Comment Pika-chuuuu! (Score 1) 44
The drone knows where it is at all times, because it knows where Pikachu isn't.
Comment Sounds Familiar... (Score -1, Offtopic) 64
Same thing happened with every single member of Trump's cabinet.
Comment Blurst of Times (Score 1) 42
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.
Submission + - Stewart Cheifet, Computer Chronicles Host, Dead at 87 (goldsteinsfuneral.com)
Pibroch(CiH) writes: According to the obituary linked, Stewart Cheifet of Computer Chronicles fame has died. The obituary states he passed Dec 28, 2025.
Cheifet and Digital Research founder Gary Kildall hosted the public television show The Computer Chronicles starting in 1984, and Stewart continued to host the show well into the 1990s. He was well-known for his affable presence and adeptness at interviewing guests and finding out the straight dope about their products. He had recently undergone spinal surgery and had somewhat disappeared from public view after the death of his wife Peta in 2024.
Cheifet and Digital Research founder Gary Kildall hosted the public television show The Computer Chronicles starting in 1984, and Stewart continued to host the show well into the 1990s. He was well-known for his affable presence and adeptness at interviewing guests and finding out the straight dope about their products. He had recently undergone spinal surgery and had somewhat disappeared from public view after the death of his wife Peta in 2024.
Comment Re:Of course, Google blames the users. (Score 2) 11
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.
Comment It's come to this... (Score 4, Interesting) 57
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
It would be amusing if Microsoft wasn't doing so much infuriating crap with Windows.
Comment Re:Way ahead of you, bro. (Score 1) 13
Slashdot. Slashdot never changes.
Comment Unequivocally (Score 1) 191
Coming back from a 3-day weekend working in IT..... YES.
Comment Re:Bought a Mac, never had to look back (Score 2) 215
Yes, although you have to tell it you don't want an iCloud account. But it doesn't bug you again.
Comment Re: Interesting option... (Score 2) 99
You're going to have to make it more unattractive - releasing toxic compounds doesn't bother most people who still stan for fossil fuels.
Comment Re:Market Research (Score 3, Insightful) 42
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.
Comment A World Without Zinc (Score 3, Funny) 78
Come back zinc!! Come baaaaack!!!
Comment Re:Never turn an Apple product off (Score 1) 171
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.
Comment Re: Uh no (Score 1) 127
He's saying that slightly larger NiMH 2500mah batteries do not fit, not that regular AA batteries don't fit.
Comment Re:speed increase up to 2x (Score 2) 19
Likewise. My M1 Pro 16" is the best computer I've ever used. It has it's quirks, but for something basically representing the best of the first generation of M1-based desktop computing... it's pretty stellar. As long as you're not trying to game on it.
Also, fuck Parallels hard. Used it for awhile but I'd rather be able to buy it outright. Tired of subscription-based bullshit. VMWare Fusion works well enough, not nearly as fast, but it's not nearly as annoying.
