I have not followed the case too closely, but it seems like the timeline was roughly:

- deny anything wrong happened - Atlantic is a liar

- the leak might have happened, but nothing secret was shared

- ok fine, secret military information was shared

- here is an analysis that says it was the phone at fault, not human error

I have trouble believing anything except butt covering at play. When you are repeatedly caught lying, I do not immediately believe the latest story iteration, even if it is plausible.

I think the most accurate thing Trump has said so far in 47th Presidency was "everything's computer" about the Tesla dash.

Almost everything else out of his mouth, at least towards the media, has existed somewhere on the scale between 'large clump of BS wrapped around a tiny nugget of truth' and 'bald-faced lie'.

And when fairly obvious lies are repeated, the rest of what is said by himself and the rest of his administration retains the stink of the same taint.

DARVO: Deny, Attack, Reverse Victim and Offender.

> here is an analysis that says it was the phone at fault, not human error

> I have trouble believing anything except butt covering at play.

No, I did not cheat. We just happened to be hanging around without undergarments, and, you know, we had been eating bananas, and somehow some banana peel fell on the floor, and then I slipped, and grabbed the first thing I could hold on to, and that's how we both accidentally fell on the couch, and then the dog got excited and jumped on us to play, and that's how I unvoluntarily got jump-humped into this unfortunate event..

I bounced on that book pretty quickly, so maybe I need to give it another attempt. It started off so generic and, "Here are my expert qualifications and anecdotes".

Yeah I rolled my eyes at that, but publishers basically require the front 10% of non-fiction be like that. It's for the people walking through book stores and picking up books to browse.

You have it. You can self-publish.

Publishers are not actually idiots. By and large, they know what sells.

Self publishing doesn't work because there is no filter for quality or editing.

I guess I'm not sure what you mean by "doesn't work." I've gone through publishers and self-published. They come with different tradeoffs including the complaints about how publishers want a book to flow as described upthread.

Reviews are at least something of a filter.

I have spotty test coverage, but always configure a high level smoke test on every end point. Prevents silly mistakes that might otherwise slip through and trivial to implement. Can supplement for the more complex interactions, but gives a big safety blanket that there has not been a regression which breaks everything.

Is that actually feasible or just marketing copy? Moving car production sounds like a multi-year effort. The latest tariff numbers might not even last the week.

Or is this one of a, "99% constructed in Japan, but we attached the wiper blades in the USA" kind of manufacturing move?

> a, "99% constructed in Japan, but we attached the wiper blades in the USA" kind of manufacturing move

CDKs would still be hit by the 25% auto tariff (unrelated to the country level tariffs).

It's already been manufactured in Tennessee since 2023, so what's most likely happening is Nissan will stop shipping parts from Japan and rely solely on their NAM supply chain.

> Is that actually feasible or just marketing copy

Most likely depends on scale. Most firms at Nissan size began building redundancy plans during COVID due to supply chain instability.

I guess I am pre-disposed to believe there might be clever ways around it. I thought Ford was caught doing cute things to avoid the chicken tax by converting vans to trucks.

> I thought Ford was caught doing cute things to avoid the chicken tax by converting vans to trucks

Regulators don't take kindly to those kinds of shenanigans.

Ford had to pay $365M in fines [0] for that stunt (which is around 6% of their yearly net income - painful in a low margins industry like car manufacturing).

Volkswagen tried something similar in India as well and now needs to pay $2.5-3 Billion (17% of their year net income) as a result.

[0] - https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/ford-p...

I only heard the start of the story, never about the penalties. Good to know that there is (eventual) enforcement.

Classical “tariff engineering” also includes a small, hidden pocket on some garments to make them into shirts.

I do not have one, but as a pet owner, it is a tempting proposition. The task might be low effort, but it is enough that I do not want to handle it daily (or even weekly). Having a robot do a daily okay-ish job without intervention is worth something.

Is there any easy way to make a local backup of a Fandom wiki? I have found some unmaintained scripts which might have worked at one point, but it seems like the only option on the table is to scrape and parse everything.

