Not to crap all over your thought, but this requires hiring many, many more people, especially for larger retailers. Most companies are allergic to this and are actively going the opposite direction. I am super cynical but I don't see this happening anytime soon.

Sounds like when people thought businesses on the internet would work like the Metaverse, where you'd walk into a virtual store and buy crap with your avatar, except it is worse in every way than just physically going to a store and buying the crap you want.

I can only speculate that there is no useful innovation to be had anymore in the retail space. Convenience is already solved to the best of our abilities, so the only thing to do is find new and innovative ways to rip off the consumer and complicate the sales process. Society is on the last downward hill of the coaster, and we thought we'd have the rest of it built by now but a major section is missing between here and the boarding station...

The drone knows where it is at all times, because it knows where Pikachu isn't.

Same thing happened with every single member of Trump's cabinet.

AI is like someone heard the old chestnut about the monkeys and typewriters and replaced the monkeys with a Markhov chain and the typewriters with the environment.

And the whole point of downgrading the thermostat was so it can still be used as a smart thermostat... you know, the reason users paid for it in the first place.

Turning off the Wi-Fi defeats the purpose and this suggestion is intentionally dense.

They will literally *pay you* to use their browser.

It's extremely funny right at the moment, as Slashdot's sidebar that shows historical stories showed one from ... 2004, I want to say, that read "Microsoft says Firefox not a threat to IE" or something similar.

It would be amusing if Microsoft wasn't doing so much infuriating crap with Windows.

Slashdot. Slashdot never changes.

Coming back from a 3-day weekend working in IT..... YES.

Yes, although you have to tell it you don't want an iCloud account. But it doesn't bug you again.

You're going to have to make it more unattractive - releasing toxic compounds doesn't bother most people who still stan for fossil fuels.

There are people out there who use an iPad (or a Galaxy S Ultra Tab) as a daily driver. As few as you might think, but they do exist.

I like having an iPad Pro for those times when I use it, but I use my laptop for 95% of my computing. It's a nice-to-have, and I really only have one because my work allows me the opportunity.

Come back zinc!! Come baaaaack!!!

Apple Silicon machines (our district has hundreds of them deployed) are great because they *do* have pretty good uptime. But they develop weird quirks that a reboot does cure. 9/10 times if a teacher says something is acting up that isn't a crash or file corruption, and it's something I've never heard of, a reboot fixes it.