Maybe I should add a little context, as honestly it’s much more around the annoyance of having to deal with people that are unhinged online. Dunno what it is about Lemmy specifically, but I’ve definitely encountered more people here per post that will go through my comments/posts to comment and downvote over nonsense than elsewhere.
Like in December, I had the audacity to ask if someone’s post really belonged in the community they posted it in. He proceeded to harass me by downvoting and commenting on my stuff across THREE accounts with no repercussions from admins on either the LW or Reddthat instance their accounts were on. Mods temp-banned him from a few communities it took place in and it calmed down once I blocked the third account and stopped posting for a bit. Then I had a mod on a power trip delete and downvote some of my comments before I got him banned less than a month later over covid misinformation.
It’s one thing if it’s just downvotes on a single comment, but it’s uncomfortable having someone go through my stuff and be that upset at me over nothing. People on Reddit and Twitter have tried to dox me with one dude messaging my old boss on LinkedIn trying to get me fired for discussing why Reddit is severely overcharging compared to industry partners I work with during the API fiasco.
Lemmy needs to make it a lot harder to interact with post/comment history through profiles, as having at least some barrier would help offset the more mildly-unhinged people.
Yep, it’s really frustrating. I used to be a decent contributor in statistics, analytics, machine learning, and Linux oriented communities on one of my Reddit accounts before deleting it in June. Thought I could find a better home here but I’m not interested in contributing if the culture is so negative to anyone who doesn’t fit the FOSS/Linux crowd. Like seeing mass-downvotes of well-written contributions along with rude/dismissive comments screams “you don’t belong here” to people and will absolutely inhibit Lemmy’s long-term success.
Don’t care about the votes as much as I care about someone being unhinged enough to go through and interact with my entire post history. Dealt with enough weird behavior here.
Funny. I like the platform a little more every day.
But I'm sure there were plenty of morons who thought there'd be something magical about it that the first version could never be. It's awesome. But I was prepared for it to be a huge letdown.
That I didn't realize the lenses were shipping separately and didn't have them for the first hour of use, fucking up the eye tracking, really did a great job of disappointing me at first. Once I inserted the lenses, it became excellent. And, as I said, I like it better every day.
They tried a new product that they have never used before, they decided they didn't like it enough to pay thousands of dollars, so they returned it. Sounds like a perfectly reasonable thing to do if you ask me. How are they morons?
Personally I'm typing this comment on an ordinary LCD display that far higher "pixels per degree" than Apple Vision Pro. It's not even close, like more than double as many pixels per degree... Which means using the headset would be a significant step down in display quality for me.
Sure - for 3D content Vision Pro would be vastly superior, but I almost never work with 3D content. I just want to read (and write) text. Vision Pro clearly isn't a product for me until it has higher resolution displays and a wider field of view and that's perfectly fine, I can wait for that day. For other people it's less clear wether or not it's a good product for them and I think those people should absolutely try it out to see if it works instead of trying to guess having never used one. And if they don't like it, return it. That's what return policies are for.
I was an early adopter for the Samsung Galay Fold. I loved it, but my sweat Appearently is too strong for the plastic screen, so it started to melt, tough up and deform by normal usage. I got warranty for it, let it fix it and then sold it to get a cheap iPhone.
I’m really enjoying mine so far for a few specific use cases, like watching movies while lying down in bed, and as a giant, private display to surf the web and such while on trains and flights. I think it shows a lot of promise but I can’t blame anyone for not finding $4,000 of value in it today. I bet the third or fourth generation is going to kick ass, though.
Yeah, VR/AR is really amazing and has some pretty cool future applications. I'm glad Apple is investing in that future, too. But I kinda hope they don't sink it with the potential this has to be a high profile failure because they went for a market segment that's not going to see the benefits quite yet. Especially at the price point.
So, in other words, the AVP is apparently popular enough that journalists write articles if some end up getting returned. I guess that’s quite impressive.