Phone numbers are reused all the time. Stop paying for your phone service for a year, and your number gets assigned to someone else.

Have you never had the experience of trying to contact someone using an old number, and having someone else answer?

Streaming a game over the Internet is not comparable to streaming a game to a PC in the same room using a dedicated connection between a the headset and PC, where the antennas and radios on both sides are dedicated to the streaming video.

This is not something new. This is something that has been in widespread use for years, working quite well in existing headsets, like Oculus Air Link, Virtual Desktop, Steam Link, etc. The largest complaints about these solutions was often not latency, but image quality. This is what Valve aims to fix with foveated streaming, and all the hands-on coverage that we've seen so far indicates that it works extremely well. Valve is claiming 1-2ms of latency for a current-gen GPU, and 3-4ms of latency for an older GPU. Frames don't pass instantly over a DisplayPort cable either. You can't race the beam on a low-persistence display, you need to wait for the entire frame to transfer over.

Wireless is subject to interference, but 6 GHz is a very large and not widely used part of the spectrum, and interference doesn't cause a disconnection, it causes errors in the data or dropped packets. You don't wait for retransmissions, you just keep going and handle any missing or corrupted data through error correction or error resiliency. If a dropped packet causes a slight loss of detail in a small part of the frame for 1/120th of a second, you may not even notice.

Perhaps. But you are not limited to Steam games. If you're in the Steam garden, then there are no walls to that garden, and while you must start in the Steam garden, you are free to wander into other gardens.

This is literally an advertised feature, one that was part of their hands-on demonstrations. Valve has contributed heavily to FEX (a user mode emulator, so you're not emulating system libraries), which is integrated with Proton in SteamOS. Yes, it's subject to any potential compatibility limitations, but I don't see how it's "absurd nonsense".

- Stream any game from a PC
- Run any PC game directly on the headset, with emulation if only an x86 version is available
- Officially sideload any Android APK

Yeah. What a walled garden. You're limited to only running literally anything.

Blech.

While I can appreciate the motivation, it is always best to stick to widely recognized standards as far as programming languages go.

I've used TaxAct for years, out of familiarity more than anything, but find its user interface about as appealing as a dog's breakfast.

I see that you've never been to that part of the world. Grab is ubiquitous in Indonesia, to the point that if you're on the street you can't go more than a minute without seeing their brand.

This is mainly due to inflation and to some extent a move to bigger luxury cars. Apples to apples it's not so bad.

The typical well-equipped Civic from the early '90s (EX or Si in the $11kâ"$12k range) would be around $26,000â"$28,000 in inflation-adjusted dollars today.

The 2025 Honda Civic starts around $24,250 for the LX trim, with better-equipped versions reaching $30,000 or more. Not only is this roughly the same price, but you're also getting a bigger and drastically safer car for the money today, even before considering the extra features standard on cars now.

Many appliances can be scheduled to run at a later time. So you can set your dishwasher, washing machine and maybe your oven for some kinds of cooking to run even if you aren't at home.

I hope that things like pool pumps and hot water systems, which are already on off-peak rates, will be making use of this time.

There is a reason you might replace your 10 year old panels - you have limited roof space, personal demand for more solar power, and the higher output of newer panels will make you more than the power upgrade.

But if you do, you'll find a ready second hand market for those panels.

It just means that they'd prefer to get up and go to bed a bit earlier. That probably waking up in the dark in winter is worth an extra hour of light in the evening.

Beginning work as late as 9:00 - with a quarter of the average daylight gone - isn't really optimal. You could say this is already out of sync! Historically people get up nearer dawn.

Not normally a conspiracy theorist. First block chain (wont even go into the obscure inventor bit) becomes a thing requiring massive amounts of GPU computing power, to the extent where it was impossible to purchase a GPU to do GPU things. Now AI is a thing, even more so requiring GPUs to do not so much GPU things. Is there a secret world order which needs this massive pattern recognition global infrastructure for some ...... SIGNAL LOST

Not all Android Automotive cars support Google applications (like Google Maps or the Play store), and not all Android apps are supported, so it's very much not like Android Auto in that respect. And having to manually enable tethering on your phone every time you get in the car (to avoid burning battery life) is hardly an ideal solution. Not to mention the inconvenience for iPhone users, who represent 55-60% of all smartphone users in North America, and aren't going to have the same set of apps they want to use or the same integration into the Google/Android ecosystem.

Android Automotive still has a limited number of supported apps (it doesn't support all Android apps), doesn't necessarily have access to Google apps or the Google play store (licensing Google Automotive Services to get access to Google apps is not required, and a bunch of car makers don't), doesn't automatically have the same apps/settings/accounts that your phone does, doesn't have your media library, doesn't use your existing cellular connection and data plan (unless you tether your phone or pay for a second data plan), and if you're an iPhone user (as 55-60% of people in North America are), then there's an even bigger disconnect.

Having to pay for a separate data plan should be a deal killer right off the bat.

Apple CarPlay and Android Auto allow your phone to take over the car's screens and speakers. If you're only playing music, then yes, a bluetooth connection is enough. But if you're using a map app with turn-by-turn directions (Google Maps, Waze, etc.) then you can see that app on the car's screen.

Turn-by-turn directions is also a good example of a service that's free with your phone, but subject to a subscription fees from many car makers that have their own built-in system.