I have a Dell XPS 15 at work and it's so difficult to install and setup Linux between the M2 SSD drive and the Nvidia Optimus GPU. Would not recommend.
I run Arch on my XPS 15, too. Had it up and running after the usual Arch Wiki binge reading and a couple hours of trial and error. But that's what I always do when installing Arch.
A couple weeks ago I did a fresh install with Manjaro. With this the installation process goes down to around 10 minutes and everything (bluetooth, touchpad, function keys, optirun etc.) works out of the box.
I'm using a XPS 15 9550 with Arch linux installed, didn't have to setup up anything special apart from bumblebee I suppose it works really well for me.
I understand what you're saying but I'm just not sure I'm prepared to wait at a service station for an hour or more to recharge my car.
Today I drove from the south east to the Lake District - a distance of about 400 miles. I made 3 5-10 minute stops en route for food, toilet and one for fuel. I found that once I'd stopped for 10 minutes I just wanted to get going again and get to my destination. I'm really not sure I would be happy hanging around a service on the M6 toll road for 1-2 hours because I needed to recharge my car.
I don't often do long trips, perhaps 2-3x a year, but when I do I really just want to get to my destination as soon as possible.
It’s not for everyone. If you really want to just go go go then it will be frustrating.
400 miles is pretty easy, though. In my car (Model S 85), I’d probably plan to stop once a bit past the halfway point for lunch. 20-30 minutes should get enough to finish the trip. That’s assuming I can charge at the destination. If you can’t, it’s tougher.
In a Model S 100D or a Model 3 LR, you could probably stop for only 10 minutes somewhere in the middle. They charge faster (especially the Model 3) and don’t need much extra to make that trip.
Having spoken to a number of friends and people I haven’t met on the Facebook groups I was in (theme was all car enthusiasts) - not one of them cared. Their arguments were that Facebook knows everything about them anyway. My flatmate also gave he same opinion when I asked her. I can only assume that the general public just don’t care or feel that they have bigger things to worry about.
I just bought an A6000 mirrorless camera and love it! I’ve had it for a couple of weeks and so far it’s been great. Low light shooting is excellent and 1080p 60FPS video is nice. I don’t care for the integrated WiFi so don’t use it.
I bought a NEX-6 for ~$450 4 years ago and am shocked at the total lack of improvement at that price bracket since then. Of course this was right after the price dropped in response to the A6000. The A6000 is definitely nice but actually has a few regressions compared to the NEX-6, with a lower-resolution viewfinder and losing the electronic level.
I’m not sure I’d agree. The Model S is quite prone to understeer, and it’s not just slight understeer but real unrelenting understeer. I’m not sure how though because there isn’t a lot of weight over the front axle that would cause the nose to push wide so perhaps it’s because of how the suspension is setup. This is quite unlike the BMW M5, for example.
> I turned left on to the main road, and began to move up through the gears. That’s when a car coming towards me flashed its lights. This used to happen to me a lot in the Mini. So much that a couple of years earlier I’d taken it back to BMW to get it checked; yes, my headlights were wrongly adjusted and I had inadvertently been annoying other drivers. So when this driver flashed, I instinctively flashed back: “No, those aren’t my main beams – these are, see?”
> The time between my flash and the impact was infinitesimal.
I’m having a hard time understanding the crash as there is so much information absent from the article.
What kind of main road was this?
Was it in a town or a A road between two towns?
Was it designed for pedestrian usage (there are lots of A roads in the U.K which are not designed for pedestrian usage. These roads are often known as BYPASS roads and are designed to keep motor vehicles out of town centres).
Was it street lit? Given the fact that the other driver flashed him I would think not?
What was the speed limit? Was it appropriate for the road?
I used streetview to follow along the road, it is a 2-lane that has sporadic houses and somewhat wooded, there is a sidewalk on the left side or the road. Speed limit signs say 30 km/h (so just under 20 Mph). After the residential area (1.3 km), it opens up to mostly farm field for another 1.5 km, then it hits another residential spot.
So the description of "just winding through the gears" would put it probably at the end of the first group of houses, where it makes sense that residents would be walking (there is a payphone and a bus shelter in the middle of that stretch of road).
It says the victim, Rawson, had just exited a bus, and the driver was ramping up in gears - shortly after the left turn off the A148, as a bend begins to straighten out, there is a hidden bus stop on the left side of the road: https://www.google.com/maps/@52.9118915,1.1132237,3a,75y,231...
There doesn't appear to be any obvious lighting in the area; it may be the oncoming driver flashed because they could see Rawson was in the road and realised the oncoming driver wouldn't have seen him, having just come around the bend.
While Coinbase might have scaled their support, it’s also important to highlight than the number of tickets received in the first 3 months of 2018 is nothing compared to that of the end of 2017 (the Bitcoin network fee crisis).
Given the size of the support team now, would Coinbase still get backlogged if we were to have a repeat of that time?
What is the catchment range for new (inexperienced) drivers? 18-25? There are a lot of people who have been driving for a long time who are not good at driving at all and lack all kind of self awareness. For example, following the car in front too close.
You make it sound like Germany doesn’t have poor people. That is most certainly not the case. In fact if you consider percentages, more Germans than Americans live below poverty level.
Which allows you to live in a small Appartement outside the city and still have like 400€.
If you are not an alcoholic or smoke you can live a good live. And. Have free and good health insurance.
Source: my mom is in exactly that situation. Pension is only 600, state ups it to 800. She needs to move to a smaller appointment to live now. But she is now some without kids and stuff. No need for a big two or three room apartment.
I know it is sad for old people to move. ( I see it with my mom)
But in live you grow and later you shrink ( home size, income etc etc) it's normal circle of life.
I bet I will be sad when I need to move out of my three room Appartement.
You have own-occupation disability insurance for that. These downside risks are rather easily hedge-able. I don't quite have things set up yet, but my long-term plan involves moving to Texas, storing most of my wealth in IRAs/401(k) plans and my primary residence, and taking out own-occupation disability insurance for the time I'm still dependent on my income to make ends meet.
If something happens, my medical insurance pays for most, and then past that I spend down my emergency fund from taxable employment income and start drawing un-garnishable private disability insurance.
