Why use mics for that if they have direct access to rpm of fans?
I think that's an interesting idea, even if not everyone might be happy with the tradeoff (comes down to how much you care about noise vs getting throttled), especially for a vr device.
To avoid the imperfection of a bit of fan noise, throttle the entire experience. Great.
I understand the threshold for heating up should be lower than with integrated chips, but we're talking about fan speeds, about when that threshold is still reached and cooling is needed.
But they're a trillion dollar company because of their relentless focus on the end-user experience which you happen to dislike, but which most people love.
Profits or valuation can't be a measure of whether a company is doing right to their users or their UX quality.
I maintain, bringing market cap to explain whether a company is good at or cares about UX is just irrelevant.
The reason proposed is that if the environment is loud, you won't be bothered by additional noise from the fans.
Twitter doesn’t show threads to people who are not logged in (e.g. if you don’t have an account). Shaming people for not reading what they can’t see (or even know exists) is unfair. Using archival sites doesn’t work as a bypass like on newspaper sites.
Not to mention people on Firefox, which from what I have read on HN might not even have access to it at all.
Twitter links should probably be downranked on HN until (if/when) they return to being more accessible.
However - I find that less onerous than a paywall and HN is mostly fine about those.
With a paywall you know what you’re missing or not. With Twitter that’s harder to determine, which I’d argue is worse. But I wouldn’t say either of our opinions is objectively correct.
> and HN is mostly fine about those.
It is explicitely fine with paywalls which have workarounds.