They're called Chromebooks now. There are dozens of options from $199 to $500. Pick the one you like the best and install Crouton on it. Here's my personal favorite - quad core N3160 Intel CPU, 4GB RAM, 32GB storage, 1080p 14" IPS (yes, IPS) display, 12+ hour battery life, a trackpad that's better than it has any right to be and ALL ALUMINUM construction for comfortably under $300.
Every battery is removable if you own a screwdriver, this is a non-issue. Especially given the battery lives on laptops. Who is using a laptop for over 10 hours without being near a charger? 0.1% of the market, maybe.
I wasn't really serious in my original post, but if your argument is CSS based layouts are easier to debug than a table, I'll have to disagree, strongly. CSS is far more powerful and complex, which makes it tremendously more difficult to "debug".
Remember 15-20 years ago when we had based layouts? And then they invented CSS because that was such a terrible idea. Then we spend 10 years trying inventing css grid systems (ie bootstrap's grid, 960, etc) to replicate what we used to do with tables until they just finally gave up and made CSS Grid and Flexbox? That was sure fun.
Because its unnecessary. I have a keepass database thats stored in a trucrypt volume on my PC. I randomly generate passwords that are 12+ characters using random numbers, letters, cases, etc. I also use keepass on my iPhone using a 6 digit pin + TouchID with MDM that allows remote wipe in the event its lost/stolen.
This is relevant to my interests. I'm considering switching to RAID next time I replace my disks (currently 2x8TB that I rsync occasionally). Is this accurate or an exaggeration? Do you really need 1GB per TB?
Yes, signed them. Everyone seems to forget the bills originated in the 101st congress which consisted of a senate with 54 democracts vs 45 republicans and a house with 251 democrats and 183 republicans -- overwhelmingly liberal. This was not something that was politically attractive to fight, so he signed it.
Making $160k your take home should be in the neighborhood of 8k per month. How are you complaining about $3k in rent? First of all a mortgage on the same property would inevitably be less and you could always move into something smaller.
Yeah that's a great point. One of the first things we did was to integrate alerting from our network monitoring systems into Slack. Our inboxes are truly grateful. Also Screenhero is awesome for sharing your desktop, and the built in voice/video chat makes creating a conference call a one click operation.
Also to your point about multimedia, the ability to paste screenshots directly into slack is great. Being able to just drop things like a PDF into a channel has been really handy.
Anyone who thinks Slack is just a web based IRC client is totally missing the point.
If the TV occupies a similar viewing angle to your monitor, then curvature would have just the same impact.
That's not really the case, or even the recommendation. The recommendation for seating distance is 1.5-2.5x the width of the TV. Let's go on the high side of that and say 1.5x (much closer to the TV). Recommended distance from your monitor to your eyes is 15-30". If you have a 24" monitor that means you're probably sitting closer to 1:1, on average. These day's it's not uncommon to see 27" or even larger monitors. So not only is the recommendation not equivalent, in practice it's even worse, generally.
That's kind of like saying nntp is a replacement for irc. It's really not. Slack is really an alternative to irc which for real time text chat. The advantage that Slack (or Mattermost, etc) have over IRC (imo) is it's easily accessible from mobile devices. Sure you can use an IRC client from your phone, but with Slack the mobile client is actually GOOD and you can control notifications well (only alert me on my lock screen if you @me or DM me) and you have persistence. If I open Slack on my phone I can see the current state of the conversation along with all histories. It's also easily searchable. Sure, I do the same thing with tmux and irssi, but doesn't exactly work from my phone and doesn't provide a good system for notifications.
I really didn't get it until I started using Slack, now I actually really like it. We use it at work and 95% of our communication is via Slack now and everyone loves it. We used to use Jabber (Cisco) and literally every single person is over the moon happy we don't have to use that garbage anymore.
I used nntp for years, and it was great at the time and if you wanted to make an argument for nntp over forums, I wouldn't put up any fight. But having use Slack for a while as someone who has been a constant IRC user since the mid-90s (on multiple networks), I "get it".
I switched to tmux mostly just to get easy vertical splits. The RPM based distros (fedora, centos) didn't have a patched version of screen so it was just easier to deal with. Also mouse control so you can easily drag around splits. You can also check out byobu which adds some really nice features on top of tmux.
A lot of people have also ditched irssi for weechat but I just haven't invested the energy because irssi works fine for me.
Slackware is what weaned us into Linux two decades ago (Infomagic CDs).
I think that's why it holds a special place in my heart. Slackware 3.1 was the first distro I ever installed on my IBM Aptiva. Very quickly switched over to Redhat (i think 4.1 or 4.2) and never looked back. Redhat through I believe in version 9, then Fedora. This is all on the desktop. At some point I made the switch from Redhat on the server to CentOS (might have been around Redhat 8.0?).
