From looking over that page, it looks like they explain how to use such aliases, but don’t provide an alias service themselves, which it looks like Proton Pass does.

Well if you’d played Vader Immortal in VR, you would.

Right. Some people believed that they would somehow get a free phone after two years, so were extra pissed over it.

But all it really was was that you could start the program again and get another phone that you would pay off over the next two years.

Well that’s one way too ensure that the parts of the antenna are the correct length!

I wonder how it can be worth the extra cost on CPU/GPU time, compared to search of mail.

I might type “best value Jacuzzi” into Google, but “write a python script to sort numbers”, or “write a message sounding like I’m actually sorry to not go to someone’s party”, or “this sentence is a lie” into an AI.

I can only see one of those being valuable.

Why is there this push to use AI everywhere when it’s so resource-heavy? What do Google, MS etc gain?

Aaannnd I get to post this https://m.xkcd.com/2897/

Google Fi doesn’t sell locked phones, so that shouldn’t be a problem.

They do have various deals that require staying on the Fi plan for some time (I’m getting the full price of a Pixel 7 back in discounts spread over 2 years), but I read that they’re delaying this increase for anyone on a promo (probably because a change of plan would allow people to exit the deal).

It’s sad for anyone who has to pay more now, but it was pretty strange that the price was actually the same for 4 lines as 2 (taxes and fees excluded).

Eula.

Glass was just a heads-up display in the corner of vision, nothing like any sort of vr/ar/xr system. I don’t know why you would consider that comparable to any of the headsets. Hololens and Magic Leap were augmented reality, but by not using camera passthrough they were limited filed-of view and could not do opacity. Quest 3 is much more similar to the Vision Pro in terms of what it can do (aside from the outer display). For instance, it’s possible to place large browser windows around your room, and replace your monitor with a larger virtual version.

The Quest range. I’m sure that the passthrough isn’t as good quality as Apple’s (some glitching at the edges of objects), but it’s easily enough to walk around in, especially the Quest 3.

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One day I’m going to make my fortune by writing a silica gel recipe book.

So true. I should have said “Allo”, but I’d forgotten it existed.

I have Google Fi and it was fantastic to have that work using Hangouts. I could turn any device into a spare phone. The “replacement” website feature is disappointing.

Are you sure that you’re not thinking of Duo/meet/Hangout?

A Star Trek Strange New Worlds episode had two crew members meeting someone from the future:

Ortegas: Hey, what’s the future like? Do you have jet packs or what?

Chapel: We have jet packs now.

Ortegas: I know, but, like, smaller jet packs.

My eyes couldn’t roll any harder.

But if they were actually just eyes displayed on a screen over your face, then, with the right app, they could.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYLBjScgb7o

Oh, one really cool thing, newsreader programs would usually show you which message threads had new messages, so it was easy to keep up with interesting conversations.

What it looked like was an email program with a list of subject names like mail folders, each containing subject lines of conversation threads. The threads were fully branched, replies under the correct messages, like Lemmy. Not a simple list, like email.

Also unlike email, the messages were posted publicly instead of to you.

There was a list of newsgroup names for different subjects, you’d pick which of those to get messages from to appear as the “mail folders”.

The names were in a hierarchy, so computer subjects were comp.something, hobbies/recreation were rec.something etc. a bit like website names, only back to front, general to more specific, e.g uk.rec.sheds, alt.startrek.fanfic , rec.humor, rec.humor.funny.

You’d download messages from (and upload your replies to) a server and it would share messages with other servers, like Lemmy federation. So each group would be a merge of all messages from all around the world. Effectively there would only be ONE alt.folklore.urban for instance.

Usually your isp would run a server and you’d use that.

At first it wasn’t mainly used as a way to share binary files encoded as text messages, but eventually that took over, isps dropped having servers and big paid ones took over.