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The firm’s software also eliminates background noise — like crowing roosters, ambulance sirens and office chatter

I mean, I'd hope that a call center would...have the kind of sound isolation, workplace policy, and audio setup to more-or-less deal with that in the first place.

1920 x 1080, 120Hz

My desktop and laptop monitors have a higher resolution/refresh rate and don't require me to have glasses on my face.

But I do like the idea of being able to haul goggles around for use with a laptop, and I tried it with a Royole Moon (unlike VR goggles that spend some of the resolution on peripheral vision to give you an immersive view oriented at games, this sticks the pixels where you'd view a screen) a while back. I didn't think it was worthwhile compared to a laptop screen. Here was my take:

• Tend to fog up. Probably not an issue for XREAL glasses; the Moon has shields to try to block out surrounding light that reduce ventilation, and the XREALs don't have this.

• Annoying to not be able to see what one is doing occasionally without lifting glasses. Probably not as much of an issue with the XREALs; IIRC, the XREAL glasses are not fully-opaque in display and the highest-end XREAL glasses have a button that flips between three levels of opacity. The flip side of that is that I don't know to what degree having a partially-transparent display is annoying when trying to make out details on a monitor-replacement display; I'd guess that it is at least somewhat of a factor.

• Pressure on nose began to get annoying after longer sessions. Probably could do better with better design, lighter weight; I could believe that XREAL glasses do better.

• Unless glasses are situated just right for any given eye, slightly blurry. This was obnoxious, and I expect a fundamental issue for any binocular HMD, absent the introduction of some kind of motorized mount for the screens to detect and slightly auto-adjust screen distance from eye as one shifts around. Edges also slightly blurry, probably require some kind of fancier optics to solve; users also report this on the XREAL glasses. The Moon was really aimed at movie viewing, for which a bit of blurriness is ignorable, but for reading text, it's annoying. You may have also experienced this if you've used a projector as display; for movie viewing, it doesn't really need to be in perfect focus, but it's much-more-noticeable when dealing with text.

• One more thing to carry with laptop and set up beyond just flipping open a lid, which is somewhat annoying.

• One more battery-powered device to charge, though one could feed off the laptop's battery. Could also carry a power station.

• One more cable floating around.

• The Moon was intended to do movie playback rather than just act as a monitor, so took a few operations to get it into "monitor mode". I can believe that other HMDs could work better.

• The Moon had its own boot time independent of the computer to which it was attached. I can believe that other HMDs could work better.

• Connection that didn't like talking to my laptop's external HDMI display ports and would sometimes lose connection. I can believe that other HMDs would work better.

• Some screen area not at optimal viewing arc. For me, the visual arc for the Moon was slightly too large and the edges were hard to see. I can believe that a different HMD might do better. I was able to use xrandr to just not use some of the screen space on Linux, create a smaller, virtual screen; I'd imagine that one could probably use a similar fix with another HMD with a viewing arc that is too large.

• Native resolution on HMDs not as high as that on laptop displays. Not the end of the world, but it's rare for me to downgrade in resolution.

Some of those are not fundamental to HMDs, but they are things that I would consider on a new HMD, given my past experience.

The integrated headphones on the Moon were pretty good in passive isolation, though they didn't support ANC. The XREAL glasses have built-in speakers and no cup over the ears to provide isolation. I don't know how it feels to wear XREAL glasses with another set of headphones, but my guess is that you can't get the same level of seal and thus sound isolation that circumaural, closed-back headphones can provide, so keep in mind that if you're wearing an HMD, you may be somewhat committed to their integrated sound system unless you're going to use earbuds (which for me are uncomfortable for long sessions). Also, when I do use earbuds, I prefer to use "sport" earbuds that have a hook around the ear to keep them secure, and if one were wearing XREAL glasses, that will collide with the glasses trying to do the same.

