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

imagine kodi or whatever, but legal. it shows you all available shows and movies, and interacts with whatever streaming network it is on. has lots of plans available, including a la carte and bundle the entire catalog of multiple streaming providers. all within a single app or website.

it is not convenient having to juggle within all multiple streaming apps / sites. i would pay for this convenience

this feels like a facebook newsfeed. old reddit cloned old digg. i can't stand new reddit, so i will continue to use old reddit while it still exists

who is going to connect to a plex server outside of the home, and over public internet?

install tailscale to bypass this, or switch to jellyfin (though i have to admit i prefer the plex player UI)

if they can generate most of their electricity by wind, why is their electricity so expensive? you would think with so many energy sources, competition would be fierce and they would get cheaper energy

you are the one thinking it wrong. not everyone needs to deploy their vm under an elastic load balancer that automatically replaces their instances on an autoscaling group if they go down, and on top of that, do immediate failover to a different DR region.

heck, not even AWS does that. there use cases for both. everyone that went down past monday didn't have all of what i mentioned above. why? it's not easy, quick and cheap to have all of that. there's room on the cloud for all use cases.