Then it's time to dump the stock since you're dealing with a quasi Sears situation and there's no hope of saving it.

I get that CEO's take orders for the board, but in the end they should do what's best for all shareholders. If the board is not working for the shareholders best interests. You're almost better off to ultimately get fired and say "I told you so" when the company sinks than to go down with the ship and become unhireable afterwards.

The split second they proposed these changes, I would have immediately initiated a vote of no confidence procedure and proceeded to do whatever it takes to get the CEO and the Upper management fired.

You don't recover from this short of cleaning house immediately. No one will trust this company anymore and every developer will see Unity as a ticking time bomb until everyone responsible for this decision is gone. Period.

The only way any shareholder is saving their investment in Unity is either by starting over or selling their shares right now while there's still some value left.

Totally agree.

One of the big things Linux brings to the table is choice, but when you're trying to standardize a platform for desktop use, choice is one of the last things you want to have because it fragments the project between itself.

Everyone likes to talk about Linux as a single platform. In reality, the only true part that is a single platform is the kernel itself, then you have distributions like Redhat, Debian, Slackware and Arch, then you got hundreds of forks of those with varying levels of software decisions and popularity. Just look at the Linux Distribution Timeline if you want a graphical representation of this.

Now compare that to another FOSS Project like Haiku for example. One kernel, one GUI, one software repository, and a few supported IDE's and languages.

If you code for Haiku it's going to work for Haiku period. If you code for Linux you have to practically target a distribution, since that distribution is going to support the IDE, GUI and Package manager that you wish to use, otherwise you have to make sure that all of the dependencies you need are available for that particular distro. This is one of the reasons why the sandboxed app repositories are getting more popular since they avoid that problem by virtualizing everything, and even those are getting fragmented. (Snap vs Flatpak for example)

Unironically, I agree with Ellen Degeneres. Get a password book and put it in a safe if you really don't trust people in your household or are worried about it being physically robbed.

It's offline, so the virus your computer gets wont send the relatively small, easily located file to some scammer so he can patiently wait until a file exploit or de-encryption technique becomes available to steal your passwords.

As for browser password managers. Only use them for passwords you don't care about like forum or social media passwords. Chromium and firefox browsers are constantly scraped by BBY Stealers for unencrypted passwords and it's trivial to decrypt browser based passwords unless they are encoded with a primary password.

Does it use an AI recreation of Gilbert Gottfried's voice?

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I have a strict zero ads policy. If I'm forced to watch ads on Youtube, I stop using Youtube.

I'm not going to let malware scumbags that constantly hack ad systems to even attempt to infect my box just so you can make $1 per year on the ads you show me.

And no, I'm not going to pay for Youtube Premium either. You make enough money selling my demographics and watching habits to the highest bidder to pay for my Youtube usage.

You know. Edge was nice when it was a clean browser.

Not it's a browser with a Honey Clone, a Pocket Clone, a Sidebar plugin, a fitness app, a dubious performance plugin, an office 365 toolbar and a Bing sidebar plugin with AI.

This is what extensions are for Microsoft. Put all of the crap as extensions and let me choose to add it to edge instated of turning edge into one of those fake spyware chromium knock off browsers.

Yes. Lets kill an almost ideal method of delivering an AI experience and replace it with a chat window. Because progress.

Yes I know Cortana wasn't successful but the reason it wasn't is because all it really could do reliably is tell you the time and set timers, tell you the weather and give you sport scores. Any time you tried doing any heavy lifting with it it would either spaz out spewing useless garbage, or throw up its hands and say "I don't know"

Here's a thought Microsoft. How about actually making Cortana like it's namesake and make it be inquisitive. Ask questions so it can learn what you want and how you speak for future conversations, or listen beyond the original phrase while it's talking so you can actually have a stream of consciousness type conversation with it instead of having to spend 30 seconds thinking up the exact 5 second phrase you have to say to it so it understands what you want. Also, These assistants never pass the "Jeff Goldblum" test. The minute you stop or say uhh or um or repeat a word in the middle of a conversation the assistant goes wild and starts talking gibberish while you incessantly order it to stop and invariably lose your train of thought.

To be fair, Google is no better with their assistant and from personal experience, it's getting much MUCH worse since they introduced it. Things that it would do easily no longer work the same or outright fail with the "Hmm. Something went wrong" message. The YouTube music rollout basically ruined the music experience with it to the point that your music library is held hostage and even companies and developers are abandoning their 3rd party actions on the platform. It wouldn't surprise me if the Google assistant ends up in the graveyard instead of doing something innovative with it and integrating their duplex and bard technology into the service and fixing the glaring user interface issues that people have been screaming about for the past two years now.