For these XREAL glasses, which I've looked at before, I believe at least one mode involves tracking head movement and creating a "virtual screen" that hovers in space to avoid having the screen move with your head. That sort of thing is necessary for AR functionality; the Moon doesn't do that, since it doesn't do AR. I don't know whether this "floating screen" buys a user much if you're not using the glasses as an AR device, just as a plain old display; it was billed as reducing disorientation or something. I would point out that if used in that mode, you're going to spend some resolution on displaying a rendered image of a screen rather than a screen.

I liked the idea. I did not find the reality to be where I'd hoped for; they did not replace my laptop or desktop screen.

I can believe that there are specific limited use cases for which HMDs in their present state could legitimately replace a laptop screen, like where someone has to use a laptop in a public environment, like on an airplane, and is concerned about their seatmate being able to view their screen.

The Moons were intended to watch movies, and I think that a number of the issues (including blurriness and maybe session length if you're just watching a single movie) aren't as much of an issue if that's one's use case.

The XREALs are aimed at AR. If you want AR...well, you aren't going to get that with a traditional monitor, so then they're clearly the way to go. There's a Threadiverse community at !augmented_reality@lemmy.world.

Some type of binocular HMD is necessary if you want to take advantage of stereoscopy for depth perception in VR games (though then you probably want a VR-oriented headset, not XREAL glasses) or 3D movies (though those have kind of died out, as I understand it).

But as a general "monitor replacement"...I think that that's a tough nut to crack that probably takes more cracking. There's a reason that laptop manufacturers are shipping computers in laptop form factor and not as a battery-powered mini-PC with an HMD.

One thing I have considered is portable, external monitors. If you have a way to suspend them, you can put them wherever you want relative to your face, which can make a physically-small monitor take up as much of your visual arc as you want (in fact, precisely the amount you want). End of the day, the setup and extra bulk isn't presently worth it to me for cases where I use a laptop, and I already have my desktop using a VESA-mount monitor mounted on an arm for exactly this reason. But for others, a monitor suspended at just the right place may address some of the use cases where one might get an HMD, if one's after a physically-smaller, less-power-hungry device that covers a larger portion of one's visual arc than a traditional monitor.

If Google wants to do so, they can do the same with YouTube.

There are other email providers out there, but there's only really one service like YouTube.

EDIT: Also, there are a lot of documents out there in Google Docs. I mean, if they start requiring a Google account with personal information to view those, they control access to a lot of stuff. And while hosting documents (dunno about editable documents) probably isn't as hard as hosting video, you can't just yourself migrate out of that the way you can with email. Need all the people sticking information on Google Docs to also do so.

In most respects, most of us probably have a considerably higher standard of living than Marie Antoniette, simply because of what technological advancement has provided us with.

e.g.

https://www.pressreader.com/new-zealand/the-timaru-herald/20160530/281784218342032

Ver­sailles stank. Not just the bod­ily tang one might ex­pect 200 years be­fore the in­ven­tion of de­odor­ant (that was 1888: a paste ap­plied to the un­der­arms), but a rank stench that per­me­ated every room, every cor­ri­dor, and wafted over the gar­dens.

‘‘I shall never get over the dirt of this coun­try,’’ sniffed Ho­race Walpole on a visit to France.

Ver­sailles, the cen­tre of French po­lit­i­cal power from 1682, had more than 700 rooms but no func­tion­ing loos un­til 1768. By the time of the revo­lu­tion, there were still only nine bath­rooms, all in the pri­vate royal apart­ments. The con­tents of cham­ber pots were of­ten sim­ply flung out of the win­dows.

The royal dogs were not house­trained but nor were the courtiers and their ser­vants who crammed into the build­ing. The re­sult was a lava­to­rial free-for-all, from which no cor­ner of the palace was spared.

‘‘Ver­sailles was a vast cesspool,’’ wrote one his­to­rian. ‘‘The odour clung to clothes, wigs, even un­der­gar­ments. Beg­gars, ser­vants, and aris­to­cratic vis­i­tors alike used the stairs, the cor­ri­dors, any out-of-the-way place, to re­lieve them­selves.’’

