Meta is adding ridiculous ‘rate limits’ and a soft paywall to its smart glasses

good! hopefully this will discourage everyone who bought them from using them, so they just sit in a drawer somewhere or get recycled instead of spying on unwitting people, and meta will fail to make back the huge amounts of money they've invested in tech that most people don't want 😌

Subscriptions for offline features should be completely illegal. In fact Meta is probably already technically illegal.

It's funny, I would love to some have the novel tech they developed (HUD / display built into glasses since I'm wearing them anyways). The problem, as usual, is corps taking the piss with prices and profit then spying on you and everyone around you non-stop anyways....

I would 100% be open to some HUD glasses delivered with a FOSS OS that works completely offline and/or via your phone (but still offline). But that's seriously wishful thinking given our corporate and political overlords

I think directions while walking would be better than carrying and looking down at a phone.

Cycling navigation might be a useful feature. I don't have a phone mount for my bike and worry about the risks of damage if I did mount one.

Yah, like videos or guides on screen whilst I have my hands full soldering or something seems like a great application.

As someone with auditory processing disorder, the only thing i want is real-time closed captions of whoever is talking to me.

These will identify sad nerds the way taped glasses identify the nerd in old movies.

If I see anyone with meta/snap/etc glasses, I’m going to just assume they’re fucking pathetic assholes.

I don’t know if “taped glasses nerd” was such a negative term in old movies.

And I correlate the Meta glasses more with a “tech creep” and manosphere Musk worship culture.

Like, I’m an introverted nerd. I could be “taped glasses guy” if I wore glasses; hell, my sunglasses are glued. But even if I was a full throated Tech Bro trying to idolize Zuck, I’m way too introverted to wear these out in public because you’d be filming people; thats mortifying to me.

It needs a different kind of personality, I think.

When did these come out? Wow, that was a steep enshitification slope.

This, this is a really good answer. Thanks for bringing it up.

Is noone questioning getting hit with a 50kmh kayak while biking? Just me?

So they're killing their product before it even launches

Hahaha, in brief. cycling out from my old seaside village, getting to the crest of a very steep hill(just shy of 20%) and get over taken by a pickup on a blind corner, thankfully no traffic coming the other way, but hit the downhill part and it is fast 80kmh speed limit down a country lane with 2 lanes of traffic. I hit about 70kmh, and the pickup is pulling away slowly.

Then the kayak shaped missile launches out of the bed as it hadnt been secured properly. Hits the road in front of me, I try to dodge, but it slides across like it is homing in on me. On the brakes as much as I can be in the small window I had to react and drop some speed before it clobbers the front of my bike. The rest I am sure you can imagine as a bike comes to a sudden stop and I dont.