Amazon Alexa at least seems to be better 3rd party and response wise, but it appears Amazon is all but done with the service since it's a massive money losing venture. I don't see them integrating AI into it any time soon and I'm not even sure if they have anyone left on their development team that could do it if they wanted to.

As for Apple Siri. They're in the same boat as MS. At least hey have a good music service to fall back on unlike whatever the hell Microsoft had and it actually works unlike YouTube Music. Apple hasn't done anything innovative with it since they introduced it. That can of course change but is highly unlikely.

I would. And you should too.

The absolute best cell tower range is 50 miles tops, and that if it's not being hammered by hundreds to thousands of people trying to call loved ones or lookup whats going on, which will most likely take it out before range does.

FM while it's at least one way communication so it has less of a chance to go down, can typically go only 50-200 miles tops since it's mostly line of sight.

AM using skywave at night can eclipse 1000+ miles easily at 50kw. And that not just a blip of a call letter and then static. I routinely listen to 650 WSM in Nashville clearly from a portable radio in Pennsylvania. which is over 500 miles away. I've even picked up an 1000w station out of Macom GA, although it's breaks up from time to time.

If you really want to get serious, SW is the way to go. You can hit stations over 2000+ miles easily day and night with a competent receiver, and the transmitters can usually transmit that far with very low ERP in emergencies. Nothing short of an apocalyptic event would take out SW.

Also good luck keeping the phone charged for more then a few days without a solar charging bank whereas a radio will run for weeks on alkaline batteries or even hand crank if you buy an emergency one. Hell you can wire up a crystal radio if you're inclined enough and it will run off of a strong AM signal indefinitely if you're lucky enough to have one close by.

Only reason I'm asking is because you can't escape ads from various ambulance chasing law firms regarding Camp LeJeune and Parkinsons Disease settlements on Cable, Streaming, or Radio for almost a year now.

I really hope they have some sort of remanufacturing clause in this legislation, but knowing California, they probably don't because they think a train is like a car and is scrapped every 10 years.

First off, all current freight trains have electric drive wheels, so the frame itself is already green. The engine is basically a generator that supplies electric to the wheels and is the component that pollutes. When trains are remanufactured they tend to modernize the engine with newer control mechanisms and parts, which tends to make them more efficient vs their older systems. Also the big trend is to replace the older DC drive systems with AC systems which further increases their efficiency and haul capacity, which also reduces pollution.

The EPA already has pollution standards in place regarding locomotives that are separated into 4 tiers. if the legislation is written to phase out the older tiers for the newer tiers, than that would be fine, since older engines can be remanufactured to meet the more stringent standards, but banning the locomotive frame just because the frame hit an arbitrary age is not only short sighted, but wasteful.

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It's supposed to stand for Coupe utility but in Australia (One of the few markets left that gets this vehicle segment) they call them UTE's, which name would probably work better here in the US since everyone's enamored with SUV's

Think car front end with a truck rear end. The Chevy El Camino or Ford Ranchero of the 70s would fit in this category.

They don't want to get off the truck obsession because there are CAFE loopholes with trucks and everyone wants a truck for some reason.

What they need to do is start experimenting with UTE's. The Ford Maverick is basically a UTE that looks truck-like and is selling faster than they can make them. The Hyundai Santa Cruz is selling well considering it's a new truck made by a company that never really sold trucks to consumers in the US. The Subaru Baja would've sold if it wasn't marketed by complete idiots that thought banana yellow would be a great introduction color.

What's more nerve racking is that Chrysler has a UTE right now in the Ram 700 that they could bring to the US to test the waters without much investment loss in the off chance it fails. Considering that Ram doesn't have an answer to the Maverick it would be trivial to get it to pass regulations, throw it in some test markets and see how well it sells.

Maybe in the larger markets, but not here.

I know one of the indies on AM just recently moved to an LP-FM, but it's so underpowered that you need a very solid receiver to pick it up whereas the AM station comes in much clearer. At least during the day since the AM station goes offline at night.

The other 4 indie AM stations are either pure AM or AM with a streaming option on their site. One of them was going to add an LP-FM in the near future.

If this continues, they really need to start talking about expanding the FM band, especially since TV Channel 4, 5 and 6 are being underutilized and can easily be brought into the FM band without having a band gap or interference issues. They could easily add another 10-20MHz to the band and even allow digital only broadcasting in that range since most analog radios outside of Japanese receivers cannot tune lower than 87MHz