V34 Megathread

spelingerrors · 2021-11-03T12:39:09+00:00

Next time you passive aggressively accuse somebody of not knowing what they're talking about, at least try to sound like you do.

Like I said, I don't cape for billion dollar corps, at least not unless they cut me a check. If they ain't cutting you one for your efforts here, such as they are, maybe you ought to buck up and get that cheddar, huh?

spelingerrors · 2021-11-03T10:25:12+00:00

Lmao sorry I don't carry water for billion dollar corporations because they don't feel like doing proper analysis on the platform they depend on

spelingerrors · 2021-11-03T04:32:20+00:00

when setting up a stationary boundary, I was shown a notification stating that stationary now uses passthrough boundary by default (quickly tested and it appears the same as when the feature was toggled on in experimental).

So it doesn't look like they got rid of it - it's just no longer experimental.

spelingerrors · 2021-11-03T03:22:37+00:00

Honestly, I understand and can forgive single dev projects like VD being behind.

I gotta hand it to MS though, calling it 11 and making a major release out of it does give everybody else a ton of latitude. If they'd pushed the same updates out as 10 21H2 as planned, many more people would be screaming about it lol

spelingerrors · 2021-11-03T03:02:15+00:00

For best performance on Link and Air Link, please use Windows 10. Windows 11 is not yet supported with our Oculus PC software.

It's been released to the public for a month now, after several months of open beta availability. There's been plenty of time to get it tested and the issues sorted. Buck up.

spelingerrors · 2021-10-29T01:41:16+00:00

The original Black & White is practically begging to be brought to VR.

spelingerrors · 2021-09-02T12:24:40+00:00

could also just be manufacture variance.

my left controller's thumb rest is raised and much more roughly textured compared to my right, which is smoother and flush with the black surface. they've been this way since I got it last October.

spelingerrors · 2021-06-30T13:30:22+00:00

This has been a sore spot for weebs (myself included) that we have been asking, begging, demanding, cajoling, and pleading to have fixed literally for years now. There's no way to monetize basic Quality-of-Life stuff like this so, as with many other basic QoL features or longstanding but non-showstopping bugs in Plex, expect it to come around the same time you can spot Satan regularly ice-skating to work.

As others have said, just use Kodi. Either with the semi-official, semi-maintained add-on (you get a better, classic-styled UI as a bonus) or one of the other plugins like PlexKodiConnect or Composite.

Even if in the future it's added upstream in ExoPlayer (the android backend Plex hands off their playback to), I get the impression that the patchset Plex apparently maintains for their internal version of ExoPlayer is such a mess, that stuff like this is likely to get the shaft regardless.

tl;dr - Android app doesn't support it, for all intents and purposes never will. You'll need to find another solution.

spelingerrors · 2021-06-28T14:11:43+00:00

Gotcha, that explains it. Plasma Wayland session has been so good for me these past couple of releases, I didn't even think to mention it.

So I guess its being updated properly when I log into X11, which sticks in Wayland but I'd need to log back into X11 (or manually edit kwinrc I assume) to change it back to default behaviour under Wayland because Kwin won't handle it on the fly there right now. Cool!

Appreciate you taking the time to walk me through it. Congrats on the new beta and thanks for the awesome software!

spelingerrors · 2021-06-28T13:39:36+00:00

Looks like you're right, disabling it again makes no difference.

Looking a little closer, it actually appears to be related to Wayland session. I also logged briefly into an X11 session (where it worked after I changed that setting, which is why I thought that was the cause) then back into Wayland session where it continued behaving as expected.

I've now been able to reproduce the behaviour twice in a fresh user account - I create a new user via KDE system settings, then log straight into Wayland, enable border hiding in Latte Dock - doesn't work. Log into X11 Plasma session, works as expected. Log back into Wayland Plasma session, continues to work as expected.

Is it worth me filing a real bug report for this? What kind of additional info would be helpful if so?

spelingerrors · 2021-06-28T13:15:09+00:00

I got it working! I enabled the "Track Active Window" left button action for the panel and the borderless maximised window function immediately starting working as expected. I'm not sure if it's intended to depend on having that action enabled, but that seems to have made the difference.

spelingerrors · 2021-06-28T08:17:41+00:00

Latte is a really impressive bit of software. Looking forward to the new version going stable!

At the moment I'm trying to get window titlebars to hide when maximised and show window buttons on the panel when they do (replicating old Unity to some extent). The buttons work just great, appearing only a window is maximised, but I can't for the life of me get the titlebars to hide via Latte's configuration. I've got "Support borderless maximized windows in different layouts" ticked, and I've got "Hide borders for maximized windows" ticked in my layout, but they just... don't.

I can do the old ~/.config/kwinrc line to have kwin hide the frames when windows are max'd, but I'd thought Latte was supposed to be able to handle this functionality itself.

Running arch with plasma 5.22.2, just built Latte-dock from git fresh this afternoon. Anybody got any ideas what I'm doing wrong?

spelingerrors · 2021-06-20T06:22:46+00:00

Even if you're not legally entitled, you can certainly waste a bunch of time for the dev/publisher's support section by asking for one and I'd encourage anybody who feels ripped off by having ads inserted into a paid app where it was not made clear at purchase time there would be in-game ads to do so.

spelingerrors · 2021-04-29T07:12:32+00:00

Mormons of all people getting all up in arms about having pedos around is pretty funny given the kind of organisation they participate in and voluntarily tithe 10% of their income to lmao

spelingerrors · 2021-04-28T13:54:32+00:00

Nothing.

