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Comment · 4 years ago
I prefer Thunderbird. It doesn't need the app password for Gmail. With a bit of effort to you can make it auto open and close via scheduled commands to do a daily sync, or just leave it open.
Comment · 7 years ago
Would be more interesting to know what the actual damage from these different sources are, rather than just is one cherry-picked statistic.

And where are wind and solar?

Comment · 7 years ago
Get an 8 bit microcontroller dev board for a few bucks and learn how to control the peripherals. AVR are good and there is a lot of material online to learn from. Sorry I don't know any books.
Comment · 8 years ago
Not the first, and won't be the last. We have to stop this madness.
Comment · 8 years ago
It's missed the boat for being the first long range affordable EV. Hyundai got there first with the Kona, which has the range of the more expensive Model 3 Long Range but at the price of the cheaper Short Range one.

Don't get me wrong, the M3 is okay as a stripped down sporty hatchback, but the $35k model is looking a bit basic and overpriced already.

Comment · 8 years ago
Kona confirmed for 7.4 0-100.
Comment · 8 years ago
The Model 3 is looking a bit over priced now, with cars like the Kona and coming Lead 64 offering similar features, performance and better range for less money.
Comment · 8 years ago
In Chrome just go to settings, accessibility and increase the font size. Works on my android phone.
Comment · 8 years ago
I have the same experience working in an office job. The best thing I have found is to carefully manage my energy to avoid the boom/bust cycle, but it's only partially effective.

The best thing would be to simply work less hours. Say 28/week, but they would all be good high productivity ones. Unfortunately it would be a massive pay cut too, because employers don't think that way.

Comment · 8 years ago
One technique I have found works is to do incorporate your own open source code into your work. Then when they want to see samples you have commercial quality code that isn't company property.
Comment · 8 years ago
Wow. Bullying, sexual harassment, all the usual stuff.

How are people still getting away with this for so long? Didn't they even notice the high turnover and Glassdoor reviews?

Comment · 8 years ago
I was hoping it was a replacement for Unicode... Unicode is so broken that we need something new.
Comment · 8 years ago
The new Leaf isn't ugly at all, it looks quite good. Decent performance too.
Comment · 9 years ago
Gnome saw how terrible Windows 8's start screen was and decided to double down on the phone style app drawer.

Then for good measure threw on the space wasting task bar from MacOS. Oh, and then in Ubuntu the window controls had to be on the wrong side too, obviously.

It's basically the anti-UX.

Comment · 9 years ago
This. I tried every major Linux distro recently, and every one had really basic problems. For example, Ubuntu and Mint don't let you configure the mouse wheel scroll speed. There are hacks but none work reliably. Do all Ubuntu users really scroll web pages incredibly slowly?

And then there are the missing apps. Want a really good, free git GUI client? Sorry, not on Linux. It's git FFS, Linux should have great dev tools. Same with file managers.

I used to be an Amiga user, I'm a C developer and like tinkering. But I also want something that just works for the basics. Sad to say but Windows, for all its faults, does work. Visual Studio does work. And all the open source apps I use like Kicad are on Windows.

I really want to move to Linux, but it's too much work to make it work. These days I have better things to do with my computer.

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