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Rentlar@lemmy.ca ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

My worry and the main reason I’ve not jumped for one, is that with the requirement of a Meta account and stuff, Meta could decide to just have all their headsets of a certain generation stop working after some date even if you only use desktop streaming.

Are there any known workarounds/safeguards against Meta remote control of the device?

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piskertariot@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I have used my pi-hole to blacklist all the oculus, meta and facebook domains, so I don’t get firmware update pushes on my Q1.

BUT, I did have a weird out-of-sync issue with Virtual Desktop a few months ago when I thought I had properly version locked.

All I ever wanted my Quest to be was a monitor. The fact that they could brick a monitor because they feel like it’s obsolete, is asinine.

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thegreekgeek@midwest.social ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I found THIS, but there are some caveats.

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- Rentlar@lemmy.ca ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Thanks for the research. It seems like their discontinuation of Oculus accounts made some of the steps harder or less effective, and I’d worry about messing something up.
  
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  - thegreekgeek@midwest.social ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    I took a second look after you replied and holy shit you’re right it is very involved. I’m just going to take my chances with meta still and if they burn me I got my several hundred hours of Skyrim VR in. Enough to justify an Index.
    
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