I never had any issues with the vibrations causing damage. Would definitely be something to consider, as I can see the reasoning about it damaging something like the zoom functionality. Mine was on a out front mount so maybe that helped reduce it?

As for the kayak incident, I posted it in replay to someone else, but here is the story:

Hahaha, in brief. cycling out from my old seaside village, getting to the crest of a very steep hill(just shy of 20%) and get over taken by a pickup on a blind corner, thankfully no traffic coming the other way, but hit the downhill part and it is fast 80kmh speed limit down a country lane with 2 lanes of traffic. I hit about 70kmh, and the pickup is pulling away slowly.

Then the kayak shaped missile launches out of the bed as it hadnt been secured properly. Hits the road in front of me, I try to dodge, but it slides across like it is homing in on me. On the brakes as much as I can be in the small window I had to react and drop some speed before it clobbers the front of my bike. The rest I am sure you can imagine as a bike comes to a sudden stop and I dont.

Yea breaking stigmas is always the most uphill battle. I know it is not the same, but you see a lot of resistance to better tech in cycling. Things like disc brakes which are just better(outside of the tiny minority of cases) having so much fight against them.

I will say i am pretty opposed to the tech in many normal cases. Especially as it just seems like such a massive privacy nightmare at best. Or just shoe horning in tech for no real reason. I do think that everyone is already so in grossed in tech(I know I am a lot of the time) that they forget to just look around them and take in the world, and I think that smart glasses are that tipping point of going to far for most people.

I am happy to see that some really good use cases have been brought up, I am not all knowing I would in fact call me ignorant about a lot of things as I can only know what I know. But almost every good(even great) reason I have read has been based around improving life and interactions for people with disabilities which I can honestly get behind.

Hahaha, in brief. cycling out from my old seaside village, getting to the crest of a very steep hill(just shy of 20%) and get over taken by a pickup on a blind corner, thankfully no traffic coming the other way, but hit the downhill part and it is fast 80kmh speed limit down a country lane with 2 lanes of traffic. I hit about 70kmh, and the pickup is pulling away slowly.

Then the kayak shaped missile launches out of the bed as it hadnt been secured properly. Hits the road in front of me, I try to dodge, but it slides across like it is homing in on me. On the brakes as much as I can be in the small window I had to react and drop some speed before it clobbers the front of my bike. The rest I am sure you can imagine as a bike comes to a sudden stop and I dont.

For me, this doesn’t solve anything. This is looking for something to fit tech in.

You can already do this with your phone, and it isn’t like checking your phone whilst walking is going to kill you or someone else (unlike using your phone whilst driving).

You can also use the sign posts around you, my city has more than enough for people walking to get where the need, or at least the rough area.

You can also use headphones for the verbal call outs.

Another alternative would be a smart watch. Loads have maps or bread crumb style maps.

The real answers have been for more disability or accessibility not seeing Google maps constantly while walking.

This, this is a really good answer. Thanks for bringing it up.

And I asked because I am ignorant about some of them. I also think a lot of what has been posted has been looking for a problem, not solving something.

Needing Google maps when walking? Is honestly a terrible reason. Phones, sign posts, smart watches all already solve this.

Someone just posted about closed captions when people are talking to them due to a disability, that’s a really good reason to have some kind of smart glasses.

For your situation, I don’t think smart glasses are really the answer, and are more of a band-aid. The real answer in my mind is using the sheet notes and getting the stigma changed(but I understand that is a lot, lot, lot harder than just getting smart glasses).

Yeah that’s a good reason. How do you interact with them them though? Cause if it is hands or voice commands I don’t think I see much benefit over having a phone mounted(things are already expensive and only getting more so).

If it is eye tracking for people who have issues interacting with a phone in other ways then, that would certainly be a huge leap forward for accessibility.

As someone who has used their phone and had a major accident on it with the phone mounted. I will never go with smart glasses, they were the first thing that I noticed was smashed up. My phone survived(mostly) despite the bike being a complete write off, that will happen when getting hit by a kayak at 50kmh.

I had a Quadlock mount and just their sticker mount on the phone, you can get cases for popular phones though. I now use a Garmin computer for my riding.

Possibly the only reason I could see to invest in them, but I live in a country that isn’t completely plastered in ads(yet).

For following a recipe, could you not just increase lock timer on your phone? I am also a terrible cook, and a male, so I constantly wash my hands when handling food(I am that meme).

Yeah, the art example and real time translation are already done with your phone. Having that in your face doesn’t sound appealing or necessary.

For the face blind I can understand and be sympathetic, but for me I wouldn’t want to have cameras on people constantly, or keep a database of people’s information that could be leaked/lost.

How fast do you walk that you need to constantly check? You can also have you phone all out instructions for the next turn.

I can’t think of anything I would want to have pop up in my view. I have a phone to hand all day, and the notifies me of important things.

Can you think of anything that you actually want so see constantly or so immediately you can’t pull a phone out of your pocket?

I am not shocked to be honest.

Sure the first steam controller wasn’t great, but it was unique and provided controller access to games that just didn’t work with them. I hated mine for controller games, but was nice to sit back and relax on something slower that required mouse input (think a management game).

Then they followed up with the steam deck, which is ridiculously good.

The lessons learnt from the original and the fact that this provides a fantastic experience for standard controller and non controller games makes this an easy recommendation.

It is the best overall controller for me, 2nd in comfort to hold(the PS5 controller sits slightly better in my hands), but 1st in comfort to use(I like the high places sticks) couple that with the rest of the features and if you want a really good controller and have uses for the touch pads it is worth every penny.

If you are never going to use the touchpads or even attempt to use them, then get something more traditional like an 8-bit do ultimate or something.

And not to say it is perfect, but I think there are only 2 minor things I would like in a revision. Slightly more textured grips/back, and trigger stops(although I don’t think I will ever use them personally I know people would like them).

I have never thought about it like that. I don’t like Battle Royale games, but when I jump on a game with quick and infinite respawns I do get bored pretty quickly.

I really enjoy The Finals. And ticks all the boxes I think of, great guns, mobility, destruction and small teams with clear objectives. But in Cashout(or ranked) you have limited respawn coins, or if team wiped a fairly long respawn timer. Paired with revives from teammates.

It is nice to pin point something else to consider when looking at other games.

I grabbed Mina the Hollower. After finishing 007 First Light this evening, I feel like that will be a good game to follow up with. And will be a nice deck game when I want to play in bed

Other than that it is a back log kinda year(and playing my brother’s games through family sharing)

Yea, but someone saying that and it being true are very different beasts. Rockstar have not said anything about install size. And that also ignores that compression is applied as well, which would make it smaller.

Also… Oh no… 3 whole discs? What ever would they do!

If it is on 20 blu rays they better start shipping it on SSDs instead.

But let’s be honest, it’s not going to be 2TB for the compressed installation. Probably around 100 to 200gb that will be needed, meaning it would need 2 discs at most.

Now, I am pretty old, so I have played a fair few games that came on multiple Disks, CDs and DVDs. Some of my favourite games are on 4 discs.

Let’s go on a hypothetical trip. Say valve loses this, and as a result they stop providing free steam keys to publishers, so that you can now only buy on steam. Obviously this is the absolute worst thing they could do.

Everyone loses, every key shop is dead. Say goodbye to humble, greenmangaming, fanatical and so on.