This is off-topic, but... For some reason, that reminded me of a funny exchange I had with someone who was buying a lottery ticket, years ago...

Me: "What are the chances that you'll win?"

Him, with a heavy southern (US) accent: "50/50. You either win or you don't."

Respect.

I don't share this stance (I prefer open, but it's not a deal breaker if most alternatives are even less open), but I greatly appreciate those who do.

Care to share your mobile OS preferences? I'm test driving GrapheneOS on my old Pixel 7 Pro, but not sure if it can fully replace my daily driver yet.

Ahh I see. It's like gender reaffirming surgery for a male to become... still male, but "more so".

Thanks for clearing that up. Sometimes I feel like a boomer trying to keep up, lol

Is this a sentence that I might need to understand IRL, or is it just social media stuff?

(I don't know if this question will be offensive, so apologies in advance if so.)

[...] why would you want a system that doesn’t offload you at all? The only value of this system is if people ignore the limitations and allow themselves to zone out [...]

I think there are some "absolutes" used here that make these things incorrect.

1. "doesn't offload you at all" means that these systems provide 0 offloading, which is not true — not even for the classic cruise control that only maintains speed.
2. "The only value of this system is if people ignore the limitations and allow themselves to zone out" means that there's no other value it provides. Using the old classic cruise control as an example again, it provides value even without being able to its limitations.

That said, my car is a bit old and just has the classic kind of cruise control. I've only used the newer stuff on a few road trips in rental cars, so maybe I just haven't had enough experience with it to reach the levels of carelessness required to drive into a garage door yet.

I honestly don't understand why these glasses have become so mainstream

Most agent harnesses do something called "compaction." For example, here's how Pi does compaction

EDIT: Part 2 is now available for free

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Also, Part 2 is on his Patreon. If there's room in your budget, I really don't think you'll regret it. Part 2 gets wayyy worse. (If it's not in the budget, just wait. He'll publish it for free soon.)

He'll probably have some massive lawyer fees in the near future as this goes to court, so at least the money would help with that.

Reckless Ben is a bit different. I've been a subscriber for years. He goes deep with his... "investigations"? I'm not really sure what to call what he does, but this LEGO thing is not his first rodeo

Is there any particular that there are no names mentioned in the post or any of the comments?

I hope I'm not breaking any rules my mentioning names, but this post doesn't really surface in search results...

The YouTuber's name is Reckless Ben, and the company's name is Bricks & Minifigs (BAM).