There are solutions for a USB-C version of the MagSafe connector. In my opinion, it shouldn't stop you from upgrading. I've done so, and actually don't miss the MagSafe connector. It's only necessary when I use it at home, but I arrive home with a fully charged laptop.
I think lots of people here have some server running somewhere. Install Tiny Tiny RSS (TT-RSS) on there, and be able to access it from anywhere. Totally open source. https://tt-rss.org/
What's great is that there are a number of RSS reading apps that you can point to your server, so it doesn't matter whether you're on mobile or on your desktop browser. For Android, I'd suggest just use the app from the same author. For iOS, I use Tiny Reader (App Store link).
In a move that stunned nobody, a thief stole from crime lord. The crime lord in question sold thieving tools to corrupt governments to spy on their citizens. When business took off, the crime lord hired a local thug. When the crime lord looked the other way, the thief left with all of the inventory! The crime lord took to the courts and explained his plight.
When the courts laughed in his face, he threatened to expose the moral bankrupcy of several national institutions. Soon after, an attorney general helped him rewrite his complaint, not mentioning ordinary theft but rather calling it "industrial spionage" and was thus able to spend the taxes of citizens to spy on them. The crime lord himself told Motherboard in an online chat "no comment."
That Facebook container is golden. I wish Firefox would take it even further, though. The other day, I was browsing for a new monitor. Then what do you know, I open the desktop Spotify client (free tier) and there's an ad for the same monitor. I really, really hate this shit but I don't know what to do against this tracking. I already use uBlock Origin in Firefox.
Those old, slow dinosaur automakers actually make a decent profit.
Yes, but probably not on electric cars. I'm living in Europe, and there's a shortage on EVs. Meaning, if you order them, you'll have to wait for 6 or more months. Now in that market, some manufacturers are winding down production on EVs. For instance, the Volkswagen e-Golf takes more than 6 months to deliver however its production will be stopped. Volkswagen says they need the capacity for their new series which comes out in 2019. However it's suspected that VW simply cannot make the e-Golf profitable at the moment.
> What if you want to charge the battery using the laptop? It probably does automatically if the laptop is externally powered. If you want to do this with laptop on battery, I bet you need some little software?
I don't know whether that's possible at the moment. Pretty sure there aren't any laptops available that let you influence the USB-PD negotiation. A bit more control over this would be interesting, though! You could always hack it together with the Plugable USB-C sniffer plus some scripts, but that's cheating:)
I skimmed the article and I don't see big problems. Basically he says: you can't always fast-charge your phone on any adapter.
I don't really see the problem with that. It may not be what the author expected, though. It's quite simple; these USB-C chargers provide two or three volt/ampere combo's. But if your phone just happens to like a combo that's in between the offers, then it'll pick the lower one.
If you happen to know this, then you can simply look on the charger itself. It'll say for example something like: "5V/3A, 15V/1.5A, 20V/1A". The best one of these is obviously the 15V/1.5A, because that's 15*1.5=22,5 Watt. However, it could very well be that your phone can accept a maximum of 10V/2A. Since the charger doesn't supply that, it'll drop back to 5V/3A = 15W.
Consumers won't notice except that it charges slower than usual, there's no visual feedback on this. Phone manufacturers could show a message on the screen, but it's too confusing for most people.
There are many, many great things about USB-C. For example, I brought my tiny 12W iPad charger on holiday, and I charged my big-ass laptop off it. It takes the whole night, but who cares?
Another really cool example is that you can extend the battery life of your laptop. Just hook up one of those external batteries that are meant for charging phones. It'll only supply, say, 5V/1.5A = 7.5W. Not enough to charge your laptop, but enough to give it some extra juice over the course of a workday. It might just pull you through. USB-C is awesome like that.
Here in Europe, there's a lot of EVs that have this problem. The Volkswagen e-Golf has a 6 month delivery, and this year Hyundai stopped taking orders for the Ioniq (i.e. more than 6 month delivery).