For Louis XIV and his later im­i­ta­tors, ar­chi­tec­ture was pol­i­tics, a way to over­awe ri­vals for power - no­bil­ity, princes and lawyers - and fo­cus at­ten­tion ex­clu­sively on the ruler. But while Ver­sailles looked mag­nif­i­cent from the out­side, on the in­side it was over­crowded, smelly and in­fested with ver­min.

Most of us probably wouldn't readily tolerate living like that.

French royalty could, no doubt, have live musicians or actors performing works that they want. But on the other hand, we have a vast digital library of video and audio of such scope and content...they could only comprehend them as dreams brought to life, created with resources well beyond what they could afford, because we have spread the costs over many and provided the output to many.

We can eat food from around the world in any season.

If I want the air in my living space to be chilly in summer, I can do so.

There are definitely some services that I'm sure that French royalty could avail themselves of that we cannot. But I think that it's easy to lose perspective of how staggering the increases of standard-of-living have been over a couple of centuries.

In most cases, I'd guess that factories don't need cameras or AI image analysis to track output, because workers aren't simply putting their output into a single pool with the output of other workers. The factory already has an easy way to know how much output the worker is producing, and, no doubt, has a record of that.

There might be fields of work where that's not the case, where it's hard to know what any one worker is actually producing. But I'm dubious that it's gonna be people doing assembly work in a factory.

There might be more-valuable uses to record and analyze workers in a factory. I remember that in Cheaper by the Dozen, the father works as a motion efficiency consultant

was in the heyday of US doing assembly-line factory work, and he'd go in with a video camera, record workers working, and then break down how workers were working and see if there were different motions that workers could be trained to use to increase output.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_and_motion_study

A time and motion study (or time–motion study) is a business efficiency technique combining the time study work of Frederick Winslow Taylor with the motion study work of Frank and Lillian Gilbreth (the same couple as is best known through the biographical 1950 film and book Cheaper by the Dozen). It is a major part of scientific management (Taylorism). After its first introduction, time study developed in the direction of establishing standard times, while motion study evolved into a technique for improving work methods. The two techniques became integrated and refined into a widely accepted method applicable to the improvement and upgrading of work systems. This integrated approach to work system improvement is known as methods engineering[1] and it is applied today to industrial as well as service organizations, including banks, schools and hospitals.[2]

But I'm skeptical that trying to find workers who aren't producing output in a factory using AI vision stuff is going to be all that useful.

who do you recommend I follow?

What I like may not be what you like at all. I mean, depends on your interests.

And I don't "follow" any of these, watch every thing when it comes out. These are just some YouTubers for whom I've had a high proportion of their material wind up being something that I feel is worth watching.

Montemayor

Does military history, mostly naval. Does not put out a lot of videos, but from the ones that I do follow, has really done his research through the written material out there before putting the material out, does a good job of highlighting what's important.

To a lesser degree, Drachinifel and The Operations Room. They're also military history, but I don't feel like they do as much research or highlight the important bits as well. Drachinifel focuses more on surface gun-era naval warfare, and The Operations Room tends to deal with newer stuff.

The Slow Mo Guys. Not exactly deep stuff, but they do one thing: high-quality interesting slow-motion footage. Pretty popular, so you may have heard of them before. I think it might be interesting to have some sort of analogous channel that does videos of microscope stuff, pans around something with a nice microscope.

SmarterEveryDay does, I think, a good job of explaining interesting things in our daily world from an engineering/technical standpoint; guy does a good job of researching his material. You'll probably walk away from this knowing this that you didn't.

CGPGrey does stick-figure illustrated things that also highlight interesting stuff, often relating to legal or political or historical stuff.

