blahbooboo - Slashdot User

Comment Priced themselves out of the market (Score 1) 100

by blahbooboo on Sunday January 21, 2024 @11:25AM (#64176865) Attached to: Could Apostrophy OS Be the Future of Cellphone Privacy?

$15/month never ending, is way too much. Windows charges a one time fee and support lasts for many years. That would be a better approach rather than a subscription that costs more in a year than a single Windows license.

Comment Re:Sorry Plex, I don't need you ! (Score 1) 22

by blahbooboo on Saturday January 20, 2024 @12:06PM (#64175087) Attached to: Plex To Launch a Store For Movies and TV Shows

Plex as a place to watch ad-supported content and buy/rent movies/shows ! No thanks, as I can stream for FREE any movie/show I want ad free !! WHY would I want to pay for ads ???

No judgement, but because some people don't want to steal content? And Plex isn't proposing to pay for ad based content streams, it's more akin to Crackle et al.

Comment Customer support chat bots still suck (Score 1) 48

by blahbooboo on Thursday January 18, 2024 @12:39PM (#64170033) Attached to: Microsoft's Bing Market Share Barely Budged With ChatGPT Add-On

Recently, I have tried the now forced customer chat bots. They still suck even with LLM. Now my question starts with , talk to representative. Thanks to LLM chat bots it now takes multiple requests to get to a human.

Comment Business fails when you choose to end it.. (Score 3, Insightful) 11

by blahbooboo on Wednesday January 17, 2024 @03:19PM (#64167843) Attached to: Verizon Writes Off $5.8 Billion From Enterprise as Sales Decline

Verizon refuses to maintain existing or install new copper telephone lines. Additionally, Verizon massively raising prices on their POTs and VOIP telephone service (often $80+/month). They've been working hard to exit the non-wireless sector.

Comment Re:Wayland is a display protocol, correct? (Score 1) 71

by blahbooboo on Sunday January 14, 2024 @03:53PM (#64158273) Attached to: Linux Mint 21.3: Its First Official Release with Wayland Support

I had no idea either what is Wayland. Took reviewing a few of announcement news articles to find one that says what it is etc. No wonder linux for the desktop has issues for non-technical users

Comment $57 Million exit package! (Score 4, Insightful) 43

by blahbooboo on Thursday January 11, 2024 @11:51PM (#64151819) Attached to: eBay To Pay $3 Million Penalty For Employees Sending Live Cockroaches, Fetal Pig To Bloggers

eBay CEO Wenig given $57 million in his eBay exit package. Sounds like justice was not done...

Comment Astounding (Score 1) 58

by blahbooboo on Wednesday January 10, 2024 @08:44PM (#64148367) Attached to: SEC Approves 11 Spot Bitcoin ETFs

How something that has no use is worth this much is astounding. I remember when people were buying bitcoin around $8k and thinking they're nuts, now at $42k i still think it's nuts to invest in it. It is effectively a pozi scheme, continually hoping someone else is willing to pay more than what you paid.

Comment Too Many Chiefs and not enough indians? (Score 1) 75

by blahbooboo on Tuesday January 09, 2024 @10:01PM (#64145737) Attached to: Amazon's Twitch To Cut 500 Employees, About 35% of Staff

Astounding how every job is now a "chief"? Title inflation is insane in the workforce now.

Comment Re:Apple is a private company .. (Score 0) 119

by blahbooboo on Friday January 05, 2024 @08:36PM (#64135397) Attached to: US Moves Closer To Filing Sweeping Antitrust Case Against Apple

Microsoft does NOT do the same thing.

Most of Microsoft's flagship products, such as Office, Teams, Visual Studio Code, and .NET, run on Apple and Linux OSes. Software vendors are given full access to the capabilities of Windows hardware. Microsoft does not block other developers from integrating with its messaging platform. Apps on Windows can use whatever payment processor they want, without paying a "commission" to Microsoft.

Microsoft has had its own clashes with antitrust regulators. But they do NOT "do the same things" that Apple is doing.

Don't forget how Microsoft lets us play Halo games on the Sony playstation, and sony lets us play Uncharted games on my Xbox! Oh wait...

Comment Prime Video has spent huge amounts (Score 4, Interesting) 227

by blahbooboo on Tuesday December 26, 2023 @10:20PM (#64107975) Attached to: Amazon Prime Video Will Start Showing Ads on January 29

This is partly due to a lot of very expensive shows Amazon video has purchased. The mediocre LOTR rings of power cost them billions and has gotten mediocre at best reception. Thus the new fee to see their limited and expensive content with ads... https://screenrant.com/lotr-ri...

Comment Maybe the AI will move the task bar/ (Score 1) 69

by blahbooboo on Thursday December 07, 2023 @11:39AM (#64063593) Attached to: Microsoft Readies 'Groundbreaking' AI-focused Windows Release

Perhaps the all knowing AI will allow us to once again move the task bar to the side?

Comment Re:Is this zero day or patched? (Score 2, Funny) 70

by blahbooboo on Friday November 10, 2023 @03:04PM (#63996223) Attached to: How SIM Swappers Straight-Up Rob T-Mobile Stores

Thanks, TOA gave me a headache and I TLDR'd it

It still begs the question, why did they even create the situation in the first place?

You must be new to T-Mobile's security approach of wait for bad things to happen before implementing basic security policies/techniques.