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I’m gonna delete the account after selling my Quest 2 for the Steam Frame
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December 7, 1941.
How to tell the techs you’re lying without telling the client
Was unaware of the steam frame, thanks for putting them on my radar! Wonder how they’ll fare as a monitor replacement for dev work. I’ve seen people use the apple goggles for that because they’re pretty high res. Seemed pretty cool
Delete your facebook accounts
I can’t even access any Fakebook crap, because I have blocked any Zuckerbot service since a long time. It don’t exist anymore for me in the web.
I just set mine to the beginning of time: Jan 01, 1970.
Here lies dreadbeef 1970-01-01 - 2038-01-19 01010010 01001001 01010000peperony and chease
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wtf I deleted my account a year ago.
Just lie and make up a fake birthday
And a fake name.
And a fake face.
I don’t think they care if its your real birthday. They just want the data. Deny them the data, don’t use the service.
4-20-1969
1969-04-20
I see ISO 8601, I upvote. Simple as.
Nice.
Ha ha very nice 😏
20-04-1969
ante diem xx Kalendas Maias de anno MMDCCXXII ab urbe condita
The downvote?
24-7-69
I swear once at 2nd grade I saw a doctor write a date like this and then did it only to get a long scolding by my teacher.
Oh, goody! Maybe they’ll send me a present! Can I send them my address, too, so they know where to mail it? Meta is so nice!
I backed the original Oculus Rift, and felt massively betrayed when they sold to Meta. :(
For years since I’ve been waiting for A VR solution that plays nice with Linux and is at least somewhat privacy-respecting, and I have been absolutely unwilling to buy a Quest device or anything else. I want to play VR but I’m not willing to sell my soul for it. So it’s been an unhappy but conscious boycott from me.
I too then am super looking forward to the Steam Frame because it’s the device I need to get back into VR and feel happy and excited about it, rather than disgusted.
This has been such a depressing trend over the last few decades.
Fresh bright-eyed startup with a passionate creator develops some interesting and innovative product.
Gets bought out by FAANG, turns to shit and stops working properly or gets discontinued, and primarily functions as a spyware device.
That’s just the inevitable endgame in a capitalistic society. Most startups’ end goals at inception are to sell out to a corporation.
That makes it sound like these startups have no choice in the matter. The funny thing is, you don’t have to sell your company to an enormous evil corporation if you don’t want to.
Depends on who your initial investors are and the contract you signed with them. They can and will force a sale if their RoI isn’t met in a specific time-frame, or if the buyout price reaches a certain valuation.
Partly true but Amazon has been known to make dupes of a product and sell it at a loss to drive the competitor out of business. I’m sure that threat lingers in some peoples’ minds.
They probably also promise the management team “you’ll still have creative control after we buy you”. Then turn around and replace each of them one by one
In capitalism you do. Society demands it.
No, not really. But if you don’t sell you don’t get a lot of money and mostly that’s what people want, that’s why the startup exists.
Palmer Lucky turning into a Bond villain wasn’t exactly something I expected when I first saw him pushing the original Kickstarter Oculus
Same, still got the devkit 1 and 2 in my cellar.
Really looking forward to the Steam Frame to finally get standalone VR without Meta involvement.
Have they sent out Dev kits yet? I know a game dev shoes making a VR game on steam and he’s had nothing but radio silence from valve.
Steam creator is also a Linux fan boy btw
I deleted Facebook 12 years ago. Just join me on the fediverse like Mbin or Mastodon.
Mastodon is pretty awful still. Microblogging in general is awful but Mastodon has some particularly (in my opinion) awful fundamental design decisions. I don’t want to hate on them, so I won’t discuss what those things are. I appreciate that it exists and hope it does see more adoption but it’s just not for me, and I don’t know that it ever will be.
Add to that that I’ve never spoken to a human IRL that even knows what it is, and it’s not because I don’t ask. And that makes social media pretty unsocial.
Facebook has a ridiculous number of things you can do with a single account. On fedi those things all require different accounts and require people to follow all those different accounts. Bonfire looks like it may be a potential solution for that in the future.
