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Comment Re: Led lighting sucks (Score 1) 25

I got a board with RGB so I decided I'd try it out. It's USB-connected so I figured it would be decent. Nope it's total shit with no direct mode, good work ASRock. But by that time I had some LED peripherals so I bought a Nollie 8ch controller which was very cheap and... I like RGB. It's convenient to see how loaded my CPU and GPU are at a glance. Internal USB hubs are practically free now so connecting them is a breeze. The kids are all right.

Comment Re:If they're cutting jobs... (Score 0) 19

That was a failure, but the first failure was not recognizing it wasn't ready for a research project either. When they realized it was going to have to be heavy and bulky, they should have stopped and either iterated the design again, or smarter IMO, waited for tech to improve (or push it) and then done another design. OTOH Apple can afford to lose the money...

Comment Re: And they have a really important supporter (Score 1) 94

What code they are based on is irrelevant. Slashdot still has a very simple interface (I am using it right now, it is still the best interface) which is easy for bots to interface to using the DOM. Whether it's Perl or C# or Ada underneath makes no difference.

The real question, therefore, is why are we still being subjected to this cowardly anonymous bullcrap? This management has turned off AC posting before, and you could say they turned it back on only because post counts tanked, but have you seen post counts recently? It's now horribly rare to break 100.

Slashdot needs a major overhaul, and I don't mean of the code though that will of course have to change. I mean specifically that mod abuse and AC trolling are driving away every serious poster. My thanks to those of you who still remain, but most of you post less and less, not that I blame you. I presume you're here less, too.

Comment Re:Contactless credit card payments at Walmart (Score 1) 68

They want your name an credit card info for their mountain of data they harvest.

I hadn't even thought about this but now their resistance to enabling contactless or allowing other payment apps makes a lot more sense. Scumbags.

Walmart could pull a "Winco Foods" and not accept Credit Card payments at all.

I like WinCo and shop there when I can (also far enough away to be a special trip). The stores sometimes have a K-Mart feel to them (poor upkeep, minimal customer support, that kind of thing) but they are very often cheaper and carry less popular products, and their deli and bulk foods offer a lot of unique stuff. Produce is usually better than Walmart but less consistently good than Kroger (which sucks at everything else).

That said, I can't imagine Walmart dropping credit cards. Too many people have abandoned every other way to pay these days.

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