fonix232

Up until the last sentence, you were correct.

Except that’s not what happens, is it now?

No. Most extremists are being fed generally false information, specifically designed to be psychological triggers, increasing one’s tendency to turn to aggression and physicality, bringing them near the point of “boiling over” then triggering it once they’re in the right place.

Direct coersion is rarely used when psychological warfare - essentially making the extremists believe it was their own idea to commit acts of terror - is cheaper, and less likely to be traced back to you.

Official support IS important, because the downstream companies can’t (and shouldn’t) be expected to make the support happen.

It’s Qualcomm’s hardware, only Qualcomm has the internal documentation that ensures the drivers are up to spec, it should be up to them to provide 6-8-10 years of continued support. They don’t because they’re essentially in a monopoly market.

Meta sold Quest headsets at a loss to cover the market. Valve sold the Index for profit.

And beyond the aggressive pricing, the one major benefit over other miniPC makers is the extensive support.

I have a Minisforum mini PC. Took Minisforum over a year to release BIOS updates that were finished in March 2024… and against all CS promises it still hasn’t fixed the initial discrepancies (advertised as the only 8945HS mini PC that can go over 57W due to their improved cooling, and the only Ryzen 8000 series APU that can handle RAM at 5400-5600MT/s - still can’t get power over 57W and even though I have compatible RAM, it refuses to clock over 4800MHz, and there’s no option to configure it either).

Meanwhile Valve is still dropping improvements on the Steam Deck, 3.5 years after release.

Based on the specs it is a bit bumped up Ryzen 7000/8000 series (Zen 4 arch), with a beefed up GPU (sounds to be about two 780Ms soldered together with a bit of overclocking).

I wouldn’t be surprised if MS wanted a mid-generation upgrade to the Xbox but the current economic situation put a damper on it before the hardware could fully materialise and AMD ended up with a practically ready for production APU they couldn’t sell to anyone before Valve strolled up.

The real craziness is that some 97% of current US citizens (latest statistics put Native American population around 9.7 million, or approx. 2.9% of the population), are essentially children of immigrants. And the very same people boasting about being X percent German/Italian/Irish/etc., are now demanding that similarly immigrants to be deported? The whole American landscape of nationality/ethnicity and immigration status is just laughable.

I wouldn’t say employing. That presumes the ‘employee’ was aware of the intentions of the ‘employer’, and acted based on that.

Inciting is a better term, as it conveys the clandestine nature of the real intentions behind the actions.

Not really just short form, it’s more of a take on video feeds rather than just the limited length quickcontent Vine was famous about.

Obviously the focus is still on short(ish) content format, but I see more and more people transition to longer videos to deliver content. On YT/Facebook most videos I see nowadays are 10min or above.

Which part of “series” did you miss?

You want a specific model? 8945HS. There you go. Mini PCs as cheap as $400 with that one.

A 1050 can barely play modern games at 720p 30fps.

Add on top of that the fact that the headset needs to:

• drive 2x 2K displays
• provide a 2K virtual interface rendered 2x, one for each eye
• do this at 90-120hz
• and still have left over capacity for running the games

add the overhead of the various Proton translation layers and such, and that 30% extra GPU capacity is gone.

Fortunately, “I don’t think so” is not a legitimate argument, so off you feck.

Any Ryzen 7800/8800/8900 series APU miniPC will bring you close to PS5 performance. Frequently sold around $300-400, with 16-32GB RAM.

Drivers aren’t the issue. Keeping them up to date is.

Most of these drivers are written for specific kernel versions (and are part of the BSP), but Qualcomm only keeps them updated for a given cycle. Which is usually 2-3 years (albeit Google’s recent push has resulted in longer support cycles).

Well the primary competition for the Frame, especially with the hardware limitations, is definitely the Quest lineup rather than the new Android XR headsets or the AVP. So pricing should reflect that.

IMO anything above $600-650 will be a super hard sell for anyone but hardcore Valve fanboys.

Actually, no, the initial limit was precisely because of SMS character limits - Twitter in the first few years had an SMS gateway where you could send a text and it would be posted under your account.

Obviously later on it was an arbitrarily kept limit, but the limit itself, even doubled, makes it a horrible platform for any kind of debate.

The whole idea behind Twitter (character limits etc.) was obviously a bad idea from the moment texting became obsolete thanks to IM services.

Geez I know it shouldn’t be the main takeaway from this but Epstein sounds like a total imbecile in these emails.

Makes one wonder how an imbecile managed to maintain a ‘secret’ child sex trafficking ring for decades.

Triple the price? The fuck are you talking about?

Gaming-oriented mini PCs match the PS5 performance around $300. Around $600-800 you’ll even get dedicated (albeit mobile) GPUs.

It’s also being marketed as a standalone headset. Absolutely no excuse for using a 3yo SoC when much better options are available at not significantly different prices.

Also let’s not forget this is Qualcomm we’re talking about, the company that drops support for even their most popular chips after 3-4 years. Which in turn heavily limits any updates this SoC will receive. Even performance questions aside, using a SoC that is guaranteed to go unsupported within the first year of sales is just a bad idea.