newsflash: DVD's WILL fail at some point too...

If the data is truly valuable to you, you will have multiple copies, and you will TEST the backups to ensure they are working

Today's "games" don't try to reward you in that classic sense anymore.

this still happens today. you have people competing to "platinum" a game and get all of their trophies. exactly the same thing.

if you prefer percentages, big open world games do the same. i recall working very hard to get 100% with gta 5 and rdr 1, the only 2 games i have ever gotten 100%

pihole doesn't block ads directly, it simply blocks from resolving some dns hostnames that are known to serve ads, which is not how adblockers work.

pihole on its own will block barely 10% of what UBO blocks, and that comes from someone that has over 800k hosts on pihole lists

> With climate change already making everything hotter, adding an hour of daylight to every day will just make things hotter still! I know my lawn will never make it through all that extra daylight.

LMAO i have never laughed so hard at a comment before left on this forum.

a timezone change does not ADD (or remove) an hour of daylight. it's the same planet, it will spin the same every day, and thus the same amount of light LOL.your lawn won't know any difference!

why not use turbotax online?

it's great that apple is offering a laptop for less than $999 now, but i don't think this is disruptive to the PC industry.

plenty of decent windows laptops for 400-500 and with even more RAM to boot. no mom is going to switch from windows to mac and have to relearn everything (and figure our a big chunk of their current apps are not available)

We don't need it, we don't want it

yes you do, yes you want it, otherwise why did you agree to use it?

i have never used claude but i have a bit more respect for the company now

prime is for free shipping and nothing else. no one has prime for the basic music catalog nor prime video

slashdot doesn't like using tags and after decades there isn't still an edit button. sigh

Back then we had 2. for stable releases, 2. for unstable, and big features would lead to a new 2.x version.

maybe we can argue that due to maturity there aren't really big changes any longer though

genAI is new so the recession comparison is not relevant.

jobs are and will be replaced further by AI. no one knows how bad is it going to get though. amazon stock is nearly 20% down ytd and we are still in february

and here i am hating on my toyota dash because the hvac buttons are a mess, no free maps, android auto volume cannot be independently controlled from music. at least i have them, plus heated seat button and a volume physical switch/turn on/off radio, and can even move to next/prior station via wheel buttons.

i guess i could be doing a lot worse

not even yuka tells me this, which is the most complete app i have found

especially if they are counting google searches as gemini searches

prime video aggregates some content sure but offers little to no benefit otherwise

same as bundling saves you money, i would be able to aggregate multiple services into one and save money.

before netflix started out, all shows were available on cable, and you could bundle most channels and pay a flat fee which usually was in the low hundreds. now with all of the multiple streaming networks, adding all of them will cost you around the same money, especially after each one of them have raised their prices so much with the excuse that they are adding new content