• 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 @pawb.social
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        3 hours ago

        It’s okay now. It’s not the highest fidelity you could get, it’s rather expensive, and it has to be tethered to a PC. The Quest and the Pico are half the price of the Index, have better quality displays, lighter headsets, and can run wirelessly without the need for a PC or tracking base stations.

        When it was new? Hell yeah, I would have spent a little more to get an Index. They were the best at one point.

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        It’s definitely dated and much more expensive for that older hardware. And that’s only in the US. If you live outside of the US, grey market import only and way more expensive.

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    Maybe this will actually make you ever so slightly less valuable to meta in the short term (presuming they honor your choices for these settings), but they’re still going to continue harvesting your data and can change their minds at any point in the future. Only way to truly become less valuable is to disappear from their gaze.

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      My guess is the writers are here among us and don’t want it to become a cesspool. It’s their safe haven. Just a guess though.

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        11 hours ago

        If we’re strictly speaking about “Meta alternatives” that means we’re looking specifically for replacements for Facebook, Whatsapp, Instagram and Threads. “Just don’t have Facebook”, Signal, Pixelfed and Mastodon/Bluesky are direct replacements for those. Lemmy is a Reddit replacement which doesn’t have anything to do with Mark “I am actually a lizard” Zuckerberg.

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      9 hours ago

      The alternatives were mentioned in the episode, but they aren’t on this website. This was from the last section, which was something along the lines of “if you absolutely need to use their products, you can still have some impact. Here is a memorable website you can link people to”

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      9 hours ago

      Android Thunder. Three dots below message you wrote. Delete at bottom.

      Note that short of deleting your account, messages aren’t deleted with Lemmy. They’re marked hidden in the html. You can see them with view source.

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        Note that short of deleting your account, messages aren’t deleted with Lemmy. They’re marked hidden in the html. You can see them with view source.

        That’s kinda misleading if it says delete but doesn’t really do so.