Maybe invert that? Seems like everything "needs" to be online now. Either from DRM activation servers to always-online-for-telemetry-or-lootbox reasons.

Games are a mixed bag on that front nowadays, yeah, but GOG.com at least makes a point of only selling DRM-free games where the installer and all singleplayer content are guaranteed to work offline.

I believe a Roku does the same kind of TV fingerprinting, and probably so do the other streaming hardware devices. So, not sure there is any relief anywhere? You can run your own linux HPC, but those get locked to 720p quality.

> You can run your own linux HPC, but those get locked to 720p quality.

That is demonstrably not true.

If you run Jellyfin and pirate using thepiratebay and yandex searches, you can get 4k 7.1 audio shows.

It's not the OS but the streamimg sites, like netflix and others are locked to 720p.

My point exactly.

Why would I pay to be abused and treated like a potential theif if I pay for services, but if I pirate I do get the best quality and experience?

If the company's paid experiences were top notch, I'd have stayed.

But it turns out 40TB, 20 cores, and an Intel Arc for high speed transcoding easily handles 200 shows, 3000 movies, and more. And the big upside? No more 'killed by Netflix' or trying to figure out what streaming platform has THIS show today.

Come on, they are obviously talking about streaming services. Everybody knows you can pirate anything at any quality.

Apple TV is pretty good and not very pricey. It’s a good value

Apple TV has to be one of my favorite purchases over the last five years. It just does what it says on the tin and gets the hell out of the way otherwise. I've bought three of them and disconnected all our tvs from wifi in favor of using these devices.

they are great little devices. Has its own tailscale app too and can be used as an exit node! useful for me as the TV is pretty close to the fiber box on the wall.

Great device, if only they could make a decent remote. The older silver one was like a slippery soap in the palm, while the next (black) one was hopeless to figure which side was up or down.

My newer 4K controller started acting up recently and I had to ifixit.

I struggle a bit with the remote control and UI in several apps

The remote control is definitely hit or miss. I don't have any trouble with it, but I swear my wife has ten thumbs when she's using it. She hates that thing.

Starting at $130 is kind of pricey. A Roku Ultra isn't as capable, but is $80, and a Roku Express 4K+ (no wired ethernet, no dolby atmos) is $30. Roku likes to snoop and push ads too, of course.

And how usable are they if you're outside of the Apple ecosystem (i think I saw an article recently that someone was stuck and needed to use a mac or an iPhone to get unstuck).

I haven’t had any issues with mine yet but I have lots of Apple devices so I am not the best to answer this question.

But, as far as Roku they are subsidized by selling your data and pushing ads as you call out above. Not really a fair comparison. Just like you have to pay more everywhere for the ad free tier you end up paying more for Apple TV.

I will say though that the Apple TV handles 4K flawlessly. I am willing to bet that it has quite a bit more power than any of roku’s offerings.

The bigger problem with running on a PC is UI. No longer will it work well with a simple remote that only needs 10 buttons.

It's definitely less ergonomic but I successfully trained my extremely non-technical wife to use a VNC client on her phone to control the media center PC so she can watch streaming/youtube with an adblocking browser.

If you go to the trouble of setting up a media server and Kodi/Plex on the TV, and install a barebones launcher that avoids all the ads on the official launcher, the remote still works well. I don't know whether to blame Sony or Google but every system update brought bigger and bigger ads to the point that I took an afternoon off to sideload an extremely plain ad-free launcher.

I had a media center PC that was usable with a remote control in 2008.

Choke full of XVID cams, I bet

How does this work for secure environments which are supposed to be air-gapped? Does Microsoft offer a special on-premise licensing server? I cannot image they just throw up their hands for such clients and suggest an alternative OS.

Anything above Windows 11 pro can join domains.

I guess you can cut the size of your sales team. You no longer have to go hunting for customers, because you can just look at market caps.

BRCM generally has an account manager (or several) for specific companies in the Enterprise. This is the target customer they're after, not volume. There's no profit in volume support here so BRCM doesn't waste their time and resources.