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Couldn't be more true. The community here, and the mods who keep it civil, have always been the best part about LTT.

Pebble successor: Garmin? Based on all the comments/rants that Linus makes about smart watches and his nostalgia for the pebble, I would love to see a video on Garmin watches. I feel like Garmin has really picked up the torch for those of us looking for a modern smart watch with great battery life, always on displays, physical buttons, and modern touches. I have used a few of them now since my Pebble unfortunately met it's end, and while their focus is definitely sports related, they seem to check every box Linus is always saying he has in his complaints about on other watches. It's not uncommon for me to get 1-2 Weeks of battery life even with an always on display; anything you do with a touch screen has button control in case you need to use it while raining or with gloves. The connection is ridiculously reliable, and they update their old products regularly - perhaps second only to Apple. But unlike Apple they let you link third party sensors, and the list goes on. They also have a broad range of prices to fit almost any budget or need, including a bunch of size options. Obviously it would take testing with someone who truly enjoys the sports aspect of it as well, but I'm sure there must be a few people at LTT now who could help review that part...

Yeah, it pretty much nixes the rumor that Intel would buy GF, and also confirms that Intel will be building their foundry business up themselves (eg without buying another one)

Summary GlobalFoundries, one of the largest chip manufacturers has begun the process of filing for an IPO globalFoundries web page Quotes My thoughts Given the gangbusters year semiconductors has had with the pandemic, and no end in sight to the shortage, now seems like a great opportunity to enter into the public space. This means they will finally be publicly compared to the gorillas like TSMC and Samsung not just by their semiconductor products but also financially. Sources globalFoundries web page

I took this the second day, not sure if it was the "final" one, but it should be pretty close.

One of the most beautiful things I've seen all day. I'm jealous!

This thread is just going to make me jealous of what I don't have here in the states. To save money but still have access to data like a civilized human being I've moved to Google fi, where I'm charged $10 / GB + 30 for two phones (text and calls) With some very careful planning and enough phone storage to pre-download my music/videos before a trip, I keep my plan under $60/month...

That's hilarious, yet somehow kind of awesome. Make sure you spread the tech love around a not necessarily tech field! I studied pure chemistry with no engineering courses and ended up in an electrical engineering job (semiconductor manufacturing), where they somehow thought my complete lack of any EE experience made me a good hire. Good thing they haven't caught on to this yet... ?

Wow, nice rant there my friend. You realize the whole video was user submitted reasons, not necessarily the opinions of the LMG crew? The idea was to explain why MacOS might be better, from the top 10 user submitted reasons... So let's not blame the LMG crew as some kind of apple sellout (let's be real, they only do that for Nvidia ?) To go on a few of your points - I won't go through them all... For the organization of desktops, you're not wrong technically, but you do see how it's not necessarily intuitive on windows? The idea is Mac makes it useful and easy, so your average Joe can do it. For not being able to run Mac in windows, I find this perfectly legitimate. As a Linux user who begrudgingly uses windows when needed, the ability to run my preferred system is Paramount. If my preferred system was MacOS - whether because it's what I'm used to or what I do all my work in - having that fallback is not to be overlooked. For your final point about backups, this is huge. The argument not to worry about it "unless your hardware is going to fail" is absurd. I can't name a single person I know of who has built something thinking that they'd like it to fail. But these things do happen - that's why there's a whole industry around data recovery. So the ability to make backups flawless, simple and easy enough for the average Joe to use is amazing, and has definitely saved many, many headaches.

I can get on board with this sentiment - I've been using Linux for over 20 years, and for the most part people online are good about answering questions, or at least saying "you need to learn to look around, I found the answer with a 2 second search - here's the link". If you think anyone is done learning about any OS, your kidding yourself - I still struggle with linux occasionally, but it's always worth it, and has gotten a lot easier recently (remember the days of NDIS wrappers to get external wireless because internal wireless support was trash?!) I recently helped my coworker switch to linux - though it wasn't necessarily his goal to switch, he did want to learn it. The way I taught my coworker linux was to help him set up his own plex media server on a little raspberry pi. Entry cost is super small (like $30), and the rewards for getting it up are great - you can set it up as an image backup service for your android device, stream your music from anywhere, and when I initially set it up I made sure it was primarily headless, so it forced him to learn the beauty of command line. Over time, through basic maintenance, learning how to move files from his local PC to his server and then having to diagnose why files weren't readable by plex if he transferred as root (then learning chmod...), he became comfortable enough to switch his primary PC to linux.

Given some of the issues I've seen and heard of from coworkers and friends, I wouldn't be as surprised as you think. ? Both my Subaru and Mini (BMW based) infotanment systems are hot garbage. As for myself, I work in the New York region at GlobalFoundries, the semiconductor manufacturer best known by this community for Ryzen 1st & 2nd gen (though not third gen, which is kinda sad for us..)

I'm actually thinking of getting my wife one of these - she's pretty short (155 cm), so she doesn't comfortably fit on larger, new bikes. Have you ridden one of these older CBX's, and any opinions?

I'm sure you can find something more hi-res. Some quick amazon scouring got me this 1920x1080(60Hz) screen that I'm sure you could remove from the housing and hook up to like an intel compute stick or something. https://www.amazon.com/GeChic-1002-Portable-Touchscreen-Monitor/dp/B00J9XCFOS/ref=sr_1_7?ie=UTF8&qid=1489255462&sr=8-7&keywords=10+inch+touch+screen+monitor you'll want to make it look decent - on my last car (a Jetta) I used a combo of dash kits that I Frankensteined together with epoxy, a dremmel and paint to fit a non-standard head unit. https://www.carid.com/2008-scion-tc-stereo-installation-dash-kits/

Gotcha. If you're a DIY modder kinda guy, have you considered mating a cheap raspberry pi touchscreen (link) with something other than a pi? You'd need to fabricate your own dash plastics to make it look nice, but it would give you the ability to have a touchscreen, a small PC, and upgradability.

how about a sweet looking iPad?