I cancelled my preorder for the OG Oculus Rift so fast when they announced the Meta buyout
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on that note I finally deleted facebook. Goodbye meta!
Better late than never!
I just set mine to the beginning of time: Jan 01, 1970.
Here lies dreadbeef
1970-01-01 - 2038-01-19
01010010 01001001 01010000
People who bought this hardware are dumb fucks.
There really weren't any comparable standalone alternatives at the time. I just wanted to play some Beatsaber back then.
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I can't even access any Fakebook crap, because I have blocked any Zuckerbot service since a long time. It don't exist anymore for me in the web.
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I've had an account under a nickname for coordinating dog meetups for ages. One day the account was suddenly blocked without prior notice and the only way they would let me in again is by giving them my ID, which would not help as the account was under my nick and I would never give them my ID anyway. They didn't even let me delete that effing zombie account without identifying my name as real or even just change the Nick to something FB recognises as real name.
They'll ghost you even if you do give them everything they ask for. I can't even make a new account under my real name or anything close to it anymore.
It sucks it's the only realistic platform for discovering and getting info from interest groups in my area.
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My birthday is always January 1st of 2000. It used to be in 20th century but I didn’t want to give away my real age.
It used to be in 20th century but I didn’t want to give away my real age.
I take it you're turning 125 next Thursday?
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I understand there's arguments about "this is not new, they've been working on VR for a decade" - fine, but it's Zuckerberg, who apparently never does anything in good faith (see: the Winklevoss twins, Whatsapp, Snapchat, Libra, etc)
I'm sure they only have VR in order to onboard people to blue app. People have gotten banned and their only recourse is to buy an Oculus. Convenient.
Wasn’t that the obvious deal from the beginning? You buy the subsidized hardware and ignore Facebook’s gravity as long as you can. That’s the catch for the low price.
Anyone who thought otherwise is, well, thinking wishfully.
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Just lie and make up a fake birthday
Oh, goody! Maybe they'll send me a present! Can I send them my address, too, so they know where to mail it? Meta is so nice!
December 7, 1941.
How to tell the techs you're lying without telling the client
I do 1/1/1984 but also a good idea
I'll sell them my birth date information. They already got their filthy lucre from buying and selling my name all over the place, why shouldn't I get a cut from things I own?
Delete your facebook accounts
This is why tech giants want to dissolve governments and the regulatory agencies.
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A good opportunity to ditch Meta if you're still using it for some reason.
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Was unaware of the steam frame, thanks for putting them on my radar! Wonder how they'll fare as a monitor replacement for dev work. I've seen people use the apple goggles for that because they're pretty high res. Seemed pretty cool
wtf I deleted my account a year ago.
Don't they already have shadow profiles on all of us, even if we don't use Facebook? I long ago figured that they're able to get ahold of all the info they want on us without our consent. Is tracking our habits and relationships not enough? Even if the idea is to use this as age verification, I highly doubt Facebook's as clueless as to not have a ballpark estimate on all of us by now. (Or did the introduction of AI break things so bad that they can no longer deduce the sort of data they want? Hey, I can dream.)
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