Guys who stockpile gold don't even really stockpile gold. They own a little record on a website -- maybe a piece of paper -- from an investment bank that says they own gold, rather than having it in their possession. Additionally, even supposing possession, how long do you figure the average Slashdotter is going to be able to hang on to his gold when some warlord decides he wants it (supposing some societal collapse)? Goldbugs are all dumber than pigshit.

I don't think A&M is one either. A&M is a weird cult for guys who couldn't get into Texas (which is just sad) and then couldn't get into the Branch Davidians.

I think we've found the median Slashdot user with you, but it presumably keeps you lot off the Gamergate boards, so it's a public service.

Meanwhile Google is still wondering what an update is because, like all Google things, they lost interest in Android about 5 minutes after releasing it.

By the time FB gets there, it'll be irrelevant. Also: That's...not what happened with Jobs.

The Company Formerly Known As Facebook deserves to die and Zuckerberg should continue pouring money into this trash in service to the suicidal mission. The "metaverse" was just the latest iteration of the Valley having no new ideas but searching desperately for something, because nothing interesting or innovative has happened there since the damned iPhone other than Newsom telling that colony of incels they had to allow some damned houses to be built. The metaverse is dumb, "self-driving" cars won't ever work at scale and are dumb, "AI" is largely a fantasy of Stanford grifters, and so on. Just ungodly sums of money for ideas which are basically just the Juicero, except at least the Juicero was a delivered product. Engineers need to learn to stay in their lane. Go play Duke Nukem on your Beowulf clusters.

(This has been another edition of “Simple Answers to Simple Questions”.)

I dual boot Fedora and TabWorks on a Beowulf cluster like a normal person. My Firefox with 86 tabs won’t be interrupted.

This is Apple and Slashdot. Half the knobs here were impressed with Intel’s new desktop chips barely getting past AMD and the M1 Max while needing the Colorado River to cool the fucking things.

Honestly sounds like s/he is a parody of IT people on this website.

More space than a Nomad and has WiFi now, but: No compatibility with TabWorks or WordPerfect 2.3, so my definitely-generalizable shop is out. It’s a real shame, because they seem neat.

Apple doesn’t even kind of need Tesla. Tesla is so far below Apple it might as well be Radio Shack. Tesla isn’t a titan. It’s a sitting duck. A decade from now, Apple will still be chugging along making the stuff it currently makes with iterative improvements. Maybe a couple new things too. Tesla, at best, will be a battery division of one of the companies that know how to actually make cars.

“Local Pop Warner Team Requests Merger with New England Patriots, Coach Demands to Replace Belichick”

Certainly plenty here with clap like a bunch of baby seals with TBIs — and I definitely agree: It’s high time Amazon hired a moron software engineer with Dunning-Kruger to handle a pointless and nonsensical thing. Doing so for $50k and no bathroom breaks will be tricky, but I have faith in Bezos.

(extremely smooth-brained Slashdot engineer chud voice) Unacceptable. I need to support 2700 desktops running Tabworks and my team has 14 additional with [whichever shitty Linux people use now for no fucking reason]. Normal humans, of which I am definitely one, have these needs too, so I predict failure. More space than a Nomad but still lame.