Nope... it's been an issue in GTK's tracker for over 16 years. They would have passed the buck long time ago if it wasn't their issue.
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Looks like the culprit is the CPU/SoC: Rockchip RK3399. The specs for it do look decent on paper [1] but I guess it's simply too slow and not suited for laptops due to a small cache. It looks like a mobile phone SoC.
>The screen size and resolution scream for fractional scaling but Manjaro does not seem to provide it. Scale of 1 is a bit too small and 2 is way too big. The screen is matte, which is totally awesome, but unfortunately the colors are a bit muted and for some reason it seems a bit fuzzy. This may be because I have not used a sub-retina level laptop displays in years.
Screen is a deal-breaker for me. I stare at screens for hours on end and if it's not something in the same class as a retina screen on a Macbook or iMac, I just ditch it quickly. As for fuzzy screen and muted colors, well, that's the fault of the matte layer on the LCD panel. It's purpose is to diffuse light and minimize reflections. Personally I don't like to make that trade-off and prefer glass surfaces on my screens. I'll make a shade and make sacrifices as to how I orient myself to enjoy crisp text and proper colors in photos/video.
As for scaling, only Cinnamon DE does it right. I've tried almost all DEs over the past 6 months or so and Cinnamon's new fractional scaling and HiDPI support is the best by far. [2]
>The trackpad's motion detector is rubbish at slow speeds.
None of the non-Macbook trackpads are great. There's a project that's working on a good Linux trackpad driver but it's far in the future. Don't bank on it in the short-term. [3]
[1] http://rockchip.wikidot.com/rk3399
[2] https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2020/02/cinnamon-desktop-fractio...
>they weigh 10 percent less than their forged equivalents and feature an integrated and closed cooling duct in the piston crown that's apparently unable to be reproduced using traditional manufacturing methods. The decrease in weight and temperature results in an extra 30 horsepower on top of the GT2 RS's already mighty 700.
So.. 10% less weight and ~4% increase in performance. But what about the increase in price? 3D printing is magnitudes slower than forging and probably many times more expensive. I guess some Porsche owners would gladly pay for these improvements.
>Protesters from the No Mose group tried to disrupt the test but police stopped them.
The article doesn't elaborate on their motives at all but does anyone know what they were protesting? The cost? The corrouption? Surely not the function of the system itself...
If you cannot afford Little Snitch or don't want to pay for it or just prefer open source, install LuLu. It's a free and open source alternative to LS application firewall. [1] You can install it through Homebrew or download binaries manually [2].
How about NO! How about we go after all three of them? Google should not be left off the hook. This is just whataboutism by Google's PR.
Anyway, Google's employees are all over this thread.
https://deadline.com/2020/05/planet-of-the-humans-pulled-you...
https://deadline.com/2020/05/planet-of-the-humans-pulled-you...
Michael Moore talks about it in his podcast and you can also read about it on their website:
https://deadline.com/2020/05/planet-of-the-humans-pulled-you...
>Priceless Chinese works of art stolen in audacious robberies from galleries and museum in Britain and Europe are thought to be ending up in private collections belonging to Beijing billionaires.
>Zhao Xu, the director of Beijing Poly Auction, told China Daily: “Buying looted artwork has become high street fashion among China’s elite.”
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/08/25/chinese-art-heis...
>The cases have in common overlapping features of toxic shock syndrome and atypical Kawasaki Disease with blood parameters consistent with severe COVID-19 in children.
https://www.hsj.co.uk/acute-care/exclusive-national-alert-as...
Quite alarming. Not even all kids' immune systems can deal with SARS-CoV-2.
I did some searching and found few interesting data points:
>For dozens of oil producers, the plunge in oil prices is devastating. No major oil producer can balance its budget at prices below $40; according to the International Monetary Fund, with the exception of Qatar, every country in the Middle East requires at least $60, with Algeria at $157 and Iran at a whopping $390. The average Brent price of oil over the past month has been a hair above $20. [1]
and this from 2019:
>Top oil exporter Saudi Arabia would need oil priced at $80-$85 a barrel to balance its budget this year, an International Monetary Fund official said. [2]
Given that WTI is at $19 and Arab Light at $21, there's going to be lots of internal changes in ME in the coming years. Probably a few wars too.
[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2020-04-29/covid-...
[2] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-saudi-economy-imf/saudi-a...
Since we export so much grain every year, I'm amazed that there's such a massive shortage of flour. I don't know if it's the shortage of grains or mills.
Did it at least send you a message that it was leaking? Heh.
I'm a big proponent of 'dumb appliances'. The less they do, the better. All this IoT-ification of everything is madness. It just introduces points of failure, attack surfaces and privacy intrusions for no benefit for the consumer whatsoever. Oh, and they're nearly impossible to repair because everything's DRMed and microcontrollers actively prevent you from fixing things with 'unauthorized parts'.
My household still has 15 year old Maytag appliances that still work perfectly and have no DRM in them. I plan on fixing them until the day I die because I really don't want to deal with this new mess.
I wonder how much Cloudflare paid for this 'privilege' of being the default DNS provider.
Thanks for a tip! While I couldn't find exactly what you mentioned, I did find this picture of a bearing from a Roman bilge pump:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/ahistoryoftheworld/objects/0ZUWbEmiTXWf...
https://i.imgur.com/gX26IYG.jpg
I found it to be absolutely amazing so I had to find out more about it.
You're very brave considering that Cloudflare doesn't even have U2F yet Google and Amazon do.
Quite possibly the best decision I made in my life. TV and news, especially the news channels, are massive time sinks that just slowly eat your life away. And not only do you get absolutely nothing from it, they make your life miserable too. I'm pretty sure that people who don't watch TV are happier than those who do. Someone should do a study on that.