>>RAM and SSD prices will become so high that replacement consumer devices will become unaffordable for people with low to middle incomes.

I regularly walk through bad part of town, there are shops that still advertise $50 used smartphones. I think we will stop treating many devices as disposable, which is a good thing, and will start insisting on right to repair and longer support. If Apple can support phones for 10+ years and offer affordable battery replacements, then so can Samsung, Google, etc. and if not, they will lose market share.

Now that we have decent LLM coding models, can we optimize code to not require so much RAM?

I don't eat McD, but I would like to start speculating on hamburger futures, driving up the cost for everyone and getting filthy rich in the process while causing hamburger boom and bust cycles. When do I start?

We live in a simulation used by an advanced far-future artificial intelligence to understand its origins.

Have you actually used these? I am not convinced by your examples that you have.

Ok, name some other plausible use of these glasses? In my opinion, even Silk Road had a better alibi.

You also can't just pretend that malicious leaking of data to Meta isn't inherent to using such glasses.

No, your argument is superficial with a significant flaw that intent is baked into public use of both Flock and Meta's glasses. While there might be legitimate uses for smart glasses, such as manufacturing or remote surgery (I am going on limb here, Meta glasses are not used in such way as far as I know), the vast, overwhelming usage is to produce non-consenting public recordings of people and leak them to Meta for further data mining.

Correct term is Privacy Rapist, pervert glasses is just polite euphemism.

I am not part of that dark corner of the Internet, so I don't really know why anyone would pay (or use for free) any of this shit. However, in gaming, there is a concept of "whale". A tiny minority of player would pay serious money for any advantage. This is typically seen as P2W (pay to win) but it can fund a small dev team. Back in the day I played a niche MMO, I recall a player that allegedly dropped $100K on the game. To me, this is crazy.

The very essence of journalism in a Western world is to expose wrong doing and nobody being exposed likes. Journalism isn't meant to be rage-bait or hallmark moments for clicks that it degenerated into. It meant to cover and expose uncomfortable realities so individuals can be informed.

Our society requires privacy to function. This is because government (and that includes individuals with personal motivations within government structures) at all levels have power to selectively prosecute anyone they don't like. Our legal system is set up in a way that every law abiding citizen can be investigated (where investigation is the punishment) and their life ruined if there is a pretext (probable cause). Flock is an easy way to manufacture such pretext.

You can't have qualified immunity and Flock. Pick one. If you pick two, you end up living in a 40K style dystopia where "Innocence proves nothing".

You don't want to kill ants, but if they get in the way you do. Because they get in the way of your goals.

My thoughts exactly. While I am not THAT old, due to spending my younger years staring at CRT monitors, my vision isn't that great. Being able to easily read things on a phone is a huge bonus of this design.

Thing is, even 51% accurate guess still can be useful.