So did I, but it turns out it's not so easy to put a hook in the ceiling of different rooms, or to put a hook in the ceiling of a friend's house, or to put a hook in the ceiling of the rental place where you're hosting a LAN party.

You didn't solve the tethering problem. You solved the problem of a cable at your feet, there's so many more downsides to being tethered than that.

Obviously I was joking above but I really did also use a hook in the ceiling of one room in the house, and even in that room I still ended up fucking up the cable due to twisting around damaging it. This isn't a "solution", it's a minor bandaid fix that makes the downsides of the cable marginally less annoying at best.

One of the best advanced I've ever experienced in VR was NOT having cables connected to my PC, while still having the option to stream from the GPU. It's literally better than both worlds.

Being tethered via a cable is the antithesis of the entire experience. I am a rabid VR fanboi (self proclaimed) who has owned 4 headsets over the past decade and I would *never* recommend a tethered cable experience to anyone at this point. Heck I don't even recommend the VisionPro purely for the fact that it has an external battery pack which requires a cable.

This isn't backwards. This is a step in the right direction. As is foveated rendering/compression which objectively increases visual quality while preserving what is truly important for the VR experience: low latency and high quality where you're looking.

Maybe try the product before posting your non-review.

Errr you have that backwards. Open freeways are by far the *easier* condition to handle. There's a reason some companies have L3 systems which have been approved for use on freeways, but not in suburbs (though not yet released in any actual purchasable product I am aware of). Even Musk will wax poetic about how "safe" FSD is based on it's long history on freeways, only to then produce a robotaxi which on its first day drives the wrong way down a lane, stops in the middle of intersections, and hits a stationary car.

Could be that it's the natural progression of a product that was rolled out in a cautious and obvious way? Waymo applied for permits to start testing on highways in 2023, back when the robotaxi wasn't even announced. They started testing on highways in Jan 2024, back when the robotaxis were rumoured but everyone thought that it was going to be a Model 2.

This is what happens when you have a careful company testing products and rolling them out in a safe way.

That said I'm sure they do feel a bit of pressure. They suddenly have competition and that competition is expanding quickly thanks to their approach of throwing a beta product out and then blaming the customer when they die.

Yes and? No seriously what point are you trying to make? The millions of transactions had their exact intended effect: developers choice. Claiming this was in any way about consumers is gaslighting. The entire case wasn't even brought to the commission by consumers, it was brought by developers.

Actually I take it back. It doesn't sound bad at all even when you phrased it like you did. Why should a developer not be entitled to set their own profit margins without undue influence? Consumers do not see the effect of every interaction a business has with their suppliers. Why is the consumer more important than the business when it comes to getting screwed by gatekeepers?

Like literally every case so far? Pick one. The app store fee structure was kicked off by developers in the Netherlands from a dating app, e-book publishers, and Spotify. The case found against Google was due to some business not being able to engage Samsung.

Or ... in this case... this very case right here: hinged on third party restrictions on developers. It had zero to do with consumers. You want to here from them:
"Third party contributions are very important for the effective enforcement of the DMA," a Commission spokesperson said.
"We are already looking into (some of) those issues, as we are currently seeking feedback from market participants in relation to Apple business terms and we are regularly supervising gatekeepers' compliance."

Here's the official press from the EU:
Under the DMA, app developers distributing their apps via Apple's App Store should be able to inform customers, free of charge, of alternative offers outside the App Store, steer them to those offers and allow them to make purchases.

Firstly, everything sounds bad when you say it like that. The reality is however most laws on books in most countries are not exclusive to consumers. Business to business relationships are a core part of any economy. The entire complaint was brought against Apple by a rights group representing developers. Consumers are not party to the complaint.

We are able to build robots. Real robots. Purpose built able to be ideal for the task robots that are better in every way than humans. Why would we intentionally limit them by forcing a bipedal design combined with shitty AI?

I'd have thought they would just put a man in a robot costume up on stage like Elon Musk.

I'm just going to quote this back at you. There's nothing socialist about Russia, please look up both words again.

Disabled passengers are still able to get assistance at disabled counters in airports, including blind people. But people who just refuse to put on reading glasses don't count unfortunately.

What market consolidation? Ryan air isn't just not the only option for consumers, it's not even the only low cost option in Ireland. The number of competitors to Ryanair are too high to count, and certainly massive enough in number that they are trivial to avoid on principle for any start / destination combination (which I already do).

You don't need to fly Ryanair to get cheap tickets. Many people didn't long before this announcement.

Both people on your flight experiencing this problem can have it rectified at the customer service desk. Ryanair may be the first to mandate an app, but all budget airlines use them.

Next time you're at an airport flying a cheap airline take not of how many people have paper tickets vs use their smartphone already. I'll wager it's close to zero. It's certainly been the last couple of times I've flown Easyjet and Corendon (out of principle I don't fly Ryanair, there's such a thing as too cheap).

Your concern would be very relevant were we not talking about an airport. If there's one place I expect 100% of customers to have a nearly fully charged phone it's at an airport, since that's about the only in flight entertainment they will have. There are of course people not 100% charged. You can find those people standing at the countless places around any airport where you can charge your phone.

Normally I'm with you on this idea, but this is the one and only situation where I doubt it applies.

There are distinct benefits to having an app including live update information about flights, delays, where to find your bags, estimated queues. For the most part it is quite meaningless, and I don't typically do it (I usually use an app from a travel agent instead which provides this functionality too).

However the one time I did have an app on my phone from an airline it was an absolute godsend. Multiple planes got cancelled while I was in a layover. There were literally over 1000 people in Madrid queued at the emergency transfer desks and they were processing people at a snail's pace. Everyone who had the Iberia app on their phone got automatically rebooked onto their next available flight (notification popup asking if the new flight is acceptable, and when clicking okay we had new tickets automatically appear) and it was quite weird seeing about 20% of the massive queue suddenly step out.

I had one guy stop me as I was getting out of the queue asking me why everyone was leaving. He was pretty pissed when I told him the app sent me a notification that I had been rebooked and I needed to rush to my new plane while he was standing there with a paper ticket in hand and no idea when he was going to get home.