Sometimes you just need to send some dogs into that meeting and shoot the first plan that comes flying out.
"You can't have your cake and eat it" The older form was flipped: "you can't eat your cake and have it" They both can mean about the same, but the older form makes it much clearer - if you've eaten your cake, you no longer have it. But you could have your cake, then eat it.
I have a Viture One and an Xreal Air 2. They're both solid for gaming as a screen directly attached to your face. Neither do floating or body-anchored screens out of the box. The Xreal can do it with a breakout box, and the new generation of the Xreal that's coming out in March is supposed to do it on its own.
Viture One came with a better carrying case and is easier to hook up in the dark. It's slightly more comfortable to wear, and it has built-in focusing dials. Picture quality is good for gaming and watching videos, but not good enough for extended text reading - books and websites aren't recommended.
The Xreal Air 2 has a much better screen, good enough for reading for an hour or so. The edges get some chromatic aberration, but most of the screen is good. It requires prescription inserts if you need glasses - a mixed blessing since it adds a hidden $80 to the price, but means you can wear them as real glasses. The nose bridge has size options, but none are quite as comfortable as the Viture. The Xreal uses standard USB-C cables, which is good for compatibility, but bad for attaching in the dark. As mentioned above, Xreal has a breakout box that gives different options for how the screen is displayed - attached to your head, attached with a delay (better for motion sickness), PiP so you can look at the real world with your media in the corner of your vision, and attached to your body giving the illusion of a TV screen sitting a distance from you.
It depends on what you're looking to do with the screen, but I'd probably wait until the new generation of Xreals.
The AI summary is not great here. Three tanks in the Palisades were at higher elevation than the rest. The whole system was tapped at 4x normal demand for 15 hours. This dropped water pressure across the whole system, which meant that there wasn't enough pressure to fill those high-elevation tanks.
Mine's around somewhere, too. I didn't do a lot of gaming on it, but it was a very solid media streaming box for the time.
I enjoyed my Ouya back in the day.
Postman was great! The book is worth a read, too.
I picked up a construction-grade tablet PC back in 2010, and while I haven't been todler-tough on it, it's still running great and the peace of mind of it being so rugged has been great.
Former Minnesotan here. Growing up, dinner was the large meal, supper was the evening meal if the large meal had already been eaten.
A common example would be a Sunday pot-luck dinner after the church service, and a little supper around 6 that evening.
I find 2 per PC is my useful limit. Which means my current 5 isn't quite enough. Monitor arms are always a challenge at that scale, though.
My family was religious enough that they made it super clear that Santa was fake. Us kids still got little gifts "from Santa," but they were of the stocking-stuffer variety. All other gifts were from specific people. As a kid I liked getting stuff, but the more important thing about the holiday was spending time with family, and them showing their love. Gifts was one way to show, but spending time, preparing meals, and just being present without worrying about other life issues also did it. It is the thought that counts, but you have to show that you're thinking about them. Honestly, your kids might appreciate not having to pretend they still believe in Santa. As other people have said here, don't catch your kids in the crossfire. If there's something they're really looking forward to, get it for them, but label it "from Dad" or Mom and Dad if you're feeling generous. If they don't have their hopes on something, a trip or experience might be good. Not sure what experience fits both a 6 year old and a 12, but I assume you know your kids better than I do. As for the rest of your family, they can stick it. They don't seem interested in participating in the holiday, so don't include them.
I don't know if it's gotten better these days, but back in the 90's "being a man" was more a definition of absence. Being a man was "not being a woman/girl." This caused a couple years of real difficulty for me as a high school boy, since women were (finally) allowed to do all the "male" things, which ended up defining the male identity out of existence.
Additional context: the squirrel bit one of the officers that was confiscating it. So they absolutely needed to test for rabies.
Don't post your crimes to social media folks. Or do, I'm not a cop.
Aleve (naproxin sodium) is the only OTC painkiller that reliably works for me. So first I take one, and if that doesn't work after an hour or so, I take another and a nap.
Raytracing is still very computationally intensive, and doesn't have enough market penetration to make sense on most modern games. Devs need to implement two solutions: a raytraced path and a raster path. The game needs to be fully playable in both, across a wide range on hardware. The largest install base for most games is still console, where RT barely exists. So RT is generally relegated to eye candy for high-end PC. Which makes it a marketing feature, not a game feature.
It'll be interesting to see if that changes with the PS5 Pro. I expect we'll see more first-party titles support it, but not much else until the next real console generation.
Knight Rider. The world needs an anime reboot that leans into the vibe of that opening.
Even if I accept your framing that a vote for Kamala is a vote for genocide in Gaza, literally any other action is a vote for that genocide, plus one in Ukraine, plus one in the US. We know this because that's what Trump has said. We know this because that's what he tried to do the last time. And we will have this problem until Trumpism is soundly defeated. You want a real left choice sometime in your lifetime? We need to vote Dem hard enough to make it clear that Republicans can't win. We're not there yet.
The worst thing about standups is that about once a month I catch a problem early because of what someone says. The tradeoff doesn't feel worth it time-wise. But it keeps me from skipping them.