USB-C/Thunderbolt 3 is awesome like that. Connect a single cable and you're in business. I love it. But like you, I still like the laptop keyboard to work. I didn't get Apple Care and I'm praying this keyboard will keep working. They're quite fragile:(
Quite surprising, I had not expected new SoCs from Qualcomm for smartwatches. In February, Ars posted about "Android Wear is getting killed, and it’s all Qualcomm’s fault, where they mention that it's two years since Qualcomm's last smartwatch chip was announced.
Since by all accounts, Qualcomm was being such a dick in the marketplace, I kinda hoped that the smaller SoC makers would've stood up. But it doesn't appear to be the case. Oh well.
Well yeah, however since the batteries will be supply-constrained for at least a couple of years, that's very important. VW only recently announced such deals, and I don't think they got a better deal than Tesla. Since the battery pack is a big part of the cost of the car, it's extremely important thay you make such deals before the rest does.
Must've been something like 13 years ago. For the life of me, I can't remember the type, but a quick search turned up this: https://www.dell.com/community... I just received my new Inspiron 8600. I love everything about it except the heat. I feel that there is too much heat on left side of the mouse pad area. As a result, my left palm hand is feeling so warm when I am typing. Is this normal situation for Inspiron 8600? It bothers me alot.
I definitely wasn't the only one. But it was ages ago, so who cares.
Most laptop lines have a weak spot. And it's the keyboard for the 12" MacBook and the MacBook Pro. Loads of people experience no problems whatsoever, but some do. I've had a Dell which had an old-fashioned harddrive that heated up the left palm rest. Very annoying. But not annoying enough to get rid of the machine.
Now I'm sure that some really have defective keyboards, where it didn't have anything to do with dirt or something. That sucks of course. But in general I'd say: simply not eat in front of this laptop, and keep a can of pressured air at home. In my personal experience, it solves the issue.
Not trying to be an Apple apologist or something, there really is a problem. But unless you have the bad luck of a real mechanical defect, it's easily solved.
Exactly this. I haven't used Chrome in about three years. First, it was because I went to a MacBook Pro, and Chrome power usage was terrible. After using Safari for a bit, I rediscovered Firefox. The new plugin system was actually a blessing for me. It feels more stable, less power- and memory-hungry, and offers some features that the other browsers don't have (like "find in links").
Just to push that last point home; "find in links" basically goes as follows: spot a link you want to click on. Don't click but instead type single-quote, then type a couple of characters from the link. Firefox focuses on the link. Hit enter instead of clicking on the link.
It's a very nice keyboard navigation, and a great way if you want to use the mouse a bit less.
Firefox on iOS is getting serious, and has other tricks up its sleeve. For instance, it has a frikkin' Night Mode. Tap the hamburger menu at the lower right, then tap "Enable Night Mode".
It's a damn shame that iOS doesn't allow you to set a default browser, but I still use FF on iOS with pleasure.
Well, the people in charge of the police better start thinking about the future. With self-driving cars, they might lose an important stream of revenue. Because lots of stuff in traffic is a question of opinion, I bet a cop can simply observe you and hand you a ticket for what you consider decent driving.
However with self-driving cars, the companies behind them will probably not stand for such random punishments. I mean, look at how fast Tesla comes with a statement whenever there was an accident with a model S or X.
It might actually mean more meaningful works for law enforcement officers as well. I can't imagine it's fun for them, handing out tickets.
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Bing extracts "the best matched code samples from popular, authoritative and well moderated sites like Stackoverflow
If it got popular enough, this would impact the number of upvotes. And the whole idea of StackOverflow is that upvotes determine a working answer.
There are solutions for a USB-C version of the MagSafe connector. In my opinion, it shouldn't stop you from upgrading. I've done so, and actually don't miss the MagSafe connector. It's only necessary when I use it at home, but I arrive home with a fully charged laptop.
