Limited screen real estate is never not going to be an issue. I mean, I suppose if I wanted to swivel my head around all the time on a giant multi-monitor setup it might be possible to have enough screen real estate most of the time without overlapping windows, but meh, most of the time I'm on a laptop anyway. And focus follows mouse is just infuriating.

I absolutely hate focus follows mouse. I remember encountering it back in the '80s and the first thing I did was figure out how to turn it off.

I can't imagine a use case for it that would ever work for me.

One does not make money by kicking out paying customers.

If I'm going to watch a movie, I want it in an environment where I control the lighting, the food, the temperature, and the sound level, and I can hit pause if I want to grab a fresh drink. So I'm probably never going to a movie theater again. The "phone fuckers" (whatever that means) and people who have no interest in you wanting them to shut up are their paying customers now.

Let it go, watch movies at home.

There are ads on Slashdot?

I think I saw one years ago. I used to have a checkbox that was labeled "disable advertising" up under my username, but that seems to have disappeared, never saw any ads either way.

Time to switch adblockers if you're seeing them.

The Macintosh could handle overlapping windows in 1984. Why would I EVER want tiled windows, or think that low RAM is an excuse for not having them?

Should have failed 30 years ago.

Absolutely horrific database, and worse company.

And that's before you get to the Tiny Orange Mushroom sucking CEO.

So? Healthcare is actually good for people.

AI slop is a negative, an actual detriment to society.

Nope, not seeing it.

No centralization: One site goes down, inconveniences a few people, problem gets fixed a bit more slowly.

Centralization: A quarter of the internet becomes nonfunctional.

Centralization still seems like a really, really bad idea to me. It makes it MUCH harder for the internet to just route around damage.

There are still good reasons for those dealership laws, they're designed to keep some money in the local communities and ensure that major purchases which require dealer support like vehicles will not be entirely at the whim of a company that has no significant ties to the state.

The fix is to remove the Turdla carveout, not give Rivian another one.

Nah, there will be a few dozen jobs watching the robots at any automated factory. They won't be skilled jobs, and they won't pay much. And there will be somebody sweeping up.

But people really DO want to work in factories. I know people who used to make t-shirt fabric, people who used to make bluejeans. They enjoyed their jobs, believe it or not. Those factories are closed now, shut down maybe a couple decades ago. The union (actually used to be ILGWU before it was UNITE HERE!) even closed up shop here about a decade ago, the union hall is a pain clinic now.

But yeah, the people who used to make your Levi's didn't hate their jobs. They're not big fans of the service jobs they're working now for less money, though.

Just give us 10 year certs back. There's no reason for this nonsense.

That's NOT what's happening, and you know it.

If it's practically impossible to not violate parking laws, enforcement isn't the problem, the law is.

Because Merrick Garland and Jack Smith are incompetent, and Aileen Cannon is corrupt.

Putin is NOT a communist. He's a capitalist oligarch kleptocrat dictator. Russia was NEVER actually communist, but hasn't even called itself communist since 1991 - over 30 years ago.

I have no idea why this idiocy persists that Russia has any sort of connection to communism in 2025.