Vivaldi is the new Opera 12.x. Even though it, like everything, is based on Chrome.
Customizable everything, the Opera-like, side panel, Heck, they even make it easy to turn the file menu back on and put tabs on the bottom. The ex-Opera CEO who founded it has done a pretty good job reproducing what I loved about it.
I still want the cookie-filtering popups back though. "Ask me every time"
Yeah, but it takes a lot more skill to fly. These drones (quad/hex/whatevercopters) are the September that never ended for the RC aircraft community.
When I was learning to fly RC, I was buddy-cabled to an experienced RC pilot and he drilled in all the relevant safety info while we only flew at a designated RC field.
This idiot probably got the drone for Christmas, tried it out and said "wowee that's easy to fly" and immediately went somewhere he wasn't supposed to and did something he wasn't supposed to.
I'm using a 9 year old Optiplex 980, and I don't see why it wouldn't last at least another 5 years. I've got 2x4gb sticks and 2x2gb sticks in it. It maxes out at 4x4gb = 16gb. Got a nice SATA SSD in there, too. Works great for the office work and mild crunching I do on it.
Most Mac Pros will hold a lot more memory than that and have a lot more processing oomph, but you can't upgrade MacOS. I see why he's annoyed. I've got a pair of them running Linux right now. It would work pretty well, but if the systems are suspended, they hard freeze. So it's not really usable... there's probably some solution to that, but I haven't checked.
Vivaldi (Chromium based) has a pretty good solution to this. The close "X" doesn't appear on background tabs, only on the foreground tab. So currently I have 23 tabs open (17 Slashdot!). They're too small to show anything but the first three letters of each page title, but I can safely and blindly click to any one without fear of accidental closure. Then a second click on the "X" that appears when it comes to the foreground if I actually did want to close it.
Works pretty smoothly.
Actually, I just opened up the new "annoying interface" Chrome, and this appears to be the default now? So that's better, but the interface is still too flat and suck.
That's great... except of course you've now closed the page (that had the ad you accidentally clicked) you were trying to view, as well. So now you have to re-navigate to it.
Google's seems like a perfectly fine solution to an irritating problem that bites me occasionally.
Maybe you're thinking too small about the airport thing. If suborbital flight is that fast (and relatively inexpensive) and fuel is no extra cost, who's to say a hub wouldn't open in Cleveland, or St Louis, or wherever.
Don't forget group chat that you can easily opt out of by choosing "leave this hangout."
Next time someone adds my Voice number to another damn group text I can never opt out of without blocking the actual people might be the last damn time.
This "come see in 5 years when all the batteries have to be replaced" reminds me of that hybrid car hit piece that fudged a bunch of short life expectations onto a Toyota Prius to try and make it look like it was worse for the environment than a Hummer.
And what a success it was! You can easily point out exactly how that thing was utter BS, and the same person will continue citing it as why a Prius is worse for the environment than a Hummer. The same way, your breath is being wasted here:-/. The GP will turn around and repeat that the batteries will all have been replaced by 5 years elsewhere and over and over. Nothing will change except more people who want confirmation of that renewables = bad and grid storage is stupid will pick that number up and turn it even more hyperbolic.
Someone told me that a Prius is as bad for the environment as 5 Hummers recently. At this rate, taking one Prius off the road will offset the entire US fleet of SUVs by 2030. And these batteries will be one-time use, requiring a fresh set to be installed every time they're used like the worlds largest blister pack of Alkaline AAs.
But still, 64 pcie lanes for the threadripper family vs 16 for the 9900k is just stupid.
We just set up a 32 core threadripper with 64gb ecc memory (yes, ecc!) and SLIed video cards and a beefy 8x PCIe SAS controller for bulk storage and a 4x nvme boot SSD. Used for scientific computing. Cost about $6k It compares pretty favorably with the dual-CPU 16 core Epyc setup we installed earlier this year for about $9.5k. Amazing.
My Epyc system has 64 lanes per processor and dual processors (although I understand the single processor systems get 128 lanes because they don't use 64 of them them for inter processor communications.
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It's $280 for the screen on that $1000 phone :-/
My phone cost $280.
https://arstechnica.com/gadget...
Jakobshavn Glacier is the world's fastest glacier and moves 66-150 feet per DAY! Glaciers typically only move about 3 feet per day.
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Crazy.
Vivaldi is the new Opera 12.x. Even though it, like everything, is based on Chrome.
Customizable everything, the Opera-like, side panel, Heck, they even make it easy to turn the file menu back on and put tabs on the bottom. The ex-Opera CEO who founded it has done a pretty good job reproducing what I loved about it.
I still want the cookie-filtering popups back though. "Ask me every time"
Yeah, but it takes a lot more skill to fly. These drones (quad/hex/whatevercopters) are the September that never ended for the RC aircraft community.
