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Traveling with Apple Vision Pro

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471 points tosh | 3 comments | 16 Oct 24 13:48 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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drewg123 ◴[16 Oct 24 18:34 UTC] No.41862238[source]▶
For air travel, I really like my Xreal Air glasses now that I have a newer iPhone 16pro. Just plug in the USB-C cable, and you have a virtual 60" screen in front of you which works perfectly for Netflix, etc. And they cost less than 10% of the cost of an AVP, and are not limited to 2-3 hours of battery life (they get power from the phone).

Note that if you have an older (lightning) iPhone, don't bother with these. They require a pair of dongles. Not only does that make things really awkward, but one of the dongles ends up apparently blocking HDCP, and prevents you from using anything but ... your own... downloaded content.

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JKCalhoun ◴[16 Oct 24 21:04 UTC] No.41863850[source]▶
As I get older, a gin and tonic (or two) is what makes air travel more relaxing.
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derefr ◴[16 Oct 24 22:38 UTC] No.41864576[source]▶
Taking a flight as an opportunity to indulge in a moment of blissful idleness is great... on a three-hour flight.

But on a 14-hour trans-continental flight, you've gotta have something to do. If nothing else, to distract you from how uncomfortable it is to be effectively confined to your seat + a few feet of narrow walkway for that long. That's more confined than a prison cell!

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runjake ◴[17 Oct 24 02:42 UTC] No.41865947[source]▶
> a moment of blissful idleness

Popularly known as “raw dogging” or “barebacking” a flight, apparently.

https://www.gq.com/story/why-men-are-rawdogging-flights

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1. BossingAround ◴[17 Oct 24 13:34 UTC] No.41869535[source]▶
I don't think that's what it means. Raw dogging a flight means staying awake while doing nothing.

I suppose most people that want to "raw dog" a flight will fall asleep eventually, so I guess there's that. But I think getting buzzed and just slipping into a bad nap for like 12 hours is a bit different, at least to my mind.

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2. runjake ◴[17 Oct 24 16:17 UTC] No.41871056[source]▶
> I don't think that's what it means. Raw dogging a flight means staying awake while doing nothing.

That sounds an awful lot like idleness.

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3. BossingAround ◴[17 Oct 24 17:03 UTC] No.41871455[source]▶
Yes... I think the trend of "raw dogging" a flight is a response to the constant need to do something - scroll through a phone, listen to a podcast, read the latest NYT story... Doing nothing, on the other hand, is pretty much what meditation is, which has been shown to provide a lot of amazing benefits for the brain.

Idleness is then just a religious (Protestant Christian?) spin on a perfectly normal thing, much like masturbation.