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New comment by foldshift in "Meta VR Glasses"

foldshift — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 18:48:43 +0000

Zenbook Duo is not an option for me unfortunately (company provides the laptop). A nice large monitor not an option neither (well, if it was up to me, I would get 2 nice 4k monitors, but wife was very clear she did not want a bulky monitor and me occupying a good chunk of the dinner table lol). But I am pretty sure she will be fine with a portable monitor, I didn't know these were a thing, and they fit my use case perfectly! Thanks a lot!

New comment by foldshift in "Meta VR Glasses"

foldshift — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 01:12:17 +0000

Thanks, i will check it out. I think I did a couple years ago but mac os support was bad at the time? I don't quite remember, but this seems great now. Do you have one? Any experience with using it for work on mac os with multiple virtual screens?

New comment by foldshift in "Meta VR Glasses"

foldshift — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 00:40:17 +0000

I might consider them if I can wire it to my laptop. I use the meta quest for development because of infinite virtual screens and due to my apartment being so small I can't fit a proper desk and office chair. But still is a very niche usage, if I had space I would very likely get a desk with a dual or triple monitor setup. If the resolution is good, it is actually nice to have a very portable infinite screen setup if you travel a lot.

New comment by foldshift in "If coding has been solved, why does software keep getting worse?"

foldshift — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 23:52:29 +0000

I think I can say I got some 10x speedup with the recent, more powerful models (from Opus 4.5 on). But then again, I am just building CRUD websites, although sometimes there are some challenging tasks like some fancy graphs/plots to show, and some API integration in the backend, etc... but these are the use cases that models are really good at. I have 0 worries about scaling: my apps are internal, so you can think of 10-15 concurrent users at most, usually 5 or less, and 100 or so users in total, which eliminates the whole class of complicated scaling problems. 99% of the devs are probably on the same boat: our day-to-day problems are not complicated, dont need any deep algorithm or data structures knowledge, and models speed up this type of work a lot. Of course, they get very limited on complicated problems

New comment by foldshift in "YouTube's $60B revenue revealed amid paid subscriber push"

foldshift — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 04:50:31 +0000

i am a subscriber as firefox + ublock origin does not work on phone (on android, i think? last time i checked) and neither on smart tvs (mine is rokutv)