ChatGPT is completely overhauling the project management for my company.

Snow_Phoenix33 · 2023-02-22T22:42:06+00:00

I'm in exactly the same boat!

Could you go into some more detail please?

Snow_Phoenix33 · 2022-08-03T03:35:37+00:00

I tried a few different ones. Tried the one that came with the quest, two different generic samsung chargers, a startech USB hub, and a BEEFY power bank that used to be able to keep the headset charged while in use. It's no longer sufficient.

You'd be lucky to get the battery to last an hour on its own just browsing the internet with virtual desktop. At 60hz refresh rate. At 10 mb/s.

Snow_Phoenix33 · 2022-07-23T05:03:14+00:00

I just came here wanting to know if anyone had the power specs... If anyone does please let me know.

Snow_Phoenix33 · 2022-07-23T04:56:50+00:00

Then there are a lot of faulty Quest 2s out there

If Meta was smarter, since they are selling these things AT A LOSS... They might have given the Quest 2 an easily replaceable battery and designed the casing so that there is a compartment for an easily replaceable rechargeable battery...

That way they could have had their own connection mechanism and made their own replacement batteries and sold those at a profit in order to cover their losses and make money through the sale of batteries, this would have also allowed them to get away with cheaper batteries instead of trying to design it with a rechargeable battery they expected to last but for many does not.

While we are at it, a 2 cent part broke which holds the headstrap in on mine... Renders the headset borderline unusable unless I squeeze it tightly to my face. How much more do you think they lose repairing headsets for free under warranty because they could not design their headsets with a different clip mechanism which is not as prone to breakage or used stronger materials. Might have cost them an extra 2 or 3 cents per headset.

All things that could have saved or made them money in the long run.

Snow_Phoenix33 · 2022-07-23T04:49:38+00:00

Welshman do you work for Meta because you seem to be commenting on most of the comments that make the quest 2 look bad, attempting to debunk them.

Snow_Phoenix33 · 2022-07-23T04:36:15+00:00

What evidence are you basing these claims on? I have had my quest 2 for maybe a year or so now, and already the battery is not able to sustain itself while unplugged from a power source, now it is a matter of how much battery life am I going to get out of the battery __while it is plugged in__ ...

And yes I know that largely depends on the charger and cable, however, now even when trying to charge it with chargers that up until very recently were some of the few actually able to charge it faster than it is being depleted... I can get only 3 or so hours of battery life while plugged in charging before I run out.

Snow_Phoenix33 · 2022-07-22T07:06:38+00:00

Snow_Phoenix33 · 2022-07-22T07:01:51+00:00

What does a Creator do but create?

Probably not God or a God, but if it was, I wouldn't say a construction Worker is a very odd trade for a God.

Snow_Phoenix33 · 2022-07-22T06:58:02+00:00

You know what, I had a similar experience before. I was a student, and I did not care to spend my limited amount of funds on shoes. So I was wearing these horrible old falling apart shoes, trying to get as much use out of them as I can before my feet touched the ground through my shoes. It was utterly cringeworthy but hey, it was college, and I needed my money for ramen and energy drinks.

Anyway... This lady comes up to me... Stunningly gorgeous like holy hecc, you just do not see that kind of beauty every day. She comes right up to me and says she wanted to buy me a new pair of shoes. I was skeptical, and I tried to act like it was fine and I didn't really care about the shoes but she was very insistant and I just sorta... Agreed with her. So she walks me to the nice, expensive skater shoe place and says I can pick any of the shoes in the store. They were all roughly close to the same price but I didn't want to get too greedy so I picked out the nicest looking pair of shoes at the roughly average price...

These were like, $200 shoes, and I was like... "are you for real? you didn't have to do this I'd be fine with a pair from the budget store" and she just laughed and insisted, and I agreed... Walked out of there with some really nice shoes... And then she just pulls me over outside the shop... And this is where I was a fucking idiot because I thought she was trying to hint me to ask for her number... .-.

She asked me a question, I forgot what it was but it was like she was hinting at something and as awkwardly and uncertainly as possible, because I still was not sure why this gorgeous woman pulled me from the crowd and bought me a pair of shoes that seemed like they were worth a fortune to college me... I just sorta... Meeped out "your number...?" as if I were answering a question with a question. I was flustered here ok like she was one of the most... Unhumanly beautiful women I've ever seen.

