Ok I found this post like a week late, but TikTok bought a VR company called Pico several years ago and they were investing money into new software and headsets, but recently cancelled all of their planned games. They are still making a new headset, but they also seemed to cancel their entry into the US market. They also had a ton of layoffs last year.

So basically, I think they’ve lost interest in VR.

Looks like there’s an emacs package for elastic tab stops.

Unreal engine is source available, and you don’t see anyone calling it open source.

I’ve never seen that before, but I have discord rich presence turned off.

I feel its the reverse, most people I know on discord mute most of the discord servers they are in. I put most of the discord servers I’m in into folders so that its easier to find the people I actually talk to and ignore all of the ones I joined for asking questions or downloading files.

Idk, there’s a wide range of text related tasks. Some of those tasks, I would say emacs is very good at (like programming or taking notes), and others are good enough (like email and file management). The reason that I would want to use it for the worse tasks is that the text editing tools between the tasks are all the same and its all programmable.

Its all personal preference though.

Obsidian looks interesting, but I’m already using emacs and I’m pretty sure every feature in obsidian can be done in emacs.

Honestly emacs is pretty decent for almost every text related task and many non text related tasks as well.

Varjo headsets. Apple actually used Varjo’s headsets to test out the software for the Vision Pro while developing it. There isn’t any software specifically for the Varjo headsets since its just business focused.

Apple’s headset is much cheaper than Varjo’s, somehow, despite having similar tech.

They can sell you a 100 dollar elite strap if the strap has nothing and is removable.

Well you don’t just use the flashcards, You have to use textbooks and practice on supplementary material. Those aren’t really software that can be open source.

Also Duolingo removed its grammar lessons a while ago, so its really not that different from flashcards now. EDIT: nevermind they only removed grammar on desktop.

Duolingo is pretty bad at teaching you a language so I don’t think we really need to make an open source alternative. If you want to actually learn a language, just use anki (anki is open source) for flashcards and get a textbook. I say anki because it uses a spaced repetition system which is the only way to effectively study more than 100 flashcards and there are browser plugins that allow you to create new flashcards from a couple clicks on a new word. Once you get far enough you won’t have to use the textbook and will be able to just sentence mine for words and have to google the occasional grammar point.

lol I got trolled by that once. Luckily they just did rm -rf / instead of hacking me.

Thats true, but you can still use it as a currency if you want to buy illegal drugs, or donations to organizations that accept it (with monero so its untraceable) and buying mullvad vpn. It’s not stable, but its an accepted way of transferring money that can be as private as cash.

Cryptocurrency has its uses as unregulated currency, though that makes it easy to scam people with it.

I think he’s calling the website that is running non-free javascript as an additional piece of software based on his commment on “bulky obfuscated JavaScript apps.”

Worse than that, on the psp if you play japanese games that are not localised to english, the circle becomes the okay button, but in the rest of the os, the x is the okay button so you have to mentally switch.

speedcore, artcore, jcore, vocaloid

You can, 10 finger tying / touch typing at least. Someone can’t really figure that out for themselves without spending tons of time thinking on an efficient way to type.