Anyway, I digress. Slackware will always be that first Linux OS and that first exploration into feeling like I was really in control of my computer and how empowered that makes you feel, especially at such a young age. I'm forever grateful to all the developers who made that possible, it completely altered the trajectory of my life and ultimately launched my career.
Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to go download Slackware.
You seem to be under some misunderstanding that FOSS developers have some desire to cater to businesses and that they care if a business chooses proprietary software over the project they wrote for free for a personal need. It's kind of amazing you haven't figured that out in 25 years.
Do you really think someone cares if you chose to use software they released for free? If I painted a picture to hang in my house and you came by and said "man what a shitty picture you should change it or I wont look at it" what do you think my reaction would be?
The obvious future is your office suite running in a browser. I haven't used LibreOffice in years because Google Docs is just too convenient. I'm considering setting up Sandstorm with EtherCalc and Etherpad because they're pretty much at the basic level of functionality I need in a spreadsheet and word processor application. I don't use 10% of Microsoft Excel's features so the open source alternatives like Ethercalc/pad are good options for me.
In the past, claims that Apple were more expensive tended to ignore the horrible screens or limited storage on the cheaper counterparts.
In this instance the Apple for a similar config is $800-$1000 more expensive.
The Apple display is better. It might not be higher resolution, which is mostly irrelevant because it's retina and you can't really resolve the higher pixel density of the System76, but the Apple display also has better contrast and color reproduction. The display just LOOKS better. That's the thing that's hard for people to compare on a spec sheet unless they really know how to read in depth reviews.
First of all I'd love to hear some examples. But second of all, who are these "Apple people" and was it the exact same people saying this before and after?
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They're called Chromebooks now. There are dozens of options from $199 to $500. Pick the one you like the best and install Crouton on it. Here's my personal favorite - quad core N3160 Intel CPU, 4GB RAM, 32GB storage, 1080p 14" IPS (yes, IPS) display, 12+ hour battery life, a trackpad that's better than it has any right to be and ALL ALUMINUM construction for comfortably under $300.
Every battery is removable if you own a screwdriver, this is a non-issue. Especially given the battery lives on laptops. Who is using a laptop for over 10 hours without being near a charger? 0.1% of the market, maybe.
He is however correct about tablets being awkward for anything other than browsing the web
...and using those hundreds of thousands of apps designed for tablets and phones.
Only an idiot would trust someone else to keep their important data safe.
The vast majority of people don't have the technical skill to keep their data safer than cloud providers do.
They're a nightmare to edit, support and debug.
I wasn't really serious in my original post, but if your argument is CSS based layouts are easier to debug than a table, I'll have to disagree, strongly. CSS is far more powerful and complex, which makes it tremendously more difficult to "debug".
Remember 15-20 years ago when we had based layouts? And then they invented CSS because that was such a terrible idea. Then we spend 10 years trying inventing css grid systems (ie bootstrap's grid, 960, etc) to replicate what we used to do with tables until they just finally gave up and made CSS Grid and Flexbox? That was sure fun.
I don't understand why more people don't do this
Because its unnecessary. I have a keepass database thats stored in a trucrypt volume on my PC. I randomly generate passwords that are 12+ characters using random numbers, letters, cases, etc. I also use keepass on my iPhone using a 6 digit pin + TouchID with MDM that allows remote wipe in the event its lost/stolen.
No, just consolidated I assume. If Sprint collapsed and all the customers rushed to Verizon I don't think we'd say the cell phone market has shrunk.
This is relevant to my interests. I'm considering switching to RAID next time I replace my disks (currently 2x8TB that I rsync occasionally). Is this accurate or an exaggeration? Do you really need 1GB per TB?
Yes, signed them. Everyone seems to forget the bills originated in the 101st congress which consisted of a senate with 54 democracts vs 45 republicans and a house with 251 democrats and 183 republicans -- overwhelmingly liberal. This was not something that was politically attractive to fight, so he signed it.
Firefox has all but given up trying to improve.
You really don't know what you're talking about.
Making $160k your take home should be in the neighborhood of 8k per month. How are you complaining about $3k in rent? First of all a mortgage on the same property would inevitably be less and you could always move into something smaller.
Yeah that's a great point. One of the first things we did was to integrate alerting from our network monitoring systems into Slack. Our inboxes are truly grateful. Also Screenhero is awesome for sharing your desktop, and the built in voice/video chat makes creating a conference call a one click operation.
Also to your point about multimedia, the ability to paste screenshots directly into slack is great. Being able to just drop things like a PDF into a channel has been really handy.
