Petronius - Slashdot User

Comment The great enshittification of Apple continues (Score 2) 37

by Petronius on Monday October 27, 2025 @01:00PM (#65753626) Attached to: Apple Moving Ahead With Plans To Bring Ads in Maps App, Report Says

Steve Jobs must be rolling in his grave.

Comment Billing (Score 1) 110

by Petronius on Thursday October 09, 2025 @02:33PM (#65715034) Attached to: ISPs Created So Many Fees That FCC Will Kill Requirement To List Them All

Their Billing system surely has no problem with "all these fees". WTF.

Comment Re:8 minutes? (Score 1) 103

by Petronius on Tuesday October 07, 2025 @01:30PM (#65709986) Attached to: Apple Turned the CrowdStrike BSOD Issue Into an Anti-PC Ad

Bingo. They needed a TikTok video. They're completely out of touch.

Comment Enshittification 3.0 (Score 1) 48

by Petronius on Saturday August 02, 2025 @02:42AM (#65562004) Attached to: Amazon CEO Wants To Put Ads In Your Alexa+ Conversations

The enshittification is real. Papa Jeff needs money so he can give it back to Daddy Tramp in the form of Melania fockumentaries. Barf. https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2F...

Comment The enshittification is real (Score 2) 64

by Petronius on Monday April 29, 2024 @11:16AM (#64433014) Attached to: Amazon Says Its Prime Deliveries Are Getting Even Faster

Ever since COVID hit, every other Prime delivery is late. Prime videos have Ads. Rates have gone up. The enshittification is real. - https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2F...

Comment Quality? (Score 4, Insightful) 217

by Petronius on Friday September 29, 2017 @07:01AM (#55275569) Attached to: IBM Now Has More Employees In India Than In the US

Maybe revenues are down *because* the work is being done in India and the overall IBM value prop is no longer there. Did that ever occur to the bean counters?

Comment You've lost the lawsuit at 'comedian' (Score 4, Insightful) 397

by Petronius on Thursday June 22, 2017 @10:38AM (#54668409) Attached to: 'Coal King' Is Suing John Oliver, Time Warner, and HBO

Nothing good will come out of this for Murray. For HBO: follow-up segments, viral YouTube posts and millions of dollars in free advertising.

Comment More adapted to his very small fingers (Score 1) 206

by Petronius on Friday January 20, 2017 @10:41AM (#53703445) Attached to: Trump Trades in Android Phone For Secret Service-Approved Device

Also contains a custom version of Twitter that allows Putin to review and approve his tweets.

Comment Switch to uBlock, it's better (Score 5, Interesting) 619

by Petronius on Tuesday February 03, 2015 @10:50AM (#48969459) Attached to: Google, Amazon, Microsoft Reportedly Paid AdBlock Plus To Unblock

Faster, better, hackable and free. https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fgithub.com%2Fgorhill%2FuBl...

Comment It'll be late, over budget and won't work... (Score 1, Funny) 109

by Petronius on Monday November 04, 2013 @09:52PM (#45332729) Attached to: India To Launch Mars Orbiter "Mangalyaan" Tuesday

i.e. it'll be outsourced. Enjoy your 42% savings margin.

Comment Re:It's slow and just plain ugly (Score 0) 488

by Petronius on Sunday September 22, 2013 @06:20AM (#44916885) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Is iOS 7 Slow?

Fire up XCode and start coding. The world is waiting for *your* operating system.

Comment Because Google only cares about one brand... (Score 1) 366

by Petronius on Friday April 05, 2013 @02:49PM (#43371919) Attached to: The 'Linux Inside' Stigma

its own. Nothing to do with the 'Linux' brand, whatsoever.

Comment Hmmm... already exists (Score 0) 214

by Petronius on Saturday March 31, 2012 @01:06PM (#39535423) Attached to: The Phantoms of Google+

it's called a Facebook account. Wake up, Google!

Comment Time Machine (Score 1) 251

by Petronius on Monday September 12, 2011 @12:37PM (#37378458) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Network Backup Solution Out of the Box?

"it just works".

Comment people wonder why Apple is winning... (Score 1) 951

by Petronius on Monday August 29, 2011 @08:38PM (#37249142) Attached to: Microsoft 'Ribbonizes' Windows 8 File Manager

That's where Microsoft is spending all their energy these days? The ribbon? I'm surprised Steve Ballmer is still employed.

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