techviator

joined 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I look forward to the day I can get rid of my physical displays

I already did and love it! But definitely looking forward to lighter and higher resolution HMDs, I'll get the Quest 3 next, but hopefully for next year I can go with the AR glasses if they are as good as the Q3, even if a bit pricier, just for the convenience and comfort.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I really love working from Immersed, even with the Quest 2, but I do hope future HMDs will be lighter and more comfortable, but I understand that not everybody would enjoy working from VR or AR headsets.

In my case I work from home, and this is such a space saver, I work with virtual giant monitors that there is no way at all for me to place at home, plus the cost would be prohibitive.

 

According to the press release in Global Newswire - Immersed is going public through a merger with Maquia Capital Acquisition Corp.

This is exciting news for us long-time users of the platform, as this will bring the capital needed to move forward with their planned AR Glasses, named Visor, and an AI initiative that is yet to be publicly presented that apparently is named or code-named Curator.

Disclosure: I am one of the people who work over 30 hours a week in the platform.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I like Kbin, but if it's just the Lemmy interface bothering you try accessing your lemmy instance from Voyager (formerly wefwef - https://vger.app) or one of the many lemmy clients.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

I exclusively scroll Lemmy in new mode. I scroll I see a post I already have seen. Then I leave. That doesn’t mean I hate it, I’m just done!

And that is the problem for the commercial platforms. They don't want you to leave, they don't want you to "be done", they want you reading and engaging as much as they can because that's part of what they sell to advertisers.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

If you just want to join an instance, it doesn’t really matter if they are running Mastodon, Pleroma (or one of the forks), you will be able to follow and interact with everyone else on the microblog portion of the Fediverse. In fact from a Kbin instance you can do Lemmy communities and Mastodon microblogging from the same platform (Kbin calls communities Magazines and in the magazines are Threads, and they call the mastodon-like portion is just called microblog).

If you want to self-host your own instance, then you need to pay attention to the difference in the platfoms, Pleroma is lighter, Mastodon is more modular, and there are many forks of both each with their own strenghts and weakenesses.

If you don't like the frontend, you can use Elk, or Soapbox, or some others out there, as well as all the apps and PWAs for either platform, most are compatible with both.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I absolutely agree.

Reaching the masses and keeping all of the mass content requires money, since investors are starting to realize that gazillions of views do not necesarilly equals profit, they are asking about ROI, which in turn makes the masses-reaching platforms look for ways to monetize those views, and that does not sit well with privacy caring people, but the masses don't care about that.

I really hope the masses never fill the fediverse with their nonsensical content.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Brave does support opening tabs from other devices, sync works good so long as it always has at least 1 device in the sync chain, so if you only have 1 device and have to reinstall it the settings might be lost, but if you have 2 devices and reinstall one the settings are still saved whenever you rejoin the chain. The reason is there are no accounts saved in brave, so the only way to ID your browser is by the sync chain. If the sync chain has no devices it may be removed from the sync servers.

All of the crypto rewards stuff can be disabled with 1 switch, and a second switch if you also want to turn off wallet, but it's not really active unless you configure it. Rewards is there as a way for them to make money without having to make Google or Bing the default search engine as other browsers do.

Brave is a great browser, but Firefox is also great and very configurable. And thanks to this thread I learned that FF's interface can be customized, which was one of my main reasons not to use it anymore. I'll play with it again, it's important to have a non-chromium based browser as an alternative.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Awesome! Dang, Second Life... we are definitely not so young anymore! 🤣🤣

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Yep, it was my door to working at a terrestrial radio conglomerate as the IT manager and having a small technology segment on-air daily. It was good times!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

C - It'd be cool to have C with the background of B.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (4 children)

For me it was ages ago (probably 2006), I was starting to learn about virtualization so I got a cheap server on ebay and started with VMWare ESX. I then virtualized Asterisk PBX and self hosted that for about 10 years, and an open source radio automation software named Rivendell Radio Automation, I self hosted 2 Internet radio stations for about 5 years since 2008, and had a small studio at home (before all the podcast kits that became very common a few years later).

I moved to the cloud for a bit while working at a big cloud provider that offered us a lot of free credits, but I'm back to having servers at home and hosting my media collection, some services my family uses and a lot of learning labs.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I use the same as you for virtuals(os-mainFunction), and similar for physical (brand-lpt/dsk/srv-mainUsage - Len-lpt-VR1, Srfc7-work, hp-srv-pve1).
I am boring like that.
I also don't name vehicles.

 

I really like this: https://www.linuxserver.io/blog/webtop-2-0-the-year-of-the-linux-desktop

As a user of both, #KasmWorkspaces (Community Edition) and #ApacheGuacamole, I can tell that indeed the #kasmvnc has better performance for browser-accessed #Linux desktop. XRDP has been great with Guacamole, but for the reasons listed in the article it is not as great when watching videos over a browser accessed desktop. For Windows desktops I did not see a performance difference between #Guacamole and the #Kasm RDP option, likely because RDP is a native protocol on Windows.

Anyway, if you are interested in Browser-based computing give it a try.

Note: While both Kasm and Guacamole work great on desktops, laptops, tablets, low-spec laptops and VR Headset browsers, neither is yet a great option on small-screen mobile devices.

Also, while KasmVNC and the KASM and LinuxServer docker images are open source, Kasm Workspaces itself is not Open Source, but they do have a #Selfhosted Community Edition available for free, and they do use some portions of Apache Guacamole in their product. - Apache Guacamole is completely Open Source and free, backed by the Apache Foundation.

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