Anyone who thinks Slack is just a web based IRC client is totally missing the point.
If the TV occupies a similar viewing angle to your monitor, then curvature would have just the same impact.
That's not really the case, or even the recommendation. The recommendation for seating distance is 1.5-2.5x the width of the TV. Let's go on the high side of that and say 1.5x (much closer to the TV). Recommended distance from your monitor to your eyes is 15-30". If you have a 24" monitor that means you're probably sitting closer to 1:1, on average. These day's it's not uncommon to see 27" or even larger monitors. So not only is the recommendation not equivalent, in practice it's even worse, generally.
That's kind of like saying nntp is a replacement for irc. It's really not. Slack is really an alternative to irc which for real time text chat. The advantage that Slack (or Mattermost, etc) have over IRC (imo) is it's easily accessible from mobile devices. Sure you can use an IRC client from your phone, but with Slack the mobile client is actually GOOD and you can control notifications well (only alert me on my lock screen if you @me or DM me) and you have persistence. If I open Slack on my phone I can see the current state of the conversation along with all histories. It's also easily searchable. Sure, I do the same thing with tmux and irssi, but doesn't exactly work from my phone and doesn't provide a good system for notifications.
I really didn't get it until I started using Slack, now I actually really like it. We use it at work and 95% of our communication is via Slack now and everyone loves it. We used to use Jabber (Cisco) and literally every single person is over the moon happy we don't have to use that garbage anymore.
I used nntp for years, and it was great at the time and if you wanted to make an argument for nntp over forums, I wouldn't put up any fight. But having use Slack for a while as someone who has been a constant IRC user since the mid-90s (on multiple networks), I "get it".
tmux+irssi
I switched to tmux mostly just to get easy vertical splits. The RPM based distros (fedora, centos) didn't have a patched version of screen so it was just easier to deal with. Also mouse control so you can easily drag around splits. You can also check out byobu which adds some really nice features on top of tmux.
A lot of people have also ditched irssi for weechat but I just haven't invested the energy because irssi works fine for me.
Slackware is what weaned us into Linux two decades ago (Infomagic CDs).
I think that's why it holds a special place in my heart. Slackware 3.1 was the first distro I ever installed on my IBM Aptiva. Very quickly switched over to Redhat (i think 4.1 or 4.2) and never looked back. Redhat through I believe in version 9, then Fedora. This is all on the desktop. At some point I made the switch from Redhat on the server to CentOS (might have been around Redhat 8.0?).
Anyway, I digress. Slackware will always be that first Linux OS and that first exploration into feeling like I was really in control of my computer and how empowered that makes you feel, especially at such a young age. I'm forever grateful to all the developers who made that possible, it completely altered the trajectory of my life and ultimately launched my career.
Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to go download Slackware.
Yeah what a bunch of idiots, right?
You seem to be under some misunderstanding that FOSS developers have some desire to cater to businesses and that they care if a business chooses proprietary software over the project they wrote for free for a personal need. It's kind of amazing you haven't figured that out in 25 years.
Do you really think someone cares if you chose to use software they released for free? If I painted a picture to hang in my house and you came by and said "man what a shitty picture you should change it or I wont look at it" what do you think my reaction would be?
The obvious future is your office suite running in a browser. I haven't used LibreOffice in years because Google Docs is just too convenient. I'm considering setting up Sandstorm with EtherCalc and Etherpad because they're pretty much at the basic level of functionality I need in a spreadsheet and word processor application. I don't use 10% of Microsoft Excel's features so the open source alternatives like Ethercalc/pad are good options for me.
You mean like in Cuckoo's Egg? Or was that emacs?
In the past, claims that Apple were more expensive tended to ignore the horrible screens or limited storage on the cheaper counterparts. In this instance the Apple for a similar config is $800-$1000 more expensive.
The Apple display is better. It might not be higher resolution, which is mostly irrelevant because it's retina and you can't really resolve the higher pixel density of the System76, but the Apple display also has better contrast and color reproduction. The display just LOOKS better. That's the thing that's hard for people to compare on a spec sheet unless they really know how to read in depth reviews.
If you couldn't get used to the keyboard after 7 years the problem isn't the keyboard, it's what's between the keyboard and the chair.
I don't use a Mac but I could damn sure figure it out in 7 years.
First of all I'd love to hear some examples. But second of all, who are these "Apple people" and was it the exact same people saying this before and after?
(2) I want a laptop with a built-in DVD drive. Even Lenovo offers laptops with DVD drives, but System76 does not.
What do you still use a DVD drive for? Just curious.
These days I spend my energy attacking Python instead.
What's with all the python hate lately?