Not saying that Facebook is great, at all, but that fedi isn’t really a suitable alternative.
At the end of the day people obviously just don’t care enough about any of these problems and have no self-respect and I’ve just pretty much sequestered myself from society entirely.
Do you do much buying and selling of used goods?
In my area, Facebook Marketplace is unparalleled, alternatives such as Craigslist don’t come close.
It’s infuriating, really.
Add 1 Jan 1970.
At least be exact! 1970-01-01T00:00:00.000Z.
Or if they allow it, just 0
Unix/Epoch time👌
I feel like posting about Facebook on /c/Privacy is like posting a photo of the dictionary definition of surveillance. Like, YEAH. WE KNOW.
Because it is not a post about Facebook but about the VR Headset Quest 2 and/or 3.
Sadly, the Meta Quest is kind of the best deal in the PC VR world.
There’s a reason it’s the cheapest. You pay with your privacy.
Yup, i paid my $1,000 for my index and it was the best purchase I ever made love that thing. I’m definitely getting a steam frame as well not because I don’t love my index anymore but it would be nice to have something that is a little more flexible with the space.
Well there is that but there’s also that they’re just trying to make the Metaverse happen, so to speak. Get as many people as possible onboarded and using the product and making it mainstream before recouping losses. Fortunately that’s a stupid idea with no practical value and it seems they’re starting to realize that so they’ve reallocated the budget to the next stupid thing they’re trying to make happen with no practical value.
It’s more than that. It’s a hostile business move to corner the market and kill off other brands, they absolutely had the money to accomplish this. The brand image? They failed that speech check. Beyond that, there simply isn’t enough interest in VR to make a killing off of a monopoly even if they had one.
It’s a hostile business move to corner the market and kill off other brands
Huh? How do you figure that?
The brand image? They failed that speech check.
What?
there simply isn’t enough interest in VR to make a killing off of a monopoly even if they had one
You and I know that but it didn’t stop Fuckerberg from sinking tens of billions of dollars into it.
It is about Facebook. Facebook makes the Meta Quest. It’s a Facebook product. Just like Threads, Instagram, and WhatsApp are. And those Meta glasses that are ugly AF.
Officially it is Meta. Facebook is owned by Meta but the Quest headset is not a Facebook product. I get it, it’s easier to say Facebook for everything owned by Zuk, like saying Google for Youtube instead of Alphabet.
But it is not precise nor true and plenty of comments here are saying “just leave Facebook” while OP did not post about Facebook nor having a social media account there.
And TBH, I think all VR headset are kinda ugly, it’s either big rectangle brick on your head or big round brick on your head.
This is super silly. They changed the technical arrangements of the company names, meta is still Facebook
Facebook is meta, nitpicking this point is absurd
Edit: I’d like to add that obfuscating Facebook/zucc from other products is literally the point of the rebranding and OP is suffering from exactly that, making whoever’s point im arguing with even more dangerous and dumb
It’s not silly at all. There’s a practical reason why they changed their name. Facebook is one of many products from the company. Facebook is Meta but Meta is not Facebook.
The “practical reason” is to distance themselves from the rep they’ve earned as slop-pushing privacy-invading child-abusing culture-destroying ghouls. Why would you go along with that?
I mean, that would make sense if it actually achieved that. But it doesn’t, because that describes all of their products.
I believe they were talking about meta’s literal smart glasses being ugly, not their VR headsets. They look really silly, the frame is way too thick.
I actually think the Quests are some of the better looking headsets.
I think it’s pretty heavily implied that people are talking about a given tech giant’s entire ecosystem when they say de-google, delete Facebook, Fuck Nestle- I mean, fuck Apple, etc. lol
Head in sand levels of cope
A difference without distinction.
Thankfully I haven’t had to use any Meta products for a while now, and as far as Alphabet is considered I’ll turn 126 years old on 01/01/2026 and live where my country’s parliament building is. Because fuck them, that’s why.
