That last bit looks like something you should send off to a place like 404 media.

Yup, they are targeting people deep into the PCVR ecosystem. Index owners are their ideal customers. And now, people who previously purchased an Index and a Beyond, too.

The police are here to protect the owner class.

I’m surprised it doesn’t have a TikTok logo watermark. Looks really strange.

And can’t they fit at least one Family Guy episode in the empty space down at the bottom?

Good content is expensive. And from what I understand, the financials are all fucked up across the industry.

Just look at Netflix, they just blew $320 million on a huge piece of garbage, The Electric State.

It’s amazing how they basically perfected something, and then just dropped it in the trash.

I know it’s easy to explain that they basically sold them to everyone who wanted one. But it really feels like a device that/situation that a company like Google could maintain as a good will thing. As a standard. As a protocol.

I remember there being claims from him or his team about lidar being a dead end that would not scale as well as computer vision.

What’s the typical fixable issue you are finding?

Yeah. I’m gonna guess this types about the same. This is probally just an aesthetic change for the appearance of being “New!”.

Oh, wow. I wouldn’t have guessed that.

What’s a glowie? 🤔

PC Master Race

Wow, I was confused who it was at first.

I appreciate that someone could tell I didn’t mean to be super broad.

Jargon definitely falls under the umbrella I was pointing at. Communication among co-workers. Managers. Etc.

The whole style feels cold to me. And impersonal. And I hate it. Jargon can definitely play a role. But I’m also ok with certain types that actually do make communication flow smoother. But yeah, the vapid jargon that masks a lack of understanding, curiosity or humility is a bummer.

I said more in another comment, but I mean stuff like email. The thing companies like Apple are showing ads on TV for.

Sorry, I was focused in on professional communication. All those emails sent by bosses that feign interest or care. All necessary niceties that can grate on someone once they know many are just masks.

I wasn’t being precise, and I assumed others wouldn’t think about it in such broad terms. I agree that my statement would be silly if it applied to all writing that people get paid for.

Professional writing was always fake. And this just proves it more.

I hate how increasingly we will be forced to take patronizing AI slop at face value.

Well, Um. There are 3% of us!

My point is I assume they didn’t lose money on them. They feel the scale of profit needs to be higher, else it’s not worth their time. And I think it’s a bummer that they run things this way.

That 3% would be a lot of customers to other reasonably sized companies. Right?

Did I overlook the sales numbers? Do they exist?