These articles always talk only about the layoffs, never hirings or total employee numbers over time. But then it usually isn’t much of a story anymore.
A quick search lead me to this site that provides some numbers. These layoffs would put them back to 22/23 levels, so somewhat of a plateau after they roughly doubled their headcount in the decade before.
There’s currently a Kickstarter going on for a watch that aims to be modular and repairable. It’s called UNA Watch.
Look interesting, but imo with these things it’s a bit of a chicken and egg problem, where the upgradeability/repairability only has value, if it is actually provided in the future (and economically viable). Something that can only be proven in time, but requires people to trust it before.
I’m not in the market for a new watch right now, since I just repaired the screen on my Garmin, but am keeping an eye on it, since sadly Garmin seems to have entered the early stages of enshittification.
Agreed. The prequels have flawed execution, but imo a good base. It’s the reverse with the sequels that are mostly style over substance, chasing some pretty shots regardless whether it makes for a good movie. And I take the former over the latter any day. Especially if we remember that Lucas asked other directors to make them.
I’d say the most recent major influences were the IPO and the emergence of LLMs.
Reddit becoming a publicly traded company and the preparation to do so certainly initiated a major shift in its priorities.
Ai and large language models make it easier than ever to create shiny, but low quality content.
And the rest is just reddit becoming more mainstream leading to an overall shift towards banal rather than niche topics.
They also often want growth beyond what the original market niche supports.
Sounds similar to “Spezi”, a mixture of cola and orange soda, which is quite popular here in Germany.
But you are commenting on Lemmy, which i’d argue makes you atypical and your media/news consumption probably looks very different to that of the average American.
Not sure if it is still relevant and i’ve also not kept up with all hardware releases as i’d like to. But some thoughts:
You could look into the Thermalright Phantom Spirit 120 SE (or Peerless Assassin, think those are both fairly close). Those are just ridicolously cheap at ~$60 and if you look at reviews give much more expensive coolers a run for their money.
Not sure what the current verdict is on whether PCIe5 drives give a significant upgrade, but if not you could look at a drive like the Silicon Power US75. When i last looked at SSDs Newmaxx spredsheets and flowcharts were a useful resource and based on those it ticks the boxes for a solid drive.
As someone else also already suggested some faster RAM might also be a cheap and worthwhile upgrade
Motherboards are just way to complicated for me to make a deepdive to get up to date again. So i’ll just say that imo Hardware unboxed always has some of the best video roundups. But i think there might potentially be room to get something cheaper and in return invest the saved money somewhere else. Just decide what features you actually need and imo don’t get too hung up on potential future upgrades. Will your dad actually make those upgrades? And would spending $100-150 for a slightly better upgrade path now really be worth it compared to spending them somewhere else. Either on the build itself or peripherals like a nicer monitor etc.
I assume the case is already purchased based on the list? Otherwise this might be something to let him choose somewhat based on looks.
Just as a hypotherical example with all changes it would look like this atm ~$2900 vs $3300. Note that i just put in a cheaper motherboard, but didn’t really read up much on it, so that would require some more investigation. This would either make it cheaper or leave room in the budget for other things like an even better GPU/CPU or on peripherals. Really depends on what he plans to do with it.
Did it really take $6.7 million to develop, or was most of that money just a really nice payday for the guy behind the crowd funding campaign? To his credit he did at least end up with a product, however bad it might be, but without transparent finances I’ll just assume that he paid himself a handsome salary.
Sadly I think Airbus is already busy as is. As far as I understand it, they were already supply constrainted before this and have their order books filled for years. Otherwise Boeing’s most recent quality and safety issues would have had a larger effect.
I don’t know if they could increase capacities even if they wanted to, or if a volatile situation like this would allow for the investments that would be necessary to do so.
Imo this just accelerates China’s own ambitions to build up their own rival with Comac. This development makes the transition less gradual and they’ll have to eat some losses, but that’s something their system is capable of.
On the other hand it’s actually worse for the US, because they’ll miss out on those sales and might not be able to sell them somewhere else. With Boeing already struggling and this being a key industry, this will mean that it might require more subsidies in the future to keep them going or succeed in the turnaround.
Does this actually matter that much? I have a pixel 6a that has the visor style camera bump and with a case on it just disappears.
And even if I’d use the phone without case Google’s bar shaped design still allows the phone to lay stable on a surface without wobble, just at a slight angle instead of flat. Which I guess would be an issue with other designs.
I’ll have to disagree with you on that one. In my opinion for a first entrance in the franchise this is the right call.
There is a balance that’s needed between movies within a shared universe being interconnected and having their own style and being seperat to some degree. And I think part of why the earlier MCU worked and now (at least to me) it doesn’t, is partially down to them not achieving this balance.
Make the first movie of a particular part unique like e.g. with the first gotg with maybe some smaller references and gradually build up the overlaps. I think the MCU until endgame did it really well, introducing new strands one at a time and interweaving them slowly with the occasional huge mashup in the avenger movies.
But ever since then they’ve just kept doubling down on everything being interconnected and even expanded it to not just movies, but TV shows. This way you don’t really identify to the same degree with the individual characters and it also starts to feel like more of a burden to in a way have to keep up with everything. Which eventually just gets too much and at least for me just lead to just kind of drop out of the whole thing.
That might certainly be one factor, but my intuition is that the primary driver is still todays diet. Things like soda drinks that let you consume teaspoons of pure sugar in an instant without appropriate feedback simply didn’t exist in the past.
Add the update policy to the cons. 2 major versions and 3 years of security updates is just bad, especially for a device of this price range
I just did a new setup last weekend and everything works just fine. docker on linux for the server and the app on android tv, if that matters.
Do you mean it during movie playback or already when you enter the application?
Perfectly understandable imo. Reddit has been around for ages and has a huge backlog of information that users aggregated. Can’t really expect Lemmy to match that after only (somewhat) taking off not that long ago. And i won’t fault anyone for using this accumulated knowledge, i can’t quite avoid it myself.
For me the big question is where people contribute new things. And considering how reddit is behaving, Lemmy/the Fediverse is the far better place to do so.
If I remember correctly here in German it was marketed as “Dredd 3D”, which turned me off at the time.
Abgesehen von der Ungerechtigkeit führt das ganze auch dazu, dass der Wohnungsmarkt insgesamt ineffizienter wird. Die Leute mit Altverträgen sind nämlich in gewisser Weise auch durch diese gefesselt.
Anstatt vielleicht näher an den neuen Job zu ziehen oder sich in Alter zu verkleinern, bleiben sie aufgrund der günstigen Mieten in anderweitig suboptimalen Wohnungen.
Somewhat late reply, since i didn’t have the time to start my conversion to OMV sooner. Definitely looks nice and installation was easy.
You are spot on that my first issue has partially to do with permissions. Following a guide at the time i structured my media library to some level with data sets in my zfs pool on truenas scale. But those apparently are more like filesystems rather than just directories. Which makes the whole giving permissions for my dockeruser a bit difficult (and also otherwise seems a bit less then ideal for OMV).
So since i wanted to structure it slightly different i made a new shared folder on my zfs pool and directories for my media in there and moved a few test files. Downside now is that this solution would mean that i have to move a ton of files, which would mean a ton of writes to my drives.
Apparently they changed that in one of the recent updates, but so far i really like the setup with docker compose. So much easier than the whole deal with applications in truenas scale. Copy+Paste stuff into a file, change some variables and a full stack of media applications is up and running so fast.
Doesn’t fitgirl just repack stuff (compressing the game for smaller download sizes) rather than doing the actual cracking?