Parks are great, but unless they’re directly outside the houses where I can keep an eye on what’s happening they’re not as safe or convenient. Being able to send the kids into the garden to run off some energy whilst I’m in the house doing something, and being reasonably confident that they’re safe is a huge benefit.

That’s certainly not impossible with a bit of sensible planning around how housing is laid out, putting clusters of housing directly around a shared green space, but it is rather challenging to retrofit in existing conurbations, and impossible in more spread out communities. The American style of huge featureless lawns surrounding the house right up to the property boundary are pretty awful, but the more European style of a bit of lawn surrounded by flower beds and maybe trees is rather better.

If you have kids It’s helpful to have an open, flat area for them to run around on. It doesn’t need to be (just) grass, but that’s probably the most robust, and least likely to have sharp surprises, option.

We didn’t steal the balls, but where computers were back to back we’d swap the mice over. Cue much confusion for the next class when the pointer seemed to move on it’s own. Fun times.

It’s not exactly what you’re talking about, but it looks like there is a way to do this over PCIe 5.0: CXL 1.1. The m.2 bus exposes up to 4 PCIe lanes, so it may be possible, with the right combination of motherboard that supports CXL, and a CXL module with an m.2 interface, to do what you want. I haven’t dug much deeper than that, but maybe it’ll be of some help.

Maybe, although I think that’s a separate mystery that the JWST has found. It’s quite possible that when they solve one of these riddles it’ll crack the other too, that’s the joy of science. We kniw our models of the universe and how it works are wrong, but they’ve been useful so far. We’ll keep on refining them and making them even more useful.

I was a bit confused too as I was pretty sure this was old news. Here’s a NASA article from 2023 with more information.