Comment on Quest 1 becomes near-E-waste Apr 30

gamermanh@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• jkrtn@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Does this make it possible to use the headset without ever having a Meta account? That’s the only way I’d be willing to interact with a Quest device.

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  • gamermanh@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Lol, of course not, you have to make an account to enable developer options to enable side loading

    The stealing of our data is how they make the headset so cheap

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    • GreatAlbatross@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Hopefully, someone is sitting on a root workaround, and will reveal it once the updates stop.

      I’d buy a second hand one, if there was a way to use it without any meta involvement.

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      • gamermanh@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I’m expecting it, tbh

        I have a quest 2 and it’s actually a FANTASTIC headset, but I want to rip the meta shit out

        Not even because they’re a gross company (tho they are), I use a burner account with burner info and play in a gray room through a router specifically for my VR (almost completely lag free wireless this way, it works) but because I HATE that they made you have arms in an update and didn’t let us turn it off. They’re horrid

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• gmtom@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  But that doesn’t give security updates.

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  • gamermanh@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    That’s what happens with old devices and dealing with it is part of the cost of using them

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    • gmtom@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Bro the quest is only 5 years old. And stop excusing shitty practices just because they are the normal.

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      • gamermanh@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Lol, the famously great reading comprehension of the Internet.

        1. I didn’t excuse shit

        2. 5 years of updates is a pretty normal timeline for mobile devices

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