty


Ah, "everyone knows." The only argument that can't possibly work against anyone.


I could replace "everyone knows" with "it's common sense"


The Quest headsets are standalone, only cost a few hundred dollars and are the most popular.

PSVR only requires a playstation 4 or 5 (depending on PSVR or PSVR2)

High end PC VR is expensive, yeah - but it's not been the only or even main choice for a while now.


Quests are a facebook data mining spyware machine, do you think they subsidize the low cost for fun? Why anyone would buy it, besides blatant ignorance, is a really good question. My opinion of Carmack has really cratered since he's been working at Oculus and peddling their anti-consumer adware crap.

Besides even the very top end headsets are still pretty early in terms of tech. Extremely narrow tunnel vision FoV that doesn't even come anywhere close to the 210 degrees required for full human vision, pixels visible on most and if they aren't you'll need an incredibly expensive rig to run those crazy resolutions at 90 fps. Games are also really pricey for what you get since they're targeting a niche market which by definition has to be loaded to be able to afford the setup anyway and has a sunk cost to justify. It's the console experience on PC. Plus you need to mount the trackers and find a way to manage that big fat cable for the headset, it's just piles and piles of expensive hassle for what's mostly still a gimmick.

I'm pretty sure it'll be pretty good a few generations of headsets in the future though, especially once on-the-level PC performance becomes more affordable and the game UX best practices improve. I'm glad the VR games industry is at least moving away from the dumb mandatory teleporting thing and letting people walk around normally now.


Ok, I wasn't making an argument for the Quest. I was making an argument against the idea that you need a $1500+ PC for VR, that's it. I don't have or want a Quest.


$300 is still a lot of money for many people for a single purpose device.

The most popular games consoles are the phones everyone has already, because they do other things, the game playing is effectively free. Not to mention that the games themselves have an upfront cost of $0 as well.

"Free" is hard to beat.


It's less than is required for high end PC VR that was suggested as the reason in my the comment I responded to. That was my only point.


The Quest 2 standalone route and the PS5VR route are both extremely limited options for "VR gaming", and that's saying something with how meager the PC VR video game scene is.


>The Quest headsets are standalone, only cost a few hundred dollars and are the most popular.

And you can't the graphic quality of a mobile game or need a extra PC to stream your content.


They don't do it with the MacBooks either, just Mac Pros.


MacBooks don’t exist anymore


Literally every single Laptop Apple sells is branded as “MacBook”. Its really adds nothing to point out someone didn’t add the word “Pro” or “Air”.


I was using your terminology.


I’m neither here nor there on passkeys, but I think in this scenario if you stored your passkeys in 1Password at least - then when biometrics fail, it would require your 1…password.

Although I don’t know how the passkey support in 1Password will work, so I may be wrong on that.


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