Gud have you fiddled with the Linux subsystem stuff on Windows? That plus VS Code's integration with it apparently has solved a lot of the annoying dev stuff with, e.g., Ruby. I'm planning to test it out at some point this summer. That's one of the few reasons I'm still holding onto my Linux partition so if it works well I might get my 30 GB back.
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Gris - May 28, 2020 11:18:41 am PDT #25364 of 25496
Hey. New board.
shrift - May 28, 2020 12:03:11 pm PDT #25365 of 25496
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
Thanks, Gris and Gud! I'll take a look at System76 and some other Linux-ready options.
Zenkitty - Jun 05, 2020 8:44:12 am PDT #25366 of 25496
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
Does anyone have any idea why I might not be able to send email in Outlook under an email alias that I'm all set up for? This is driving me and my admin nuts.
Dana - Jun 07, 2020 5:53:36 am PDT #25367 of 25496
"I'm useless alone." // "We're all useless alone. It's a good thing you're not alone."
Does anyone use Chromium? It refuses to play most videos, like anything embedded in a Twitter or Tumblr timeline. It does play YouTube. (Edit: It won't stream Pandora either.)
Searching gets me a lot of info about Linux, but since I'm not running Linux, I can't tell if/how it's applicable to me.
I do have Firefox. I use it to silo my fannish stuff from my RL stuff, and I'm trying to get away from Chrome.
Gris - Jun 07, 2020 4:40:25 pm PDT #25368 of 25496
Hey. New board.
I always found Chromium to feel unpolished. I have used Brave and Edge (the new Chromium version) and Opera, all based on Chromium, with better luck, Edge being my current browser of choice, though I still hit the occasional site where Chrome has magic the others don't, like [link] (for making nice printable graphs for math tests).
Dana - Jun 07, 2020 4:47:12 pm PDT #25369 of 25496
"I'm useless alone." // "We're all useless alone. It's a good thing you're not alone."
I was using Brave, but apparently the Brave people are kind of hinky. But trying to switch to Chromium has been enough of a pain in the ass that I may give up and go back.
Gris - Jun 08, 2020 2:43:54 am PDT #25370 of 25496
Hey. New board.
Could always try Opera or one of several others. For me the killer feature is easy built in profile switching, which chrome and edge have but when I last used it Opera did not.
Gudanov - Jun 08, 2020 9:09:02 am PDT #25371 of 25496
Coding and Sleeping
There's also Vivaldi. It's a pretty cool Chromium-based browser.
Gudanov - Jun 23, 2020 6:10:34 am PDT #25372 of 25496
Coding and Sleeping
So Macs are going to be arm-based now. Seems like that would make it less popular for developers, but I don't know how big a market that is. For other people, there's better battery life and perhaps more cores at a given price point. I'm sure it's a good move for them supply-chain-wise.
Tom Scola - Jun 23, 2020 6:23:01 am PDT #25373 of 25496
Mr. Scola’s wardrobe by Botany 500
They're going to blow Intel systems out of the water, performance-wise. iPad Pros with Apple's CPU are already much faster than laptops. And they look even better when you look at performance/watt.
It looks like Intel is starting to circle the drain. They keep having difficulties trying to shrink their fabs, and other chip foundries can now make smaller chips than Intel can. And AMD seems to have caught up to Intel, performance-wise. Never mind that mobile chips are now a much bigger market segment than the ones that Intel once controlled, and they repeatedly botched their attempts to enter that segment.