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Comment Oh dear God no (Score 1) 200

Am I the only one who thinks Slack is complete and utter garbage? I fucking hate it. (And all tools like it, including Cisco Teams and Microsoft Teams.) (And I think it's hysterical that *both* of those giants gave their Slack knock-off the same name.)

Comment Re:Please directly link ifixit (Score 1) 40

When helping each other work on their cars, one guy will invariably bring out the old joke, "I found the problem... it's a Ford." (Or Chevy, or Honda, or whatever.) The article struck me the same way. The headline says "Here's Why We Think Galaxy Folds Are Failing" and behind that is a giant picture of the phone with the SAMSUNG logo showing.

Comment Ill never stop pointing this out (Score 4, Informative) 77

(It only uses these recordings when itÃ(TM)s very sure itÃ(TM)s a spam call.)

If you're never going to fix the character encoding, fine. But for fuck's sake, "editors", preview the stories before posting. This shit is embarrassing. It's not like this isn't a known issue here.

The problem isn't that it makes you look like amateurs. The problem is it makes you look like you don't give a shit.

Comment Sloppy writing (Score 4, Interesting) 160

The headline says "More people bought physical CDs and vinyl than songs on iTunes" but the numbers given are "total download sales in 2018 [were] a little more than $1 billion", "Purchases of full album downloads likewise fell, by 25%", and finally "Sales of physical media... totaled $1.15 billion".

So are we talking about number of people, as said in the headline, or song sales, or album sales, or money?

I clicked through to the report and the most shocking thing to me was that people spent $25 million on ringtones and ringbacks in 2018.

As far as I can tell, the numbers don't account for any second-hand sales of physical media at all, which may not be a thriving market but also isn't trivial, at least in terms of unit sales. Money-wise, it's probably pretty low, due to high supply and low demand resulting in low prices.

Regardless of what they counted or how, I'm pretty sure most artists are still getting fucked.

Comment I 3 Win95 (Score 2) 120

You know what's a really nice, responsive, fast OS? A clean install of Win95 on a Pentium 100 with 32 MB RAM. Add a few basic apps and it's still fine. Sadly, it gets worse over time, after a few months and after installing many apps. But a fresh install felt better than XP on a 1 GHz PIII. But my personal favorite for power, features, and stability was Windows 2000. All the good stuff from Win95/98, the stability of NT, and none of the gunk of XP. I used that for as long as it was viable. (Which is to say, about 5 years longer than anyone else did.)

I had Win95 on a Compaq 3060 and it was unusually stable for Windows. I used a batch file to log boots and uptime was typically a month or more. It was on 24/7 and I just darkened the screen when not in use.

Comment The ultimate dupe (Score 5, Funny) 166

"The drop in Bitcoin prices from around $6,500 throughout much of October to below $4,000 now has increasingly pushed margins further and further negative for just about every region except low-cost Chinese miners," the analysts said, offering the caveat that their cost estimates may be skewed to the high side due to spotty data and conservative efficiency assumptions. The cost figures exclude equipment. "The drop in Bitcoin prices from around $6,500 throughout much of October to below $4,000 now has increasingly pushed margins further and further negative for just about every region except low-cost Chinese miners," the analysts said, offering the caveat that their cost estimates may be skewed to the high side due to spotty data and conservative efficiency assumptions. The cost figures exclude equipment.

New Slashdot feature: rather than making readers wait a couple days for a dupe, dupes are now included in the initial entry.

Rather than making readers wait a couple days for a dupe, dupes are now included in the initial entry.

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