People who bought this hardware are dumb fucks.
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There really weren't any comparable standalone alternatives at the time. I just wanted to play some Beatsaber back then.
Paraphrasing the guy who owns the company.
Not that he wasn't entirely correct.
I understand there's arguments about "this is not new, they've been working on VR for a decade" - fine, but it's Zuckerberg, who apparently never does anything in good faith (see: the Winklevoss twins, Whatsapp, Snapchat, Libra, etc)
I'm sure they only have VR in order to onboard people to blue app. People have gotten banned and their only recourse is to buy an Oculus. Convenient.
My birthday is always January 1st of 2000. It used to be in 20th century but I didn’t want to give away my real age.
It used to be in 20th century but I didn’t want to give away my real age.
I take it you're turning 125 next Thursday?
on that note I finally deleted facebook. Goodbye meta!
Better late than never!
I'll sell them my birth date information. They already got their filthy lucre from buying and selling my name all over the place, why shouldn't I get a cut from things I own?
This is why tech giants want to dissolve governments and the regulatory agencies.
This is why tech ceos need to be afraid to leave their bunkers.
I've had an account under a nickname for coordinating dog meetups for ages. One day the account was suddenly blocked without prior notice and the only way they would let me in again is by giving them my ID, which would not help as the account was under my nick and I would never give them my ID anyway. They didn't even let me delete that effing zombie account without identifying my name as real or even just change the Nick to something FB recognises as real name.
They'll ghost you even if you do give them everything they ask for. I can't even make a new account under my real name or anything close to it anymore.
It sucks it's the only realistic platform for discovering and getting info from interest groups in my area.
A good opportunity to ditch Meta if you're still using it for some reason.
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December 7, 1941.
How to tell the techs you're lying without telling the client
...so far, it seems like all the platforms accept january 1st 1900 without issue...
1 jan 1970
...too plausible to make the statement unambiguous...
I do 1/1/1984 but also a good idea
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