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.

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.

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.

On the flip side, you should be able to get a good deal on RX 6000 series cards considering that now we know that AMD has no real interest in supporting them long term.

Of course they're blaming AI for headcount cuts now... the "COVID excuse" ran out by mid 2021, and the "inflation excuse" became stale by 2024.

I guess that you could use the "tariff excuse", but then you risk offending Trump supporters. So... AI it is!

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.

Wow... This thing seems almost as obtrusive as that new smart toilet with a camera under the lid that analyzes your poo for health monitoring. Almost.

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.

It should make defeating your opponent easier, anyway. Just find out what LLM your opponent is using for their attack strategy, and ask it for advice on military deployment. Upgrade your defenses accordingly!

Apparently hard drives up to 10 years old as well. Doesn't really give me warm and fuzzy feelings about the reliability of my backups, knowing that they're being stored on spinning rust that's been running long past the end of the warranty period.

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.

Good luck. Health insurance companies won't pay for the drug, what makes you think that the government would?

Knowing Apple, it's because they want to make an even more expensive version of Apple TV later and they wanted to call that Apple TV+.

I guess that Apple TV++ was just one too many plus signs for their marketing team.

Hey now... it's not just teenage boys making dumb memes, it's people who ACT like teenage boys making dumb memes.

But, yeah, if you like video clips of Queen Elizabeth eating a bag of flaming hot Cheetos, you have a "wonderful" new source of content!

As someone who recently purchased a Meta Quest headset, I can confirm that most of Meta's VR content already feels like mass produced generic slop. I can't imagine that the content quality can drop much more than it already has.