I haven’t tried it myself yet, but I hear the SideQuest app store is the place to go.

I’ve got a Meta Quest 2 as a hand-me-down and yes, it’s extremely locked down. It’s possible to use a third-party app store, but to make it work you have to get a developer account with Meta and enable wireless debugging.

I’ve been using Linux for about 25 years. I completely stopped using Windows at home more than a decade ago.

I do some volunteer work for an organisation that refurbishes old computers and gives them to people who can’t afford one. For the time being we’re using Rufus to bypass TPM and other hardware requirements so we can install Windows 11 on everything.

We’re willing to install Linux for people who want it, but unfortunately I haven’t seen that happen yet. Most of our customers have no idea what an OS is. A lot of people also need Windows for education or work. There’s a free course available that teaches how to use a computer and of course that is also Windows-only.

We helped one of our colleagues to install Mint on his old laptop, though.

Baz Luhrmann - Everybody’s Free To Wear Sunscreen

I don’t think it’s the lyrics that trigger me, though.

As for movies, I can probably relate. I get annoyed when movies try to push my emotional buttons in a way that feels phony or manufactured. A lot of Disney and Spielberg movies tend to have this effect on me.

That also makes me irrationally angry, even though people should be allowed to be wrong…

Seriously, though, I think there’s something about the trick(s) these songs use to get stuck in people’s heads that triggers a very negative visceral reaction in me, like I’m being violated somehow. This leaves me no room to appreciate the songs’ originality or sound design.

“Toxic” by Britney Spears and “Shape of You” by Ed Sheeran both make me irrationally angry.