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Participant
November 12, 2025
Question

V81 completely broken my workflow

FTP apps (both hosting and connecting) are broken, wireless ADB is a nightmare to enable and now requires a workaround and I now cannot manually disable updates so that when more stuff breaks in the future I'll be forced to accept it. Oh, and we have one less space for a pinned app thanks to the useless Chats app. Never mind no longer being able to interact with a game while the oculus menu is visible like I could before I updated.

Meta's consistent mismanagement of their firmware, and refusal to ever allow a downgrade, means I'm contemplating selling this frankly damaged headset and will be picking up a either a Google XR or Steam Frame headset, depending on how the Frame looks next month when it's announced. God I wish hackers would bust open this headset's bootloader so that we can rollback to a cleaner, faster, more stable and more feature-complete firmware. Meta could EASILY publish older firmwares that will install on our headsets (requiring a factory reset, of course) but will never do that because they don't actually care about the consumer, only controlling our experience.

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naetib
Up and Coming
November 12, 2025

I feel the same— in my case, they hid the Meta wrist button in the Settings without mentioning it in the release notes, even while the documentation was still being published.

Participant
November 12, 2025

I genuinely hope Meta get their act together and start producing software updates that don't treat us like cattle but that's never happening.

I'm definitely switching to the Steam Frame next month if the specs I've been hearing about get confirmed publicly. I want to adore my Quest 3 but the exclusive games and experiences are not worth the consistently degrading OS.