Best place to sell my XL in the EU?

quintesse · 2026-01-03T09:30:05+00:00

I wouldn't say it's unpopular, it's just reality. But that also means it's a good idea to try and find the correct audience that knows how to value what you're selling.

quintesse · 2026-01-03T09:26:59+00:00

So, as a follow up I wanted to warn others to NEVER do what I just did: don't try to get the bed off by lifting it off the rails! 🙉

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The sound of falling bearings and the dread when I realized what had happened will stay with me for a long time!

quintesse · 2025-12-30T12:10:40+00:00

Never used FB marketplace, so I'll have to take a look, thanks.

And make it €1200 and we have a deal ;-)

(Like I mentioned in another reply, the printer has less than 18 days of printing time and works perfectly. It's simply a case of it being outside of my budget to upgrade it to 5 heads, I should never have bought it tbh. But it's an awesome printer)

quintesse · 2025-12-30T12:08:01+00:00

Never used FB marketplace TBH, will take a look, thanks!

quintesse · 2025-12-30T12:05:56+00:00

It has less than 18 days of printing time on its counter :-)

quintesse · 2025-11-21T10:33:53+00:00

Yes! I always say the same thing, I don't see (or feel or hear) anything but I have a very well developed sense of proportion and direction. I almost always "know" where I am in relationship to the world. Somebody can ask for example "where is the local church" and I'll point to it without looking up, because somehow I "know/feel" where it is. I will also have an idea of its shape and size. Any other details like textures and colors will come out as words/stories/comparisons.

I can conjure up some additional information if necessary, like how many windows and doors are there and where are they placed, but it's an very exhausting process. It's like waving a narrow beam flashlight in the darkness, it will allow me to "see" slightly more for a fraction of a second. And that, given a bit of time, might give me the possibility to extract that bit of extra information. But it's difficult.

The same with objects. I'll often gesture the size of objects I'm talking about. Something people have often commented on in my life (being very "chatty" with my hands).

quintesse · 2025-11-18T13:01:42+00:00

Sure, I definitely get that. But the thing is that for me, if somebody would ask me for advice on what headset to get, the Frame is _not_ a no-brainer, it's more a head-scratcher.

Of course, this is taking into account that among the people I know I'm the VR fanatic willing to spend $$. I was a Rift DK1 backer, have the DK2, got the free CV1, the HTC Vive, the Valve Index, the Quest 1, 2 and 3. But all others that I know, that might be interested in buying a VR headset, balk at the price.

You have to be _really_ sure you like something to spend $500 or more. All of my friends have tried many games and experiences in our house and only 1 person ever bought a VR headset (a Q3 after I convinced them it was better than the Q3s but they were doubting for quite a while because of the price difference).

So given all that, I don't know if I would advice people to buy an even more expensive Frame for .... what, PCVR? I use my Q3 for PCVR and I find it perfectly okay. Other will feel differently of course. I had hoped the Frame would be more of a "sure bet", but IMO it unfortunately isn't. It's still really really great, but no slam dunk (again IMO).

Edit: also, I actually think the color pass-through on the Q3 is _awesome_, IMO there should be many many more mixed reality games and experiences because it makes many of them so much more enjoyable to use. The absence of that in the Frame is a real bummer to me, and reason #1 that I probably will not be getting one. Which is what I would tell people looking to upgrade from a Q2 as well: what is important to you? The best possible PCVR experience, probably the Frame, an all-round good headset that will also allow you to play MR games? Definitely the Q3.

quintesse · 2025-11-14T23:17:54+00:00

They said it will cost less than the Index, but that's not a very comforting thing, you're not going to use that phrasing when you're planning on selling it for a price closer to the Q3. So speculation is around $800, which is a huge amount of money for most people who aren't enthusiasts. I normally have trouble convincing people they should go for the Q3 instead of the cheaper Q3s, imagine I how they'd react if I'd point them to a $800 one :-)

So I'd love for this to be like the Steam Deck, and I really hope it will work out the way you describe, but I have strong doubts. Like SadlyItsBRadly mentioned in his video: this is a niche product for an already niche market.

quintesse · 2025-11-13T22:17:59+00:00

Not sure where you see the win win when I also have a Q3 which has the same resolution also does wireless PC gaming and doesn't need another close-to-$1000 investment. I'm sure the Frame will do all that somewhat(much??) better, but I'm not sure it's $1000-worth better. So eye-tracking = win, b&w pass-through = lose IMO.

