• 22 Posts
  • 1.4K Comments
Joined 3 years ago
cake
Cake day: June 9th, 2023

help-circle



  • Edit: inb4 “ai”. No. This is human slop and it’s completely different.


    The hand started to come into view in the distance just as preparations were being finished. This tradition had been going on so long, no one even remembered how it started, but they knew why it continued. The villages bravest warrior was chosen weeks in advance and prepared for his journey. The fastest horse, the strongest bow, supplies for longer than he thought he could travel.

    The mission was somewhat easy, even if the conclusion was hard. As the hand got closer to the city, you left on horseback and started to head east, away from the city. Once the hand got closer, the warrior would start firing arrows into the index finger. It was thought this was where the power of the hand was stored (as it did most of the actual killing). This barrage of arrows wasn’t enough to seriously injure it, but it was enough to make it mad. Predictably, it would change direction and start to give chase to the warrior.

    Now it was just an endurance race. The route we followed was through enemy territories. We made sure to carry a giant hand banner as we rode through these villages and towns. At the sound of our gallop, the town locked up tight and families took shelter where they could. The hand always killed a couple as it passed through.

    I was the latest chosen warrior, and after three days of nonstop riding, the hand was gaining on me and I was just about exhausted. I picked up the pace to the best of my ability but it was no use. The hand overtook my horse and with a swift flick of its finger, I was off my horse and tumbling across the ground. The hand grew near, and I closed my eyes in anticipation of my imminent demise. But death didn’t come. All I heard was “um…sir”. I opened my eyes to see the hand towering over me, beaming words directly into my mind as it lacked a mouth. Terrified, I looked up at it and said “…y-yes?”

    We’ve been trying to reach you about your horse’s extended warranty











  • The range is too small with Meshtastic to be useful for connecting a large group. I did some practical range testing with myself and a friend both running a node and me driving around to see what sort of range I could get. We’re 3.5 miles away from each other and it seemed like we’d need a decent amount of repeaters to be able to chat without an internet backbone doing the work.

    Maybe in a smaller town with more active neighbors believing in this it would be easier. In a large (flat) metro area, it’s tough to get meaningful coverage without putting in a lot of work building human connections and convincing people to run nodes.


  • I think it depends where you’re coming from. For me:

    • I owned an oculus 1 dev kit, and had some experience with VR a long time ago and enjoyed it, but there weren’t many games.
    • Meta bought oculus and requires a meta account to even use their devices, so that’s a no for me.
    • Valve index looked interesting, but I wasn’t aware of it at launch, and by the time I was, there were whispers of a successor, so I wanted to wait.

    So I have no VR headset and I want to get into again. From my research, this is the best all around non-meta headset on the market (especially if you’re getting the color pass through accessory). Plus I love Valve’s whole model of making things free, open source, and interpretable. So supporting them financially is fine by me as well.




  • To add on to what the other commenter said, these are certificates, and from the look of it, root certificates.

    This is the underpinning of HTTPS and modern web encryption. Here’s the problem they are solving:

    If you want to make a secure connection to Amazon and make sure data you are sending them is really Amazon and not someone pretending to be them, a root certificate is how you do it. There’s more nuance than I’m explaining, but it cryptographically verifies you are talking to who you think you’re talking to.

    There is no good reason to manually be deleting them. Leave them alone, it’s not hurting anything.