When I was learning to fly RC, I was buddy-cabled to an experienced RC pilot and he drilled in all the relevant safety info while we only flew at a designated RC field.
This idiot probably got the drone for Christmas, tried it out and said "wowee that's easy to fly" and immediately went somewhere he wasn't supposed to and did something he wasn't supposed to.
September. That. Never. Ended.
I'm using a 9 year old Optiplex 980, and I don't see why it wouldn't last at least another 5 years. I've got 2x4gb sticks and 2x2gb sticks in it. It maxes out at 4x4gb = 16gb. Got a nice SATA SSD in there, too. Works great for the office work and mild crunching I do on it.
Most Mac Pros will hold a lot more memory than that and have a lot more processing oomph, but you can't upgrade MacOS. I see why he's annoyed. I've got a pair of them running Linux right now. It would work pretty well, but if the systems are suspended, they hard freeze. So it's not really usable... there's probably some solution to that, but I haven't checked.
Sam
Vivaldi (Chromium based) has a pretty good solution to this. The close "X" doesn't appear on background tabs, only on the foreground tab. So currently I have 23 tabs open (17 Slashdot!). They're too small to show anything but the first three letters of each page title, but I can safely and blindly click to any one without fear of accidental closure. Then a second click on the "X" that appears when it comes to the foreground if I actually did want to close it.
Works pretty smoothly.
Actually, I just opened up the new "annoying interface" Chrome, and this appears to be the default now? So that's better, but the interface is still too flat and suck.
The Lite version ironically has a headphone jack, according to the leaked renders.
That's great... except of course you've now closed the page (that had the ad you accidentally clicked) you were trying to view, as well. So now you have to re-navigate to it.
Google's seems like a perfectly fine solution to an irritating problem that bites me occasionally.
Oh, Apple has put a headphone jack back on their phones now? Great news!
That would be a bit of marketing genius if it were true.
But unfortunate for everyone who doesn't buy $800-1000 phones.
Maybe you're thinking too small about the airport thing. If suborbital flight is that fast (and relatively inexpensive) and fuel is no extra cost, who's to say a hub wouldn't open in Cleveland, or St Louis, or wherever.
I do advocate for a tax increase on gasoline/diesel. That's really the right way to do it.
No politician seems to have the guts to follow through with it, though.
Their name is off by three orders of magnitude? Lame.
Haha he built a full scale Air Hogs Aero Ace! If only he steered it purely by thrust vectoring it would be accurate in every way...
Sam
Don't forget group chat that you can easily opt out of by choosing "leave this hangout."
Next time someone adds my Voice number to another damn group text I can never opt out of without blocking the actual people might be the last damn time.
Did you notice they talked about making it an "EV cassette" and that reversibility is heavily promoted?
Doesn't seem too much like butchering to me.
This "come see in 5 years when all the batteries have to be replaced" reminds me of that hybrid car hit piece that fudged a bunch of short life expectations onto a Toyota Prius to try and make it look like it was worse for the environment than a Hummer.
And what a success it was! You can easily point out exactly how that thing was utter BS, and the same person will continue citing it as why a Prius is worse for the environment than a Hummer. The same way, your breath is being wasted here :-/. The GP will turn around and repeat that the batteries will all have been replaced by 5 years elsewhere and over and over. Nothing will change except more people who want confirmation of that renewables = bad and grid storage is stupid will pick that number up and turn it even more hyperbolic.
Someone told me that a Prius is as bad for the environment as 5 Hummers recently. At this rate, taking one Prius off the road will offset the entire US fleet of SUVs by 2030. And these batteries will be one-time use, requiring a fresh set to be installed every time they're used like the worlds largest blister pack of Alkaline AAs.
I agree, although I think you're aiming a bit high.
A nice 1.5-1.6L light truck based on a car chassis like dodge and chevy sell in Mexico will get you 40 mpg driven sanely on a conventional drivetrain.
Chevy Tornado, RAM 700, available now! Just not to you!
Stupid chicken tax.
Sounds like the battery they replaced the second time with was a refurb, not new.
I think that's called "Esperanto."
Yes, I keep waiting for a nice Ryzen 2200/2400G NUC to come out.
I'd buy that in a second.
Sam
But still, 64 pcie lanes for the threadripper family vs 16 for the 9900k is just stupid.
We just set up a 32 core threadripper with 64gb ecc memory (yes, ecc!) and SLIed video cards and a beefy 8x PCIe SAS controller for bulk storage and a 4x nvme boot SSD. Used for scientific computing. Cost about $6k It compares pretty favorably with the dual-CPU 16 core Epyc setup we installed earlier this year for about $9.5k. Amazing.
That escalated quickly.
The Ryzen 2700X has 20 lanes. 1x16 and 1x4.
My Epyc system has 64 lanes per processor and dual processors (although I understand the single processor systems get 128 lanes because they don't use 64 of them them for inter processor communications.
The headlight controls are on the stalk, what's this fuss about?