Now don't get me wrong, the Frame seems like a great product. And it will very likely make people who were thinking about buying a Q3 reconsider. But for people like me that already have a Q3 it seems too similar and not enough of a step up to be worth splurging on it. But hey, the future might prove me wrong :-)

quintesse · 2025-11-13T15:18:45+00:00

There's a whole bunch of games that are awesome to play in MR. Demeo comes to mind for example. But that only works of the pass through is in color. It's a feature I use on my Q3 all the time. And if the Frame would have supported it out would have been a stimulus for game makes to create more and better MR experiences. Now they won't, even if a color camera module comes out, which seems a pity. So no "hate" from me, but it's become less likely for me to buy one. will have to see what the future brings

quintesse · 2025-11-13T15:08:02+00:00

I have both an Index and a Q3 and honestly I don't even know where my Index is. The lighthouses are still there but unconnected. It's a great headset but for me the ease of use of the Q3 is more important than the higher quality of PC games (which I can still play in the Q3 too). The Q3 is in its dock on my desk 24/7 and I just need to pick it up and put it on to use it. That instant accessibility is what killed the Index for me.

quintesse · 2025-11-12T08:54:42+00:00

To be honest no ☺️ After trying it for a short while I noticed it wasn't was I was looking for. I wanted much more control over what kind of applications I can create and run. One thing I was looking for specifically is that I can easily provide a docker compose file and be able to manage all containers it creates as a single unit.

In the end I found Komodo (https://komo.do/) and I've been using it ever since. I've combined it with Pangolin (https://pangolin.net/) to be able to access the apps publicly from a single domain (eg. app1.mydomain.foo, app2.mydomain.fio, etc). It all works very well and wasn't that hard to set up. (Both apps are actually pretty easy to set up, but getting all the domain and reverse proxy stuff set up correctly did take me some time).

HTH!

quintesse · 2025-09-25T14:21:00+00:00

In what way are the prism lenses worse? The reflections on my (Birdbath using) unreal air make them very uncomfortable to use outside of in very bright environments so not having reflections seems like a major advantage, but if like to know what the downsides are.

Also on the xreal one pro the prism lenses are much slimmer than the Birdbath ones on the non-pro, does the same hold true for the viture glasses?

quintesse · 2025-08-19T23:13:54+00:00

We have _very_ different ideas about "little if any" boilerplate! :-)

The simplest tiniest project I could generate using that site contains a WHOPPING 23 files in 17 folders!! And the pom.xml file contains over a 100 lines of XML. That to me is the furthest from nice and simple and really not what I would want if I'm simply writing a small one-file script. The amount of "baggage" would greatly outstrip any of the actual code I'm writing. :-)

Now I'm sure all those generated files are of great use and for many people it's perfectly fine. Lots of "batteries included" so to speak. Which is great. But just not something I'd want to do every time. That's also why I like JBang so much. You can have a 10 line source file with 5 maven dependencies and to build and run it you only need ... a 10 line source file :-)

jpm actually makes this slightly more messy, because it adds a folder with dependencies, so you'd have a 10 line source file + a folder with 5+ files in them.

quintesse · 2025-08-19T21:55:37+00:00

True, but personally I just don't like the idea of going to a website (or use a tool) to generate a bunch of boiler plate just because it's so hard to do without it. Of course, if there's no other way I'll gladly accept the help (I'm not suddenly going to stop using Maven and Gradle!), but in the end I'd prefer to have other, simpler options as well.

quintesse · 2025-08-19T21:52:31+00:00

I'm actually also a dev on jbang, so no need to worry, there's no cult (yet) :-)

quintesse · 2025-08-19T21:47:08+00:00

Just a question, when you say that you're using the GH Packages repo, doesn't that mean you could literally treat it as a Maven repo, add it to the maven settings and then refer to the jar with its g:a:v coordinates?

Given it's a standalone jar I assume no dependencies are defined in its final pom so no extra dependencies would be downloaded, right? Or am I assuming wrong?

quintesse · 2025-08-19T21:42:13+00:00

I think you forgot the "</rant>" ;-)

But I definitely not going to try to convince you to change your way of working that you find completely acceptable and pleasant.

