But honestly this splitting makes sense even at a glance AND looking more closely? Like they tried to become another Devolver Digital and realized they just weren't cut out for that and are splitting things up into manageable and functional sections again.

The mega-huge licensed-IP stuff is wildly different from the mostly indie stuff that "does well but not LOTR well" and coffee stain always seemed like a PR-based side-hustle acquisition.

Likewise them acquiring a tabletop game company never made any sense at all.

I don't know if Asmodee will survive or not, depends if they Vulture Capitalist'ed it or not but that's... really not one I care about? Never did when they snagged it, don't either now that they're letting it go.

The "keep cranking out licensed IP sequels" company can focus on that, those series have really turned into the modern-day Madden franchises at this point mostly, so if anything their growth is limited but it's so huge it's safe.

And Coffee Stain is still a fair bit of an industry darling among players, not quite Zachtronics levels of good-will but respected and broadly a safe bet it'll survive and likely thrive just fine.

Honestly I was surprised they raised the minimum to 144Hz instead of 120Hz myself, because for broad-spectrum use outside of purely twitch-reflex gaming 120Hz is WAY better since it can do 24hz, 30hz, and 60hz without any odd frame doubling issues so it works far better than 144Hz for watching movies and shows, and avoids that weird 'this cutscene feels particularly OFF' effect that can happen when a game has it's cutscenes locked to 30Hz but keeps rendering at the vsync rate.

My point was there's a cheap as hell brute force solution of "Stop trying to run the signal down 10 feet of wire right along the noisiest electronics." not that it's the ideal one.

This is entirely a design problem because they want to just blindly run the antenna from the middle of the rear of the roof down 10+ feet of the cheapest cable they can find to the back of the radio.

You can decode AM or FM radio with something on the order of an RP2040 level CPU, if they just mounted that near the antenna and did the decoding there then just send the audio digitally to the front radio that would entirely solve the problem.

Hobbyists have done this with the original RPi Pico even, decoding-only AM or FM is not computationally expensive at this point but the 'standard design' of a 10-foot-plus dumb wire from the antenna to the radio? That's the issue.

One of my favourite examples of calm radio traffic under pressure: Captain Sullenberger performs a safe water landing of Flight 1549 into the Hudson river after hitting a flock of birds and losing both engines (Set to start at 1 minute, 32 seconds.)

Just noticed I forgot to trim the PHP session ID from the LiveATC forum link. Not sure if that will work for others, so here is a corrected link: LiveATC forum post (try 2)

1. Atlas Air Boeing 747-8 Returns To Miami After Flames Seen From Engine
2. LiveATC forum post - has MP3 attached with radio traffic between 747 pilot and tower
3. ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 349997

But they _DO_ have a redirect to your usual profile URL (which is the one you choose and can be a custom domain and very memorable) if you just slap /rss on the end of it, to get to your actual RSS URL. So it's as trivial to get someones RSS URL as it could possibly be.

Meanwhile, CISA (Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency) specifically recommends the use of Ad-Block technology to prevent system infection via malvertising (links to a PDF file):
CAPACITY ENHANCEMENT GUIDE - Securing Web Browsers and Defending Against Malvertising for Federal Agencies

Note the target audience for CISA here: Federal Agencies. Their focus is in protecting those (including themselves) so I'm willing to put a little more weight behind their recommendation.

I've never in my life had a good experience with Android Auto.

On-wheel controls and working bog-standard bluetooth audio are light-years more important to me than any of the vendor-specific garbageware.

My phone stays in it's mount and generally it's screen is wildly more visible than the car-radio screen in sunlight anyways.

If I didn't need a screen to setup bluetooth pairing more conveniently I wouldn't even want the car radio to have a screen itself.

"Inboard brakes" is the term.

It's been used in high-end cars here and there, the downside: Have to dismantle the axle off to replace the brakes not just pop the wheel off.

But in a pure EV scenario the mechanical brakes would get far less use, so I could see 'inboard with >250k before replacement' being a thing just to meet legal requirements and catastrophic electronics failure scenarios.

"The researchers traced the keys they compromised to devices that used custom, closed-source SSH implementations that didn't implement the countermeasures found in OpenSSH and other widely used open source code libraries. The devices came from four manufacturers: Cisco, Zyxel, Hillstone Networks, and Mocana. ..."

Remember this story from 2018? Sunglasses That Block All the Screens Around You. These were done as a kickstarter by Ivan Cash, and I guess he only put out about 2,000 to 2,500 and they don't appear to be available for sale from him anymore. Pity, as that's pretty much the idea I was going to suggest as a customer-response to these Orweillian panopticon-like advertising screens. The material used in the lenses for Cash's product is called "Casper Cloaking Film" and it's put out by a company called Solarshield over in the UK.

I guess one could purchase some of the film, custom cut to size for an existing pair of sunglasses, and roll their own solution, but I was really hoping that this idea would have ended up in a product that was purchasable large-scale and long-term.

For a lot of them it requires a USB cable link so you can't charge your phone while using it with Android Auto because the US head unit vendors dragged their feet enormously on supporting wireless Android Auto.

And the same geniuses refused to support anything higher than 5V@0.5A "USB Standard" charging on their USB-A ports.

Subaru and Toyota at least at the low end were still doing this until a few years ago or requiring custom apps that were trying to 'compete' with Android Auto instead of supporting it directly until as recently as roughly 2020 model years for some models.

Most don't "use" anything at all for nav. They pair their phone for bluetooth MAYBE, but their phone in a mount (suction-cupped to the windshield or dash) is what they use for nav directly, Android Auto by and large works like shit on most stock OEM US head units in my experience, car geeks are constantly clamoring to get the head units the EU or other foreign models have because they by and large work a lot better.