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Comment Re:College education is still worth it (Score 1) 133

It's worth *something*, but the price has been outpacing inflation by a wide margin for years and years.

So we have value, but the price has been running away...

This is my thought. Being somewhat pedantic I feel like oversold is not quite right as there is still value in what they are selling, but they are going overboard on the costs to provide the degree. Many local/State colleges are still more than worthwhile.

Comment Well yeah.... (Score 5, Insightful) 116

Repeating somewhat a recent post. I bought a pretty powerful gaming desktop 8 or 10 years ago. Now it still runs all of the games I play (short of like Starfield but it will run Cyberpunk 2077 fairly well). Until the computer is not fast enough I don't need a new one and if someone hacks my machine, a bunch of computer games is not a great loss. What value is Win 11? Not the price of replacing the hardware in this desktop to me.

Comment Re:If only a certain OS didn't end support (Score 1, Offtopic) 77

We may have freed up RAM capacity by limiting unnecessary computer purchases.

Oh my gaming computer will not be replaced for some time until it is worth updating it, even if Micro$soft thinks otherwise. If someone hacks it, not much of value will be lost. Note most of my games are indie games that run just fine on a computer that was near top of the line eight years ago.

Comment Re:You have options (Score 1) 98

Use something better like notepad++, if you are still using notepad maybe change your workflow. I realize that this can be difficult if you are doing tech support on someone elses machine.

I love notepad++ for most of my document editing outside of an IDE, except I liked notepad for having a bunch of little note windows. Maybe I'll have to switch over to the sticky notes app and forget notepad.

Comment Re:AI is terrible. (Score 1) 55

as a rule content that is largely AI generated is not useful

Keep deluding yourself. If AI is not useful then why are trillions of dollars being invested in it? Or is your thesis that all the tech corporations in the world are idiots? If it hasn't massively increased your productivity then, sorry, but you ain't using it right.

AI is very useful, it does a lot of things with summarization and compression that really exceeds previous capabilities. However a lot of those trillions of dollars are not being invested in what AI does good, but instead what AI _appears_ to do good by sounding very authoritative on things it is wrong about, much like a lot of people running tech corporation. Not the first time companies have invested poorly in new technology and many companies will be pruned and lose all of that investment just like has happened before.

Comment Re:Which passwords. (Score 1) 97

There is a difference between your Bank account password and your Slashdot password. I am perfectly willing to use 123456 as my slashdot password. I don't, but I am willing to use it. But my bank accounts now use two factor authentication.

Frankly, there are a ton of services that ask for a password for the benefit of the SERVICE, not for you. They want their metadata on you to be clean, rather than caring about your privacy.

If the study did not ask what the passwords were for, then the study proved nothing.

I have a simple word/number password I use for slashdot and websites. Security extensions have told me the password showed up on the darkweb and I need to change it, I really don't care enough.

Comment Re:They almost stopped in the 1960s (Score 1) 186

For those who don't remember, the plan to stop minting pennies in the 1960s got canned when the John Bircher Society came out claiming it was Communist influence, somehow.

I support removing the penny, but I also think I would support being able to watch the fireworks if someone could make a popular video linking to this claim to say Trump removing the penny is Communist... sorry, end of a long day.

Comment Re:Why don't these companies give it up... (Score 1) 148

... with the voice control nonsense. If you're physically disabled then voice control is obviously a major win, but for everyone else its almost always much quicker to type with a keyboard or use a mouse/finger unless you're doing something like text dictation and even then its a PITA to do delete/amend. Car makers don't seem have got this memo either.

Yep, tried it out twenty years ago. Got really good accuracy after a couple hours of training and it pretty much did everything I could need to do with a PC. Unfortunately, voice command still doesn't work as good as a mouse and keyboard.

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