No surprise when the mod was behind a patreon paywall, and there has been a history of companies shutting down mods like that.

When it is hard enough for 1 person in a household to even get one steam hardware to share I'm fine with the one address limit. A household having multiple devices is a luxury when it is hard enough getting even one.

I like it because free for all never worked for me and I experienced the worst of it trying to get a gpu during the crypto craze and everyone using bots and alerts to try to snipe something that would go out of stock in seconds.

EVGA game in clutch and did queue system and I got my card for msrp. And I liked it when Valve did it for the Steam Deck.

Hated when Steam Controller did a free for all and ended up wasting couple of hours clicking and coming up empty handed. They went to queue and I finally got one after a few months.

I'd rather wait and if it takes a year or longer so be it, but a free for all approach is one I know I'll have zero chance at compared to the lotto.

If all someone is doing for instance on a mac is browsing the web and emails and some light program use they aren't going to notice the difference going from a m1 mac to a m4 mac.

Same with phones. These days unless somone is using resource hungry applications only noticeable area is battery, and its usually battery life that pushes people to upgrade these days.

Phones aren't exactly consoles either pointing to how amazing the graphics are compared to the past gen. People just use the same apps like tiktok or whatever on whatever phone they picked up and experience is pretty much the same. Phones aren't that novel anymore.

Yeah price hurts but less than I thought.

I am glad they went with the lottery again, since I know trying to snipe it as it comes into stock would just leave me clicking refresh for hours and coming up empty handed like the first steam controller release day.

And I don't want to be having to use bots or discord channels to get alerts to try and get something that will go out of stock in seconds.

Yeah, if I get into vr it'll be with the steam frame due to refusing to get meta headsets.

I'll be picking up beat saber and pistol whip since I love rhythm games. Will look into driving, flying, and fpv drone flying games.

Yeah, I expected much worse after the Steam Machine price and storage and ram costs going up. On the waitlist for the 256 model, but not sure I'll actually buy it.

I don't have VR, but I had been interested in Half Life Alyx and Beat Saber.

I have seen those flat games turned VR videos. I think one of the first ones I'll want to try is Left 4 Dead 2.

Yeah it looks like I'll be able to hold off on rushing right to Half Life Alyx. The flat gaming stuff looks cool.

Just use gmail through the browser instead of installing stuff like the gmail app on your phone, and you can have it forward it to your email so you don't need to open gmail to get school mail. You'll probably just need to login for replies.

And when it comes to work in the future hopefully you'll be a provided with a work device. I wouldn't use a work device for personal use even if it were running Linux, and wouldn't install work related programs on personal devices. I just consider work devices and programs to be spying on me as default.

Less than I expected yet still expensive. But, I would pay more than double to not get a meta headset.

I do less now with phones or at least expect less, since I don't do gaming on them. Just basic messaging, emails, and basic apps.

Its one of the devices where specs have mattered less and less where before upgrades were desired because just running the OS felt sluggish.

They are playing dumb on purpose because they are likely one of those people who wants recording glasses to be widespread enough that people stop being bothered that everyone they encounter is recording them. Then they can get some really nice footage.

I personally wouldn't consent to being part of facial recognition even if it were friends and family in control of the data.

Maybe there will be some opt out tech in the future so people just show up blurred or a silhouette and distorted audio when people attempt to record or take pics of them, and it requires enabled consent before hand for them to be able to be recorded normally.

I think goal is to at least keep recording glasses from gaining widespread adoption, since once that is culturally accepted then the fight is pretty much over.

So while there are other recording methods it is the reason this one has been the focus of attention.

Penalties and fines that have happened for breaking privacy laws has been too low for it to deter any companies making money off this that I don't believe them.

All that second to second record keeping that happens passively requires surveillance.

Difference is that you are in control of the data instead of entrusting it to a third party.

I think that is probably the difference between those who are for the idea and against. Compared to even the average person it seems like you want constant surveillance and recording under the condition you control it. And then others just don't find the need for constant ever present recording even if it is under their complete control.

Which is probably why some don't find the idea of recording glasses appealing at all, since it's not something they find a desire for. While those who want everything thing to be documented do.

Yes so only a memory will remain that will glitch out over time like a still life from the backrooms, so it becomes hard to deciper what the original looked like.

Cryptomator being used to upload is an option to consider if cloud service providers like Google, Microsoft, or Apple are used. Then those companies will just get gibberish files as opposed to training data.