I cancelled my preorder for the OG Oculus Rift so fast when they announced the Meta buyout
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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.
Palmer Lucky turning into a Bond villain wasn't exactly something I expected when I first saw him pushing the original Kickstarter Oculus
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 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.
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That's just the inevitable endgame in a capitalistic society. Most startups' end goals at inception are to sell out to a corporation.
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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.
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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
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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.
I just set mine to the beginning of time: Jan 01, 1970.
Here lies dreadbeef
1970-01-01 - 2038-01-19
01010010 01001001 01010000
I deleted Facebook 12 years ago. Just join me on the fediverse like Mbin or Mastodon.
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.
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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.
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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’m glad that John Carmack is rich and intellectually stimulated, but watching him be wasted building Metaverse VR was like trying to remove my own teeth with a pair of pliers.
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I feel like posting about Facebook on /c/Privacy is like posting a photo of the dictionary definition of surveillance. Like, YEAH. WE KNOW.
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Just lie and make up a fake birthday
I went as far as scanning my passport for these @ssholes and they still banned me 😂 to this day I have no clue why
I've had an account under a nickname for coordinating dog meetups for ages. One day the account was suddenly blocked without prior notice and the only way they would let me in again is by giving them my ID, which would not help as the account was under my nick and I would never give them my ID anyway. They didn't even let me delete that effing zombie account without identifying my name as real or even just change the Nick to something FB recognises as real name.
They'll ghost you even if you do give them everything they ask for. I can't even make a new account under my real name or anything close to it anymore.
It sucks it's the only realistic platform for discovering and getting info from interest groups in my area.
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1/1/1
Delete your facebook accounts
December 7, 1941.
How to tell the techs you're lying without telling the client
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First they forced giving phone number, now DoB...
Btw they purged me for not providing them my phone number.
Time to delete your Facebook.
I deleted my Facebook two years or so ago already
That's an easy.
Getting people to stop using Instagram and whatsapp is so much harder.
Fuck Instagram. Meta aside, any site that requires a data harvesting account just to view is never worth going to.
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Don't they already have shadow profiles on all of us, even if we don't use Facebook? I long ago figured that they're able to get ahold of all the info they want on us without our consent. Is tracking our habits and relationships not enough? Even if the idea is to use this as age verification, I highly doubt Facebook's as clueless as to not have a ballpark estimate on all of us by now. (Or did the introduction of AI break things so bad that they can no longer deduce the sort of data they want? Hey, I can dream.)
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My birthday is always January 1st of 2000. It used to be in 20th century but I didn’t want to give away my real age.
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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
just set it to the January 1st of whichever year would make you 13 when you registered your account 😏 (I remember a platform deleting the account of someone when they, years later, revealed that they were under 13 when they registered)
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