My current hardware setup isn’t great which is another thing I’ll need to improve upon as time goes on.

But thank you for the information about condenser versus dynamic microphones, I’ll have to check that out.

Like Steam VR but an alternative. I actually got it to let me play VR from my Steam Deck to my Quest 2 over WiFi because Steam VR doesn’t even let you try.

You need ALVR installed as both an app on the computer and the Quest headset for it to work, similarly to how Steam VR works on the Quest headset too.

If anyone wants to know, Half Life Alyx was the game I played from my Steam Deck and it was on the lowest settings and was still very laggy. But it was still cool to try, nonetheless. I might try it again because I would like to play non-VR games through my headset through it as a way of having a different monitor. Something like using the Steam Deck as a controller for a game like Halo but viewing the screen through my headset so I can move around freely and adjust the picture size digitally.

One recent example I can give you is XnView. It’s a program that is free for personal use as an alternative to some specific Photoshop suite as well as some other paid photo viewers like ACDSee. But if you’re going to use this for any sort of commercial use, you need to pay for licenses for all computers you use this on. Such was the case for us since we needed it where I work.

Admittedly it’s integrity based for most of these programs. They are hoping that you are going to be honest about your usage and pay when you use it for commercial use. There doesn’t appear to be telemetry that reports back your usage as this is usually just some guy releasing his personal project. In the case of XnView, I feel it was a guy who was fed up with more recent updates to ACDSee and made his own that mirrors the older versions and just works.

We bought the licenses but I never really felt they were necessary to activate. But we had the proof if we were ever audited that we paid for commercial usage.

I pirate some stuff in my personal life, but these little guys who do this are seriously awesome and I try my hardest to follow their rules since it’s so convenient and helpful in my search and their approach is not ever privacy intrusive.

Another example would be WinRAR, if I remember correctly. They expect businesses to pay to use it but the general public of users just using it at home get the free, infinite “trial”.

Also cost for commercial use, free for personal use.

I like this because it allows me a chance to test the full version at my job and then we purchase the full version when we’re sure we want it.

Oh wonderful! For all of our users that use VPN, we’re just screwed. Glad we began blocking access from non-Windows computers 😊

The hair is the giveaway for me. Though I may not have noticed it unless I was looking for something.

Most orgs would do well with basic UIs. As someone who has done help desk, users are fucking stupid more times than not. Microsoft is constantly changing their UI just because they feel like it and we’d get tickets because “Microsoft updated and I can’t find X anymore!”.

Yeah, it’ll take some getting used to for some users at first, but the lack of constant, arbitrary UI updates will help over time.

It looks outdated but that’s what most businesses deal with specifically because of dumb users and because businesses don’t want to pay to keep training users on new UIs or paying for support to educate users and a lot of it is gimmicky, not really providing anything new but just a different way of looking at the same screen.

But we’ll still pay just as much as if a human delivered it. Not much point to these when companies keep pulling that crap.

Competition always is good to have! Glad to see someone finally adopting this awesome OS. It’ll be interesting to see if they implement any new features that are specific to their device.

Dual USB type C is freaking sweet to see!!! More handheld PCs need that.