Palmer Lucky turning into a Bond villain wasn't exactly something I expected when I first saw him pushing the original Kickstarter Oculus

This has been such a depressing trend over the last few decades.

Fresh bright-eyed startup with a passionate creator develops some interesting and innovative product.

Gets bought out by FAANG, turns to shit and stops working properly or gets discontinued, and primarily functions as a spyware device.

Same, still got the devkit 1 and 2 in my cellar.

Really looking forward to the Steam Frame to finally get standalone VR without Meta involvement.

Steam creator is also a Linux fan boy btw

At least be exact! 1970-01-01T00:00:00.000Z.

Or if they allow it, just 0

I just pick random shit. Pretty sure Steam thinks I'm 113 years old.

Admittedly this did backfire once when a company wanted my birthday to verify my ID to unlock an account. They were surprised I lied and I was surprised people don't.

Here lies dreadbeef 
1970-01-01 - 2038-01-19
01010010 01001001 01010000 

Do you do much buying and selling of used goods?

In my area, Facebook Marketplace is unparalleled, alternatives such as Craigslist don't come close.

This is not my being snarky, but I bet you didn't. I bet you "deleted it" and Facebook will happily reactivate it for you any time they want

So Zuck can boast about "hAvInG 3 bIllIoN uSeRs"

Mastodon is pretty awful still. Microblogging in general is awful but Mastodon has some particularly (in my opinion) awful fundamental design decisions. I don't want to hate on them, so I won't discuss what those things are. I appreciate that it exists and hope it does see more adoption but it's just not for me, and I don't know that it ever will be.

Add to that that I've never spoken to a human IRL that even knows what it is, and it's not because I don't ask. And that makes social media pretty unsocial.

Facebook has a ridiculous number of things you can do with a single account. On fedi those things all require different accounts and require people to follow all those different accounts. Bonfire looks like it may be a potential solution for that in the future.

Not saying that Facebook is great, at all, but that fedi isn't really a suitable alternative.

At the end of the day people obviously just don't care enough about any of these problems and have no self-respect and I've just pretty much sequestered myself from society entirely.

Better late than never!

And a fake name.

And a fake face.

I use December 31, 1969. Before Unix time.

They'll ghost you even if you do give them everything they ask for. I can't even make a new account under my real name or anything close to it anymore.

It sucks it's the only realistic platform for discovering and getting info from interest groups in my area.

Because you're nothing to them

I do 1/1/1984 but also a good idea

Facebook has a fake birthday for me and it's never been a problem. It's somewhat close to the real date but not the real date.

I've heard that, but I've searched for my name on Facebook and I never find anything about myself. My wife has a Facebook account, she has the app on her phone and tablet, and I've had cause to use it. Like she'll tell me to go into her messages and get a recipe or something. I don't read them, but we don't keep secrets from each other. Anyway, I'll be bored in a car ride and I'll start looking up my coworkers, and laugh at the dumb shit they post (that could identify them/their location to strangers). Once in a while I'll look myself up. I'm not a public figure, per se, but I do have imitators, so if you look my name up, first and last, a couple profiles will come up, but they have nothing to do with me and they don't have any information that matches mine. I don't know if those are the "shadow profiles" people talk about, but they are not a threat to me.

It used to be in 20th century but I didn’t want to give away my real age.

I take it you're turning 125 next Thursday?

1969-04-20

Wasn’t that the obvious deal from the beginning? You buy the subsidized hardware and ignore Facebook’s gravity as long as you can. That’s the catch for the low price.

Anyone who thought otherwise is, well, thinking wishfully.

Big tech in general. At this point the only one I still have faith in not too fuck over customers "because they can" is Valve.

Can't, need the Marketplace, unfortunately.

This is why tech ceos need to be afraid to leave their bunkers.