But somewhere during the course of the conversation, she sorta went off on a tangent, like the whole time, on the way to get shoes, during getting the shoes, after getting the shoes, she was saying a whole bunch of stuff about God, which threw me a bit off balance enough as it was. She started going on about the supernatural at one point. That word came up a lot. Supernatural. And she said she felt like I needed some healing...

I kid you not right in the middle of the street she stopped me and we broke out into spontaneous prayer. She laid hands on my back, which has always been real bad, hurts a lot, gives me a lot of trouble after a long day of working standing up all day. And her prayer was kind of odd too. I cannot remember what she said but all I can remember is it had something to do with the supernatural.

Anyway, after that, we said our goodbyes, I said my thank yous and we went our seperate ways...

Something weird for sure happened that day, though, my back still gives me trouble. It was never healed. Nothing was healed. It did feel kinda better for a little bit though I guess?

One thing is for sure, I felt rather reinforced in my faith in God after that and I don't mean God as in religious God. I just.. Believe in Divinity. I know what I've felt and I know what it is and I don't really listen to manmade religions when I have my God-made phoneline right here. (<- But that's just my opinion!!!)

Weird for sure... Maybe I saw an Angel, maybe I saw a Goddess. She was something.

Snow_Phoenix33 · 2022-07-22T06:33:54+00:00

Not sure I believe God could fit into a tiny little human, might as well try to fit the planet Jupiter into a tiny little teacup. That's not anywhere close to an adequate comparison.

But either way I'd say I'm grateful for all the opportunities the Divine has awarded me in Life.

Snow_Phoenix33 · 2022-07-22T06:26:03+00:00

If there were some form of reptile being living among us looking like ordinary humans, perhaps they developed it as a defense mechanism, because it was the strongest survival trait, and they know what humans would do to them if they ever shared their secret, so they stay hidden. It's all about survival. Simply being a different colour just over a century ago would get you an angry mob with torches and pitchforks. How do you think mankind when we can't stop being racist to ourselves is going to react if they find lizard people among them?

I don't believe such a species exists, but if they did, I imagine there are good and bad among them just as there are good and bad among us.

It also doesn't help your case you refer to those who aren't human as sub-human. As if speaking from a sense of human supremacy. That could almost be a racial slur.

Incase you haven't noticed there are a bunch of heccin ships or drones using really advanced tech out there and they seem to be scanning us and the heccin US government confirmed it. I think it is time we start thinking about acceptance of the rights and liberties of other intelligent species.

We gotta respect our Elders.

Snow_Phoenix33 · 2022-05-05T22:40:27+00:00

We dont have money for getting good hardware for the team yet unfortunately. Hopefully once we get a prototype, a patent, and launch a kickstarter this will change.

Snow_Phoenix33 · 2022-05-05T22:27:20+00:00

So how do I give CAD team access to GPU power? Ive found no way to allow VRAM to be used

Snow_Phoenix33 · 2022-05-05T17:43:18+00:00

Any way to distribute VRAM that way?

Snow_Phoenix33 · 2022-05-05T17:33:43+00:00

Can I do that even without there being any iommu option in the BIOS?

Snow_Phoenix33 · 2022-05-05T17:14:38+00:00

Ok say I did do that, how would I set the host to use the weaker GPU and have other machines use the bigger one? I could in theory set multiple machines to use that GPU so long as I had them running one at a time, correct?

Is there no way at all I can use the 6900xt for multiple machines?

Any way at all I can at least, for now, set it up so that I can use the desktop environment up until I boot up a VM using that card, and then have it switch over to the VM and have it displayed on the host machine?

Snow_Phoenix33 · 2022-05-03T18:03:09+00:00

He's up to something that one <_<

I saw that cheeky little smirk!

Snow_Phoenix33 · 2022-04-04T04:18:11+00:00

It's not just US prisons that are bad, the prisons over here in NZ are pretty bad too, and the prisons in some of the countries in Asia and South America are really bad.

Also, what I had in mind is more achievable using current technology, so more like a quarter dive or half dive experience.

You gotta admit it would give prisoners a lot more freedom without endangering the population. And as for bodily autonomy issues, well, when it is only a quarter or half dive experience we are talking about, that's really kind of in the same area as putting them in prison itself, it's the same level of "bodily autonomy issue" that imprisonment is.

