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Comment Enshittification (Score 1) 3

As a longtime reader, I remember their heyday 20 years ago when they had all kind of regular columns, in-depth analysis, correspondents embedding themselves in scenes and at shows.

Slowly the content began to get crappier in various ways, until about a year ago Conde Nast fired everyone but a couple of reviewers. And so the site only publishes a handful of reviews a week, and all the rest of the content is reposts from newswire-type sources and TMZ.

Now it seems they've just given up on producing content in general, hoping they can farm out the missing content to social-media types to create for free. It can never, ever, ever match what was lost. It's just going to be another YouTube comments section.

Comment Re:guess how far that excuse gets you or me (Score 1) 38

I took a class on driving laws in my state. It was a few years ago, but I don't think the laws have changed since then. If so, everyone is still following the old law, except in this one instance.

I'm willing to believe some out-of-state transplants who don't know the law in Texas were the first to unknowingly break it, then everyone else who does know the law but recognizes it's ridiculous followed them.

Doesn't matter what kind of lanes are between them, or even if they are two different road surfaces separated by a median.

Comment Re:Easiest way to help? (Score 1) 48

Some of us recognize that the idiots occasionally need to be herded and coaxed into doing the right thing, not for their sake, but for ours having to inhabit the same world as them. This same impetus is behind, for example, the designation and punishment of crime. "Lack of self control" is neither a license, nor an excuse.

Anyway, the dope man has you so squarely by the balls that you're lashing out at the mere suggestion you, or anyone, might need some help.

Comment Been considering VR (Score 1) 9

Been considering VR for gaming, it seems like an interesting toy. I saw the pawn shop had a Quest 3 for $200 this weekend. Left it on the shelf because I remember the "requires a Facebook account" thing, although apparently that requirement has been axed now.

What would these other headsets give me above a Quest 3 for gaming? Not really interested in cameras, apps, or an integrated OS. I'd want something as lightweight as possible - physically and conceptually. If it's not strictly about i/o, I'd rather not have it. I may be willing to put up with it - not for $1,800 though.

Comment Re:What am I getting for $5K? (Score 1) 98

Hell my first thought was "SMART BED....is this really a thing?"

I had to double check to make sure it wasn't April 1st.

Seriously, WTF would anyone need a bed hooked to the fucking internet?!?!?

The same people who use smart watches to keep track of steps, sleep, and other fitness indicators. Beds that adjust temperature and other factors, and analyze sleep patterns and quality, can be very useful and valuable.

The problem / silliness isn't that the bed is "smart". The bullshit factor in this proposition is that those useful features and functions aren't local to the bed - they're in the hands of the gatekeepers at the other end of an internet connection. Rule Number One: if a feature or function doesn't inherently require an internet connection, then it mustn't rely upon such a connection.

Comment Re:What am I getting for $5K? (Score 1) 98

A subscription for temp controls might be reasonable if you're not already paying a ridiculous price for the product. If you're paying $5K for a mattress, it better be feature complete.

I'm pretty sure that it IS feature complete. It seems unlikely that the Web-based controls and capabilities are NOT among the advertised features. Too bad for people who didn't grasp the implications of "Web-based". Perhaps now they finally have a fucking clue.

I think even the folks who signed on for Alexa understand that problems with Web infrastructure will cause the nosy bitch to malfunction or behave strangely. Why in hell would anyone imagine that their Amazon-controlled bed wouldn't be subject to the same kind of failure?

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