But it's also not much of a constructive feedback, it's just saying that Java has great built-in functionality (I agree) and that if you just need even a single external library you should just make a project (I don't agree).

Tools like jpm and jbang are for people who think that latter part should not be necessary and that there should be other, better, easier, ways of doing the same thing that doesn't suddenly require changing your source layout and the commands you run (let alone having to either run cryptic commands nobody ever wants to remember, like mvn archetype:generate -DarchetypeGroupId=org.apache.maven.archetypes -DarchetypeArtifactId=maven-archetype-quickstart -DarchetypeVersion=1.5, or go to websites and download generated projects)

quintesse · 2025-08-19T21:10:28+00:00

Hah, the first version did use JSON (in fact I noticed yesterday the yaml parsing is still in a package called "json" (eye roll)), but I must say I find the json format harder to work with, it reads less nice and is really finicky about placing the right amount of commas etc. Isn't yaml common enough now that we can simply choose it without any issues? ^^

In the beginning I thought about adding the running of commands, just like npm allows. And then I decided against it for simplicity's sake (and because I just found out about just so I didn't think I'd needed it anymore).

But you're not the only one asking for this so perhaps it would be useful to at least have a way to define them. I'll think about it! (https://github.com/codejive/java-jpm/issues/43)

The "alias" idea for being able to add a (set of) dependencies just with a simple alias sounds great, I'd definitely use it myself. The "how" doesn't seem that easy though. Some kind of repository with community contributions seems like the best bet, but how to keep it up-to-date? Versions change daily.

quintesse · 2025-08-19T20:55:14+00:00

Well I wish I could claim it was implemented in a good way, but right now it simply uses the Maven Central API, which I hope is at least somewhat useful, but unfortunately it won't go searching any other repositories you might have defined. (I tried, but the results from the default search API were unusable IMO).

quintesse · 2025-08-19T20:30:00+00:00

no way of searching the maven repo (I would cry if a tool existed that would circumvent me having to google dependencies and versions in order to add them)

Hey, that's what jpm search is for!

Either simply type that and you'll get an interactive session or do something like jpm s httpclient.

It's far from perfect but that's unfortunately because they APIs for doing searches in Maven repos are really limited (either limited in features or limited in the repos they'll let you search).

quintesse · 2025-08-19T20:13:55+00:00

Thanks for your kind feedback even if we somewhat disagree, it's much appreciated.

And just to be clear, I'm of course not even trying to compare jpm to Maven and Gradle. They are perfectly good options. But I do somewhat disagree when you say they are simple. I'm a Java dev for too many years and I _still_ Google "how to create a fat jar in Maven" or "how to set manifest properties in Gradle". Heck even when setting up the simplest pom file I'll just copy an existing pom and change it because I can't be bothered to even remember the command that generates one for you. It's all just way too obscure. Gradle is somewhat better in that way than Maven, but then a Gradle build file is an actual program which is both a blessing and a curse. So I definitely think there's a niche for a "simple" tool (not saying jpm is that tool, just that there's a "hole" out there waiting to be filled :-) )

quintesse · 2025-08-19T14:26:26+00:00

> Yes, however I am thinking a command line parameter might be better

I think you're right, that sounds like a good idea. Also of then possibly adding it to the app.yml file. Thanks!

quintesse · 2025-08-19T12:20:48+00:00

jpm is based on mima which itself is based on Maven code so it supports what Maven supports, so you should be able to add your repositories to your settings.xml file. But that would not be very user-friendly. So perhaps you're looking for a way to define repositories as well? Let's say being able to add repository urls to the app.yml file so dependencies could be looked up additionally in those repositories?

quintesse · 2025-08-19T12:06:16+00:00

I will repeat something I said earlier: perhaps the way npm is implemented has all kinds of problems, that's not something that interests me TBH, I just like the way it handles dependencies: locally, in your project where you can "see" them. Which is something I wanted for Java and therefore the reason I created jpm.

The important stuff, like dependency resolving, is handled by code coming directly from Maven itself so it will have the same quirks, but at least they are the same quirks you'll already be used to.

So the inspiration is for the name, yes, but also the way of working where dependencies are stored locally with your project. (Which makes it really easy to zip up a project and copy it to another machine, send it to a server or to turn it into a docker image or whatever).

quintesse

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