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Comment Re:What? (Score 1) 50

Download a Meta AI on my PC so it can do what?

Scheduling and file management — apparently, kids these days need a heavy AI box for basic computing tasks we've been doing for over half a century. I keep seeing quite a lot of "AI solutions" to other basic automation tasks, probably because the typical Windows/Mac user has no idea how to automate things beyond interactive clicking.

Comment Re:This is going to backfire big time (Score 2) 148

Precisely. I've stopped counting the number of times I contacted customer support, started tby mentioning that I already read the FAQ and, no, my case isn't one of those. Whatever. They copy-paste a FAQ answer, often closing the issue as SOLVED at the same time. Since chatbots, it's even worse, and typing "I wanna talk to a customer support person" does't lead to results because... oh crap, another outsourced idiot copy-pasting FAQ answers and calling it a day. The whole idea that someone only calls or files a support ticket as a last resort, because the FAQ didn't tell them what they need to know, doesn't seem to register.

Comment Re:Netcraft Confirms (Score 1) 89

It took me under 3 minutes to get my Canon 702 working perfectly on Arch, while the wife's MacBook took 10x more and was a pain in the ass.

This is particularly noteworthy given that CUPS was developed by Apple. But it's still not surprising how a big company can screw things up compared to "hobby" projects.

Printing is a good example how Linux works well with standards. Traditionally, if the printer understood Postscript, you wouldn't need much of a printer driver. Meanwhile, Windows users were instructed to download a very specific driver for that printer model, even if it would just pass PS through.

Comment Re:Criminal activity in the crapto space. Who care (Score 1) 46

Their value has already peaked. Get out now while they still have some value.

Slashdot introduced me to bitcoin in 2010 and, as a result, I turned a few hundred dollars into a few hundred thousands.

Umm.. Unlikely. $100 worth of bitcoin in 2010 (0.39) would be worth over $15M today. It would have been over $30M last October. Your claim of "a few hundred" multiplies that by some unknown amount. If you actually had $90M in bitcoin last year you wouldn't be bragging about it here.

It looks like the GP did exactly as you suggested: he got out early while he was sure the coin still had some value. Maybe he needed the money for something at the time — something he values more than money. I personally sold a considerable amount of bitcoin in the mid 2010s to buy my own apartment. I know I could have made more money by holding it, but that would have meant renting someone else's apartment, which means higher running costs and less control over my life. So I remain quite happy with this decision, even if I'm not filthy rich.

Comment Re:Well yeah (Score 1) 143

In the US, you can get about 1kw/hr on a standard plug w/o burning the breaker too hard. I've had EVs since 2011 and they've all been about 3-4miles/kw.

In Europe, we use kW for power and kWh for energy, so we count things like km per kWh.

Seriously, though, it looks like your standard outlets are fused for 10 A current, which is what we use here too. But we use double the voltage, thus doubling the power to about 2.3 kW.

Comment Re:Learning another language is fun, too. (Score 1) 100

+1 for "Language x isn't just for country x". In my favourite example, I spent a week in Hungary where nobody spoke English (this was a smaller town in the 1990s) but everyone knew German. So my rarely used knowledge of German came in handy, probably more than ever since. It meant I could hang out with the local teens in my off days, instead of hanging on to our guide for translation.

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