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    155 here. Basically buying CPUs outside the US is pointless! Stop will all the temptations, Satan! ;) (How is the performance vs Windoze? Which version of Proton(-GE) are you using?)
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    I wonder how they are planning to make those impersonations stop. Video verification, ID checks? The more data collected the better. Edit: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/elon-musk-alex-jones-twitter/ Ha, so now we know - there is a line! It runs somewhere around the topic of dead children, the justification being that Musk personally experienced the issue. Promising! All we need now is a couple of lifetimes to pass for him to hopefully gain a broader set of life experiences and perspectives.
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    Cue an absolute stampede of enthusiastic high-calibre candidates. https://candor.co/articles/tech-careers/what-is-it-like-working-at-tesla Tesla has an even high turnover rate than Amazon. “Staff [morale] is very low, job security is very low, the staff turnover is very high and the work environment is extremely volatile." “...he is a relentless micro-manager and singlehandedly derails production, reduces product quality, makes hundreds of people have to work much harder, and causes massive waste because he wants to see every little detail and change those details at literally the last minute,” the Glassdoor user said. “It’s grossly inefficient and is ruining the company bit by bit.” Tesla's benefits are pretty standard No kidding...
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    "Twitter no longer has a communications department to contact for comment." I guess people can tweet Musk directly. That's what CEO's are for. There's no such thing as a full plate, only softcore crybabies say otherwise... oh wait. BTW He is not getting his money's worth headcount-wise. A bit more and he could have grabbed AIG. 50K staff to fire there.
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    I don't think discussing Trump here makes sense. It's just too divisive and the chance of anyone actually deriving any new information or viewpoint from this is too low. I would appreciate though if we could control those adjectives. Folks on the right seem happy to throw them around, as if without a single worry about offending anyone. I guess that goes back to the OCEAN model CA used to get the individual elected. When one sees these kind of things, of course there is a primitive urge to respond in kind, but then one can think a few steps ahead and just see this makes no sense unless the idea is to try and annoy people. If someone's posts make it easy to infer such an intent then it's not discussion, it's trolling - and at the end of the day some sort of moderation should probably kick in, although I would rather it never had to. More broadly, either we learn to debate in a civil manner without personal attacks and adjectives, pointless statements of assumption regarding people's rationale etc., work hard to find a way to compromise and build bridges, or we remain divided and weak. You can't just wish the other half of the population away. There is no division allowed in China, 1.4B people effectively powering forward as one. Best of luck to us old democrats (as in "adherents of democracy").
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    I'm in a similar boat, however - taking a broader view - this kind of mess is really not welcome in the tech space. If you want to reorg, reorg, but don't be a new textbook definition of a jerk. Edit: a bit of old news, but apparently some people have been recalled with "accidental dismissal" being given as a reason. TBH I don't think I remember anything quite like this before. <facepalm> https://www.theregister.com/2022/11/07/twitter_recalls_staff/
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    I would clone the existing drive to the new and swap the drives, as there is no need to have two system partitions.
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    Yes, I ended up looking at the Qnap models, they have some around $300-400 as you said, but the white consumer variant seemed kind of flaky (according to a review), and 802.3ad bonding sounds like more trouble than it's worth in my case. Grabbed an unmanaged 2.5G TPLink for now, will upgrade to 10GbE if this feels like a significant bottleneck. The use case is mostly comms with the NAS at this point, which doesn't really have the I/O to support 5GbE or 10GbE (although a large, like 2x2TB SSD cache would probably improve things if badly needed).
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    I like how 'Twatter', as @Mr. Fox used to aptly call it not long ago, now immediately requires sign in - that should drive usage down nicely. I'm not signing in or allowing any cookies you greedy, goodbye. Reminded me of a prophetic song written 36 years ago (lyrics in the description should anyone need a little help :) Edit: Surprisingly, even Trump knows better than to get involved at this point lol
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    Sometimes these downsides take a while to develop, uncover or understand. Well, 'Elon' certainly isn't your buddy, and he also hadn't taken over any companies before (as far as I know, let me know which ones he did if I missed something). An interesting meme indeed... curious how his foray into politics will affect future Tesla sales.
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    The thesis that the net result of all this 'rebuilding' will be positive could prove very wrong. That's taking fairness of the platform as the measure of goodness, which is optimistic - for many people a hard shift left or right would be the preferable outcome. BTW an interesting video and a sobering caution against the escalating polarisation, the negative effects of which on the affected countries couldn't be clearer anyway. It's a bit long, but worth a watch: (Ray Dalio is one of the most famous investment managers) I mean that was a done deal at the time he completed the acquisition, if not well before that. I was also curious why they suspended Jordan Peterson. Well, an aggressive anti-trans post. So, should there be any line, or should absolutely any content be allowed?
