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Andrew D Thaler

@drandrewthaler
12 posts
2025-11-13
I've had the same OG Oculus Rift since before Facebook wrecked the VR ecosystem.  I love VR and am continually amazed at just how thoroughly Zuck ruined it.  —  The Steam Frame might finally be the thing that gets me to finally upgrade my hardware.  —  www.youtube.com/watch?v=OmKr...
2025-11-13 View on X
The Verge

Valve unveils the Steam Frame, a VR headset that can stream games from a PC or run Windows and Android games locally, expected to launch in 2026 for under $999

Valve is about to launch a new virtual reality headset, and with it, a comprehensive new approach to what a VR device should be.

I've had the same OG Oculus Rift since before Facebook wrecked the VR ecosystem.  I love VR and am continually amazed at just how thoroughly Zuck ruined it.  —  The Steam Frame might finally be the thing that gets me to finally upgrade my hardware.  —  www.youtube.com/watch?v=OmKr...
2025-11-13 View on X
The Verge

Valve says the company is “no longer manufacturing” its high-end, PC-tethered VR headset Valve Index, released in 2019 for $999, after unveiling the Steam Frame

While showing its new Frame VR headset to The Verge, Valve confirmed that it's moving on from its previous one.

2022-10-30
I love how everyone is trying to figure out what the Grand Culture Discourse is, when it's almost certainly just that GM doesn't want to give money to a company privately owned by their direct competitor. https://twitter.com/...
2022-10-30 View on X
Platformer

Sources: on October 28, Twitter engineers were told to print out their last 30 to 60 days of code for Elon Musk to review, and then told to shred the printouts

Twitter has a new CEO.  And he'd like to see your code, please  —  Elon Musk took over Twitter on Thursday like a military general …

I love how everyone is trying to figure out what the Grand Culture Discourse is, when it's almost certainly just that GM doesn't want to give money to a company privately owned by their direct competitor. https://twitter.com/...
2022-10-30 View on X
The Information

Source: Elon Musk fired top Twitter executives, including CEO Parag Agrawal, “for cause”, in an apparent attempt to avoid severance and unvested stock payouts

When Elon Musk terminated four top Twitter executives, including CEO Parag Agrawal and CFO Ned Segal on Thursday …

2021-12-09
But, like, why? https://twitter.com/...
2021-12-09 View on X
Bloomberg

Kickstarter plans to transition its crowdfunding site to a newly created blockchain-based protocol in 2022, and will offer tools for others to build on it

Jackie Davalos / Bloomberg :

2021-07-07
This is a huge victory. John Deere is the largest manufacturer of autonomous self-driving vehicles and one of the biggest financial backers of the You Don't Own Your Hardware movement. This is a big brick to fall. https://twitter.com/...
2021-07-07 View on X
Bloomberg

Source: Biden will direct the FTC to draft new right-to-repair rules, with an explicit mention of mobile phone manufacturers expected in the directive

- Order may loosen rules on who can undertake phone repairs  — Pentagon contractors, farm equipment also under scrutiny

2020-11-27
It's like when Tesla's app went down and folks were completely stranded because their cars wouldn't start. https://twitter.com/...
2020-11-27 View on X
The Verge

AWS experienced an outage in North America Wednesday that affected many sites and services including Roku, Flickr, Adobe, and others

Holy Mola. AWS took down parts of the NYC subway. https://twitter.com/...
2020-11-27 View on X
The Verge

AWS experienced an outage in North America Wednesday that affected many sites and services including Roku, Flickr, Adobe, and others

2020-11-26
It's like when Tesla's app went down and folks were completely stranded because their cars wouldn't start. https://twitter.com/...
2020-11-26 View on X
The Verge

AWS experienced an outage in North America Wednesday that affected many sites and services including Roku, Flickr, Adobe, and others

AWS has been experiencing an outage for hours  —  Amazon Web Services (AWS), Amazon's internet infrastructure service that is the backbone of many websites and apps …

Holy Mola. AWS took down parts of the NYC subway. https://twitter.com/...
2020-11-26 View on X
The Verge

AWS experienced an outage in North America Wednesday that affected many sites and services including Roku, Flickr, Adobe, and others

AWS has been experiencing an outage for hours  —  Amazon Web Services (AWS), Amazon's internet infrastructure service that is the backbone of many websites and apps …

2020-08-21
What an absolutely dystopian abdication of responsibility from @albioncollege https://twitter.com/...
2020-08-21 View on X
TechCrunch

A look at contact-tracing app Aura, which was a required download for students at a Michigan college and has faced criticism for its privacy and security issues

Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch :

2020-08-20
What an absolutely dystopian abdication of responsibility from @albioncollege https://twitter.com/...
2020-08-20 View on X
TechCrunch

A look at contact-tracing app Aura, which was a required download for students at a Michigan college and has faced criticism for its privacy and security issues

And students have no way to opt out  —  Schools and universities across the United States are split on whether to open for the fall semester …