Comment Missing 7th ball (Score 1) 19

by ben_kelley on Wednesday July 08, 2026 @08:22PM (#66229130) Attached to: Mysterious Spheres Found In Australia Are Likely Space Debris

Find it, and the ring will be complete! Australia's global dominance is at hand!

Comment Re:I knew it! (Score 1) 86

by ben_kelley on Wednesday July 08, 2026 @08:17PM (#66229126) Attached to: Windows Drops Under 60% in Global Desktop OS Share

Upvote parent.

Comment Re:RSS is Main source of news (Score 1) 181

by ben_kelley on Thursday August 07, 2025 @07:48PM (#65574102) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Who's Still Using an RSS Reader?

I found this story from Feedly.

Comment Re:Birds aren't real? (Score 1) 109

by ben_kelley on Saturday September 07, 2024 @03:09AM (#64769898) Attached to: Electrocuted Birds Are Bursting Into Flames and Starting Wildfires

Totally this.

Comment Re:What will replace it? (Score 1) 81

by ben_kelley on Tuesday November 01, 2022 @06:51PM (#63017035) Attached to: UK Regulator Ofcom Sounds Death Knell of the Fax Machine

I have had companies email me a form, ask me to print it, sign it, scan it, and email it back. The same perceived privacy and authenticity!

Comment War Of The Worlds (TV Series) (Score 1) 89

by ben_kelley on Thursday October 06, 2022 @06:51PM (#62945077) Attached to: Boston Dynamics Pledges Not To Weaponize Its Robots

Future humans will of course make enhancements to ... OK I won't spoil it for you. Be afraid. Be very afraid.

Comment This year will be the year of ... (Score 0) 91

by ben_kelley on Monday August 17, 2020 @12:33AM (#60408849) Attached to: Reviewer Calls Linux-based PinePhone 'the Most Interesting Smartphone I've Tried in Years'

Linux on the smart phone!

Comment Re:This is why I turn off "features" (Score 1) 344

by ben_kelley on Saturday April 25, 2020 @04:30AM (#59988470) Attached to: Microsoft Word Now Flags Double Spaces as Errors, Ending the Great Space Debate

ed is the standard text editor

Comment Re:Only if you let it (Score 1) 344

by ben_kelley on Saturday April 25, 2020 @04:29AM (#59988468) Attached to: Microsoft Word Now Flags Double Spaces as Errors, Ending the Great Space Debate

I'm glad someone pointed this out.  

Comment But what about... (Score 1) 104

by ben_kelley on Sunday February 16, 2020 @08:21PM (#59734270) Attached to: Dark Mode vs. Light Mode: Which Is Better?

Sure, you did a study or something, but what about the fact that I know this guy, and he prefers dark mode?

Surely your entire study is wrong.

Comment Re:Translation: We built it wrong... (Score 1) 74

by ben_kelley on Wednesday January 15, 2020 @12:37PM (#59623246) Attached to: Twitter Will 'Probably' Never Offer the Option To Edit Tweets, Says CEO Jack Dorsey

Or alternatively: We built it right. The haters are wrong.

Comment Dark Mode (Score 1) 137

by ben_kelley on Tuesday December 24, 2019 @12:49AM (#59552762) Attached to: The Human Brain Evolved When Carbon Dioxide Was Lower

I heard that using dark mode reduces the amount of CO2 as well.

Comment To Celebrate the Year of Linux on the Desktop! (Score 1) 52

by ben_kelley on Thursday December 12, 2019 @08:25PM (#59514524) Attached to: Microsoft Reveals New Windows Logo, Office Icons

I bet you never thought it would be because of WSL!

Comment Re:Use in high schools (Score 1) 217

by ben_kelley on Wednesday November 13, 2019 @06:17PM (#59411506) Attached to: Apple's Phil Schiller Takes Shots at Chromebooks, Says They're 'Not Going To Succeed'

And after you have saved it, cross compile, strip the binary, link it with the boot loader, jumper to your board and re-flash it. One student said "Are these boards 3.3V? We only have 5V jumper harnesses at this school." Everything was USB for these kids!

Comment Buy a bigger drive (Score 1) 120

by ben_kelley on Sunday November 10, 2019 @06:05PM (#59400678) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Are There Storage Devices With Hardware Compression Built In?

Even SSD is cheap. Don't use hardware compression, just buy a bigger drive. Compression reduces your MTBF. If you want to compress to increase your IO throughput, do it in the CPU.

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