Andrew

The new 15 inch MacBook Air just released If I were going to go for a gaming laptop, I'd probably go for the Dell G16. 13900hx, RTX 4070, 32GB RAM and a 1TB nvme SSD. It comes with a 240hz 2560x1600 screen for £1900.

Remember when the iPhone first came out? Everyone made fun of it for being too expensive at $500? Now $1000 is the norm for a top-end phone with some reaching close to $3K. I do see Apple announcing a "Vision SE" for around $800 next year.

$1300 laptop, not $1300 chip. This is a "laptop" that you wear on your face. Yes, there are other stand alone headsets. But only one does AR and it doesn't do it very well. It's also $1500, requires controllers for an additional $300 making that a $1800 headset. Yes, there is a stand alone AR headset. Just the one. It doesn't do VR and it's $3500. This does both AR and VR (according the people who have used them briefly at WWDC) very well. This is what Apple does. They take a technology that's been out for a while, improve it massively, and then that technology becomes mainstream because every other tech company tries to make their own version. This headset is coming out next year. Watch VR and AR come into the mainstream in 2025.

The device has a full blown M2 chip in it. It's effectively a $1300 laptop built into a headset. It's also a standalone device. The PSVR2 $550 + $400 for a PS5, so you can't really compare the PSVR2 on it's own to the Vision Pro. It is still quite a lot cheaper for a PSVR2, but you also get a lot more with the Vision Pro. The PSVR2 does just games. It looks like the Vision Pro, can in theory, replace your tablet, laptop/desktop and play games. Apple seem to be going after both the Meta Quest Pro and Microsoft Hololens with this. The panels are also higher res than 4K. I don't think they gave an actual resolution beyond "more pixels than a 4K TV to each eye" but with the pixel count, I estimate it to be closer to 6K per eye. Which if correct, would make it higher res than any other headset currently on the market by a long way.

Considering the hardware that it has, that price is pretty good. Especially when you compare it to the $3500-$5200 Microsoft Hololens, which is the only other AR headset on the market right now, and that only does AR. The Vision Pro does both AR and VR, according to Marques Brownlee who did try it out, it does both very well. If these things can be used with Windows/Steam VR, I'm selling my Index and picking one of these up eventually.

Yeah, absolutely, but it's just insane how much prices have come down over such a short amount of time. $0.04/GB for an nvme drive today vs $0.46/GB just 4 years ago is an insane price drop. This is new for new prices as well. Going on used, the nvme drive I have now is going for less than £25.

It kind of was a thing before VS. You could have paid for an Overclocked account and this is something that went back before Wikia took over. However, you were also able to get a free Overclocked account permanently once you got to 250 rep. I don't remember what the prices used to be, but current prices are $5/month or $50/year with no option to have a permanent Overclocked account. It's absolutely not worth it, especially if you compare it to the premium account features here. On OCN, you get: No ads (doesn't matter, tech forum, pretty much everyone is blocking them anyway) Access to the premium forums (no one posts in there) A badge that says you have a premium account. Here (going with Gold membership because monetarily, it's the closest), you get: Whoever is at the computer at the time in the VerticalScope office. Yes, that is all they want. I do remember when GDPR became a thing, they had to show how many trackers there were. There were 250+. I don't remember the exact number but ti's the most I've seen on any website. They couldn't not careless about anything else. I've made suggestions to make the forum better, things that are pretty minor and shouldn't take too long to implement. Took weeks to get a reply. Made a post about someone threatening to sue them, got a reply within an hour.

Get a heat pump that does AC as well. Hot and cold, plus no need to use gas for central heating. You get pretty much instant heat as well. Don't need to wait 20-30 minutes for the radiators to get hot.

That's pretty damn good. I paid £195 ($240) for a 512GB nvme drive in 2019. I'm looking forward to 4TB+ SSDs from reputable brands coming down to below £150. In the mean time, I am going to buy a Seagate Ironwolf 4TB as a media storage drive. Technically, isn't all SDDs and HDDs you own, Enterprise SSDs and HDDs?

I've not tried yet, I will try it a couple of days after the next update releases though. I don't want to try on the day because the servers are going to be pretty loaded.

It will be fine. The middle setting was too stiff for grass. I'd only use that and stiffer on a literal race track.

The government says to eat 5 fruits and/or vegetables a day to be healthy. So that's exactly what I did. 1 Banana 3 Cherries 1 Chocolate (chocolate is a bean, bean is a vegetable, therefore chocolate is a vegetable) That's 4 fruits and 1 vegetable, therefore this is healthy.

Minor update: When I installed the rear suspension, I should have made sure it was at the correct setting before I put everything back together. I didn't and set the suspension to the middle setting. As it turns out, that was too stiff. So, today I adjusted it to put it on the softest setting. It was a PITA. I also put the sound deadening thingies back on while I was in there.

I hope the re-releases go better than their website is made. I can't get passed the age verification thing. It says my cookies are disabled even though they're not, but okay. I might give it a try, I've never properly played a MGS game before, but I did enjoy the Splinter Cell games. Seems like this is a good chance to.

Mom, can we get NB MX5? No, we have NB MX5 at home. NB MX5 at home:

I just have mine stored on an SSD with no backups because I like to live dangerously. But I do also "only" have 26 movies ripped. When I do get around to it, I am going to get a NAS running a few Seagate Ironwolfs (Ironwolves?) in I think RAID 5. Whichever RAID number gives you the maximum number of storage space on as few drives as possible while still having "backups".

I haven't been playing FS2020 all that much recently. I'm waiting for the PMDG 777 and/or FBW A380 to release. In the mean time, the AAU2 beta update for the 787 and 747 do look great. They're finally making improvements to those two planes and both desperately need it. I haven't personally tried them, I'll wait for the public release before trying them out.

This is potentially a spicy topic. With a type of cancer that has a very high chance of fatality, I don't think there's any reason for someone to not take part in further tests of this. There's a lot of very good things that can be done with this technology and it's amazing it hasn't been done sooner, especially considering that this tech has been around since the 80s. I'm guessing it's the red tape that's been stopping it from being tested.

I would not be surprised if he's being forced out, again. Every single business he has bought his way into, he's been forced out of or they've put it preventative measures to stop him from messing things up.

They lost as soon as they announced the Xbox One with inability to buy and use used games as well as always online with a Kinect being required that they thankfully didn't go through with. Had that not done that, there's no reason why Xbox One and Series S/X wouldn't be as big as the 360 was.

I made some churros.

Oof. Too bad you can't sue the local government for not controlling the deer.

What a coincidence. I almost killed a bear on the way to work as well recently. I'm not allowed in that nightclub anymore.