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Elon Musk is laying off even more Twitter workers Mostly focused on ad sales people this time, it looks like.

No idea, it seems that the EC is taking over control again after a few moments. Unfortunately, the only systems that I have to test with are Precision 7000 systems. Sometimes the BIOS version matters, Dell has "broken" the manual control solution that this app uses in later BIOS iterations on some systems. And since Dell's 11th gen Tiger Lake systems (and later) fans can't be controlled at all, this project has dropped down in priority for me.

You need to set to "Manual" mode and "EC control off" to manually control the fans. If it does not work, then it may not be supported on your system.

You need to install .NET 6 for this one. https://dotnet.microsoft.com/en-us/download/dotnet/thank-you/runtime-desktop-6.0.11-windows-x64-installer

Does this build work? https://1drv.ms/u/s!AsIwJHFk4EFdqKJP4MOlZA6NwrWAPg

Should be fine, unless you have a 2.5” SATA drive installed, then the larger battery will not fit.

Macrium Reflect is free and can do a drive clone. Sometimes, SSDs will come with a transfer tool that can clone a drive. (Samsung has a migration tool that you can download from their web site... I don't know about WD.)

Looks like he was serious about that poll! Elon Musk allows Donald Trump to return Twitter - https://www.npr.org/2022/11/19/1131351535/elon-musk-allows-donald-trump-back-on-twitter https://www.theverge.com/2022/11/19/23467280/donald-trump-twitter-back-elon-musk-poll (Sure enough, the account is unblocked and the timeline is visible again. Remains to seen if Trump will actually do anything with it. The follower count might have been reset? He has "only" one million.)

I have some apps that I know won’t work well in Wine. OneNote is a good example. (You can run it in Wine with some work, but syncing notebooks online is not possible.) There’s no comparable Linux product. I fully expect that if I were to switch, I’d still be running a Windows VM basically full-time.

So much for the "moderation council" made up of people with "widely diverse viewpoints". (Or does he think maybe the entire Twitter population qualifies to serve as the council?) The fun thing is, it's impossible to tell if his Twitter poll is a serious thing for him or a joke. 😕

Yeah, well, I have a big work project finishing up at the end of the year that's been consuming all of my time. I'm thinking about taking a week off and just spending it messing with Linux and see if I can make that feasible to switch to. 😛 (If I don't do something like that, I'll never have time to look into it.)

Yeah, it's the spectacle, combined with the fact that these other companies seem to be axing employees with the normal ebb and flow of business... while Twitter's cuts are coming from terrifically bad decision making. ————— Robin Wheeler, Twitter’s head of ad sales, seems to have left the company yet again, just over a week after Elon Musk reportedly had to convince her not to resign. https://www.theverge.com/2022/11/18/23467324/twitter-ad-sales-lead-robin-wheeler-reportedly-fired-salute I'd really like to see a real count of how many employees Twitter has now.

EMVCo has approved Precision 3480 and Precision 3581.

I think Twitter is too big to go away, but it could become something of a shell of its former self (think AOL, Yahoo!, MySpace, ...), if Elon doesn't manage to turn it around somehow. It wouldn't happen all at once, but over the course of the next few years as users get fed up with the turmoil and move to... I dunno, TikTok? He could probably find devs to work his crazy long hours for modest pay but I doubt he'll get very many good devs; anyone with chops would be able to pick up a more reasonable job without too much trouble. (Whenever we try to hire a new dev at work, it takes some time to find a good one, the market is very competitive.) Not sure how he's going to handle Twitter losing gobs and gobs of money, both from the interest payments on his debt and also the fact that the bulk of advertisers seem to have abandoned the platform. I guess bankruptcy and a sort of "reset" is probably in the cards. He's already mentioned that. I don't really care too much what happens to Twitter either way since I don't use it either, but this is just a fascinating situation to observe. 🙂 I used to have a much higher level of respect for Elon Musk. I've heard him talk about Tesla and battery technology and rockets and various things, and the guy is clearly very smart. Just somewhere in the past few years, his ego has gotten a bit out of control; he thinks that he knows better than everyone and "above the rules" to some degree, and it's starting to bite him. I wonder if there will be other consequences for Musk down the line. I mean, for example, he committed to a deal and then decided that it was a bad idea and spent months trying his darndest to get out of it, only to go through with it in the end when it became abundantly clear that he wasn't going to get his way in court. He drug the company that he was planning to acquire through the mud on the way there (not to mention what is happening to it now post-acquisition). Will anyone trust him if he says that he wants to buy another company?

Money. He offered a premium over the share price at the time. Investors would’ve been dumb not to take him up on it. Twitter forced him to go through with it because the people in charge wanted his money. (The share price fell considerably during that “turbulence”, but the price that Musk had to pay did not.) Shareholders don’t care what happens anymore because they are no longer investors. Musk bought them all out. He is hurting no one but himself at this point.

He did say that, but I wonder if he'd really be able to pass up the potential audience, especially given that Truth Social hasn't exactly taken off (and is mired with various issues), plus he is running for office again (despite mounting legal issues) and his Twitter presence was certainly part of what put him over the top in the 2016 election. (...But I think we should keep the thread focused on Twitter + Musk.)

