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.
I kept wondering what would keep me from updating to newer versions of Windows.
Yeahhhh…this is it. This and the inevitable forced Microsoft accounts that will come with this.
The Microsoft of the past was evil, but at least you could pay for an upgrade to the enterprise version that didn’t include this bullshit, but even the enterprise versions suffer from this stuff too!
Edit: disregard this comment. Learned more about AirTags and this will NOT work if you are on Android. AirTags rely on other iOS devices (iPhone/iPad) and only work with Android in notifying you if one is following you to protect you against being stalked. But they do not have GPS and are incompatible with Android’s Bluetooth, so yeah, sorry. Thought this would be a good idea but apparently I didn’t fully understand how these worked so disregard below.
Since he’s on iPhone, what about you carrying an Apple AirTag that is connected to his account?
To be fair, I don’t know the specifics on battery and the like, but seems like a possible hardware solution given that he’s on iPhone.
There are also other devices that are similar and work with Apple’s Find My network too.
I think you and the other are right that most of the people who would be searching for this type of answer would be involved in some crime as part of the process, but I can also think of situations where this can be used for legitimate reasons and most of these are outliers but still legitimate.
The (current) top comment here mentions a few, one being if you’re famous and want to avoid, for example, an Amazon employee or a USPS employee knowing who you are and where you live based on the packages you receive. You may be trying to lay low from actual criminals and can’t rely on police because of corruption reasons. You may be a whistleblower and can’t rely on the government for protection but still need things and shipping is objectively much safer than physically leaving your house for your necessities or things needed for your operation. Or you could just be a paranoid person, which is okay in the sense of not breaking the law, just someone who values their privacy for irrational reasons, but nothing inherently illegal or even morally/ethically wrong.
Wondering if this is a thing I can add or not; someone confirm if this is another possibility:
Rent a room at a hotel/motel and have the package delivered there for the day. Use cash and a fake name to book the room to keep up the anonymity.
Not sure on the first part or the last part which could be separate issues.
As someone who works in corporate IT and dabbles in the security side too: don’t.
People do it and I don’t understand why. Use your personal cell phone or whatever else.
We have logs of everything that goes on that device and we could do more if we so desired. So treat every corporate device as a spy on everything that goes on in it.
We view logs only when incidents happen and they do and it never looks good on the employee who was doing X. I get people who browse Snapchat and YouTube off hours and then click an ad and invite crap into the device and now we see everything you were doing after hours when we do the investigation into the incident. But we do also get alerts about other things, so you never know when someone will pull in something.
And things that seem innocent to you may not to your corporate employer or just those technicians like myself who have access to the logs and could use it against you.
Moral: don’t do anything but work things on company devices.
I imagine you could do this by creating a Faraday Cage of some sort around the antenna that would phone home.
In my old car, the BMW i3, I was part of the Reddit sub there and many of us were upset because we had 3G radios in the car that were getting disconnected which meant our smart features would no longer work. But someone was able to replace the 3G modem for a 4G modem somehow. So it may be possible if you can find that component and rip it out or find a way to replace it with a defective part instead, for example.
You should still be able to bypass the email requirement when creating a Reddit account, right? The only useful purpose I see behind it for the user is if you forget your password.