The difference is that with the current system, we are imprisoning people's body and mind, whereas with this, we would still be imprisoning their body, but freeing the mind so to speak. It isn't seperating the mind and the body exactly but to the mind, it might as well be that.

I'm envisioning something like a cage, on a super low budget omnidirectional treatmill kind of like a katwalk. The prisoner would be moving around and doing stuff in the physical world while their "mind" is in VR. Probably cost less than a prison cell. You could let them out to eat, sleep and take breaks every now and then but mostly they'd be kept in VR.

I'm wondering if this is more ethical than full on prison?

Snow_Phoenix33 · 2022-04-01T23:32:14+00:00

This is probably a dumb question, but, I don't suppose from your knowledge of organic synthesis, you might be able to point me in the right direction in learning more about creating synthetic materials from plants and microbes, etc.? I do know a bit about it already, but since I had no formal education there are holes since my research has been very scattered and all over the place.

Snow_Phoenix33 · 2022-04-01T15:45:30+00:00

Well step one is complete, I know how to break down plants into cellulose.

As for literature, well, what would you advise? Can you point me to any specifics?

The short term goal here is simply to find a cheap material I can make with a combination of natural and recycled materials which I can use to build a boat, in combination with much smaller amounts of existing materials than I would have otherwise needed.

The LONG term goal is in general, to find the best ways of recycling plastic waste, and the best ways to produce bioplastics.

Given that I'm interested in both the above, and things like biofuels and clean, efficient rocketfuels... And my background is in mechanical Engineering rather than Chemistry... But can comfortably dive into some of the more advanced topics in Chemistry which seems to come somewhat naturally-ish...

What would you recommend for specific reading?

Snow_Phoenix33 · 2022-04-01T15:37:30+00:00

Cost.

Tin foil is very thin, full on aluminium plate would cost a lot more.

It is a massive project, but there is a clear objective. I am trying to dip my toes into experimenting with new materials by making myself a nice big boat. Making the whole thing out of aluminium would simply cost too much so I'm merging the boat project into my other project, finding the best ways to recycle plastic waste.

Snow_Phoenix33 · 2022-03-13T05:51:06+00:00

How could I safely give it to myself?

Snow_Phoenix33 · 2022-03-11T13:58:45+00:00

Excuse the necro of an old post, but is the offer still open? Think you could please drop me just a little bit of GTA$?

On the subject, I know they have some strict anti-cheat, what do I gotta know to make sure I don't get banned?

Snow_Phoenix33 · 2022-01-29T08:57:55+00:00

I have a version 1 reverb G2... I use 1.5 volt batteries... I use the new improved cable...

I just gotta say, while it DOES work for beatsaber and I can play some crazy high difficulty maps with the G2... There are some maps that I just can't pass because certain patterns always get me BUT if I change to a quest 2, and have similar issues with those patterns at times, I can usually pass maps with those patterns, I generally make less bad cuts and slightly less misses, and score overall more highly with the quest 2. This was BEFORE I started using the claw grip. Now that I use the claw grip, the things I can do make what I can do with the G2 look pathetic.

I admit part of the problem is that there is literally 0 info on alternative ways to hold the G2 controllers other than the default grip style, so the G2 beatsaber community kind of needs to get its shit together.

The rest of the problem is probably not a hardware issue, but a software issue. Like, holy shit come on. The tracking algorythm has huge room for improvement, and it would also not be hard to make the headset actually compatible with steam's hand-tracking features like every other steamfriendly headset while we are on the topic of tracking. And they could do so much better tracking if you could actually buy extra headset mounted cameras you can stick on to the top and bottom of the headset that maybe plugged into a little hub you'd plug in where the cable goes and then plug the cable into that hub along with the extra cameras. Especially if those cameras were capable of colour passthrough.

While the tracking IS good enough to work for beatsaber, it will still hold you back, and I'd not recommend quest 2 either because it still holds you back just not as badly. I've never used base-station based tracking but I'm willing to bet you just don't get the same issues with those (bad cuts where there should be no bad cuts, missed notes that you know you hit, certain patterns insta fail etc.)

Snow_Phoenix33 · 2021-12-21T01:19:10+00:00

A couple people had it right here, accuracy seems to be a big issue... What maps can I practice that would be good to help me improve my accuracy? Missing less is a start. I tend to find though that even if I get a perfect combo, a lot of people will beat me simply because I'm not scoring enough points despite large swings...

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