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  • You’re right of course - it could be a Sway issue, but with Sway being engineered from the ground up to be a Wayland compositor, and conforming to that design, I would still blame Wayland.

    To give a comparison: NTFS has many annoying flaws and limitations, but because it’s ultimately a file system created for the NT kernel on Windows, I blame Windows for its limitations.

    Besides common sense would suggest that usually when it comes to launching games a display protocol would have more impact than a choice of WM, though Wayland blurs that line because of it’s unusual architecture compared to what we know and love with the X11 protocol and good old Xorg…




  • Harmless means absence of harm. That we don’t know of any harms does indeed not mean there aren’t any harms to be eventually known.

    Therefore, as far as we know it is harmless. Hence why I said exactly that in my original comment.

    That would be understandable to commenters ITT if they knew how to read instead of satisfying their dopamine systems with a reactionary outburst straight from the amygdala against a strawman they conjured up in their head, unwittingly making fools of themselves supporting such petty and pathetic authoritarian paternalism.

    And additionally, in my personal opinion - it makes plain sense that the longer we study vapes, yet find no harms, the probability increases that they are indeed harmless.

    Or at the very least I believe they are no more harmful than the harms caused by our existing standards for e.g. air pollution, in that hypothetical - vaping causes no excess deaths, but may do so if we had cleaner air and lower base rates of lung disease to begin with. Then we may notice increased rates of lung disease and find an associative link, therefore speculate that there is lung disease to which vaping may be some contributing factor and may always have been, but may simply be too minor to notice at present, for instance because people affected by it die of unrelated illness like cancer before they die of any vaping-caused illness or because the lung disease vaping contributes to is also caused by something else more directly that the general population is exposed to, e.g. microplastics or dust particulates from car tires/asphalt.

    I’m not an expert nor do I think the above two paragraphs constitute a fact, and I’m more than happy to change my view given sufficient reason, however I also dont think things for no reason or purely because it serves me or brings me some sort of comfort of a lazy mind. Frankly I doubt I would stop using nicotine even if I knew vaping was directly harmful in some way any more than I would stop using alcohol already knowing that it is incredibly harmful (not that I drink alcohol, but that’s besides the point, I don’t do it because I don’t like it’s sedative effects, not because of it’s harms to long term health outcomes).

    My reasoning for this is that even with the extremely primitive understanding of both the scientific method and the human body (not to mention technology for the analysis of it), cause and effect around tobacco-caused illnesses was known since the 1700s.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_effects_of_tobacco

    You can check the sources yourself, but for example:

    Overview of the history: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1046/j.1440-1843.2003.00483.x

    Here’s from the 1800s: http://w3.biosci.utexas.edu/prc/lincecum/pages/Nicotiana_tabacum-notes.html

    Here’s a note of observations between the late 1800s to 1920s

    https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3490543


  • That’s just an example.

    I do find myself subconsciously judging pornography creators and consumers, but I would never express such a thing nor act upon it as if it’s the truth.

    I’m not so stupid as to think that just because of a personal distaste in my subjective preference that it is somehow objectively bad or harmful, much less that any action should be taken based on something as vague as my own vibes. I’m not a bigot, and I try my best to not trust my “gut” and to think rationally instead.

    That, to me, is simply being rational, something that is in short supply nowadays.



  • It’s just like the Quest 2.

    It supports some small limited library of games without a PC, but can be used for PCVR for streaming VR experiences over WiFi, exactly like the Quest 2. I have never personally touched any of the on-headset apps on the Quest 2 apart from Virtual Desktop and have only ever used it as a PCVR headset because it’s so cheap compared to the Index etc., and am also looking for an upgrade to the Steam Frame, for PCVR exclusive use.






  • Jesus that’s messed up. Not only are vapes harmless as far as we know but outright bans and such harsh penalties for what should be none of the government’s business. Vietnam really fell down the paternalistic hole eh.

    Edit: wow yall downvoters really agree with them? ban something like that? Sugar taxes too I bet? What next, red meat?

    I don’t watch porn and I don’t like it, I don’t like gooners and I think overall it’s harmful to society for vague, vibes-based reasons not yet firmly established by any evidence whatsoever, just like you all with vaping, so what, I should want to ban that too?

    No, that would be fucking crazy.

    Unironically you all could use some nicotine to think a bit more clearly. This is authoritarian overreach pure and simple, whatever side of the political spectrum you’re on that made you think this is anything remotely ok, it’s the wrong one.