I think lots of people here have some server running somewhere. Install Tiny Tiny RSS (TT-RSS) on there, and be able to access it from anywhere. Totally open source. https://tt-rss.org/
What's great is that there are a number of RSS reading apps that you can point to your server, so it doesn't matter whether you're on mobile or on your desktop browser. For Android, I'd suggest just use the app from the same author. For iOS, I use Tiny Reader (App Store link).
Breaking news: thieving tools stolen!
In a move that stunned nobody, a thief stole from crime lord. The crime lord in question sold thieving tools to corrupt governments to spy on their citizens. When business took off, the crime lord hired a local thug. When the crime lord looked the other way, the thief left with all of the inventory! The crime lord took to the courts and explained his plight.
When the courts laughed in his face, he threatened to expose the moral bankrupcy of several national institutions. Soon after, an attorney general helped him rewrite his complaint, not mentioning ordinary theft but rather calling it "industrial spionage" and was thus able to spend the taxes of citizens to spy on them. The crime lord himself told Motherboard in an online chat "no comment."
> Don’t give me the “it’s old” spiel, Mavericks is less than 5 years old.
It's not so much that it's old, but it no longer receives security updates.
That Facebook container is golden. I wish Firefox would take it even further, though. The other day, I was browsing for a new monitor. Then what do you know, I open the desktop Spotify client (free tier) and there's an ad for the same monitor. I really, really hate this shit but I don't know what to do against this tracking. I already use uBlock Origin in Firefox.
Those old, slow dinosaur automakers actually make a decent profit.
Yes, but probably not on electric cars. I'm living in Europe, and there's a shortage on EVs. Meaning, if you order them, you'll have to wait for 6 or more months. Now in that market, some manufacturers are winding down production on EVs. For instance, the Volkswagen e-Golf takes more than 6 months to deliver however its production will be stopped. Volkswagen says they need the capacity for their new series which comes out in 2019. However it's suspected that VW simply cannot make the e-Golf profitable at the moment.
I was curious to see how this beast looked like. I can't find pics on Lenovo's own site, but notebookcheck.net has an article. Pics from the article:
Image 1
Image 2
> What if you want to charge the battery using the laptop? It probably does automatically if the laptop is externally powered. If you want to do this with laptop on battery, I bet you need some little software?
I don't know whether that's possible at the moment. Pretty sure there aren't any laptops available that let you influence the USB-PD negotiation. A bit more control over this would be interesting, though! You could always hack it together with the Plugable USB-C sniffer plus some scripts, but that's cheating :)
I skimmed the article and I don't see big problems. Basically he says: you can't always fast-charge your phone on any adapter.
I don't really see the problem with that. It may not be what the author expected, though. It's quite simple; these USB-C chargers provide two or three volt/ampere combo's. But if your phone just happens to like a combo that's in between the offers, then it'll pick the lower one.
If you happen to know this, then you can simply look on the charger itself. It'll say for example something like: "5V/3A, 15V/1.5A, 20V/1A". The best one of these is obviously the 15V/1.5A, because that's 15*1.5=22,5 Watt. However, it could very well be that your phone can accept a maximum of 10V/2A. Since the charger doesn't supply that, it'll drop back to 5V/3A = 15W.
Consumers won't notice except that it charges slower than usual, there's no visual feedback on this. Phone manufacturers could show a message on the screen, but it's too confusing for most people.
There are many, many great things about USB-C. For example, I brought my tiny 12W iPad charger on holiday, and I charged my big-ass laptop off it. It takes the whole night, but who cares?
Another really cool example is that you can extend the battery life of your laptop. Just hook up one of those external batteries that are meant for charging phones. It'll only supply, say, 5V/1.5A = 7.5W. Not enough to charge your laptop, but enough to give it some extra juice over the course of a workday. It might just pull you through. USB-C is awesome like that.
I have a classic Chevy with a 454 (...) fun standing behind it
I don't get it, what's fun about an asthma attack? :-P
Seriously, a 6 to 12 month wait after ordering?
Here in Europe, there's a lot of EVs that have this problem. The Volkswagen e-Golf has a 6 month delivery, and this year Hyundai stopped taking orders for the Ioniq (i.e. more than 6 month delivery).
