Make sure the factor in the added tariff costs of that Lambo in the US while you're doing those climate change calculations, as they're about to cost 25% more than they did a month ago.

In particular, I don't want my household appliances to have built in obsolescence when Samsung decides to stop offering software updates for these models 3 or 4 years from now. If that doesn't force you to upgrade, they'll stop offering security updates 2 or 3 years after that and you'll either need to disable Wi-Fi on the device or risk hosting a Russian botnet from your kitchen.

Also, if it's like any other Samsung "smart" product I've ever used, it will develop weird control bugs and start randomly failing to connect to the SmartThings IoT network long before that. No thanks.

I'd imagine that most of the remaining X/Twitter users are hype beasts who have 50 sock puppet accounts each to promote their own content.

Whatever number of "active users" Elon is touting for X right now is a gross fabrication.

Nah... this is Slashdot we're talking about. They'll keep the icon for at least another 15 years, when even the old timers are struggling to remember the cultural relevancy of that picture.

I'd argue that for smartphones, the "recycle it after 2 or 3 years" philosophy is already firmly entrenched in consumer psyche and has been for the past 8-10 years or so. For things like laptops, it's probably more like 3 to 5 years.

I'd imagine that both Walmart and Amazon are both being impacted by the increased tariffs in China. Suddenly, half of the cheap plastic crap that they sell costs 10% more, and they're going to need to find new suppliers for much of their house branded products.

That said, Amazon still has the cloud hosting business help shore up their growth prospects for this year.

The laser projection "screen" was kind of a cool piece of technology. I'd imagine that some indie game developer could have come up with a really cool use case for that, but now that HP owns the patents it would probably be too expensive to develop into a real product.

I don't think that people being forced to return to a city they don't want to visit is really going to spur much economic revival. I'd imagine that many people will avoid going to the major corporate owned restaurants out of spite, knowing that they probably lobbied Bezos and Jassy to force them to return to the office.

Well... considering that it's YouTube, you're probably going to have to watch about an hour of ads spaced out 8 minutes apart from each other to finish watching your two hour movie.

Just because it's "free", it doesn't mean that viewing experience is going to be enjoyable.

I'll bet that their entire Quantum Computing project ends up in the Google Graveyard before then.

If they can't use it to sell ads or subscriptions, there is no long term interest at Google.

Silly Slashdot poster, how would Meta make any money off of this plan? Cheap, open, and no user tracking? What do you think this is... Linux?

Yeah, I tried the Remote Desktop experiences on the Meta Quest 3S headset, and found them highly lacking. The screen resolution just isn't good enough yet. I'd imagine that the $3,500 Apple VR headset is much better... or at least it should be at that price point.

Well... you have Beat Saber and Half Life: Alyx, and... OK, that's about it right now. Those are the only two "blockbuster" VR games at the moment. Kinda pathetic considering the money that's been invested in the platform.