As someone who lives in a red state that's pretty heavily dependent upon tourism, I say bring it (or, rather, don't bring it). Spend your vacation money somewhere that deserves it.
I'd rather not lol. Google basically forces you to use your phone in a Google-approved configuration or RCS silently fails. So if you're rooted, no RCS for you. You can spoof SafetyNet attestation all you want, but they constantly blacklist fingerprints (even legit ones) and RCS stops working (but still says "connected"). After 3 months of fighting it, missing messages, or having to wait 90+ seconds for outgoing messages to fallback to SMS, I just disabled RCS and went back to SMS/MMS. Since that was the last Google service I was trying to use, I just disabled Play Services and completed the de-googling of my devices.
If RCS is to ever succeed, , it needs to be a carrier service and not a Google service. As it is now, it is impossible to use RCS on Android without Google Play Services (e.g. De-Googled device). That's absolutely unacceptable.
Honestly, I dread the e-SIM only future. They're okay as something that complements a physical SIM, but I much prefer swapping the physical one than going through the carrier to transfer it.
I tend to use devices and mobile OS's that aren't carrier-blessed (but are otherwise compatible with the network); it's often necessary to first activate the service in a "supported" device and then move the SIM to the device I actually want to use.
I also change devices often, kind of like choosing the right footwear for the event. I've got a general purpose "daily driver" mostly dumb phone, but I also swap my SIM to a few other devices depending on need. e.g. occasionally, I'll need my actual smartphone and move my SIM into that for the day or I'm going backpacking and move my SIM into my rugged smartphone which is otherwise a beast to carry but nice in the wilderness, etc.
Plus, I've had phones just up and die. With my cell as my only phone (and sometimes only internet connection), it's a little difficult to reach the carrier to move service to my backup device. Much easier to just pull my SIM and move it.
If I were doing all this with eSIMs, I'd probably be setting off all kinds of false alarm bells swapping around so much; all false alarms that, to date, haven't been an issue with a physical SIM. That's not even getting into the artificial restrictions that will eventually come. Wouldn't put it past some shitty carriers (cough Verizon cough) to limit the number of times you can swap in a month and/or to charge a BS "activation" fee for it.
The frustrating thing is we've already learned this lesson. But b/c people don't pay attention in school, we have to learn it the hard way all over again.
Name one meaningful thing they could have done as the minority in both chambers of Congress besides raise awareness and hope the voters do better in 2026. I'll wait.
With a firm minority in both chambers of Congress, what, exactly, would you have them do besides raise awareness? This problem is on the voters who elected all these clowns, and right now, they're the only ones who can fix it. And that's not going to happen until 2026.
Wasn't there an episode in Voy? with holographic lifeforms that rebelled against their creators and lived inside a flying holodeck ship?
Yep. But the ship was just projecting the holographic lifeforms and not an entire environment. Probably used a bit less power than a full-blown, ship-wide holodeck. Life support (which seems to require a lot of power in the Trek universe) on the ship may also have been minimal since they didn't need it. It was still online, at least in certain areas, since B'Elanna was able to survive when she was shanghai'd aboard.
And there was that Insurrection movie in which a whole village was teleported into a giant holodeck ship.
Also yep. There was also a TNG episode with the whole village Worf's (human/adopted) brother was embedded into that was was stealth transported into the D's holodeck and moved to a new planet.
I'm not saying it's impossible to make every cabin a holo-suite, just that in most cases, it would seem to be impractical. i.e. Awesome, but Impractical
Edit: If you've seen PIC, they actually do make at least some of the cabins holo-suites. The cabin Picard is assigned is made up to look like a room in his chateau. I think that room is special, though (might even be the captain's quarters that Rios gave up/didn't use) since Raffi's and Rios's cabins seemed standard for a starship of that size/class. I don't think we saw any other cabins aboard La Sirena. That, or they didn't have enough cabins and just stuck Picard in the ship's holodeck lol.
OG Discovery had some kind of combat simulator (kind of a proto-holodeck) that Lorca and Tyler used to train for a mission.
After the 31st century refit, the cabins used programmable matter for their furniture, etc. My understanding is that programmable matter is the transistor to the holodeck's vacuum tube (i.e. it made holograms obsolete). Ok, I said that, but there are advanced holograms at HQ, so I guess holography hasn't gone totally out of style. I don't recall if it was ever established as such, but my head canon is that programmable matter is more efficient for "static" objects since it doesn't need energy to maintain form, just when it changes (unlike holograms which require constant energy). That would explain why PM is used for furnishings/decor and holograms are still used for humanoid constructs.
As for why all rooms aren't holodecks/suites in the 24th century, probably due to power consumption. In VOY 4x18 "The Killing Game", the Hirogen had Harry Kim expanding the holo emitters throughout the ship which seemed to be putting considerable strain on the ship's power system (despite not being in battle or at high warp; perhaps not in warp at all -- been a minute since I saw that episode).
While the Prometheus had ship-wide holo emitters and seemed fine power-wise, there's a difference between projecting an EMH (or two) versus simulating an entire environment plus the associated NPCs.
Over 250,000 and 1. I wasn't counted in that.