rob_ob

Hey man, I think you're projecting some stuff on me that isn't fair. I don't want all the dirty laundry aired. I don't want anyone named. I'm not "demanding inside info". I want to know what the outcome of an investigation was/will be. That can be as generic as "we identified these 3 issues, and here are the steps we're taking to make sure they never happen again". That's all. Please stop acting like I'm foaming at the mouth for personal details. It's not a good look, for either of us.

I believe this if from a post on Floatplane regarding the topic:

I might have before this whole thing kicked off, but the behaviours that were brought to light, including Linus all but admitting he would have tried to squash the story before GN published, had GN reached out for comment, means that trust is gone. The commitment they made to transparency on this was important for building that back up again. If they want to renege on that commitment, then all I can do is assume the worst and leave it at that. They have a platform to have their say, but if they'd rather close off that transparency, then they can do without my business. I'm sure they won't miss it

It'll be a shame if they break that commitment they made to the transparency around this. It unfortunately means I'll probably part ways permanently, since it both means my initial concerns haven't been addressed, but then they'll have added on duplicity in their behaviour around this by reneging on their commitment to transparency, which to me means they haven't really learned anything from this whole ordeal.

The reports of a toxic working environment really troubled me. To me, it was clear things needed to change after hearing the leaked audio of the team meeting, which really disappointed me. Since then I've been holding off on watching any videos or support of any kind until I saw some meaningful movement on that front, but over a month later I haven't seen any video addressing this. Did I miss something? Was this ever addressed on the WAN show? I haven't seen anything in the forums either. They previously committed to sharing the results of this, but I'm worried they're now hoping people will just forget.

8. Don't listen to BigFatTeddy

Some thoughts on fixing/improving things I've had over the last few days: Slow down. Obviously. **Editing to elaborate: there seems to have been an attitude from Linus developing lately of "good enough" which seems to be in contrast to the quality he wants to tout. I think if you want to live up to what you as a company claim to be, then "good enough" is not good enough. If you are aware that something isn't up to the high standards you set yourself, then it needs to be delayed and/or shelved until that quality can be attained. Terren needs a proper opportunity to ingrain himself as CEO, and Linus clearly needs a perspective refresh. I think Linus taking a 6 month sabbatical would be really good for him. Linus (and others) have talked about how Linus can be a "force of nature", etc. but over the course of all of this I think that might have been some polite code for steamroller. I think he needs to take some time to work on his active listening and work on taking criticism on board rather than digging into his own opinion. After this has passed, and things have quieted down, LMG need to hire experienced, qualified, in house HR. Ideally someone with a legal qualification. Through all the leaks it's painfully obvious the internal HR isn't trusted (with good reason it seems), the anonymous reporting internally isn't well known/understood by staff, and external HR is almost always a joke that just band aids problems and protects the company. LMG employees clearly need better people ops. Delegate responsibilities internally. Yvonne was in the past (maybe presently also) far too overloaded (HR, finance, set dec, etc. etc), and from the apology video it looks like Colton is wearing far too many hats. The result of company structures like this is that no one really knows who to go to for what, or if there's a conflict that needs resolving between two departments and report to the same person, often one department gets the second rate treatment. The external investigation is a great step, but the scope needs to increase. I think LMG should widen the net to ex employees. If done in a trustworthy, anonymous way, I think there'll be a lot more to come out if an independent 3rd party gives former employees a chance to have their say. This is actually standard practice everywhere I've ever worked. Any time I've left a job for any reason, I've had an independent 3rd party exit interview in addition to my internal exit interview to give an opportunity to be more honest than I might want to be with my former employer directly. Linus needs to lower his bar for being overruled. One take away from this is that LMG clearly have people internally that are better at a lot of this than Linus, and going forward Linus' opinion on LMG direction shouldn't carry as much weight as it does.

Sheeple gonna sheep

Because he isn't obliged to. Linus proved in his response that he wouldn't have taken that opportunity for comment in good faith and would have instead used it to try and discredit GN. Linus already tried that in his response; he claimed that everything had been settled with Billet Labs, but following GN's latest HW news, and Billet Labs post on the LTT subreddit, it's clear that Linus never reached out to them to settle this until GN's original video went live, and when he posted his response, he had only agreed to pay the cost of the prototype that Billet mentioned in a throw away comment, and hadn't even waited for a response from Billet before telling everyone on the forum that was sorted. Billet haven't even received anything. Linus has proved over the last 24 hours that he does not deserve the kindness of being reached out to for comment, and has demonstrated that he would only use such an opportunity to obscure facts and protect himself. Honestly it's good that Terren is CEO now, maybe this transition period can be a course correction too. If I were Terren I'd put Linus on, say a 6 month sabbatical. Let the new CEO really ingrain himself into the company and force Linus to let go of the reigns. Linus clearly needs to go touch grass, and this is a perfect opportunity to do so.

Not that this will ever happen, but if it did, I think we'd see a different, more petulant side to Linus than we've ever seen before. I don't think he has the chops, or maturity, to stand up to Steve's kind of in depth scrutiny in real time. Linus would end up either moping or rage quitting.

It's a little early for April fools. .

I'd imagine as well as the latest razer blade stealth. Same CPU, same number of PCIe lanes. Should be the same performance (in theory).

https://www.laptopmag.com/reviews/laptops/dell-xps-13 This is something I've been greatly anticipating, but I'm left sorely disappointed. Aside from the webcam still being in the wrong place, one of my reservations on the last model was no HDMI port. It's doubled down on the seemingly ever shrinking port selection. My take away is: Less ports Less weight Less crappy webcam (though still not in the right place) Also they're using 4 PCIe lanes on their Thunderbolt 3 now, which is also used to charge the device, so yay? From LaptopMag's conclusion: So I guess that's me then, but I wasn't really sold on that one either. Here's hoping Razer announce a revamped Blade Stealth at CES with some kind of bio-metric authentication and a better battery life.

I'm currently running a Sony Vaio S13 with an i5-3230M, 12GB RAM and a 512GB SSD. I've felt for some time that there wasn't anything out there that could really replace it. All I really want is: High CPU performance for developing 3 tier applications, some ML/vision work, maybe some light robotics 13 or 14 inch, thin and light Good battery life (~10 hours, so no GPU, don't really need one) Good quality screen and speakers for watching movies HDMI, USB types A and C (I don't want to be carrying around dongles) Top end build quality After I got my laptop, the market for thin and light with no GPU was completely taken over by ULVs, so I'm really hoping that these quad core ULVs will be the answer to my prayers. I'm really considering buying one of these, but if anyone has suggestions on what else could meet my needs please tell me.

I actually joined this forum (and subsequently FPC) to ask this: How do modern Intel ULV processors compare to the mobile chips of yesteryear. I wonder this because my laptop (getting a bit long in the tooth) has an i5-3230M, and in the non-gaming thin and light (but still worthy of coding on) market today, everything seems to be ULV, with the same cores, and same clock speed as my 3230M. I know there are new features such as hardware decoding, etc, etc. But in pure task performance, how do these stack up? I've heard that even the 7th generation ULVs can bottleneck streaming 4k, but my 3rd gen M can handle this no problem. Is this just a market segment Intel have forgotten about, or are the U's and Y's of today really viable replacements for the M's of old?