> I find your suggested solution of excluding disabled people from accessing small local shops rather asinine

I wasn't suggesting a solution. I was describing the situation in Japan and offering two explanations for why that situation might be as it is.

This is a good time, but it would be nice to see what the robot is doing, having their game board visible but no numbers showing would nice.

This article was fun, I like imagining myself with an agent and some awesome Diva dressing room. However, sorry, but I have to rant a tiny little bit. We need to stop using the "ever try to explain it to your mom" trope. My mother understands what I do at work a whole lot better then my dad. If I was mother, I would clearly understand what you do at work. The very fact of being a mom does not preclude you from high level technical knowledge. In addition, the statement encourages the idea that since only women can be moms, and moms don't understand tech, women don't understand tech. That is what you are implying to all of your readers when you utilize this cliche. It's lazy writing, and I would request that you try harder to overcome that initial pull of the go-to stereotypes and cliches that paint women in a non-technical light. Thank you.

I agree that keeping your own data on your own property is a worthwhile endeavor. I speculate though about how proficient most people are at keeping truly decent security for that data. If I build a small server rack at home and allow all of my mobile devices to connect to that server from out in the wide world, and if then lots and lots of other people do that as well, how does the nature of security change?

This list highlights the one lesson I see repeated in almost all advice about life: "Be an Extrovert, and if you aren't, act like one."