Always a balance - after you support feature X you may find important use case D that feature X handles poorly, or someone may use X in a surprising way that is very difficult to replicate in a new implementation. Flexible functionality + backwards compatibility requires very careful design.
It's also not really necessary to spend much time in "Public" or even group lobbies once you find some friends in circles that appeal to you. For me, it's Friends+ and occasionally group worlds for meeting new people, and Invite+ when I just want a quiet hangout.
But I do also live in a rural area.
would be very interested in links to research on this!
Christmas Eve is the main day of celebration in Scandinavia and a lot of central Europe! But also I think some people figure Christmas Eve is Christmas enough to give some well wishes.
they have voice coil haptics, which are basically speakers without a diaphragm!
why would I, as a VRC+ subscriber, want to pay for some guy to age verify his 50 alts because he keeps getting banned?
only those who subscribe to it, hence why I have it in my bio too. but it shows it under your name on posts, rather than having to check bio.
in case you aren't already aware, many people here set their pronouns via
bsky.app/profile/pron...
(it gives you a little badge)
how toasty is it supposed to get? mine gets warm enough to be distracting even with 100% fan on 0 brightness (with high 20s room temp), does that sound like your experience with both units or just the first one? I just assumed it got hot, but it's my biggest issue.
The "marginal cost of intelligence" is an important question, especially if you consider current models interesting demos but insufficiently consistent to be left unsupervised enough to be cost-effective.
Fair. I think mentioning this in the post would have aided your argument, because your point appeared to me to be, "as long as the newer models are a bit better, it doesn't matter if they're much more expensive". I came into the post on your side and was surprised that that was your best argument.
When past models were sold at least partly on the promise of, "switch your workflow now, it'll only get better", I'd say it's relevant when "better" is substantially more expensive.
Also, colloquially, people do say e.g. GPUs are getting more expensive, even though you get more perf per dollar now.
still happening for me...
so one thing I did figure out is that restarting, unblocking add-ons, restarting, and then launching worked for me... I've heard the add-ons can be done by unsetting a flag in steamvr.vrsettings, avoiding a restart, but I haven't tried that yet.
I just wish it also knew that I'd already seen it. I frequently see such a video with no progress marking and I know I've seen it, and/or open it and find that I've already liked some of the comments.
embarrassing myself
I guess unless they're disabled, or unless the VRAM is used by things other than textures (do e.g. meshes with an insane number of blendshapes count towards the calculated VRAM number?)
"New web browser or Chromium again?"
"...Chromium again."
stray thought: your perspective will change, but that's because you haven't had all the experiences you will have. at each step, you do your best to make choices based on the experiences you have so far, and you learn. as for trust, sometimes you're the only person you can trust to look out for you.
I still remember when FireBox was renamed to JanusVR. Really cool project, loved the non-centralised hosting, and being able to just walk through portals made it really feel like an interconnected space.
indeed! yes, a logarithmic scale is very reasonable, I'm sorry that I didn't clarify that.
The problem is on any logarithmic scale, going down by a constant amount will represent dividing the measured quantity by some constant, but you cannot do a finite number of divisions by a finite amount and reach 0. (Scientific notation is almost a log scale, so ignoring the mantissa, 10^what = 0?)
Exponential and logarithmic functions are inverses of each other. Assuming you mean that incremental additional Kelvin at high temperatures is represented by a smaller change than at low temperatures, I would call that a log scale, and a linear increase in that scale would be exponential in Kelvin.
With a logarithmic scale, is it even possible to set a value for absolute 0? I would think it would have to "be" at -inf
This actually happened to me with a CO detector with low battery on the cupboard right next to the fire alarm. We were trying to figure out what was wrong with that alarm for over a week.
One I've heard is decent is Ancients(US)/Relics(EU), groups for adults to make friends, but I've personally never been. Otherwise, I've dropped by "bar" groups that were pretty chill, made a few friends. No idea what would appeal to you, but my point is that publics are not your only option.
💯, that's why I mostly find new connections through my existing friend circle. What I would do if you do want to try it is to look for events that appeal to you and find people you get on with there. For example, I found a lot of my first friends through the (now defunct) Transhumanists in VR group.
I see publics in VRC as like big public Discord servers. They're loud, but not where most of the real value is. Once you find some friends you vibe with, and then their friends, that's when you (hopefully) find your people.
It has about 2x the graphical performance! And I can't find good CPU benchmarks, but I see claims of +33% single core (but -25% cores, so multicore should be similar).
Maybe it's not as important for ancient cultures, but inaccurate/stereotypical portrayal of modern cultures has a real effect when it's many people's sole exposure to them.