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    Nice, somehow reminded me of this. Would fit the Twitter thread too ;)
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    If there is any justice in the world, they can also lose some business to AMD due to bad pricing and inventory shenanigans, and I hope they do.
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    Alternatively Jensen overplayed his hand a little.
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    TBH 4080 looks like a stawman that's been put out there to get people to spend even more money on a 4090...
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    Right, a need for 128GB capability limits one's options to approximately one gaming laptop, Dell Precisions, and perhaps some workstation options from Lenovo, HP, and Asus - priced at the top end, whereas most consumer desktop motherboards support it.
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    The earlier comments seemed to be framed in a way that suggested the person working hard feels closely aligned with Musk and his agenda, and my comments proposed an alternative viewpoint. One has nothing to do with the other. I am not quite sure if you agree, but I would be glad if you did. In the context of this thread, I suspect very few Twitter employees agreed to the takeover (only shareholders had a chance to have a very marginal say anyway). To cheer leveraged buyouts is to lack first-hand experience with them from the employee's perspective (and probably run a bit short on general empathy). These are usually dire circumstances, where the company in question is suddenly being run by generic bean-counting MBAs. In this case it's way worse, as the bean-counters at least tend to maintain some level of professional business standards. Of course, one could argue the writing had been on the wall, but then due to the chaotic nature of the process it hadn't been very clear how it was all going to end, and people who had spent several years building the company probably felt quite a bit of loyalty towards it.
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    I would suggest that smart, hard-working people have better options than working for Musk, and many wouldn't want to work for him on principle given the recent developments alone, but also taking into account the broader picture.
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    Obviously adding more RAM would increase the cost of a system. If the system was upgradeable, the incremental cost would not be that high (vs for example what Dell charges for RAM upgrades), almost inconsequential compared to what say Dell charges for top-end laptops. Or are you saying that provision of extra RAM slots would drive prices up even more - that's not immediate IMHO. That might make the laptop an iota larger though, which of course these days is considered to be a terrible thing. Every 0.1mm counts.
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    Looks like this is just for quick CPU tests/heatsink tests to avoid messing around with the paste.
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    And that's OK. A VM is really not that different from other apps in practice, just need to pay the extra RAM cost. What I would do though is have a look for alternatives. In this case, the first hit looks surprisingly promising - almost 5 stars on flathub is rare. One click to install, looks fine - not sure if it supports pen inputs (that's how I tried using OneNote for a while). https://alternativeto.net/software/microsoft-onenote/?license=opensource No built-in import from One Note, but some tools are available: https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/importing-notes-from-other-notebook-applications/22425 I personally use XMind for note taking, Linux version available straight in the software center.
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    I haven't had a chance to play around with Wine yet. Everything I need is available as a native Linux version or a better alternative, with the slight exception of Libre Office which is a bit more clunky than Office, but still workable at this point. Should I need support for native Windows apps, I would indeed try Wine quickly, but then just run Windows in a VM if that fails.
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    Another good one was "The bird is freed".... More like captured by an individual who is increasingly looking like a sophisticated bad actor. For him to be able to legitimately claim the bird is freed, he would have to turn it into a fully decentralized solution, with him ending up having zero control. I am pretty sure that's not the idea here. And again, that would be hard to get to work without creating a bot/foreign troll paradise. The underlying assumption is that most people are stupid and won't be able to see the ruse, which unfortunately is probably correct. Shocking even if kind of expected, isn't it? It's kind of impressive YT didn't take that down under some pretence. Perhaps there is a bit of "Don't be evil" left in there. Unfortunately fair to assume there would be people who, when shown the video, would either not really comprehend content and it's significance, or just reject / rationalise it away as a coping strategy upon realising they have been the primary target here. Here is another one - an interview recorded right after the 2016 election, where he goes into some details of the methodology, and their involvement in the successful campaign: The level of ingenious stealth privacy violation is astounding, but what many people don't realise is just how serious the consequences are. It's not about whether you receive nappy or Budweiser ads. 5000 data points on every individual in the US, available commercially to billionaires everywhere. Again, kudos to YT for not deleting.
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    The problem is that it's still a closed source OS at the core.
  25. Etern4l
    That's so meaningful. A Twitter poll is definitely not easily manipulated by fake accounts and bots. I mean it's a joke. On the other hand, should this guy or another have the power to ban an account from the platform? Probably not either. There should be a legal framework around it, with a right to recourse. I am not sure Web 3.0 blockchain-based decentralization is the solution either.
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