I hate to say this but we really need regulators to step in with the modern car trend of putting way too much in the touch screen. I drive 2019 GM. It has a large prominent dial in the the centre of the dash for volume & a button in the middle to mute / unmute. There's als oa rocker on the sterring wheel to do this but that big old dial is just plain easier and faster so it's what I use. It also has a dial for temperature control. The head light settings are a dial on the dash next the steering wheel, the wiper controls are on a stalk and dial on it to adjust the intermittent speed, there's also a "rain sense" position on the stalk to let the car do it automatically. To put it in P, N, R & D there's a physical gear selector. Seat warmers are a physical button. All of these things I can find & control with out looking. It's the perfect balance for physical buttons & dials that you often adjust and the other stuff you rarely adjust is in the touch screen. The car also has CarPlay & Android auto for my media and phones needs while driving. The new Skoda Superb has a similar layout and all the reviewers love it. My last car was 19 years old before I sold it (albeit with a modern Sony double DIN CarPlay head unit upgrade), will Rivian still provide connectivity or software updates in 19 years from now? Be lucky if they are in 5 years time. We actually need to go back to a standard like DIN & double DIN for the screen so that older cars can be kept up to date.

I'm a big fan of having physical buttons and dials for controls in your car. Not a fan of captive touch or sliders either that Hyundai / Kia seem to like. Watching car reviews lately and I can''t believe that for a lot of cars you have to use the touch screen to move the air vent positions. That's just plain ridiculous. It's a lot of necessary electronics to make the vents move and a complete distraction if you're to adjust while driving. My cars has a digital dial for volume, digital dial for temperature control, physical button for demist, stalk for wipers with all the timing controls on it. I can change plenty of stuff just be feel.

Good on Polestar. Consumers do like choice. Most infotainment systems in cars are just downright bad and with out constant updates just get worse. It's why consumers love CarPlay & Android Auto, they are up to date and consistent across cars which is a really good thing about them. I can get in my Opel or my wife's Kia and I have the same screen layout etc. With Apple CarPlay my Garage door opener is integrated with HomeKit so it works across cars too. I trust Apple HomeKit with iCloud much more than a third parties IoT cloud talking to Google cloud servers that would need to be used to achieve the same thing with the builtin Google infotainment. I don't need another mobile data subscription with Apple CarPlay and I have my entire CD collection right along with me for music.

Polestar is a EV company that Volvo bought in 2015 and they run it as a sub brand.

Five Nights at Freddy's is doing really well right now. It cost only $25M to make, had a simultaneous theatrical & streaming release and is still raking it in at the box office considering it's production cost, $250M at last count. Barbie & Oppenheimer smashed it at the box office too. The problem is most of the recently released movies are just plain bad to mediocre and with insane production production budgets that make it really hard to make any money off.

I've got a couple of Tiltmaster door openers. When I wanted to get them enabled for HomeKit I looked into the myQ platform. Even though my Tiltmaster openers were less than 18 months old at the time they weren't supported by myQ and there was no adapter kits etc. Official solution was to replace the door openers with compatible models, buy the myQ & HomeKit bridge kit and they wouldn't even offer a trade in on the other openers. The myQ and HomeKit equipment was also quite expensive. Looked into myQ software platform and all I saw was people complaining about how bad it was unless you used it with HomeKit or HomeAssistant. The more I looked into Chamberlin they just came off as the Oracle of door openers in their openly hostile attitude & behaviour towards their customers. In the end got a couple of cheap Meross MSG100's with HomeKit support for around $100 and I'm very happy with them. Do everything I want out of them with HomeKit & CarPlay.

Another of the commercial distro value adds was hardware support certification for equipment from IBM & HP / Compaq etc. I remember about 14 years when I was a server engineer I built up a IBM Blade center connected to a IBM fiber channel SAN. The client wanted Ubuntu server running on one of the Blades, I spent way too many hours getting the multi-pathing drivers for the SAN all setup and working properly. The client then went to put Cold Fusion server on it and realised that Cold Fusion didn't support Ubuntu so we had to reload the blade with RHEL. RHEL installed by default with all the correct mutli-pathing drivers setup and working properly.

