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Comment Re:How the heck do you cut 40% of your workforce (Score -1) 53

by bsmith0 on Thursday May 18, 2023 @01:52PM (#63533039) Attached to: BT To Cut Up To 55,000 Jobs By 2030 as Fibre and AI Arrive

Yes, fibre is significantly lower maintenance on the cable plant, lower calls to the call centre, reduced truck rolls, etc. But I think more, if not most, of the network engineers part is contracted workers to do the fibre network rollout.

Comment Re:Something from Microsoft that is broken? (Score -1) 51

by bsmith0 on Sunday January 15, 2023 @08:38PM (#63211410) Attached to: Linux Preparing To Disable Drivers For Microsoft's RNDIS Protocol

I know. It's Microsoft so it's a given it is broken by design.

Comment Re:Wait a sec (Score -1) 51

by bsmith0 on Sunday January 15, 2023 @08:35PM (#63211404) Attached to: Linux Preparing To Disable Drivers For Microsoft's RNDIS Protocol

When it's something from Microsoft it's broken by design, not surprising.

Comment Re:AMD is going to try to write software, lol (Score -1) 28

by bsmith0 on Tuesday January 03, 2023 @04:27PM (#63177682) Attached to: AMD Improving Linux Experience When Running New GPUs Without Proper Driver Support

Without drivers they do not work.

Comment Re:They can have it (Score -1) 61

by bsmith0 on Thursday December 29, 2022 @02:52AM (#63165394) Attached to: Toronto-Waterloo Tech Workforce Expected To Surpass Silicon Valley In 2023

Ya, that's not a thing.

Comment Re:AMD is going to try to write software, lol (Score -1) 28

by bsmith0 on Friday December 23, 2022 @10:24PM (#63154202) Attached to: AMD Improving Linux Experience When Running New GPUs Without Proper Driver Support

NVidia has no open source drivers to be better at. Keep trying.

Comment New feature? (Score 0) 30

by bsmith0 on Wednesday November 16, 2022 @09:49PM (#63057158) Attached to: Netflix Gives Account Holders the Ability To Kick Freeloaders

How is this even a new feature in 2022? It should have been supported a decade ago for a variety of scenarios that have nothing to do with the topic in the article, but it would overlap with that topic as well.

Comment Re:Why DNS? (Score 0) 101

by bsmith0 on Wednesday November 09, 2022 @09:11PM (#63040039) Attached to: Court Upholds Piracy Blocking Order Against Cloudflare's 1.1.1.1 DNS Resolver

They have these things that just came out called proxies. Completely brand new.

Comment Re:Why (Score 0, Insightful) 101

by bsmith0 on Wednesday November 09, 2022 @09:10PM (#63040037) Attached to: Court Upholds Piracy Blocking Order Against Cloudflare's 1.1.1.1 DNS Resolver

Americans, the dumbest people you will come across.

Comment Re:Pandemic Foibles (Score 0) 219

by bsmith0 on Tuesday October 25, 2022 @06:16PM (#62997939) Attached to: US Public's Trust in Science Shows Growing Partisan Gap

That is typical of useless Republicans.

Comment The path to Idiocracy (Score 0) 219

by bsmith0 on Tuesday October 25, 2022 @03:32PM (#62997525) Attached to: US Public's Trust in Science Shows Growing Partisan Gap

This is part of the path towards Idiocracy. We are heading there very quickly.

Comment Re:great! just what i need (Score 0) 21

by bsmith0 on Thursday October 20, 2022 @08:56PM (#62984543) Attached to: OpenBSD 7.2 Released

You might want to learn how to turn on your TV first.

Comment Re:same with Microsoft (Score 0) 38

by bsmith0 on Wednesday September 14, 2022 @08:43PM (#62883075) Attached to: Why is Intel's GPU Program Having Problems?

That has never been a thing. Microsoft's bad reputation is based on so the opposite of rock-solid software. It's never been a thing to say you're working for Microsoft and amazing your friends. Only the clueless friends.

Comment Re:If I were intel I'd emulate DX10 and 11 as well (Score 0) 45

by bsmith0 on Tuesday August 16, 2022 @12:30PM (#62794219) Attached to: Intel Drops DirectX 9 Support On Xe, Arc GPUs, Switches To DirectX 12 Emulation

Playing new software is fine and dandy, but the reality is that most people running modern applications that are GPU intensive are not going to be using Intel hardware. People that care are going to pony up for hardware from Nvidia or AMD. It's like you completely missed the whole point of why Intel is making Arc GPUs.

Comment Re:Neither option is letting M$ do any lifting at (Score 0) 45

by bsmith0 on Tuesday August 16, 2022 @12:27PM (#62794209) Attached to: Intel Drops DirectX 9 Support On Xe, Arc GPUs, Switches To DirectX 12 Emulation

That doesn't make any sense at all.

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