"We have a culture of vibrant, open discussion..."

Except when employees take action against the company's bottom line. /s

Today it is the executives, tomorrow it will be the workers. /s

1. Has ANY company tried this and it saved them?
2. How many TOTAL hours per week is this?? I highly doubt this will be 6 2/3 hours x 6 days but the article doesn't say. What happened to the 6 hour workdays ?

Switching to 8 hours x 6 days isn't going to fixing the fundamental problem. Someone in management needs to read "From Good to Great", "Built to Last" among other management books. IMHO Samsung needs to:

* look at their core business,
* look at their entire supply chain costs,
* pivot their (core?) business where it makes sense.

Working even more hours is a "Hail Mary" pass pretty much guaranteed to fail causing more burnout as home-life balance is nonexistent. Don't be surprised if Samsung is out of business in 10 years. I'll miss their NVMe drives.

You are absolutely right 99% of people are too complacent to switch.

However, you are forgetting that over time Linux users AND open source users are growing. i.e. For me 7-Zip killed the commercial file archivers (pkzip, winrar, etc.)

More and more software works on Windows, macOS, and Linux. Switching from proprietary vendor lock-in to open source alternatives (where it makes sense) is how to get people to switch. OpenOffice / LibreOffice, Blender, Krita already provide great alternatives.

The harder MS shoves their agenda down everyone's throats the easier it is to finally come across "the straw that broke the camel's back." Maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow, but maybe next year, or in 5 years, or in 10. Cue "THIS year is the year of the Linux desktop". /s It starts with us Techies who are tired of supporting MS's adware crap. Eventually we just don't care about MS. I'm already running Linux under a dedicated spare box and under a VM in my daily driver. In time we'll make the switch permanent.

For me, games have been the biggest reason I haven't made my daily driver Linux but with the new games coming out there is less and less "need" to stay on Windows. The more and more they add an in-game MTX store to games the less interested I am in them.

Valve is also doing a great job of having more and more games work under Linux. Support them when you can.

The best way to "proselytize" Linux is NOT to say anything but just to use it. Start small: 1 application here, another application there. Suggest open source alternative at work. So who cares if MS wins this battle (Win10) or that battle (win11); eventually they are going to lose the war as more and more people get fed up with SaaS and switch to open-source alternatives. From there is easier to eventually switch to Linux. The best way to "win the war" is 1 application at a time. Time is on our side. Linux already "won" on the Supercomputer and Mobile (Android) space. Desktop is next.

That's awesome you escaped "Microshaft's" tyranny. I mostly agree with you.

1. Affinity Photo is good if you still need to live on Windows. The Affinity suite offers a one-time fee opposed to Adobe nickel and diming. For open source GIMP is OK, Krita is awesome, Blender is awesome. Is there a good alternative to Substance Painter?
2. I don't use Quicken so I'm not locked in.
3. Not all work under Wine / Proton but more and more do which is fantastic.
4. Except us game devs who, you know, have to ship Windows or Console games. =P
5. I'm more a Vim person but Emacs is great too. OpenOffice / LibreOffice is great.
6. Curious what you use? OpenShot, Kdenlive, DaVinci Resolve, something else?

But yeah, Win10 is probably the last MS OS for me. Games are really the only thing holding me from switching my daily driver over to Linux and frankly with the way MTX greed has infected most new games I'm perfectly happy playing older games.

Same for YouTube Red:

"NO I don't want YouTube Red. I said NO the last time and the more you keep harassing me guarantees I never will want it.
  STOP asking me every fucking time."

Did you let the countdown hit zero? Try setting it to record an emergency video. Once it starts it usually asks for your password to stop the recording. Otherwise it must be a OnePlus thing.

I guess it's different in the US where the cops immediately point a gun at you. So again, it depends on your threat model.

It is not the holes that have already been identified that are the problem. It is the fact that the existence of some holes that have been found implies that a other attack vectors exist that have not been found. The best personnel to find these holes is the cybersecurity teams in charge of the systems being attacked, not the FBI.

You're suggesting that the FBI tell the bad guys how they found what they do, and how they identified the attackers?

Good idea. Let the bad guys know what the bad guys need to do to hide their tracks, and tell them which systems we know are compromised, so they can know which systems they've compromised we don't know about.

Not mutually exclusive, you know.

Why do you think that they aren't doing that?

The difficulty is that the exploits they have found and the systems that are known to be compromised imply the existence of exploits we haven't found and systems we don't know are compromised.

Maybe, by telling people that the infrastructure is likely to be attacked?

How do you know that this hasn't been done?

In general, however, anti-espionage agencies don't like to "detail their evidence" in public because this will, of course, reveal how they have gathered their evidence, leading the black hats to stop doing those things and hide the leaks showing what they did and who they are.

Are you really so brain-dead that you believe that the FBI has the power extradite foreign citizens working in a foreign country for a foreign government, for a US crime that probably isn't against the law in that country?

Even aside from the point that knowing what country the attacks originate from is a far cry from knowing the names and addresses of the individual coders who are doing the attacks.

Which it doesn't.

That's literally what the 5th amendment was written to prevent- compelled confession: "nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself"
You're trying to equate preventing police from obtaining evidence with compelled confession. That's either disingenuous, or stupid. I'll give you the benefit of the doubt and call it the latter.

Japan has a long history of taking issue with VTOL aircraft, specifically US military ones stationed at bases in the country. There have been some accidents and the public isn't fond of them.

Flying cars will never happen unless someone invents anti-gravity, because of the noise. And again, noise from US air bases and VTOL aircraft in particular is a long standing issue over there.

The enemy pilot will have to get on the radio and talk it to death.

The problem with that reasoning is that it would seem China needs to ban Apple products, Microsoft products including Bing, American movies... But they don't, they just require that anyone doing business there sticks to their laws, which is what most countries do.

The real reason why the US wants to force the sale of TikTok is because it is politically quite left leaning. Lots of stuff about unions and worker's rights, how unfair the real-estate/rental market is, socialism and other left leaning politics... They think it is "radicalizing" young people with what are actually pretty mainstem ideas and views in Europe, but which are to the left of both the major parties in the US.

If a sale is forced to a US company, expect them to screw with the recommendation algo to make it more conservative.