He also has his long and obnoxious obsession with x.com.
This spanned back to PayPal and he had to try this crap again with the Twitter rebrand, that frankly hasn't worked all that well, because most within my circle still call it by the old name Twitter.
I'm still hopeful of the fact that Intel is, in many aspects "too big to fail", and with their cash on hand, they have enough of a burn rate to turn this ship around, even if they aren't being as intense on cutbacks as they should be.
The question remains, will Intel survive in its current form or could an activist investor stir up a hostile takeover and change the calculus?
I'm not sure if Tesla is a great example here, considering they also suffer quality control issues, at least in their US manufacturing. The amount of panel gap issues and fitment problems I've witnessed with Teslas have been more than I care to admit.
Being truly vertically integrated is no guarantee for quality in my experience.
Agreed, Tesla now has a reputation for low quality. Even taking to randoms who do t know much about EVs or Teslas just say this now. It’s become common wisdom Toyota make good cars, Tesla make crap.
Interplay does not have the rights anymore. They actually had some kind of deal with Bethesda back when Interplay were in dire straits that allowed them to make a Fallout MMO type of experience after selling the Fallout IP for a couple million dollars to Bethesda. However, they had to do it on a rather compressed schedule, which they naturally didn't meet on their end. Therefore, they lost everything post 2009.
Interplay also did a Fallout classics retail release which included Fallout, Fallout 2, and Fallout Tactics. But Bethesda told them they no longer had the rights and Interplay had to get it pulled off store shelves. This was also around 2009 or thereabouts.
I trust Mullvad, or more like I haven't found a reason to not trust them yet. I buy the activation cards on Amazon for convenience and as far as I can tell the individual scratch off activation code you activate on their site with your account number cannot be traced back to you.
Mullvad accepts XMR which is more difficult to trace than amazon related anything. Mullvad does however state that payment information is disassociated from account numbers 90 days after payment. Theoretically you could use any payment you like, pay the 90 day compliance tax, set a cal event, then begin using it about a week after that 90 days is up. Cheaper to use XMR.
The trick of selling via Amazon is that although Amazon (and thus the government, if they subpoena'd that info) could easily see you're using Mullvad, they could not figure out which Mullvad account was yours.
Wireguard sets up an IPV4 based internal network and the machine responsible for the routing MUST know the client IP that was assigned to the connecting machine. There are some kernel modules to OBFUSCATE but not eliminate this data. Wireguard therefore has a fundamental design flaw that makes it faster but potentially less anonymous than OpenVPN protocol.
DYOR and YMMV. I always disable WG for at least my first hop.
> Wireguard sets up an IPV4 based internal network and the machine responsible for the routing MUST know the client IP that was assigned to the connecting machine.
How else would it work? You could strip the source IP, but then you couldn't get replies and you'd have a very anonymous VPN that could only be used to send UDP packets; no receiving and no TCP since even establishing TCP requires replies.
I think you need to post more context here because this doesn't make sense. We run large-scale WireGuard for hundreds of thousands of clients, and we know none of their client source IP addresses.
Although the Amiga was quite a neat piece of kit when it first came out in 1985, I disagree with your comment unfortunately. The custom chipset sorta "froze" the Amiga design to a particular level and it was very hard to make meaningful upgrades, unlike PCs, where you could slap a new CPU into the CPU socket, or a new video accelerator, sound card, etc, into the ISA or PCI busses.
Yes I realize there were accelerator cards for Amigas later on, like the BlizzardPPC, but they weren't an officially supported option by Commodore (most accelerators came out after Commodore was pronounced dead in 1994) and were more like kludges.
I was a Amiga fan until the mid 90's, and you're spot on. The Amiga was too difficult to iterate on. Chip set upgrades like AGA were far too little, too late. (And forget about ECS, which barely added anything a normal user would care about.) By the time AGA was out, 386 systems with SVGA, Soundblaster, etc were cheap and common.
As a collector, this is why I prefer Atari ST family systems over Amigas. Because they are simpler from the jump, they are easier to work on and less finnicky - floppies being a prime example of this... as Commodore liked using aggressive GCR encoding instead of IBM PC standards for formatting diskettes. For everything else, PC based hardware is just more familiar and flexible for me, since that's what I grew up with.
The Amiga was definitely the more exotic platform! I learned a ton from Amiga OS though. It was my first exposure to a "real" operating system with libraries, multitasking, IPC, etc. Once I got a Linux box though, I never looked back.
To each their own, but the book would never have sold any copies if Bill's name wasn't attached to it. I purchased a copy on Amazon and thought I was hoodwinked. It felt like a pure cash grab.
Imagine accusing a guy who could with a stroke of a pen have earned many millions of dollars in royalties and didn't for purely artistic purity reasons of a cash crab. What a silly thing to say.
And I admire him for his principles during that time. That said, regarding “The Mysteries”, I just feel that others wax poetic about it because of Bill. If anyone else was attached to this book, nobody would give a damn. I’m sorry I expected more and am hype resistant. And I say this as someone that loved Calvin and Hobbes.
To be fair to Bill… he didn’t hype up anything about it. The media did. It was heralded as the second coming and, much like Duke Nukem Forever, some things are best left in the past. It’s ok.
I think what the person who replied to you is primarily reacting to is the term “cash grab”. And that is what I will focus on.
You yourself mentioned that Bill did not hype up anything about it, nor did you really counter with any arguments to prove that it was financially motivated.
I myself have not read it, but just because it was not what you expected or what the media portrayed it to be does not make it a “cash grab”.
Can't believe someone would look at the art in The Mysteries and call it a cash grab. It oozes personality and thoughtfulness. It's true it wouldn't have sold any copies if his name weren't attached though.
The art certainly was sorta-interesting (if not weirdly AI-gen looking), but somehow I expected more for his out of the blue return after decades being off the radar.
Did you just, like, purchase it without having any concept of what it was? It's certainly different from Calvin and Hobbes, but there was no indication that it wouldn't be. Making a fairly artistic book with niche appeal is actually the opposite of a cash grab.
Perhaps. But I get the sense from folks here that anyone who once did massive hits (like Calvin and Hobbes) are simply beyond reproach, which is ridiculous to me. Even as an art book, the art feels weirdly AI-like to me and not particularly special. Again, personal opinion. I thought it was overrated for what it was.
Everyone is free to buy it to support him though if they feel differently about it.
I’ve replied to your other comment and I am replying again only after reading the other comments here, but I just realized here that I don’t think anyone is invalidating your experience of not liking it, but specifically reacting to the term cash grab.
This spanned back to PayPal and he had to try this crap again with the Twitter rebrand, that frankly hasn't worked all that well, because most within my circle still call it by the old name Twitter.
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