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Sorry to hear that happened to you. Glad to have you back, and remember to keep going at a pace that's comfortable for you!

I use her current preferred pronouns, there are multiple Emilys at the LMG team and for people that might not recognize who I'm talking about if they haven't watched LTT for a while (since 3 months ago). I figured by adding "formerly", I was clear that it's a name she no longer goes by and doesn't feel represented herself well.

Edit note: The recent Twitter thread from the former employee eclipses either of the situations in this comment in terms of needing response/corroboration. I think it largely stems from the same problem: overwork and mismanagement.

The Billet situation appears to be a genuine fuckup that LMG has to make right with them, but outside of that I don't care tbh.

The data integrity situation is the one that needs to be properly addressed for the sake of their channel.

Sorry Linus, I'm not buying the "you should have told us" line. The fact that you and your staff were well aware of the problems of rushing to release content (to the point of releasing public video on it), means it's not that people weren't telling you.

You have two basic options to fix it.

Option A: You need more staff to vet the accuracy and more hosts to have time to cut/re-shoot parts that were incorrect. Clearly you and your staff each have too much on your plate.

Option B: You need to slow the rate of your content releasing right down, to ensure you can double and triple check benchmarks, staff that bring up concerns aren't brushed off or put in a footnote/comment.

GN or anyone could tell LMG this, but especially option B isn't something a company with a "growth-mindset" would want to hear.

I watched the occasional LTT video, they are entertaining and helpful at a general understanding but I've often taken their data with a grain of salt.

Emily (formerly Anthony) Young was the one writer at LTT who stood out as really knowing their stuff. She also was their in-house expert with Linux! (*Note: nothing happened to her at LMG, I'm using past tense because I'm not up to date with the latest roles she might be in)

Linus has been way more focused on running the business than the tech, especially compared to his days at NCIX and some years after.

The Billet situation sounds like a fuckup. So long as they make it right with them I don't care tbh.

The data integrity issues and way too frequent post-edit corrections is imperative for LMG to fix, if they want their media to be trustworthy (like if they're hyping up their labs)

Luckily, they've said what the fix is themselves and it's relatively simple. All it really takes is them to either slow down with the rate of content to be able to carefully review it, or bring on more hosts and editors so that mistakes and errors can be caught and re-shot before publishing, and that due diligence is applied when preparing a product review.

Linus' response is just meh, not good nor bad. The one thing is I don't buy is Linus' line of "just talk to us". The community told them plenty of times, the writers and Linus themselves were very well aware of the problems of rushing and releasing half-baked content. Even if GN told them, the direction they were going with Linus Media Group and the new CEO and the buyout offer and all of that suggests where LMG's wouldn't be concerned with it as much as making sure the timing of their content maximizes revenue. Data issues brought to them by GN and the community would be cast to the wayside with just a footnote and silent correction, maybe with a couple empty words sprinkled on top.

So I'll say it again to Linus from a fellow Canadian, whether he'll listen or not: "Slow down, bud!"

I swung a hammer at a wall! Damn it, there's a hole in the wall. Why doesn't the hammer have any safeguards against ruining my walls?

It doesn't necessarily have to be a get-free-car feature. It could be limited to 20km/h or something if operated in control mode.

It doesn't have a crazy amount of features, but I use Odessey music player app.

It's free, open source GPLv3. Does what I need, looks fine.

Just have them be overridden with a key like Elevators. Let policemen and other responders be able to drive, stop or direct them by inserting the fireman's key.

Or alternatively, just take full liberty and bash the autonomous vehicle out of the way. No key required.

NDAs on the toxic behaviour Crowder displays toward his employees...

Does he call those "Agreements to be Quieter with Crowder"?

If the viability of a project is predicated on another breakthrough or scale up, that shouldn't discourage doing research on it.

Research costs time, money and effort. If not carbon capture, any spare USD floating around is going to end up into the military industrial complex, banks, oil and pharma anyway.

If you like boardgames, try !boardgames@feddit.de

Been having good fun with Baldur's gate 3. Combat is taking me a bit of getting used to but it's overall pretty nice. The plenty of character cutscenes really are nice. One suggestion for improvement is that I need all of the characters to have the Scottish accent, not just some.

No it's totally normal. I like to put my own answer in a parent comment rather than in the post body. The People ^(TM) will decide whether it should be at the top.

Like another user said, take as much as you can comfortable handle at one time, as FOSS cold-turkey can be exhausting.

It's a bit like trying to stop using Nestle or another multinational's shit, once you realize how many brands and sub-brands are owned by the big bad, it can make one feel pointless doing it (like just switching from one to another big bad). Replace one thing at a time to make it easier on yourself.

Think of it this way. If FOSS is a rebel movement in the eyes of a world oligopolized by Big Tech, you can't just expect to overturn the core in a day. You take it slow and let the open-source movement and your desire to try out promising FOSS software one at a time drive you to become a knowledgeable power user, rather than trying to force upon yourself a lifestyle you might not necessarily want at this moment.

Isn't that what all that "business" is about? Innovating to keep up with other available alternatives?

Managers and company executives hoping to get people back into the office by whining and saying that's how it used to be ain't gonna work. They will have to offer something to stay competitive. Be it higher pay (compensation for commuting), better flexibility, better office resources (not just donuts and smiley stickers).

I partially agree, but I think this would be excllent at accelerating the name of younger political rising stars (where others may be hesitant or prefer experienced candidates), which by the time they reach the cutoff, would (in theory) have enough pull on their own to not require this particular PAC to fund them.

I've done both and I do like ultrawide for gaming. Spreadsheet/Email/Research work I like dual monitor better because I can write something while looking at source material without as much rearranging.

For prepaid phones or international roaming phones, you'd be charged for a 1 minute call and hit with a roaming charge.

Maybe they are using the Nvidia school of data visualization...

Conservatives crying "woke" tends to put more eyeballs on a show they criticize than if they'd dismissed it.