RT is owned by Fandango, not Disney. However the CEO of Fandango is an ex Disney exec. And Fandango are in the business of selling movie tickets, so it's clearly in Fandango's interest to have more positive reviews. Like always follow the money. It's been obvious for years that RT scores are being manipulated but The Rise of Skywalker audience review score was so blatantly obvious to those watching.

A number of reviewers have even publicly said they sometimes give a more postive review or a pass to movies to retain their access. Disney is well known for being very vindictive if you give them less than stellar reviews or don't follow their talking points etc. IMDB is owned by Amazon so you can't trust the scores there either. Plus I saw a screen shot for a review on IMDB the other day that was mostly 10/10 audience review for something that hadn't even released yet. Metacritic is about the only place that's semi trust worthy. The media loves to talk about negative review bombing "campaigns" but not about the positive review boosting that clearly happens too. I've found a couple of independent movie reviewers who pay for the ticket with their own money when it's available to the public and go by what they say. 95% of the time I agree with their reviews.

My ISP in Australia rolled out IPv6 to their customers. After they got Cisco to fix the bugs and add required features that were available for IPv4 but not IPv6 to their ASR9k BNG's, which took a couple of years, they were ready to start offering IPv6 to their customers as a opt in beta trial. Then biggest issue they hit was most consumer routers are still using a really old version of wide-dhcpv6 that has a bug in it that was first addressed in 2009. This bug in effect floods their DHCP servers with requests. They've worked with manufacturer of the devices they sold to their customers to get it addressed. A updated firmware was released and tested all good. At some point the manufacturer released a newer firmware version which regressed wide-dhcpv6 back to the old buggy version. It was patched again in a later version. Unbelievable stuff. But still doesn't address the other brands that are still using the buggy version in new products. Personally I use pfSense, I hit three IPv6 bugs before they were all ironed out in later patches of 2.6.

Rotten Tomatoes is owned by Fandango, who's CEO is a former 16 year Disney exec. It's funny how many of the questionable RT audience scores happen with Disney movies. The Rise of Skywalker audience score never moved from it's 86% (from memory) score and there's zero way that movie got that score.

I'm really not surprised that Disney can't fill the hotel. First off, it's far too expensive even for Disney. Bob Iger, the Disney CEO, came out over the weekend and admitted the parks are now too expensive. Second, they set the hotel and Galaxy's Edge era during the least by far popular trilogy of the sequel trilogy. Third, Galaxy's Edge location Battu isn't even in any of the Disney era movies. It's barely even visited in their crappy books & comics. Fourth, the video promotions for it were so cringe that Disney themselves removed them from YouTube due to all the downvotes, heavily negative comments and all the negative reactions to them. And lastly, it's a one and done style of stay. If they had multiple themed era's of the "voyage" you could get more repeat customers.

The Mandalorian's Din Djarin & Disney's little green money baby aka Grogu were recently added to Galaxy's Edge and they proved to be success. Disney really should retheme Galaxy's Edge to another era. The OT would be best as that's by far the most popular.

I work in mining in Western Australia so have been following this story closely. I also know someone who uses and has intimate knowledge of this type of equipment. They don't understand how the Caesium-137 radioactive capsule got lost in the first place. The equipment itself is very sturdy to cope with the day to day abuse on a mine site, it's storage box for when it's not in use is built like a tank, the storage box was supposedly in a crate and that crate was in a covered truck. It hasn't been reported that the truck rolled over which is the only way that I can think of logically that it might have been remotely possible for it to escape it's containment.

I read the NetFlix FAQ on this and it's severely lacking details on how this works. As a networking professional I've got a far from typical network setup at home compared to most people. Multiple SSID's and VLAN's, IPv6 native across all VLAN's and my ISP uses CG-NAT for IPV4. We could have 3 devices that are on different VLAN's in my LAN detect as being in different locations.

It did get moved to the GW on Warhammer Community website:

https://www.warhammer-communit...

What a bizarre comment. How much does it cost including a ethernet port on a device that's got plenty of space to include it? Less than a few dollars probably at the volume Apple would buy. Besides using wired ethernet is always superior to using Wi-Fi on a device that's typically in the same position for the majority of it's life. This is especially true if you're using the AppleTV as a Home Bridge hub. I've got to plug the power cable and HDMI cable into the AppleTV already so what's one more cable for ethernet.