That sounds like a pretty epic setup! Fortunately no one is forcing you to replace anything. You’re free to keep and make the most of what you’ve spent your own money on, just like anyone else.

Actually, I’m sure you more than most can appreciate why others who don’t already have a setup like yours might want to look at a headset as an option.

I want 90s style bug-eye sunglasses with shiny, royal blue frames.

If you have a computer space with multiple monitors with various equipment interfacing with it cluttering up a desk at your home, imagine all of that just completely gone, cleaned up, with nothing there but a recliner and a headset that can even go with you.

I think this is the value proposition. The price is too high for me, but I don’t think there’s anything to be confused about. The smart watch and iPad took more for me to wrap my head around than this.

Businesses don’t make themselves cheaper for consumers even if they get a chance to cut their overhead. I just don’t see businesses ever do that. Profits “rise” and they circle-jerk about how great they’re doing.

I’m more interested in getting access to FOSS, indie apps, and apps that Apple is too afraid to be associated with, such as emulators and apps that feature adult content.

Probably because this is @technology, where everyone is obsessed with apple because they would never use it.

Maybe with less actual people involved, governments will be less opposed to scaling back the egregious level of surveillance such corporations are allowed.

Who am I kidding, though?

It does, just not as an app. It’s built into spotlight. There’s a built in PDF reader as well, if you just tap to open a pdf file from the files app.

I keep airdrop off primarily for battery conservation and to avoid false/prank drops, but it’s nice to know I’ve been avoiding this risk as well.

Unfortunately most iPhone users I know forget airdrop even exists and it just stays on constantly.

For many, if not most Japanese people, bacteria existing is a problem in need of a solution. Even when COVID restrictions lifted, people were more than happy to keep their masks on for months. I’m not living there anymore, but most shops had hand sanitizers installed at their entrance, and I know a lot of people don’t want those to ever go away.

Because it’s in Japan, I’d probably use it. If this was in New York, I probably wouldn’t be in that bathroom in the first place.

and there’s the risk of it stealing your phone if it malfunctions

You wouldn’t just go to the staff and ask them to open it up for you? lol.

I found that people are more group-minded in Japan. Television and schools have less emphasis on direct punishment (like getting removed from the classroom and receiving detention), and a greater one on humiliation (like getting singled out by your teacher for something to be laughed at by your classmates).

In the west, comedians who say/do really naughty things that would get them in trouble get a lot of laughs because of its absurdity (and they risk getting in trouble). You often see a lot of disclaiming in western standup. In Japan, it’s the comedians who act in humiliating ways that get more laughs. Interestingly enough, you frequently see angry tantrums as something to laugh at. So if you want to be a funny person, you don’t break things, you do something to humiliate yourself. Otherwise, if you lash out in anger for any reason, you might get laughed at.

So with regards to vandalizing a sanitation machine in a McDonalds, unless it’s a specific trend on TikTok, I just don’t think a vandal would get much out of it.

People are generally more open in Osaka and the food is excellent, if you go just a few streets off the key tourist traps…

Ten years in Osaka here. I don’t recall this ever being an issue.

For every country I’ve lived in outside of Japan, I think these would be valid concerns.

Since getting a steam deck, I legitimately wish I knew way more about Linux than I do now. The thing is basically a grown up toy in many ways more than just video games.

If anyone has recommendations to resources I could use to better familiarize myself with accomplishing basic tasks with (arch) Linux, I’d appreciate it.

Regulating data collection on publications: congressional action is a go!

Regulating data collection on consumers: everybody look the other way!

The situation is perfectly self-explanatory, however.

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Oh. Well then I guess that just makes it completely okay for ads to just be in games now. Good thing you cleared that up.