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rabfon Limewash (2005) [pdf]

It has to dry slowly to crystalise properly. Hanging damp hessian over the freshly painted wall is a common practice.

It's the same when using lime mortors, you are generally looking for a three day cure for mortor. Lime does not like the sun, wind, or rain (basically any weather!) during this time.

rabfon Reality Labs has lost $11.4B during 2023 (there's still one quarter left)

The reason to prefer a conference type app in VR over AR is likely due to bandwidth, it takes a huge amount of data to cover an entire space from every possible angle at a retina like resolution, perhaps AI can be of use here in the future. The avatar generation/scanning is being worked on and Meta are not releasing this until it has been streamlined.

rabfon Ask HN: Released games built on FOSS engines?

Simplist and fastest way to get vr code up and running is: https://lovr.org/

rabfon Ask HN: Why are there no serious competitors to YouTube's monopoly?

https://odysee.com/

Seems to work well and has a few content creators I follow duplicating their youtube uploads to the platform.

rabfon Piped – An alternative privacy-friendly YouTube front end

https://help.odysee.tv/category-basics/whatisodysee/

rabfon Apple Plans Smaller, Lighter Vision Headset; Meta Works on Cheaper Quest 3

Try anything from felix and paul studios.

rabfon Meta Quest 3

Immersed are bringing out their own headset next year with 4k per eye for this use case for far less money than the apple vision.

https://www.visor.com/

rabfon Meta Quest 3

https://www.immersed.com/

rabfon Linux 6.5 Last Minute Fixes a Performance Regression, 34% Drop in a Benchmark

Open "Manjaro Settings"->Kernels

rabfon Meta’s Reality Labs prototype hardware

Felix and Paul Studios have put out some great VR theatre perfomances.

rabfon Meta’s Reality Labs prototype hardware

30% cut from app store sales can add up quite quickly.

rabfon Meta’s Reality Labs prototype hardware

The Lynx R1 is pretty open.

rabfon Making infrared cooling paint from grocery store items [video]

Modern paints are often not breathable causing moisture to get trapped in the walls causing no end of problems to historic buildings.

rabfon Windows 9x and Word 9x at 800x600 resolution. Spacious. Comfy

1968 was peak computing: https://youtu.be/iwVu2BWLZqA

rabfon Making infrared cooling paint from grocery store items [video]

A well applied lime wash is something more people should be aware of in the modern world. If you live in an old stone building it is what you should be using for exterior stonework and not modern paints!

rabfon Mechanical backpack boosts the sensation of jumping in virtual reality

Related work that will be opensourced:

https://exitsuit.com/

rabfon The Bronze Age has never looked stronger

https://www.youtube.com/@FallofCivilizations

rabfon Stop irreversible damage to the Amazon

https://youtu.be/gPfriiHBBek

Lex Fridman interview with the founder.

rabfon Mass layoffs and absentee bosses create a morale crisis at Meta