Whatever distro you end up on, someone will be in the comments to tell you why it’s the wrong choice.

Unless you’re using Arch, btw

Don’t worry, they’ll let us eat cake

We can already see how this will work out. They get you trapped in their walled garden kingdom.

If you get banned from their services and you can’t access your files, make payments, login to your phone or computer, start your car, etcetcetc.

Not using the right distro is the source of everyone’s problem, according to the community

Some people just want to fight because social media conditions us to be outraged and angry.

I once knew someone that claimed to get gStreamer working, I think they were just bragging.

On one hand, I can enjoy the schadenfreude.

On the other hand, this kind of thing helps to create and maintain the alt-right alternate universe mediasphere. I remember a story coming out of Ukraine where a bunch of guys were making fake ‘news’ sites loaded with advertising to spam ragebait articles for cash. They said that they made way more money by posting right wing content so that’s what they focused on.

Multiply that by a bunch of people and add in adversarial nation’s influence campaigns and you get Donald Trump.

I guess it’s not technically a standard but Steam VR runs on every client OS and streams to any VR headset money can buy over USB or network.

And, to add to this, Valve is about to launch their next gen VR headset.

VR’s major barrier is that to do good, AAA game level, VR you need a pretty beefy PC on top of an expensive headset AND a large enough room to take advantage of the roomscale stuff. That isn’t to say that there isn’t fun games that have low requirements, like Beat Saber and Superhot but for games like Half Life: Alyx you’re looking at several thousand USD in hardware.

I think VR will eventually get there, it offers experiences that you can’t get from a monitor, but right now it’s a niche hobby with a pretty limited library of good titles.

I could be wrong, but any article suggesting “zero-days are numbered” doesn’t pass the smell test.

Yeah, you’re right.

The real story is that it is a bit better at finding bugs. Calling them zero-days and implying there’s some major security implications is just to build hype.

It was able to chain a few of the bugs together to create a RCE exploit in a weakened browser, it’s interesting but don’t go to your fallout shelter just yet.

Earn $10B doing illegal stuff, settle with the FTC for a $10 million dollar fine and don’t have to admit wrongdoing and/or a deferred prosecution agreement with no teeth or oversight.

Yes, the sky is falling, AI is ending the world, slopslopslop, etc

We know the bit.

They want to do this kind of stuff with your head tracking data.

The newer headsets can do eye tracking/gaze estimation. Useful for some VR things (foveated rendering) but I wouldn’t trust Meta to leave the data on the headset.

It’s a myth, it doesn’t exist.

It’s just a bluetooth camera so no seizures.

But these guys stand out like a beacon if you know what you’re looking for. For example, watching bluetooth traffic and reading the MAC address of the devices, you can determine the manufacturer.

Most regular people do not carry Axon devices so if you see any of their prefixes then you know they’re around. You could create a smartphone app to do this and it could alert you if there are any Axon devices near you.

If everyone was running such an app on their phone it would function kind of like Apple’s AirTag tracking network, every phone could provide geolocation tagged notifications when they detected such a device and others could use that app to ensure that they’re not in those areas.

The hypothetical tracker doesn’t need to know 100%.

The kind of data analytics that would be used to track serial numbers to determine the parties involved works perfectly fine with probabilistic/incomplete information. The goal isn’t to create evidence for a courtroom, it’s to build a graph of the people that you interact with so further intelligence collection could be planned.

Wait until they find out about Programmer Socks.

I can see, in programming, how the current AI trend is displacing a lot of junior programmers who will not be senior programmers in 10 years due to the inability to obtain experience.

AI hasn’t come for DevOps or SysAdmins jobs either, but it’s ‘good enough’ to do help-desk/tier 1-type tasks. That limits the job pool for new IT workers and will create a future shortage of experienced workers.

I’m not worried about MY job, I’ve already accumulated the experience. It’s the new guys who are trying to get into support positions, where they are glorified knowledge base/Google searchers, who are having the hard time because AI CAN do search and summarization/RAG pretty effectively.

Vendor reliance is dangerous.

1000% this.

It’s a Faustian bargain, a company gives up all of their internal IT staff and hardware and becomes completely dependent on a vendor for critical business processes. It’s like the opposite of insurance, they’re saving some money by risking a total loss of their ability to do business should the vendor pull support.

If they were competent they would have other career options instead of working for this administration.