You don't have time to sit around without anyone noticing in retail unless there's not a business case, in which case there's no customers. That business has (at least) two problems.

If there's work to be done, it's immediately noticeable when you aren't doing it, to anyone who understands the job. No one else is qualified to manage people doing it.

Those jobs hardly paid anything to begin with, either. I looked them over last time I was unemployed.

That's not wrong. It's only indicative of how poorly their stuff works with other stuff.

One of the interesting things about the Android Linux scene is that it's common for distributions to have various user-selectable schedulers. This seems kind of unusual on desktop Linux.

Did I hurt your fee-fees?

If someone is commissioning a billion dollar GPU scale-up and not asking "Can this thing play Crysis" , then one is GPUing wrong.

This really is the endpoint of the whole "balance" bullshit myth. Good journalism is never about "balance". its about truth. The truth is inherently biased, towards truth. When I did journalism school (Before I moved into sciences I did a journalism degree first), this was drilled into us. Don't look for approval, dont look for telling "all sides of the story", look for the truth, even if the truth makes the powerful angry.

It doesn't *matter* what your political bias is , and to be clear EVERYONE has a political bias. What matters is, are the facts. Theres of course times when you need to hold your tounge. You dont snitch on sources. You never death knock (try to beat the cops to tell a family whos loved one just died the news to capture the reaction, its an evil practice, and usually banned by news agencies), and you never defame (less banned, alas). You refrain from naming underage or vunerable victims. But above all, tell the fucking truth.

Balance is ass. Putting on a climate change denier to "balance" as a science doesnt increase the balance, it just reduces the truth. And getting a trump official to make excuses for human rights violations doesnt reduce the human rights violations, it just spreads bullshit.

One of the worst rackets I've ever encoutered, and I've encountered it at multiple companies, is the whole board salary thing.

The way it works is this;- Say I have some shitty acronym-as-a-service startup, no path to profitability, not even a minimum viable product, but lots of buzzwords. Seems like a way of accruing a lot of debt with no way to pay it off. Well.... Retirement funds to the rescue! It doesnt matter if I'll never be a good investment, as long as I can offer investors a $250K "job" on the board. See those investors aren't investing their own money. They are in *charge* of that pot of money and apparently have no fiduciary duty to make good investment decisions. So they give me a couple of mil to keep the lights on for a few months, and all they have to do is turn up once a year to the AGM and maybe join a few investor calls. And thats a free $250K wage for them, not their fund. There might be 10 of these parasites on the board, but for that $5 mil in wasted nonsense money the company gets 20 mil to pay the wages of this nonsense company.

And nobody will ever say "Hey this is a terrible idea!", because everyones getting paid.. Startups are getting funded, wages are being paid. The investors are happy, Everyone wins. Except the poor fools who actually own the money being invested.

That is to say;- Your grandmother.

But even then, That investor has 20 of these things going on. He's making millions of dollars a year to keep for himself, and as long as a few of those are earning big dollars, the lines will keep going up so grandma won't complain as long as her chunk of retirement funds seems to increase. Its not like she's ever asked the hard questions on why her retirement fund manager is driving a McLaren supercar. After all, arent bank guys always rich? And if they are rich, they must know what they are doing?

The C-Suite are bad. The Board is worse.

It didnt used to be like this. I remember back in the NT days and while I was solidly in camp linux, I was always impressed at the level of integration between the various components in the microsoft ecosystem. SMB talking to a domain controller overseen by AD syncing it up with exchange and all coordinated by kerberos. It all seemed very smooth. Admining it could get perplexing with all the registry and the like, and when things went wrong they went *really* wrong. But when it worked it was very smooth, particularly for the end user (really the only metric that counts, an IT guy does hard so our users can do easy) And yeah I get that Office365 is in some respects a play at regaining some of that integration, the push away from in-office integration to cloud integration has made the actual work environment kinda messy.

It seems like we kinda moved backwards.

It's been a while so I can't really direct you. When licensing became very uncertain I backed away and haven't done one in a while.

My best advice is to get a good flight controller kit up front so everything works together without a lot of screwing around. Also to read lots of build logs before you do one. And maybe start with a cheap type to build familiarity.

Also any design where you just have arms connected to a central board tends to be flimsy. I started with a SK450 and it's kind of floppy

They deliberately destroyed our public lands to make sure we all had to pay to live and you're here for it

If apple doesn't want to be in the middle of every transaction, they are welcome to stop doing that. No one is forcing them to gatekeep everything.

SLI causes problems with a lot of titles and also isn't available on Linux any longer. (There is still a feature called SLI in the Linux driver but it is NOT SLI.)

You didn't explain why they would need more than 60Hz.

The USA built that by paying for it.