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Exactly! I wouldn’t be surprised if some day in the distant future, that’s where this all goes. Coding languages may in fact be on their way to being dead. You can imagine a world where, regardless the platform, the lowest level instruction format is output.

I've had the exact same conversation with my wife... I think "easier" is subjective. In her mind its easier to do it the way she's doing it. shrug

Yea, it's pretty funny seeing all the posts here from people who cannot fathom why a product like this exists.

It's pretty eye opening really. If it weren't for seeing someone close to me do it, I'd be in the same camp, wondering who in their right mind would use their laptop like that.

My wife sits on the couch, "indian style", with a laptop in her lap angled at about a 45 degree. She holds the edges of it with her arms, and brings the keyboard up to her stomach kinda...

Its hard to describe but its surprisingly comfortable looking and allows her to tap her way through everything without actually having to hold the screen up. If she lets go, the hinge keeps it up. If she needs to type, she just skoots it back back slightly

Not me personally, but my wife does. She will not buy a laptop unless it has touch screen. "So get an iPad" everyone tells her.

No, you don't get it. She wants the keyboard, she wants a first class desktop experience, and she wants a touch screen.

Watching her work is... different. She mostly uses her laptop on her lap, on the couch, scrolling and "clicking" with touch... and when she needs to type something she slides it back slightly, and types. Almost never uses the track pad.

It helps to know a thing or two, about a wide range of topics, for this reason.

Take for instance someone telling you about their career. "I'm a software developer".

You can express interest with a response like "Oh, thats cool, what made you go into that line of work?" but thats a very generic, shallow response.

If you know a thing or two about software, for example, you can ask more interesting questions that show your interest in them, and your knowledge of the space. "Woh cool, how is AI coding impacting your life?"

Suddenly, it seems like you're much more interesting yourself, AND you're interested in them.

The tricky part nowadays is everyone has very niche interests. It's harder than ever to really have a breadth of knowledge that is broadly applicable. This was easier before the internet, before travel, before telecommunication. When your community was your community and news traveled slowly, it was a lot easier to learn about what impacted others.

open to other cities for sure... I only list SF because it's the closest to home. But yea I've considered other cities. I've traveled extensively to Europe and love the cities there so many someday in the future, I'd consider looking into moving there.

I mean I was living and working in SF from like 2013-20217 and this sentiment of "who the F is actually buying homes here" was true for me then too. I worked in tech, downtown, at a big (not FANG) tech company... and nobody I knew owned a home, or was buying one, and yes we talked about it!

I mean is that really what's driving this? Is it FANG couples or something? I mean if you load up Zillow or Redfin, its hard to believe that all these 1.5+ million dollar homes are driven by DINK couples alone... Its just so astounding.

I've love to hear from anyone ACTUALLY BUYING in this market. Yet, nobody who is in that category ever responds. It's quite strange really, it feels artificial, or like I'm just outside this class of people.

Who are they?

I want to be in SF because I love being in dense cities. It's way more fun, and exciting than suburbs.

let me guess, homeowner in SF?

> The problem with non-wearable solutions is both space required and price

This is such a 2016/2017 problem. No offense but, a limited read of who you might be is someone who got into VR back then, found a number of legitimate reasons it sucked, and never tried it again?

I mean take the space argument. Most modern VR games can be played seated. If you have arms length space around you, you can play some truly excellent VR games. I can't even remember the last time I booted up a VR game and played it standing. Well, it was probably back around 2017.

They VR to be woken up. The headset has become their reality. Who are you to say otherwise?