davidandgoliath

Understood, I'd launch editors from the wsl & end up blowing up all of my work without thinking. It's hard to get out of the habit of typing `atom .` inside a folder.

Oh well, linux works for me :)

Curious: Linux, or windows? Make sure you're using libinput if on linux, it'll solve that outright.

It's handy, I'll give you that. Until this bug (feature?) is sorted, it's dangerous: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/commandline/2016/11/17/do-n...

And it's limited to two ports, at least in earlier editions.

Please. The first thing I have to do when I provision a new macbook is install bettertouchtool, and hack apart at that for an hour to get half-decent hotkeys. Every other OS has half-decent ones. https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204948 — explain why that is simply windows-right or windows-left on every other OS, but apple requires some convoluted fucking process.

And that beautiful UX that is the bouncing icons in apple's dock? Oh! New notification from an application, let's have an icon bounce in the dock for a full 45 minutes.

Apple is chock-full full of stupid design decisions, Linux has done surprisingly fine in comparison, particularly given the uneven investment, capital-wise.

Late last year I swapped back to linux, & gave it a firm shake after ~9 years of apple (I abandoned ship due to the lack of ports, + touchbar). My linux distro gave me a hassle just a few weeks ago, so I tried swapping back to my '17 macbook & couldn't stomach it for more than 30 minutes.

Give ubuntu or fedora a try, it's light-years ahead of what it used to be.

> In other words, how much of Macbook's trackpad is in it's software?

A tonne. Compare how the trackpad acts in the restore system, and how it acts in MacOS: Two very different realms of quality.

Regardless, lenovo & dell's (x1 & xps) trackpads are on par with the macbook '15's trackpad. Apple has lost that advantage.

I'd heavily recommend the lenovo x1 line, I'm using the x1c5 (gen5) without issue. Love it in every regard, and it doesn't hurt that it's lighter than the macbook by a heavy margin.

Nope, you're stuck in your little garden by yourself for now.

You can install google `messages` for android based sms now, and KDE connect lets you do the same without google involved, well, assuming you use android :)

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.kde.kdecon...

This! I had 15 minutes remaining one day in battery life, installed tlp & was good for another 45. Massive improvement.

If you don't want that carbon though, I'll buy it off ya if it's a gen5.

Dell's prove just as good as the carbons aside from keyboard. The dell keyboard is miniscule.

The x1 has what feels like a full sized keyboard in a lightweight package, lightweight like a macbook air but with a nice mechanical keyboard. The dell feels like a netbook that found some big boy pants. It's keyboard is atrocious/typing feels cramped.

No faults to speak of (~10 year macbook user here) as someone who uses an x1 c5 now. I miss using cmd-c/cmd-v & soulver (math app. on MacOS), but otherwise no drawbacks.

C6 definitely has too many drawbacks, but, I'd love to have the little camera cover. I'll have to 3d print one...

afaik, dell / lenovo uses glass (at least on the xps / x1 that I have). Lenovo has them covered in a matte finish of some sort, but it's glass.

x1 (gen c5) is amazing as well. After almost a decade as a macbook user, i'm impressed by it & back to linux! :)

> The state of touchscreen support in Linux was pretty bad the last time I checked though.

Anecdotal — but have had no trouble for the last two years with my dell xps. Other issues with said laptop (keyboard), but touchscreen support in linux isn't one of them.

Windows 10 is the exception by the way, the hotkeys for windows management are wonderfully executed — and, well thought out. Worth giving it a try.

I swapped to mac for this very reason, actually. Now that windows has WSL, I've been straddling the fence on whether to swap back (tried it back in Dec., might give it another try soon).

> "I remember hand coding an XFree86Config file almost two > decades ago to get three monitors setup."

Yeah, it's come a long way since then ;) It's 100% plug and play, at least with fedora/ubuntu/debian. Haven't played much outside that realm.

Seconded!

Recently swapped to sparkling water myself, realized that I was just in pursuit of something to sip on while staring at computers during the evenings when my frontal lobe was exhausted. I even wield various sparkling waters with soda (3/4ths sparkling water, 1/4th coke) to swap up the flavors a bit.

About a year ago they updated to unity5 and framerates are wonderful now, just for ref.

I'm confused why they're complaining to bloomberg & not bothering to put ads in some nearby towns/cities.

I imagine there's no shortage of low-skill workers available in the united states, shipping people in from afar seems outrageous.

Netlify's testing site is fraudulent — yeah, I said it, let me know if you need my legal contact.

a) they're testing from within their network (bullshit). b) they purport that you'll get 6ms ttfb if hosted on netlify. Dishonest.

I've intentionally imported sites to remote hosts, and tested them there — they performed better away from netlify, and, netlify's speed testing tool gave them bad scores, despite them performing better than the same site hosted on netlify.

Oh well. They've got some nice tools, if it weren't for their fraudulent testing tool.

Honestly, with the exception of a few commands (ping & such), it's more than sufficient for 'most' stuff.

The only glaring issue is if you mount your windows drive in any form, permissions are fudged. Otherwise, perfectly capable. I'm certain there are bugs, but I use it heavily as a daily driver (admittedly, just managing remote systems) and it's mostly flaw free.

* Recently swapped from MacOS after ~5 years in their ecosystem

* ~15 year linux user prior to that.

As someone who is extremely noise sensitive, I disagree: ATH-M50X's are 'okay' for audio, and pitiful for noise mitigation. They offer almost zero reduction in outside audio, but are okay from an audio standpoint.

(Yes, gun range ear mufflers will work, but you might look awkward. I have a sets of those when I really need to concentrate)

Here's my recommendation:

Shure SE215-K. In ear studio monitor. amazing noise blocking ability, and, you can play some music to boot. I have literally wore mine down from years of office/motorcycle/road trip use. They have replaceable cables too.

Caveat: These can be uncomfortable for prolonged use (I'm talking ~20 hour road trips) as they're in-ear, but seriously get a set. Now that they're $99 on amazon, vs. the $299 I paid for them years prior -- it's a no brainer. In fact, I'm going to get another set this very moment.

Seems rather odd — 465 is for outgoing mail (SMTP). 110/995 are for incoming pop3.

Link would be handy! :) Promise I won't accidentally send any messages.

The few times I've seen this done were pitiful, amazon's is easily the worst out of the bunch — but, I'd love to see a good example as it's something I'm tempted to integrate.

Interestingly enough, the CIRA (.ca domains) implemented a policy that says quite the opposite. Any domain changes result in a 60 day lock.

For reference, ICANN requires that upcoming renewal notifications are sent in specific intervals, so it results in very noisy registrars.

Namecheap could note within that renewal notice (and subsequently avoiding the auto-renewal notice) but, I can see where they're coming from.

... and? "Way less legal boundaries" — the NSA doesn't even have a published budget. If you're on the internet, you're in their database(s) and so is your data. If you're interesting to them, your sysadmins are already exploited.

Court? Legal avenues? Legal boundaries?! Surely you jest.

Love the pebble (3+ yrs). Had an apple watch for a short while but didn't enjoy it all that much. UI was really a disadvantage, but voice control was spectacular (for siri).