Because you’re nothing to them

1.1.1970 is consistent and easy to remember (at least for nerds like me)

I’ve been using 6/9/1969 since I was 11 using the same rationale and haven’t found a compelling reason to change.

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

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

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.

 Unix/Epoch time👌

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.

Why use that data? Just put it to Jan 1 1900, like everyone else on porn sites.

yup. absolute waste of a Carmack right there

was like trying to remove my own teeth with a pair of pliers.

That’s oddly specific. Did you try that?

Edit: English is not my main language, and I did not think over the meaning of “pliers”.

I deleted my Facebook two years or so ago already

That’s an easy.

Getting people to stop using Instagram and whatsapp is so much harder.

Fuck Instagram. Meta aside, any site that requires a data harvesting account just to view is never worth going to.

I don’t think anyone really knows.

I have one that I used to use with my PC (switched to linux and it’s a pain in the ass to do is why I stopped). I would still have to log in to start the app to hook to my PC.

Yes. It’s much like Android, iOS and Windows where you are the product so you can’t do literally anything without an account.

I love that idea!

Why that date? Is it from the book 1984?

Because it is not a post about Facebook but about the VR Headset Quest 2 and/or 3.

Sadly, the Meta Quest is kind of the best deal in the PC VR world.

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.

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.

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”

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.

1969-04-20

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

And a fake name.

And a fake face.

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I use December 31, 1969. Before Unix time.

What’s this extension?

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

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.

Can’t, need the Marketplace, unfortunately.

Better late than never!

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

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?

There really weren’t any comparable standalone alternatives at the time. I just wanted to play some Beatsaber back then.

It’s hardware that can be used with SteamVR or load opensource VR apps directly onto it like DoomVR.

This is almost like someone complaining, “Facebook messenger is asking for my birthdate on the 120hz 1440p monitor that Facebook sold me for half price.” and you reply, “People who bought a PC monitor are dumb fucks.”

It is cheap 3d goggles that display what your PC sends it. Just like your monitor. You don’t have to use Meta’s software. You definitely don’t need to use Meta’s VR Chat app (That’s Horizon that the OP references.)_

Meta is selling VR at a loss like a console where they make up the loss with software game sales. But unlike a Switch/PS5, you don’t have to buy their games. So the real idiot is anyone who wants VR and doesn’t buy a Meta product. Buying a Quest and then using SteamVR causes Meta to lose money.

Setup a fake account. Use a friend’s bday you’ll remember. Its not hard. That’s like saying “people who use email are dumb fucks” since they also ask for bdays.

God forbid people enjoy some vr.

Even if rooted and used without account via PrivateQuest?

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.

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.