Some years ago, I did a long-running project at a client, and the manager there was a pretty affable guy, very much into gadgets. When he told me about watching movies on the Quest (VR headset by Facebook/Meta), I listened and then asked, "so I'm really curious, what's porn look like?"

He was actually quite honest and said it first looks really great, but then he said it felt incredibly real. But what happened was that in the porn movie, a naked woman would walk up to him, and would sit on his lap. He said that because it looked so real, he really expected to feel her sitting on his lap. And when that of course didn't happen, the whole VR movie felt the complete opposite, i.e. incredibly fake. Being so thoroughly yanked out of the mood, that ruined it for him.

So I'm not sure that porn is really a killer app here.

Yup, leasing makes for crazy prices. A buddy of mine drives a Lexus is250 for this decade and it drives so smooth it's like a 6-cylinder sewing machine. My mom and dad regularly make a 750 mi. trip and refuse to stop for charging. The technology isn't there yet.

At some point, Toyota (and daughters) will put effort in an affordable and maintenance-light EV, but that point is not within sight, unfortunately.

As for me, I love EVs so much that I pay more and accept a lot of fidgety technical problems, just for the novelty...

The affordability is a big one, yeah. They all present themselves as oh-so-premium because that's the only way they can justify the price. And if the BMW is within reach, the dealer will suck your wallet dry whenever you so much as walk past the dealership. I don't blame you for waiting a few years. However I can see people leasing something to hold them over.

Or a drastic raise in oil prices.

Okay but what's holding you back then? Like, is it affordability in general? Longish list of specific requirements and not willing to budge on any of them? Range still an issue?

The attraction of the AirTags for this sort of thing is that it's got the brand on it. You say "buy a real GPS tracker" but which one? There's like a dozen weird brands, some have off-brand apps, some configure in clumsy ways via text messages, and I don't know which to pick because they all have fake reviews. I'm overdoing it here, but I don't think there's one brand you can trust.

After reading up on the Steam Deck, it has a lot of software to make games run in the correct configuration. Not only for the graphics, but also for the controls. I'm not a PC gaming person (I have an Xbox), so please comment on this. But wouldn't you need a lot more software to make gaming good?

Yeah, for some reason the iPad is excluded. Even the cellular iPad.

That is actually a very clever idea.

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If one is near your work, that's an insanely good deal though. Or does it have to go with an order? Because then it's not interesting.

This type of chain tries to cheaply mimick the experience. They stick their hand up their worker's asses and make them squeal your name. It's degrading for all involved. Back when Facebook was a thing, my buddy used to enter the wrong birthday. Some people who barely knew him, would congratulate him.

Currently I'm using a 43" 4K monitor, and although I love it, there's one thing where the huge size isn't useful: terminals. They're basically the one thing where extreme vertical space isn't that useful. The most important output is almost always at the bottom, because that's where the prompt is.

For other stuff, browsers, IDE, mail, chat clients etc, it's incredible.

Doesn't Tile need lots of people having the app installed on their phone? Or do they now rely on Apple's AirTags technology? If the former, I can assume it's basically worthless in large swaths of the world (Europe, for example).

Am I crazy? I don't see any way to build the source code. There's no .xcodeproj folder with associated files.

In every iOS project, at the root, there's the .xcodeproj folder and inside there's the project.pbxproj. Which basically is the Makefile of Swift code. It's not there.

This code is just a dump to peruse. Not to actually build the app.