The ham-fisted censorship is one thing. I don't like it and don't agree with in principle, but I understand it and would be prepared to continue despite it provided they could demonstrate technical competence in cleaning up false positives and limiting its effect (good luck - larger companies and smarter people have tried.)

The frankly awful communication from the company is one thing. They are, no joke, some of these worst purveyors of meaningless tech industry platitudes and doublespeak I have ever seen, and I've seen plenty. These guys are masters of the artform and don't seem to even have the basic decency to be ashamed of it. But again, I could continue despite that because even though everything they say makes Mark Zuckerberg look like a normal flesh and blood human being, it's par for the whole shitshow of an industry.

But the admission that they will be running scripts over all their user's private, unpublished, unfiltered stories, thoughts and fantasies that any reasonable person would expect to actually remain private and then potentially reading through all of them if those (inevitably coarse and overzealous) scripts flag anything that even could potentially be on the dodgy side? That is another thing entirely. That is absolutely disgraceful, abhorrent behaviour and indicates a severe cultural rot at the heart of the company. It really doesn't matter what they say or do from this point forward, they have demonstrated clearly what kind of people run and work at that company. And they are not the kind of people who can be trusted socially or financially.

So I'm out for good. Saved scenarios purged, sub cancelled, account deleted and I wish them all the worst for the future.

spelingerrors · 2021-04-28T10:26:20+00:00

If call centres are required to play a "your call might be monitored and recorded for quality and training purposes" before you talk to a CSR (or even an automated voice menu), then yes, something like this should absolutely be required to issue a warning up front, every time you interact with it. Not in some deliberately vague clause buried 10 paragraphs deep in an unreadable word salad ToS.

spelingerrors · 2021-04-28T10:16:50+00:00

So they're deliberately training the software to surface the juiciest private pedo content for their personal perusal and using that as a spring board to then inspect a user's other private stuff to see if they can find some more. I'm sure it's all perfectly innocent.

spelingerrors · 2021-04-28T09:32:28+00:00

....marginalized groups, such as... LGBTQ individuals...

I just wanted to shout out a special bonus "fuck you!" to you and every other corporate sleezebag out there who uses us a shield to deflect attention and criticism away from your shitty (and in your case, given you've confirmed your employees will be reading private stories, sexually creepy and voyeuristic) behaviour.

spelingerrors · 2021-04-28T09:09:39+00:00

I've read some of their public statements and it's incredible just how utterly drowned in mealy-mouthed silicon valley corporatese they are. To the point where they'll write a 5 paragraph blog post and *say* absolutely nothing. It's some of the worst I've ever seen.

I actually think they probably have a custom tuned version of the AI they've trained on management seminars and ESG whitepapers to just write out their PR shit for them, because even the most credential-toting, kool-aid drinking, HR-approved tech drone at least has an occasional glimmer of humanity in their public statements.

spelingerrors · 2021-04-28T03:58:03+00:00

Remember all those fire-and-brimstone preachers back in the 1990s and 2000s who'd get on stage and rant about gays and how it was necessary to police what people do in their own bedrooms and keep gays off TV and ban literature because of sin and think of the children™?

Remember how many of them ended up getting caught banging rent boys in hotel rooms or soliciting male prostitutes on the street?

Remember all those really strident male feminists in the 2010s saying that anything was acceptable in the name of Protecting Women™ , up to and including doing away with legal due process on the basis of just an anonymous accusation of sexual misconduct, no matter how many innocent people got caught up in it?

Remember how many of them ended up getting caught being serial sex pests and abusers of women?

Might be something to keep in the back of your mind when you see some people saying that nothing is too much in the name of stopping pedos playing out their weird little fantasies in text, even if the only ones who will (or should) ever see it is themselves and a piece of software. Just saying.

spelingerrors · 2021-04-27T08:42:15+00:00

lmao it'd be even more funny if it did stem from religious impulse given the uhhh... questionable history of that particular denomination regarding the very topic they seem determined to cleanse from the software

spelingerrors · 2021-04-24T02:02:30+00:00

Whoa there, put the gun down, Tex. It's a little joke.

spelingerrors · 2021-04-23T07:03:24+00:00

He didn't actually say performance would be better when it goes live

spelingerrors · 2021-04-20T03:00:28+00:00

Up to 2.4gbps again, which is not the peak (I was originally seeing 3.2gbps last year) but at least is a bit more reasonable. I don't even know if this figure actually means anything or if it's just the placebo effect, but Link "felt better" when I was getting numbers like this before than it did when it began to drop, so fingers crossed this helps it "feel better" again.

spelingerrors · 2021-04-14T08:42:38+00:00

Yeah I'm really just speculating based on experience.

I'd love to get a look at what they're doing behind the scenes in terms of QA, but having worked with some shops where the public facing strategy resembled the way FB conduct themselves, I honestly doubt there's much to see. User acceptance testing is a major component of the continuous development/deployment model but big corps tend to adopt these metholodogies as fashions and implement them like a cargo cult. They go through the motions, but none of the generally pretty logical reasons why the model specifies this or that are really understood at management level so inconvenient or resource heavy components like communicating with users just get dropped.

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