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Thats a very good point.

I’m not sure that was much of an issue for DVD. Historically VHS had those huge licensing terms for new releases ($90 for VHS), but the same rules didn’t apply to DVD (new releases $20). This was one of the main reasons VHS rentals died so fast after DVDs came out.

Also at least at one time, I remember Redbox was simply buying DVDs at retail stores instead of buying from retail stores for their disc inventory. I see that Walmart is listed as a creditor. That makes me think perhaps Redbox still was.

Sad to see this for two reasons:

1. Physical discs and the rental model have always been a fallback against oppressive streaming licensing, and with so few video rental stores left it Redbox was the last one standing.

2. It sounds like they missed payroll for their workers. No worker deserves to have their finances thrown into chaos because an employer can’t manage their books.

This was a shockingly good result when compared to the cost of producing this with a set, film crew, actors, costume/makeup, and post production.

It doesn’t have to be perfect, it has to be good enough to get your attention between the latest streaming show you or your kid is watching. It will absolutely do that for a tiny tiny fraction of the cost businesses had to pay before.

Toy ‘R Us is alive and well in Canada too. There’s a Toy ‘R Us store 6 miles from Detroit in Windsor Ontario in Canada, as an example.

I can think of one valid use case for this unsolved by any other solution:

Lets say a company has an SoC board base product currently currently base on ARM. They want to eventually migrate to RISC-V based solution.

If a company has a product currently written to use ARM compiled code, but wants to transition to RISC-V (which isn’t ready yet), they could deploy this board which could run today’s ARM implementation, and it would be future-ready when the RISC-V implementation would be released without having to replace hardware.

…only if you HAVE onedrive account it can reach.

This is a fantastic use case for NOT using a Microsoft account and instead a local account. No Microsoft authenticated account, no Onedrive.

Just because a Ford truck weighs a lot doesn’t mean we shouldn’t address EV tire wear.

I agree. However, this started with a highlighting of EV tire pollution. Arguably mainstream EVs entered production in 2012. F-150 and other trucks of equal or more weight have been on the road since about the late 1970s. Why is it this is an EV tire pollution discussion only?

Do a lot of people own trucks that shouldn’t because they don’t use them as trucks? Yes.

We agree.

I’d argue that’s a completely different argument.

How so? Are you arguing that a truck that weighs the same the produces equal tire pollution is okay, but an EV that weighs the same with equal tire pollution isn’t okay?

This isn’t an EV only issue, but it is highlighted for EVs because they go through tires faster than equivalent sized (not weight) vehicles.

Isn’t this following the same flawed logic that trucks shouldn’t have to get high MPG efficiency because they are trucks, while ICE cars are held to higher efficiency standards? Your logic seems to suggest we could solve this EV tire pollution problem by simply eliminating EV cars and only driving EV trucks because then they’d get a pass on tire pollution like current ICE trucks do.

In the end I would hope all vehicles would be equipped with tires that don’t kill aquatic life!

I agree, but your other statements prior seem to give a pass to ICE (or EV trucks).

A model 3 to an f150 is absolutely apples and oranges.

Seriously. We are talking about tire tread compared to weight.

Are we? I thought we were talking about tire particulate pollution. Why have I never heard the conversation raised that truck tire pollution is a problem? Why is it only EVs that its suddenly an issue?

Why not just compare the model 3 to an 18-wheeler then? Those weigh way more. Would have made his point better.

And it’s a completely meaningful comparison, as long as you throw away the fact that different vehicles are used for different things.

They’re designed for different things. While I’ll agree that the many F-150 drivers are using them for their appropriate grade of work or towing, I’m guessing there are more F-150s that are used as grocery-getting-pavement-princesses than all the Tesla Model 3s ever sold.

In that way, F-150 is identical to Tesla Model 3 as far as use case.

It’s going to be all about the price.

EV or not, price the pollution into the cost of buying the tire. Then the economics of a non-polluting tire would be the primary driver for adoption because they would be cheaper than polluting tires.

And now to make lighter EVs that don’t wear on the road so much.

Tesla Model 3 Long Range (as an example) weighs in at 4,034 lbs, while the Ford F150 is 4,391 to 5,863 lbs.

Shouldn’t we start with the majority of ICE vehicles which already weigh the same or more than EVs?

While an FPU (Floating Point Unit aka math coprocessor) would be nice, the 386SX is still a 16-bit CPU. The 386DX is a 32-bit CPU (and would still need a 387 for a dedicated FPU). In the 486 line SX meant no FPU, while DX meant FPU inside.

This could be very useful to run really old PC tied commercial and industrial equipment. There is a surprising amount of old systems still keeping our lives running in small niche ways. It could be:

• your school system’s ancient HVAC system
• an old electron microscope in a biology or materials science lab
• an old pc based CNC mill

The fact that this has all the legacy ports of:

• IEEE 1284 parallel printer port
• RS-232 serial port
• a 16 bit ISA slot breakout!

…gives this some of the newest hardware I can think of that still interfaces with old ancient hardware.

Manufacturers should include a second GPS in these units that doesn’t block operation of the machine, but produces a kind of intermittent error code that makes the operator contact tech support. Tech support gives an instruction to the operator that clears the error.

However, included in the error string, which tech support now has, was obfuscated GPS coordinates that the manufacturer can decode. Provide these GPS coordinates to the Ukrainian military for priority targeting of the factories.

Andrew Tate is also in a Romanian jail right now, if I’m not mistaken.

But why are the women doing this?

Child support payments from one of the richest men on the planet probably aren’t small.

The ability to call out BS or contradictory requirements in a job posting.

Read said directly after the introductions (and after a very large crowd had lined up to see the talk) as seen in a video posted from the event. “Now, back in November, you had a message to us. You told us to sort of go fuck ourselves. So, maybe we start there.”

Great opening!

For those who need a refresher, the tweet Musk re-shared that started this whole mess stated that Jewish communities “have been pushing the exact kind of dialectical hatred against whites that they claim to want people to stop using against them.” The post also cited an antisemitic conspiracy of “hordes of minorities” infiltrating Western countries. Musk’s two cents? As he put it at the time, “You have said the actual truth.”

…and…

“I do shoot myself in the foot from time to time,” Musk continued. “But at least you know it’s genuine. … I think it’s better to be real than to go through a filter.”

So its better to be a mask-off antisemite than closeted even though he claims not to be?

Its good to keep an eye out for new sources of pollution, but the possible ozone depletion from satellites burning up is a tiny tiny fraction of what we’re doing on Earth right now for pollutants.