(On the way out) Oh yes, blood BANK, food BANK.

River BANK
Piggy BANK
BANK shot

I’ll see myself out.

A big thank to your kids and you for raising them to make those choices. My kids and their kids will have an easier go of it if more people follow your kids’ example. The world will belong to the families who are still here, not to the ones who gave up.

Let’s say you lost your legs in an accident, would you just off yourself because you no longer have the life you’d prefer or would you make the best of it? To me having kids is the same thing. I mean, I’m not having six like my parents and both of their parents before them. Two is plenty for my wife and I. But my family line isn’t dying with me either, and hopefully my kids learn the value of having children as well.

But if your kids don’t want kids, I say: GREAT! Until the rest of the world’s couple average less than 3 offspring or we figure out how to colonize space; the natural world would certainly benefit from there being less of us.

Seems like the safest way to run AI agents is to run the, in an isolated local environment and then have to explicitly grant access to anything outside of that environment. With the safest way being to have a duplicate programs inside the container so it can have what it needs without accessing programs and files on the same system but outside of the container.

How long until we get cases for journalists, etc, which have a failsafe which physical destroys the phone without blunt force or some chemical? Seems like the only real way to protect yourself besides having a dummy travel phone or not using a smartphone at all.

Whether you can hide the approach or not is irrelevant. Who is going to stop you?

Maybe it us just me; but it seems that if one wanted to steal a nuclear weapon, one based in space would be one of the easier targets for any nation with space faring capabilities.

I still use my headset a few times a week, and I’ve had it for two years. Though it’s not a great computer monitor replacement, nor are the native graphic of the games state of the art. It’s just okay for browsing the web.

However, it is an excellent video watching device. Including home made 3D videos. 360 immersive videos in full resolution are pretty impressive. You can also stream multiple sports games on different large virtual screens at the same time while having conversations with other people online. Not as good as the bar, but better than watching a game alone after the kids go to bed and the wife wants to do something else. On an airplane and coupled with noise cancelling headphones it game changing on an airplane.

it’s also pretty good for virtual locations while using my rowing machine or exercise bike.

There are several things vr headsets are just okay at, but you wouldn’t write an essay on smartphone either. But also like a smartphone, there are somethings where standalone VR really excels at as well. It all depends what you are using it for. Maybe at some point the processors will be good enough the games look real too.

The Batman game for Quest was pretty killer. It was included with the Quest 3. So was Asgard's Wrath 2. My main beef with the quest for gaming is that it is basically PS4 level graphics. Which is fine for things that are intended to look cartoonish. But it can’t touch the graphical realism of even the PS5, let alone a desktop computer.

However, as a video device it’s pretty on point. With one main caveat. There are now 3d movies you can rent or buy nativity. There are work arounds, mostly involving pirated content and uploading things yourself. But it’s a huge missed opportunity. The Disney app alone has a huge library of 3d movies they could make available if META would work with them on the codex.

Regardles movies and show coupled with noise cancelling headphone on a plane is a complete game changer.

Does it use the same 3d rendering a Quest, aka no 3d movies from the likes of Disney? Or does it use a standard that plays nice?

Very well put. I have a much better camera than my smartphone, but the camera on the smartphone is pretty good under the right conditions and as you said "Is the one I have one me". I only take out my nice micro 4/3rds camera with multiple lens out maybe a once or twice a year and for a very specific and planned out reasons. And that has been the case for most of the last decade.

Doesn't fit in your pocket as well as a smaller phone. Doesn't have as big of a screen as even the smallest iPad. Underpowered and hard to type on with a limited OS compared to a laptop. I am not sure which niche this fills. But forecasters are predicting there will be about 12 million people who will try to find out.

I mean I resisted getting a laptop in favor of a desktop, tablet, and smartphone. When my desktop finally could no longer be upgraded effectively after 13 years, I went with a high end laptop that I dock to affective become a multi screen desktop for the majority of its time. I find that having laptop means that I can work nearly anywhere. especially paired with my table for a second screen and my phone for internet access. It means that not nearly tied to my desk as I used to be and still be available to get work done if something comes up. Which I actually really like. I know others discovered that a long time ago. But the laptops of 15 years ago could not do what my desktop could do (including running multiple displays) and certainly would not have been able to upgraded over the years so that it was relevant system for almost a decade and half.

My point? I can't see myself ever buying one of this, but asking me again in 13 years. In the meantime I still hoping for a watch, ring; I would even settle for a smartphone at this point; I can take off and then used as a standalone computing platform. Including a projected screen and keyboard. I mean being able to plug it into a dock like the laptop and it running a full OS would be pretty slick too. The top end smartphones of today are totally capable of running a full OS if the companies would let them.

Isn't it illegal to record audio without consent in some states? Seems like a class action might clear this matter up.

Exactly, the population growth of the developing world more than makes us for the low birth rates in the developed world. At some point they will just fill in the spaces we leave behind. That is if AI and machines don’t do so first.

This is a boon for Boise. I haven't been there in almost a decade, I can only image how much it has changed since then. If that place had a respectable airport with direct flights to most of the country, I think it would have surpassed the SLC metro area some time ago. Better laws. The city itself has outgrown SLC proper. But it has no pro major sports teams, a tiny airport, and no real mass transit. A beautiful area over all though. Especially north and northwest of there. Micron has been good for that town.