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So aggregate data is fine but personally identifiable data is not. Cool… TIL.

How is that not a HIPPA violation?

You know if this was a real product somebody would have bought it.

God I hope not. Our society is fucked if it is.

I mean what does a gamer look like? 35 year old neck beard? I mean I’m a 55 year old dude that’s been playing games since I was 6 years old. Do I look like a gamer?

Find somebody playing a game. Look at them. That’s what a gamer looks like. FFS it ain’t that hard.

Sorta the same but using headscale. So yeah wireguard with extra steps.

Shhh! Don’t give them freakin’ ideas!!! :)

I hate how true this is….

You’re right they could. But I’m a systems architect who deals with university wide networks so I know what a cluster fuck that would be. It would be absolutely unmanageable. I’d wager there is no way in hell they are gonna do that.

I’m hopeful that an adult in the room is going to show how unworkable this is gonna be but who knows.

At this point I feel like I have more in common with the Iranian people than I do my own government.

Yeah this was exactly my point. And this only works if the IPs for the VPN are fairly static. I have no idea if they are. But given that I have heard discussions about doing this I assume that is the case. I mean I have done exactly this (using a VPS) to get around some of the restrictions I see.

Well that’s the problem. If you’re on a VPN, the site doesn’t know where you’re coming from. So either all VPN services ban Utah, or all websites ban VPNs. It’s a very insidious ploy to ban any anonymity on the internet. It’s essentially letting Utah set the rules for the entire network. And it doesn’t really work anyway. I can create a VPS and set up tailscale or something similar and all my traffic goes through that server. No block of knowable VPN IPs that a website can block. So either Utah blocks all services like tailscale, which is not going to happen, or this is just pointless.

If two computers are connected to the same network, there will always be a way around these sort of restrictions.

Well my university just sells them. It’s all in person so there is a lottery to determine place in line because it’s popular. And for us it’s piece meal, not 900 iPads all at once. Might have to do some research to figure out where but I’d suspect most universities do this sorta stuff.

For example I’m in NC so there is this: https://www.doa.nc.gov/divisions/state-surplus-property/retail-store-locations

This is what I want. A virtual monitor that I wear on my face. But light and small. I don’t need screens to show my eyes. If they made something like the steam frame and allowed it to work with other systems, I’d be all over it.

The problem with Apple is they don’t like making stuff that works with anything outside their ecosystem. Since gaming on a Mac is more like using a MacBook Pro for a mousepad it wasn’t ever gonna be used for that.

Oh FFS… really?

Yeah I’ve found 2 year old Dell laptops that still had Accidental Damage Service still on them. Why the heck someone surplussed that is beyond me.

Yeah I just posted the same thing. I work for a university and we send useful stuff to surplus all the time. I can verify several universities in my area do in fact have warehouses with stuff like this in them.

University surplus. I work for a university and we get rid of stuff all tfe time that is still very useful.

Not now sweaty?!?…. eewwww.

This controller looks quite neat. The part I don’t like is, unless I’m mistaken, it requires steam and won’t work on its own.