It was really the only reason I considered getting one. I suspect this will be relevant to more people than you might expect- iirc it's the only titanium (metal?) credit card you can get without an annual fee.
I've been trying out different distros, but still using windows 10 ltsc as my main OS. I've got 2 additional partitions containing popos with cosmic and kde fedora that I've narrowed it down to, but both need just a little more bugfixing to to become perfect for me. LTSC is still supported for a while, but if my computer stopped working, I feel like macOS would be a no-brainer for most people.
hopefully fractional scaling in linux becomes more efficient in general. I stopped using linux because no amount of playing witht font sizes could make the gnome ui look decent at 100/200% scale coming from 175/225 percent scale, and the cpu penalty was twice that of windows. not a huge deal unless you're like me and rearrange windows all the time.
Just downloaded this and it seems to be everything I've wanted on an ios safari adblocker. I was using ublock origin lite before. Its completely free like ublock but you can use your own filter lists. Thanks!
I've seen this argument thrown around but I'm not sure I understand how it holds up. Why didn't android just completely copy apple's marketing, then? What did apple do differently,marketing wise, that android couldn't emulate?
I was specifically referring to the down sampling that you refer to on GNOME. I don't think I've seen a linux desktop environment where this isn't the case. The result is that when you drag or resize windows (or have any movement on your screen in general) your cpu/gpu spikes. While I'm sure it's not a huge deal on modern hardware, The performance penalty on my dell xps 13 from 2015 is pretty significant, and it looks like the cpu usage when dragging/resizing windows doubles on linux compared to windows 10, which makes sense. battery life also takes a serious hit. Since no one has seemed to be able to figure this out, I wonder if it's a compositor specific thing? like there's no way to change this behavior without rewriting wayland or something.
anyone know if fractional scaling works without a performance hit in this new iteration? or any other de that fractionally scales without performance dips? All i can see is adding debugging tests for fractional scaling.
It seems like Raspberry Pi has been trying hard to push itself as a PC instead of a tinkering embedded systems board. I'm not sure how I feel about this, since you can get better performing computers for cheaper. That being said, I'm not sure if it even holds up as a reasonably priced hardware learning platform anymore, with esp32, arduino, and others providing a very similar learning curriculum at a fraction of the price.
I agree. I've been trying to use linux as my daily driver for months but aside from using it for incredibly basic things (like web browsing and watching videos) its been a genuine chore. I've settled on fedora gnome as most likely to be the one I'll stick with but it still feels less polished than windows. Funnily enough I'm having compatibility issues- there are a bunch of extensions that promise to use to fix my experience with gnome but they're only compatible with previous versions.
While I am disappointing, I'm not exactly surprised. I'm willing to bet that this is in response to the Windows 10 Mail App, which was a lightweight metro app that Microsoft depreciated to try to push people to use it's new outlook app. People hated it, so they downloaded older versions and shut off app updates. Eventually, Microsoft did a server side switch that essentially broke functionality on the old app with outlook emails, although other providers work fine (for now).
I have an iPhone 8. It does literally everything you've listed, and the battery is cheap/easy to replace. My lg v30, with a battery replacement is about the same (albiet with a custom os since androids didn't get many years of updates back then)
If it wasn't obvious, using Box-Office numbers as a catch-all measure of film success hasn't been reasonable since we came out of Covid. Streaming counts are beginning to play a larger role. It's why so many large studios are willing to make Direct-To-Streaming Movies instead of releasing them in theaters- Sony's (well-rated) "Kpop Demon Hunters" is the most recent example to come to mind.
it's practically trivial to bypass this if you really want to. CapitalOne in the US allows you to have virtual cards that can be verified but you can delete and block at any time for free if you have a credit card from them. I'm sure the practice discourages casuals from gaming trials, but it just feels like it's making life miserable for paying customers but doing almost nothing to stop bad actors
pdf.js is also available as an extension on chromium based browsers.
I've found that scrolling on pdfs on a high dpi screen using the built in chromium pdf reader is extremely laggy so this has always been a must-have extension for me.
Thank you for posting- this is a viewpoint I never considered before. I was told that poor people had no way of affording large investments like houses and instead spent that money on status symbols.