11mo ago

Quest 1 becomes near-E-waste Apr 30

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10mo ago

Meta now steals your quest 1 from your home.

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Oh no, Meta is shutting down official support for an old system?
Good thing nobodys made an alternate store front that's piss easy to use on any of their devices and gives 0 fucks about their rules, that would make their dickheaded moves almost entirely pointless!
- Does this make it possible to use the headset without ever having a Meta account? That's the only way I'd be willing to interact with a Quest device.
  
  Lol, of course not, you have to make an account to enable developer options to enable side loading
  The stealing of our data is how they make the headset so cheap
  
  Hopefully, someone is sitting on a root workaround, and will reveal it once the updates stop.
  I'd buy a second hand one, if there was a way to use it without any meta involvement.
  
  I'm expecting it, tbh
  I have a quest 2 and it's actually a FANTASTIC headset, but I want to rip the meta shit out
  Not even because they're a gross company (tho they are), I use a burner account with burner info and play in a gray room through a router specifically for my VR (almost completely lag free wireless this way, it works) but because I HATE that they made you have arms in an update and didn't let us turn it off. They're horrid
  
  I have a quest 2 and it’s actually a FANTASTIC headset
  Yes, because of John Fifth-Dimensional-Being-Pretending-to-be-a-Human Carmack.
  
  "oh, do you need me to just invent the fundamental technology for a massive sector of computing again? Sure, no problem, have it to ya by Friday"
  John Carmack on multiple occasions
  
  So they made you join the army?
  
  I wish they gave me a firearm
  But no, it's a garbage implementation of giving you a digital avatar that displays arms in a first person view by guessing where they must be based off of controller position.
  It clearly doesn't use the cams on the device cuz they're bad
  
  they made you have arms in an update and didn’t let us turn it off
  What? I'm guessing they made it so your arms show up in-game somehow???
  
  Not in games, but in the main hub menu of the device
  It tries to guess where your arms are based on controller position
  It's c r a p
- But that doesn't give security updates.
  
  That's what happens with old devices and dealing with it is part of the cost of using them
  
  Bro the quest is only 5 years old. And stop excusing shitty practices just because they are the normal.
  
  Lol, the famously great reading comprehension of the Internet.
  I didn't excuse shit
  5 years of updates is a pretty normal timeline for mobile devices
  
  I'm not excusing shit
  Here is an excuse.
  
  Pointing out that you're whining about something thats irrelevant isn't excsing shit, but reading comprehension is hard for you I guess.
  The initial point was that the dick move was blocking developers who wanted to and were able from sending content hosted on metas server to Quest 1 headsets. I responded with a sarcastic comment giving people a way to get around that dickheaded move by sideloading
  It is not related in any way to not giving security updates anymore. That's normal EOL shit for devices and software. If you don't like that or don't like how long meta offered support that's a you issue and I did not comment on it other than pointing out that 5 years is normal update life on devices like that after you already changed the subject
  
  something thats irrelevant
  its perfectly relevant to the conversation.
  Get out of this reddit mentality you have where every interaction you have with another person on the internet is an argument you're trying to "win".

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