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I NEED a 3:2 24" desktop monitor but it seems that no ones wanting to build one :( There's the benq 28" one but thats pretty much it. I loved this aspect ratio ever since my Huawei Matebook 14 and my Framework laptop, this is just the perfect one for programming


I'm not sure if it's just me or a common feeling, but XPS laptops from the last few years (at least 2020 onward) felt really poor quality for "professional" computers. Especially regarding their main competitors (mbp & thinkpads). All the XPS we had at work had issues and particularly bad battery life even before the one year mark.. For those who didn't have their battery swollen.

I wouldn't have thought that such a recognizable brand as the XPS line would fade for "AI PC" BS but heh


XPS was never their professional product line. Latitudes were their workplace fleet devices that mostly went head to head with ThinkPads.

This is probably good evidence that they needed to simplify their branding. Having their halo consumer product compete for market mindshare against their professional products is counterproductive. Especially when everyone wants to cross shop against MacBooks.

In contrast, ThinkPad's X1 shares almost nothing with the rest of the Thinkpad's professional line, but it sits there adding prestige to the brand.


Inspiron is their consumer line, Latitude their business line, Precision their pro line, Alienware their gaming line, so what exactly was XPS meant to be? Their fashion line?


XPS pre-dates them acquiring Alienware, it made more sense at the time. That was their premium consumer/gaming line.

Dell bought Alienware in 2006 though so they took their sweet time before cleaning up the product lines.


Their consumer fashion line.


My Dell Dimension XPS P166s from 1996 sure was fashionable in all that beige


Im generally a fan of the Latitudes I’ve had for the past few years. They don’t do anything special or great but generally just work. The body gets scratched pretty easily and the power button behavior is annoying, but other than that I’ve had no issues.

Even got a lucky BSOD 2 years ago that nuked windows and somehow got me admin access!


My work went from Thinkpads to Latitudes. The Latitudes are pretty sturdy, and I'm told are pretty competitive on price/performance. But nothing beat the ThinkPad on durability/repairability/tactile feel/etc.

When I quit the job, I immediately bought an identical ThinkPad. It's nearly 8 years old but I still use it regularly use it as a pub trivia host as it can take a beating and have beers poured on it and still run like a trooper.


I had a 2021 model. It was pretty poor in all aspects. Slow, laggy on the desktop just clicking around. Loud when doing anything resembling work. Very poor audio. Bad keyboard. 4 hour battery.

I switched to a new M1 MacBook Air and it was like going from a Cessna 150 to an F-15. Everything on the M1 MBA was decades ahead of the XPS.

Everyone and their brother now sells a much better product than XPS, and often for nearly half the cash. I picked up an Asus Vivo last year. Very nice product, half the cost of the XPS they had on offer, but with the same specs and screen.

It feels like it was engineered as a unit, much like the MBA. The XPS in comparison is a parts bin special.


I can agree with that. I still use my XPS from 2022 on a daily basis, but I regret it alot. Battery life and cooling are unbelievably bad, it's a shame when you start thinking about the price.


>Especially regarding their main competitors (mbp & thinkpads)

I dont think XPS is a business / professional line? But I think I have heard similar complains from Thinkpad user as well. The only good PC hardware surprisingly came from Microsoft their Surface line. But most business dont use it.


XPS always felt like an unloved brand. I’ve owned some and they never felt like they fit into either the powerhouse segment or the everyday user segment. And the strange revisions to keyboards and things over time made it less and less attractive to power users. Dell has far too many models and it’s hard for anyone to understand what the reason is to buy any of them. It’s certainly not for the everyday user either - in every single way it is worse than the cheapest Apple laptop.

As for AI PC - unfortunately Microsoft has forced this on everyone. They used their influence and power to force Intel to agree to this branding and the conditions for it to be met (things like having a Microsoft specific “Copilot” button). And all the OEMs have to come along or face repercussions for these partnerships. It’s just another example of big tech having too much market share, capital, etc.


Alternative would be like Apple, with vertical integration.

OEMs have had 30 years to sell Windows alternatives based on GNU/Linux or BSD, after the monopoly lawsuit, they caved in quickly after XP license became grátis, and nowadays rather sell Chromebooks and Android tablets than proper Windows alternatives.


Seems they had good opportunity while renaming XPS to Dell Poor, Dell Poor+ and Dell Poor Premium


Great tip! I will apply it to my setup


I use syncthing a lot too and yes it used to be perfect on my OnePlus 6 with lineage, but on my new Pixel 8 on stock I can't seem to get it too stay opened it always get killed even though I'm pretty sure I disabled every battery saving things for it


Make sure the notification is visible (you can minimize it though), and also switch to syncthing-fork if you haven't yet.


I did switch to syncthing-fork at the same time I got my Pixel. The notification is visible until it closes by itself.

For some reason I can swipe it away too, while from what I remember, persisting apps like this used to prevent you from doing so


If you are rooted, you do no need a wire to bootstrap, there are apps that start the process, but it's mainly for convinience.

Also this lets you run script on your real device instead of the chroot thing of termux which can be helpful (e.g. accessing /data/data stuff which is a pain with termux, not sure if its even possible).

And my last reason is just that why would I need a separate app that I need to configure when I can just have a real ssh server


For having a sshd server on my phone I do really like this magisk module https://gitlab.com/d4rcm4rc/MagiskSSH

This let me ssh into the real android instead of inside termux, which might be preferable depending on the use case


Just tried it, it might replace DBeaver for me! Vim mode without plugin is amazing. Need a few days to fully try it out


I wanted to replace DBeaver for a long time, but I have some not really common connections there (e.g. Sybase SQL Anywhere), that no other client seems to support


There's Dbvisualizer if you want to try an alternative. Though I moved from the company provided dbvis pro version to DBeaver Community when I discovered it.


Plop is an excellent software but I'm not sure it's still that useful. I remember using it to boot to usb sticks on bios that did not support it years ago. That was really cool


> I'm not sure it's still that useful

Until you need to boot an old x86 system for some reason


I used it to allow booting from USB on ESXi VMs, which (at the time anyway) didn't support this. I remember how ridiculous it was passing through an unraid USB, booting from a plop iso which then handed off the boot to the USB. It was slow but did work.


I'd love to find framework as powerful and as complete as API Platform in PHP in other language but even in java / popular languages for web dev


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Yeah that'll work better if I conclude my sentence


What's your point of view about quirks as you can find in other browsers and how do you plan to handle websites that rely on unintended browser behavior ?


These days, all major browsers are taking interoperability very seriously. There’s even efforts like the annual “Interop 202x” where people vote on which interop bugs browsers should focus on fixing.

We benefit greatly from this of course, and we will do what we can to contribute when we’re mature enough!

That said, there will always be websites relying on bugs, and for that we will need a way to selectively emulate alternate behaviors in some cases. We are looking at a few different solutions for this but it’s not a huge priority right now as there are far lower hanging fruit in front of us.


Thanks! Good luck with your project, this single-handedly gave me back faith in the modern web when I found out a few month ago about the progress you guys made since I last saw it


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