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Comment Re:why is this in my feed (Score 1) 129

Well... there are plenty of Slashdot users here who would pretend that they have the skills to develop their own fork of Android to suit their needs. Far less that could actually pull it off, and I'd imagine that their are a few. Sadly, when they do pull it off and it becomes popular, they'll probably report about on some paywalled site like The Verge so most people here can't read about it.

Comment Re:Somehow I'm not feeling it (Score 3, Interesting) 44

Yeah, I dropped YouTube TV about a week ago and went with DirectTV Stream instead. Google seems to be playing hardball with all of their content suppliers, and I've been dealing with intermittent channel outages from the various networks because of it.

None of that savings is ending up in my pocket, though, as their prices have gone from $45 a month to $85 a month over the past 18 months.

Comment Re:Or it could just be modern TV is crap (Score 1) 59

It doesn't help that any of the quality shows still worth watching only have 8 to 12 episode "seasons" now, and they're all spread out over 6 different premium streaming services.

So, unless you have $100 a month to blow on this "premium" content, you're probably just going to watch YouTube and TikTok instead.

Comment Re:AI (Score 2) 151

It was, but I'd imagine that the senior tech workers are busy cleaning up the vibe coded AI slop that the junior tech workers are "writing".

They got more "productive" in terms of raw output, but the quality plummeted and now the QA and tech support teams are being impacted by it. Assuming that your company even has a QA department, anyway. Testing raw code in production that had nothing more than automated unit smoke testing done on it as part of an A-B deployment seems to be more popular now.

Comment Re:Are those solid state drives? (Score 0) 23

Hey... I'm just saying that if the low cost bargain basement data center you picked for your backups had a sudden massive power failure, I wouldn't want to find out that my data was stored on a bunch of old Seagate drives that they shucked from consumer grade NAS units back in 2016. There is a fair chance that a third of them aren't going to power back up properly, and your entire storage array just went poof. No amount of hot spares and RAID is going to save you from failure rates that high.

Comment Re: Excellent (Score 2) 123

Yeah... is it just me, or does the new Magsafe connector on your Macbook go unused?

Now that most of my stuff charges via USB-C, I have zero interest in using yet another cable type in my charge cable collection. Just standardize on USB-C and be done with it.

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