I'd bet that a lot of that in-camp work didn't feel excessively laborious when it was done while socialising within your group, and without a sense of "wish I was playing video games". Sitting around a camp fire now whittling away at something is more mucking around than chore.

Exactly. I don't think there really was a clear separation between work and not-work back then. It's just life. Consider wild animals: do they work?

Yeah pretty much, it’s a pretty tough to pinpoint what work actually is without paid labour.

Sure sitting around a campfire and whittling away at something now feels more like mucking about than chore, because it is. You don’t actually need whatever it is you’re whittling. It would probably be less relaxing if your survival depended on your handiwork.

I have friends who handweave clothes, blacksmith tools, and of course garden for food for their families.

The stakes are lower, but not the work level required, and they all do it for funzies, essentially.

Hate to say it, but I suspect people who can't afford their own laundry might be well down the list of potential customers in all this.

But people who own the shared spaces might be high on the list.

The poorer will get robotics as a condiment. Like WiFi.

Trust me, plenty of millionaires are doing their laundry in a shared Waschküche in Zürich!

Current Chinese dev bots cost like $15k. Vapourware startups are claiming they'll ship their humanoid robot product at $20k. I'd pay that in a heartbeat for robot that could actually do my laundry.

(But more impactfully surely there are loads of Californians with a utility room in their garage, or a basement that can't be accessed from inside the house)

(Also... I just realised, if there were robots that could do laundry, but couldn't navigate to my basement, I would move. I think laundry bots would genuinely be that desirable)

Maybe, but I was thinking the next bracket or two up. I'm sure things will trickle down though.

Don't think those people need robots? I don't think the next bracket up from me does their own laundry today.

The companies servicing that echelon would replace staff as soon as they could. In an apartment, the building owner would plant one in the shared laundry and add an optional price for tenants to use it.

Scale this up a bit and I could see it working as an urban courier.

Cool format.

I'm pretty sure they are. RAI have an office in Zurich, Switzerland. And I've seen these Just Eats wheeled robots driving around near their offices, delivering stuff. I would guess they are responsible for it.

This was bait enough that I jumped into Google Maps to look at a few random Galewood streets via street view. Obviously very suburban, but looks like it'd make for a nice stroll until you tired of the cookie-cutter layout. Hugh Hefner's childhood home as a bonus.

I live across the street from it. It's fine! It's just one of the most boring neighborhoods in Chicago. Walking distance to Johnnie's Beef, though, which is the best beef spot in the city.

KEEP. JOHNNIE'S. SECRET. Lines are long enough as it is. We don't need tourists messing it up. Signed, -Mont Clare resident

I'm afraid the cat is definitely out of the bag on Johnnie's.

I tried a custom game. Received constant errors in the bottom right. Couldn't work out where/who I was. I could right-click and offer alliances to factions, but there was no response at any point. Couldn't work out how to do anything. (Firefox/macOS)

I've added a "How To Play" button now before you start the game, and have polished up those error paths. Now they should be much less common and displayed more nicely.

My late maternal grandfather was Slovenian, so I enjoyed your project's backstory. I've mucked around with ChatGPT and OpenSCAD so can identify with that also. Great concept and best of luck!

Thank you!

Maybe OP could try an angle where at various points, the process presents the user with 2-6 options, and they choose their favourite. With a bit of intentional chaos in there, the user and tool could potentially discover interesting game concepts and eventually build them as prototypes.

What about for prototyping as you hunt for a style or concept and just want to see what resonates? I could see this being useful for that.

I hide my Dock completely and used to rely entirely on Spotlight for launching. After it failing to work so often, I found Raycast which has not failed me once. I can't see how they don't decide an indexing method/schedule based on a user's Spotlight settings.

From Daring Fireball:

It was, I am reliably informed by Apple product marketing folks, a significant engineering achievement to get a second USB port at all on the MacBook Neo while basing it on the A18 Pro SoC.

But yes, even just two dots above the USB3 and two dots above the USB2 wouldn't be rude.

> even just two dots above the USB3 and two dots above the USB2 wouldn't be rude.

But then they'd look the same! :-P You're reminding me of the old story about the leprechaun, commanded not to tamper with a marker over the location of his buried gold, nor to move the gold, instead filled the entire forest with identical markers.

> a significant engineering achievement to get a second USB port at all on the MacBook Neo while basing it on the A18 Pro SoC.

I wonder if they plan far enough out that this was part of the A18 Pro