Elon Musk starts revoking Twitter bans. https://www.theverge.com/2022/11/18/23466625/elon-musk-twitter-reinstatement-jordan-peterson-kathy-griffin-babylon-bee (A decision regarding Donald Trump "has not yet been made".)

Wait... The office isn't closed today after all? 😕 https://www.theverge.com/2022/11/18/23466220/if-you-still-work-at-twitter-and-you-can-code-head-to-the-hq-now

Yes, but you will likely need to replace the display cable in addition to the display panel.

NVIDIA graphics driver update; Dell is sharing NVIDIA driver version 517.51 for Precision 7X60 and 7X70. https://www.dell.com/support/home/en-us/drivers/driversdetails?driverid=NXCYN (From the list of GPUs supported, it "should" support GPUs all of the way back to Precision 7X10, but it hasn't been pushed out for those systems on their support pages yet.) This is the first release from the 515 branch by Dell. (NVIDIA already has a newer branch, 525, and you can find those drivers on their site directly.)

Honestly, it's going to take them a bit of time to figure out who is still working there and who is not. (Filling out a "Google Form" was how Musk had people indicate their intent to stay and consent to the increased hours.) Some days ago, Elon Musk has stopped permitting pushing code to production without jumping through approval hoops. I think that he is a bit paranoid about sabotage.

I love reading The Verge articles on this whole situation, there are developments nearly every day. It's quite the spectacle. I saw estimates from departing employees... The number of people who declined Musk's "extreme Twitter 2.0" offer could be higher than 75% of the remaining workforce. Couple that with 50% of the employees being axed a couple of weeks ago and you're looking at a company that has lost almost 90% of its employees in less than a month. Entire tech teams are now either gone or nearly so. There's no one to run certain key infrastructure. I feel bad for anyone who might be on an employment visa or something and can't quit. I haven't seen any mention that the demand for more hours worked came with an increase in pay. But declining came with three months severance. Software engineers won't have too much trouble finding work in that time. Elon does have some decent lofty ideas for what Twitter could be, but running a social media / eCommerce platform (as he would like it to be) isn't a lofty goal to inspire people to work their butt off like say, getting people to Mars might be. Twitter has within the last day or two started recruiting for new software engineers, but who in their right mind would want to work for this guy at this point? He's treated the existing employees like trash and clearly has no concept of work/life balance that most people would desire.

Just noticed this and wanted to clarify as well. Intel RST RAID arrays are defined entirely off of metadata stored on the drives. (They are not defined by anything saved in the BIOS/firmware.) You can have a RAID array, switch to AHCI mode, switch back to RAID mode, and have the RAID array still functional. You can't use the RAID array while the system is in AHCI mode (of course) but as long as you don't touch the drive data, the RAID will automatically be working again when you switch back to RAID mode. People have done this to do firmware updates on drives, which sometimes is not possible while RAID mode is on. Because of this, you can also move a RAID array to a different system that supports Intel RST. Just move all of the drives over and Intel RST will automatically recognize the array, no configuration required. When using Intel RST with a single drive not assigned to an array, there is nothing different about how the data is stored on the drive compared to using straight AHCI/NVMe mode. The disk structure and partition layout is exactly the same. You can switch back and forth freely and you will still be able to access the drive data without trouble. (Indeed, if you use Linux, you don't have to take any special steps to switch back and forth and have the system boot up fine.) The only issue causing "bricking" is that Windows really expects the disk controller for the primary drive to be the same, always. If you boot to AHCI when the system was set up for RAID, it will try to load the RAID driver and fail, causing an "inaccessible boot device" BSOD. Booting safe mode once, as the directions linked above show, works around this. Windows will notice that the disk controller is different and set up the appropriate driver. Also note — switching from RAID to AHCI is easily done, and if you do that, you can also switch back to RAID mode later if you like using the same process, since Windows already knows about the Intel RAID driver and can "find" it when you boot safe mode. However, if Windows was installed with AHCI/NVMe mode on, switching to RAID mode can't be done using the same process unless you take additional steps to preload the Intel RAID driver. (I've done this before as well. It takes some specific registry work.) Some of the "gotchas" presented by @MyPC8MyBrain are true for older dedicated RAID cards, but not with the "lite" software RAID implementation in the Dell Precision laptops.

Here they are (maybe eventually) allowing users to add seconds to the taskbar clock, addressing one of my major gripes about this OS. It might seem like a small thing, but I rely on this on a regular basis. https://www.neowin.net/news/windows-11-will-soon-let-you-enable-seconds-in-system-tray-clock/ (Still plan to wait for the next LTSC before considering a switch.) [Edit] Today's Insider build also includes the option to show seconds on the taskbar clock. https://blogs.windows.com/windows-insider/2022/11/18/announcing-windows-11-insider-preview-build-25247/

This is not true. It is software RAID, implemented in the driver. You can switch, I've done it many times, as have others. You don’t need to do any sort of image/recovery. I linked the directions above, follow the steps and you will be fine.