tony

I've got an entire set of windows test VMs running unactivated for about 4 years now. We have a few at work too (we actually have keys for those but nobody has bothered putting them in).

The worst that happens is you can't set a desktop background.

Rewording it doesn't really help.

Old adage...People don't want choices, they want what they want.

Every time you ask a question you lose a chunk of your audience. With something like lemmy, they want to look at messages and respond. Let them do that. Encourage them to choose an instance later, when they're equipped to make that choice.

Yes that's a hard problem with federation.. mastodon went for a default instance as a solution. There are likely better ones but that's a problem lots of people are working on.

On the one hand I'd kinda love a pair of glasses that told me peoples names as I'm always forgetting them, or gave me directions without having to look at the phone.

On the other hand.. humans.

Google glasses were bloody obvious though.. you looked like a poundshop borg.

Surely someone with that kind of money and need would start with a $5 wrench attack. You can buy a lot of persuasion for $20m.

All mine to is turn lights on and off.. very occasionally they might be used to find a phone, or set a reminder, but I wouldn't miss it if that went.

I wondered if I was unusual in not using the voice features much, but according to this thread it seems I'm not.

Maybe raw battery cost has reduced but installed storage is 30% more expensive than it was a couple of years ago, and it was too expensive then..

I'm definitely feeling the need for some Drinks Company(tm) products.

That's my problem too.. it promises so much, but massively undedelivers, and just ends up being a heavy weight strapped to my face when I could get a better experience by just looking at a monitor... better games too.

Manufacturers (especially Meta) are trying to sell it as if it's Ready Player 1 level immersion, and it's just not, and never can be.

That is of course the danger.. as it is it's pretty benign, allowing more people to consume podcasts in their own language. But the terms need to be clear.

But they definitely got all the cheaters :p

Waiting for the ability to target mobile in c# and for embedding to work.. should see that in the next year I think with the renewed focus on it.. we don't use many unity features but those two are kinda showstoppers right now.