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Comment Not really but... (Score 1) 88

... I really liked the Lenovo Duet which is a tablet with a keyboard cover running ChromeOS. You can run Android apps on that but still have a decent tablet experience, and a desktop experience when you attach the cover. But Android on ChromeOS is a super kludge and doesn't even run properly for a lot of apps.

Google shouldn't have even bothered with ChromeOS and instead focussed on making Android tablet & desktop e.g. resizable windows, printers, proper mouse & keyboard support as an alternative or addition to touchscreen, desktop aware versions of apps etc.). But they didn't. While there are Android tablets and some aren't bad to use, they all seem to use some half assed proprietary way of supporting tablet / desktop modes that isn't standard and none of the apps on the store bother to support it.

Comment Re: YAAF (Score 1) 195

The font is a deliberate decision whether it's a bot or not, on which I have no firm opinion. A variety of accounts (how many different people are involved is anyone's guess) have chosen to set their output in monospace over the years here. I think of them like hipsters. Monospace is inferior for the majority of tasks (except arguably for programming, and for a few data processing tasks where the data is naturally columnar when represented with fixed character width) so they're making a decision to make you read their thoughts in an inferior fashion. You could of course override fixed width text but my recollection is that Slashdot uses the classic HTML for this purpose and not something you could conveniently override without affecting other text that you might not want to make monospace. However, I haven't looked at the CSS recently so you might have options there.

I handle it by simply not reading anything they write. As a speed reader I unfortunately sometimes read parts of their comments by accident, but otherwise I choose not to consume any of it. They want to make it harder to read? Fine, in that case I'll pass.

Comment Re: Exported deflation (Score 1) 195

they could easily retool to deliver for another market while selling the existing inventory slowly to domestic buyers.

Domestic buyers have to have money, so they have to have jobs, etc etc. They have official unemployment over 5% and among employable youth it's over 13%. Cars which sit degrade. This is more true for ICEVs but it's still true for EVs. And actually it's more true for EVs if they aren't kept charged, but I was assuming basic maintenance (washes, waxes, fluid changes, battery charging) being done in both cases to be generous.

Comment Re:ACs are shit (Score 1) 111

I think the better request would be to turn back on the ability to register an account first and foremost, then maybe the ability to post anonymously.

I agree that those two things should happen at the same time. But I stand by the vast majority of AC comments being trolling or worse (e.g. uncreative trolling) and the "feature" being a huge detriment to the quality of Slashdot.

Comment Re:Not high end (Score 1) 81

So how many people do you know who have 2.5 Gb at home?

I don't know many people these days, so I'm the wrong guy to ask. However, it's super common for people with fiber to have 2.5GbE to the routermodem. I also live in a BFE county that's just now getting fiber to ONE city, so even if I knew a lot of people, I'd still be the wrong person to ask. But I'm also not representative in general, so again, wrong person to ask.

Comment *some* games (Score 3, Informative) 81

Linux currently plays Windows games better than Windows in side-by-side tests.

I have experienced this myself, but I have also experienced the reverse many times. There are also many games that won't run on Linux at all. Most of these have Windows kernel DRM, so I wouldn't buy them anyway myself, but I'm not the whole market.

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