USB-C/Thunderbolt 3 is awesome like that. Connect a single cable and you're in business. I love it. But like you, I still like the laptop keyboard to work. I didn't get Apple Care and I'm praying this keyboard will keep working. They're quite fragile :(
Shit penis bags, forgot to include the link:
https://arstechnica.com/gadget...
Quite surprising, I had not expected new SoCs from Qualcomm for smartwatches. In February, Ars posted about "Android Wear is getting killed, and it’s all Qualcomm’s fault, where they mention that it's two years since Qualcomm's last smartwatch chip was announced.
Since by all accounts, Qualcomm was being such a dick in the marketplace, I kinda hoped that the smaller SoC makers would've stood up. But it doesn't appear to be the case. Oh well.
He simply has a 'deal' going with Panasonic.
Well yeah, however since the batteries will be supply-constrained for at least a couple of years, that's very important. VW only recently announced such deals, and I don't think they got a better deal than Tesla. Since the battery pack is a big part of the cost of the car, it's extremely important thay you make such deals before the rest does.
"Employees who abuse these controls will be fired”, Alex Stamos, Facebook’s chief information security officer, told Motherboard in a statement.
Is that all? Why isn't he prosecuted?
Must've been something like 13 years ago. For the life of me, I can't remember the type, but a quick search turned up this:
https://www.dell.com/community...
I just received my new Inspiron 8600. I love everything about it except the heat. I feel that there is too much heat on left side of the mouse pad area. As a result, my left palm hand is feeling so warm when I am typing. Is this normal situation for Inspiron 8600? It bothers me alot.
I definitely wasn't the only one. But it was ages ago, so who cares.
Most laptop lines have a weak spot. And it's the keyboard for the 12" MacBook and the MacBook Pro. Loads of people experience no problems whatsoever, but some do. I've had a Dell which had an old-fashioned harddrive that heated up the left palm rest. Very annoying. But not annoying enough to get rid of the machine.
Now I'm sure that some really have defective keyboards, where it didn't have anything to do with dirt or something. That sucks of course. But in general I'd say: simply not eat in front of this laptop, and keep a can of pressured air at home. In my personal experience, it solves the issue.
Not trying to be an Apple apologist or something, there really is a problem. But unless you have the bad luck of a real mechanical defect, it's easily solved.
Exactly this. I haven't used Chrome in about three years. First, it was because I went to a MacBook Pro, and Chrome power usage was terrible. After using Safari for a bit, I rediscovered Firefox. The new plugin system was actually a blessing for me. It feels more stable, less power- and memory-hungry, and offers some features that the other browsers don't have (like "find in links").
Just to push that last point home; "find in links" basically goes as follows: spot a link you want to click on. Don't click but instead type single-quote, then type a couple of characters from the link. Firefox focuses on the link. Hit enter instead of clicking on the link.
It's a very nice keyboard navigation, and a great way if you want to use the mouse a bit less.
The matte screen option is often available for free. You just need to find a toddler who will do the work for you.
Firefox on iOS is getting serious, and has other tricks up its sleeve. For instance, it has a frikkin' Night Mode. Tap the hamburger menu at the lower right, then tap "Enable Night Mode".
It's a damn shame that iOS doesn't allow you to set a default browser, but I still use FF on iOS with pleasure.
I hadn't thought about that, makes sense.
Well, the people in charge of the police better start thinking about the future. With self-driving cars, they might lose an important stream of revenue. Because lots of stuff in traffic is a question of opinion, I bet a cop can simply observe you and hand you a ticket for what you consider decent driving.
However with self-driving cars, the companies behind them will probably not stand for such random punishments. I mean, look at how fast Tesla comes with a statement whenever there was an accident with a model S or X.
It might actually mean more meaningful works for law enforcement officers as well. I can't imagine it's fun for them, handing out tickets.
I must confess to being that boring sort of individual who doesn't really have anything to hide
For now. However next year, your particular idiosyncrasies and/or opinions could easily become politically incorrect.