paul_engr - Slashdot User

Comment This subject is ass (Score 1) 89

by paul_engr on Thursday February 26, 2026 @04:35AM (#66010914) Attached to: DVD Sales Decline Slows Sharply as Gen Z Discovers the Appeal of Physical Media

Awkward as fuck

Comment So? (Score 4, Insightful) 30

by paul_engr on Friday February 20, 2026 @08:32PM (#66002148) Attached to: Pinterest Is Drowning in a Sea of AI Slop and Auto-Moderation

Pinterest is ass

Comment Re: The solution... (Score 2) 101

by paul_engr on Tuesday February 17, 2026 @05:27PM (#65995278) Attached to: Blind Listening Test Finds Audiophiles Unable To Distinguish Copper Cable From a Banana or Wet Mud

Pennies were discontinued... Conspiracy?!!?!

Comment But oleato!?! (Score 1) 106

by paul_engr on Monday February 02, 2026 @04:13PM (#65965000) Attached to: Starbucks Bets on Robots To Brew a Turnaround in Customers

Oleato was supposed to save the brand. Wait no, that was dumb.

Comment I had a run-in the other day (Score 1) 54

by paul_engr on Friday January 30, 2026 @06:13PM (#65960064) Attached to: DuckDuckGo Users Vote Overwhelmingly Against AI Features

I use ddg and did a search and ai shit came up. It provided me with a simple "no, go away" option and it basically went "sorry, we'll not give you any more AI" ALL FUCKING AI BULLSHIT SHOULD BE LIKE THIS, if not just opt-in by default. (Hint: nobody would opt in)

Comment Re: Should all gas stations have an array of these (Score 1) 122

by paul_engr on Monday January 26, 2026 @09:36AM (#65949794) Attached to: Gasoline Out of Thin Air? It's a Reality!

You're not going to buy $39 a gallon gas

Comment Re: Should all gas stations have an array of these (Score 1) 122

by paul_engr on Monday January 26, 2026 @09:35AM (#65949790) Attached to: Gasoline Out of Thin Air? It's a Reality!

Would you pay $39 for one gallon of gas? No. Shut up.

Comment Re: Smells fishy to me (Score 1) 146

by paul_engr on Sunday January 25, 2026 @01:58PM (#65948274) Attached to: The Case Against Small Modular Nuclear Reactors

If you're actually dealing with the waste stream, nope. It's not just the fuel, it's all of the other shit its.ionizing radiation makes into nuclear waste. The pipes, the lining, the shielding all gets ablated and irradiated by the spicy stuff and in turn becomes spicy stuff of its own.

Comment Re: When you forget to make backups for two years (Score 1) 132

by paul_engr on Saturday January 24, 2026 @12:13AM (#65946060) Attached to: When Two Years of Academic Work Vanished With a Single Click

They're not backups then, dippy

Comment Re: Imagine Amazon's enshittified version (Score 2) 73

by paul_engr on Sunday January 18, 2026 @06:53PM (#65933522) Attached to: Retailers Rush to Implement AI-Assisted Shopping and Orders

Who the fuck buys slotted screws on purpose. You are a ghoul. They were outlawed by the geneva convention

Comment Nada (Score 1) 73

by paul_engr on Sunday January 18, 2026 @06:52PM (#65933518) Attached to: Retailers Rush to Implement AI-Assisted Shopping and Orders

"hey stupid AI, buy me a 3D tv"

Comment No (Score 1) 37

by paul_engr on Sunday January 18, 2026 @06:51PM (#65933516) Attached to: Could We Provide Better Cellphone Service With Fewer, Bigger Satellites?

Bad idea, so cut that shit out

Comment I have a theory (Score 1) 75

by paul_engr on Sunday January 18, 2026 @06:46PM (#65933512) Attached to: Microsoft Forced to Issue Emergency Out-of-Band Windows Update

All in on AI

Comment So... (Score 2) 48

by paul_engr on Friday January 16, 2026 @01:10PM (#65929566) Attached to: AI Has Made Salesforce Engineers More Productive, So the Company Has Stopped Hiring Them, CEO Says

So they need humans to best sell AI that's supposed to sell stuff? Flawless logic!

Comment Two things (Score 1) 154

by paul_engr on Wednesday January 14, 2026 @06:40PM (#65925154) Attached to: Bezos's Vision of Rented Cloud PCs Looks Less Far-Fetched

1. You need a terminal to utilize said cloud infrastructure and the terminal is a fucking computer. 2. Fuck jeff bezos.

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