If you don’t mind a copy of their “Lite” version that often ships with audio hardware, you can google a method to generate a valid license key for that version that doesn’t require buying anything. ;)

I think I got really lucky in the fact that I was introduced to it by some friends who were much more familiar with the culture and also had several worlds to show me right away. The first few times, I definitely was only logging in during group events with friends, then eventually I started branching out and visiting other worlds (setting them to friends+) just to catalogue them and add them to my favourites. I started googling for ways to find parties, raves, whatever, and came across a big list of discord servers for groups hosting parties. I joined a few of those and now I’m usually in vrchat a couple times a week dancing at events, on top of whatever else is going on with my friends.

I call it sequel but I’ve heard squirrel and squeal.

Honestly? Probably like 1/5? Maybe a little lower, 1 out of every 7? There’s a lot of desktop VRchat players, you’d be surprised. It’s pretty easy to spot desktop folks because the avatars act a certain way with regard to the arms and locomotion, and once you notice that it’s easy to see there are simply many people in desktop.

FWIW, you won’t be discriminated against or singled out, but folks may poke a little fun at you in certain situations due to the way desktop locomotion looks to other users. Like if you crouch or crawl in desktop, the avatars often look really silly doing those animations.

That’s a great question actually, lmao

… is flying not a superpower? :(

And every time I try to pull off a sweet gymnastics maneuver below an air conditioning unit suspended by failing screws…

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 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.

I just wanted to throw in a thank you for kicking off this discussion. It’s good to tackle this sort of thing early and I really appreciate your tone and compassion, OP.

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.

Did the blog’s author just update the header of that post recently? It seems to indicate this was expected behaviour from the instructions they forgot they gave to ChatGPT.

Well it’s pretty damn cool for a single dev then, I’m impressed. I like the idea of giving money to a talented dev and not to reddit, too, so that feels nice.

I am looking forward to the lifetime payment, yeah. Is Sync made by a single dev? I don’t know anything about this app aside from everyone clamoring for the team to make a Lemmy-compatible version.

I also find myself using Lemmy less than Reddit but I’m hoping as we discover and tailor our feeds with more fitting communities then it’ll naturally become a healthy replacement. It took me like 10 years to curate my reddit algorithm.

As a Jerboa user who just started using Sync, I can honestly say it’s really fucking slick. Like really slick.

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