When I first got into VRChat to hang out with some friends, I thought maybe I could survive just playing on desktop for free. Now, a couple thousand dollars later, I own a Valve Index, extra base stations and 4 trackers for full-body tracking.

Dune 2, on our 386. Pretty sure my brother pirated the game from a BBS and at the time I didn’t know piracy or BBS’ were a thing.

I’ve found in my experience that over the years my internal voice updated to match how I sound when recorded. So when I hear myself speaking on a recording it’s much less jarring now since it feels much more like how I predicted it would sound.

I know this doesn’t help your current situation but it’s a fun fact I recognized since you mentioned it.

I miss lockpicking, it’s so cathartic. I used to have a small set of picks and folks near my desk at the office would often try to pop a padlock I kept around when we were bored. I liked how everyone seemed so interested in the ease with which you can pop many locks.

How could one make it impossible for others to shun or ostracize them?

When you figure it out you can sell it to Elon Musk for billions.

Yeah this one right here. I run my own little instance, made it easy to choose.

pretty sure OP is literally Ben Shapiro lmfao

But the system also makes it so that when people act purely selfishly for money, that it results in good outcomes for everyone.

Nobody should take you seriously.

I’m running 1 vCPU, 2GB of RAM and 25GB of disk at the moment for my tiny instance (we have like 5 users?). I started with 1GB of RAM but it quickly started swapping on disk and causing performance issues. I should probably bring it up to 4GB but it’s not necessary yet so I’m delaying.

Something I’d like to implement is object storage for pictures (via AWS S3 bucket) as detailed here: https://lemmy.eus/comment/164368

Same and same, knocking on extra wood for both of us