I've got 64-bit Mint 17.1 Cinnamon on an older (Ivy Bridge-powered) Lenovo Ideapad Yoga 11s. Everything worked immediately except the wireless*, which was easy enough to fix after I downloaded one third-party package plus dkms to auto-rebuild the module during kernel upgrades.
Cinnamon's UI isn't designed around touchscreens, but it works with them, much like MATE. I prefer the good old keyboard and touchpad myself.
* and some fancy power management stuff that's handled by a utility on the Windows side, such as restricting the battery to 60% charge to prolong life. It can still be toggled in the UEFI.
Solar and wind are unsuited for base load because they're not constantly producing. The wind can and does die down, the sun goes down and there are cloudy days. You need something like nuclear to create reliable base load without using fossil fuels.
That weakness of solar and wind can be mitigated with sufficiently advanced batteries (or some other efficient and capacious storage mechanism), but we're still waiting for that.
Eh. I can see why the Badger does that: Google has such a huge web presence that blocking their cookies outright will break many things, which would cause an average user to disable it; as it is, I put it on my wife's computer and she's never noticed the difference, unlike with Ghostery.
I've got Vanilla Cookie Manager for more fine-grained permissions, myself.
Just because it's a slow news day, it doesn't follow that you have to post any old non-news just to keep the clicks going. Is there nothing interesting going on in science, technology, space, or other nerdy topics?
I'm a big fan of Privacy Badger, mainly because it can automatically block trackers based on behavior rather than having to rely on someone's premade block list.
Firstly because of the hysterical tone, secondly because it's an op-ed, and thirdly because it's on Slashdot.
Can someone who knows what's going on analyze this and give a reasonable non-hysterical interpretation? I don't necessarily/trust/ the companies mentioned, but again the submission stinks.
Yes, and doubtless the plan is to upgrade the F-35 to current avionics once its bugs are shaken out, as was done with its predecessors. Article is clickbait.
I'd bet you a goodly sum that it's been available in chrome://flags for quite a while now, which is analogous to Firefox's about:config, and is where Google tends to stick features that aren't ready for the general public yet (and sometimes never).
30 comments and all but one or two are brain-dead stupid. What happened to the intelligent posters? Slashdot used to be known for having pretty intelligent discussion.
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Hah. My workplace has probably half a dozen genuine LPTs that print on greenbar tractor-feed paper. They can be quite loud with the casing open.
Hundreds of posts of people talking past each other coming right up.
Judging by how the post was structured, that was Soulskill's contribution, not dkatana's.
Yeah people! You've had two whole months to be doing that upgrade! What's taking you so long?
Some Nexus devices still haven't gotten an update. That is completely unacceptable.
#firstworldproblems
Right? Since it's posted here I'm interested, yet suspicious of whether these are really good recommendations.
I've got 64-bit Mint 17.1 Cinnamon on an older (Ivy Bridge-powered) Lenovo Ideapad Yoga 11s. Everything worked immediately except the wireless*, which was easy enough to fix after I downloaded one third-party package plus dkms to auto-rebuild the module during kernel upgrades.
Cinnamon's UI isn't designed around touchscreens, but it works with them, much like MATE. I prefer the good old keyboard and touchpad myself.
https://wiki.debian.org/Instal...
* and some fancy power management stuff that's handled by a utility on the Windows side, such as restricting the battery to 60% charge to prolong life. It can still be toggled in the UEFI.
Base load is so low that it is completely uninteresting.
Spot the guy who doesn't know anything about power generation.
Solar and wind are unsuited for base load because they're not constantly producing. The wind can and does die down, the sun goes down and there are cloudy days. You need something like nuclear to create reliable base load without using fossil fuels.
That weakness of solar and wind can be mitigated with sufficiently advanced batteries (or some other efficient and capacious storage mechanism), but we're still waiting for that.
It's like how engineers, of all the STEM fields, are the most likely to be young-earth creationists.
Eh. I can see why the Badger does that: Google has such a huge web presence that blocking their cookies outright will break many things, which would cause an average user to disable it; as it is, I put it on my wife's computer and she's never noticed the difference, unlike with Ghostery.
I've got Vanilla Cookie Manager for more fine-grained permissions, myself.
Joke's on them: I'm running Privacy Badger, which as a side effect blocks their ads - doubleclick.net and scorecardresearch.com are blocked.
Just because it's a slow news day, it doesn't follow that you have to post any old non-news just to keep the clicks going. Is there nothing interesting going on in science, technology, space, or other nerdy topics?
I'm a big fan of Privacy Badger, mainly because it can automatically block trackers based on behavior rather than having to rely on someone's premade block list.
https://www.eff.org/privacybad...
The same folks provide HTTPS Everywhere, another must-have.
https://www.eff.org/HTTPS-EVER...
Firstly because of the hysterical tone, secondly because it's an op-ed, and thirdly because it's on Slashdot.
Can someone who knows what's going on analyze this and give a reasonable non-hysterical interpretation? I don't necessarily /trust/ the companies mentioned, but again the submission stinks.
The F-15 wasn't even in operational service until 1976, and the MiG-31 entered service in 1981. You're /both/ wrong.
Yes, and doubtless the plan is to upgrade the F-35 to current avionics once its bugs are shaken out, as was done with its predecessors. Article is clickbait.
Not on a 1:1 basis, they're not, not unless you're slamming on the brakes.
Pish. We had Jon Katz back in the day.
It's so not-news that it was debunked on Reddit and other places a week ago.
Slashdot's given up on news for nerds, and it's giving up on stuff that matters.
I'd bet you a goodly sum that it's been available in chrome://flags for quite a while now, which is analogous to Firefox's about:config, and is where Google tends to stick features that aren't ready for the general public yet (and sometimes never).
30 comments and all but one or two are brain-dead stupid. What happened to the intelligent posters? Slashdot used to be known for having pretty intelligent discussion.
Whoosh! I was mocking the gamergaters, chum.
Moar liek "it's about ethics in gaming journalism!"
Home of the brave.
This. Grandparent's being overdramatic.