So you are displeased because you paid to stay somewhere you think a family should be living? Do you not see the disconnect in that statement. It’s like people stuck in traffic complaining about traffic, you are the traffic.

Fair points, but not every AirBnB competes directly against hotels. AirBnB's are also often available in a neighborhood instead of predominately commercial centers like most hotels.

Sure the other options often is to just stay in a hotel in a commercial center, however that isn't exactly the same experience. On my last vacation I used an AirBnB to stay in the old walkable neighborhood where I grew up, my kids were born in, and we still have friends for the first part of the trip. Then went backpacking in the wilderness for the middle part of the trip. Lastly we stayed in a high floor of a hotel smack in the middle of downtown for the last part of the trip. All three experiences were dramatically different from the other.

I probably would stayed at a friends place had there not been an AirBnB in the old neighborhood. And even in the hotel I put my trash in the trash and hung up my towels. But no, I didn't make the bed.

Even when people are immaculate in the private life a large percentage of Americans seem to be slobs in public and expect others to clean up after them. It’s one of the great shames of our nation that food and drink trash can be found on most sidewalk, roads, hiking trails, waters, the beach. It’s one thing if you are in a situation where down restaurant with table service and you are leaving a tip. But outside of that if you are not throwing your food trash away you are being a slob. Ands it’s almost always food and drink trash.

Leaving your trash at a stadium, movie theater, park bench, train, etcslob. Your parents not around to clean up after you. Or more likely they are the ones who failed to teach you good manners.

So...a locked down square iPad mini with limited storage, portability, and limited processing power?

It runs a modern Windows OS.

(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.