Perun does defense economics, and has had interesting and informed material on the Russo-Ukrainian War. Michael Kofman, an analyst who focuses on the Russian military, doesn't have a YouTube channel, but many YouTube channels do interview him, and while he's kind of dry, I also think that his material on Ukraine is pretty worthwhile -- he's consistently avoided alarmist stuff or cheerleading over the course of the war. Can find material with him via searching for his name.

One of the problems I have with YouTube is a side effect of the fact that it pays content creators. I don't have any real problem with that per se -- I mean, sure, you wanna do work and get paid, that's fine. The problem is that there's no real "YouTube of articles". The result is that a lot of content creators out there are putting stuff in video form that really doesn't need to be in video form, just because they want some reasonable way to monetize it. The above videos are from people who generally take advantage of the video format (well, Michael Kofman could really do just fine on a podcast and often does, but aside from that). I've seen too many YouTube videos -- including those being submitted on the Threadiverse -- that would really be better as text and possibly image articles.

EDIT: Oh, right. Someone else mentioned Primitive Technology, which I would definitely second. Has a guy go out in the woods with just his shorts and basically manufacture a lot of basic technology from the ground up. Does have subtitles, but no narration or speech. The practical use of what he does is probably limited, but I found it fascinating. I remember that this was very popular for a while on Reddit.

I don't, but I do have a search engine.

kagis for "myq beep"

https://support.chamberlaingroup.com/s/article/Why-is-the-MyQ-Garage-Wi-Fi-Hub-continually-beeping-1484145690676

It's an interesting idea. If their thesis is true, it might cause compression of the income range.

1. The text you wanted. Searched using what text was visible in your image in Google to find the original URL, which you didn't include, then grabbed the original text, courtesy of archive.org's Wayback Machine:

   https://web.archive.org/web/20230317064546/https://www.reddit.com/r/RockyLinux/comments/11rvyn7/added_raid1_and_added_to_fstab_no_server_does_not/

   1. what does the grub2 boot line look like?

   2. /boot is traditionally a separate partition, although it may not be required depending on how new your hardware is.

   3. /boot/EFI must be its own partition and formatted vfat file system in EFI boot systems.

2. There's an xkcd for that:

   https://xkcd.com/979/

   collapsed inline media

   

I'm gonna be more-generous.

My understanding is that most of the economy in Transnistria is basically there because Russia has been providing highly-subsidized gas, and that if they were paying market rate, a lot of the industry there would simply go under.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transnistria#Economy

The economy is based on a mix of heavy industry (steel production), electricity production, and manufacturing (textile production), which together account for about 80% of the total industrial output.

Steel production and electricity production at least are going to be basically driven by access to that gas.

I mean, yeah, it'd probably be efficient for it to go under and for resources and labor tied up in it to shift to something else. But I suppose that they're basically staring at overwhelming and rapid deindustrialization. Like, I would guess that a lot of people in Transnistria are basically looking at the future and seeing a giant gaping void.

I mean, Germany was very much affected by political pressures related to cheap Russian natural gas around the outset of the conflict, and Germany's industry is much less dependent on the gas and has a more-diversified economy.

The place might have a whole ton of other factors involved, ethnic, corruption, Russia buying influence, whatever, but even if you removed that from the picture, and you're just thinking about the perspective of some random person in Transnistria, I can believe that the economic disruption that they're facing from that huge shift is pretty staggering.

They probably need to make plans no matter what, and they probably shouldn't have put themselves in this place, but at this point, I expect that all the options they have are gonna be near-term very bad.

I want a client that can be logged on to multiple accounts at once and display a unified feed of all of them.

If I had to guess, it's that someone wants to keep content that Account 1 deals with separate from content that Account 2 deals with without needing to manually flip back and forth.

Like, someone may not want to associate their identity on !cs_career_questions@programming.dev with their identity on !femdom@lemmynsfw.com, in much the same way that in real life, they (presumably) wouldn't have videos of the latter playing in their office when talking with people about the former.