today's leftovers
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Linux gains ability to repair exFAT drives • The Register [Ed: Describing Linux in Microsoft terms]
In case you thought the FAT filesystem died out with Windows ME – and good riddance – we have bad news for you. Several versions of it are alive, well, and essential to modern PCs, cameras, phones, fondleslabs, and more. The good news is, you'll soon be able to fix the FS with Linux.
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Steam Decks Biggest Problem *Reaction* - Invidious
HE'S BACK!!!! Let's see what this idiot has to say this time about what the #steamdeck problems are.
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Open source's totally non-secret weapon: Staying relevant • The Register
Last week, one fundamental problem for IT cropped up in three very different stories. One story was Google's parent Alphabet doing an internal audit of all its products on the back of falling profits. One was a highly critical look at Meta's efforts to put business into VR. And one was Linus Torvalds getting cranky that the i486 architecture was still in Linux's first-class lounge when it should be packed off to the Old Codes' Home.
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It's amazing how making money the motivator can break that down. One cost of being rich is that you can ignore the outside world, or see it as something to be bought. That shields against relevance to users. Meta wants everyone to work in the metaverse, and is denying the awkward fact that strapping shoeboxes to our heads is completely irrelevant to our day jobs. But guess how long a career at Meta will be for anyone who says so. Relevance is poison to big wrong projects, and the corporate immune system recognizes it as such.
Another cost of plump revenues is that they become the only relevant things in your world. Google's incoherent product strategy is the opportunity cost of management mindset soaking away into the sands of advertising revenue and the resulting wars with regulators and governments. Meta has the same besetting sin, it just minimizes proper strategic planning by declaring it a "vision" instead.
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Connected Car News: Elektrobit, MEMTECH, ViscIC, KYOCERA, Nauto, Onsemi & Goodix
Elektrobit announced a partnership to bring the benefits of Canonical’s Ubuntu operating system to automotive software.