Anyone know what charging protocol they use for 80W? This article and the official web site do not specify. Is it USB-PD? SuperVOOC? I'm not really familiar with Vivo specifically.
If it's USB-PD then that means you could use a typical laptop charger. If it's VOOC, then it's unlikely you'll have any compatible chargers.
Am I out of touch with Qualcomm's increasingly confusing naming schemes, or is that awfully expensive for a 7sG2?
Not sure I understand this one. I'm finding it difficult to read this as anything other than "yes, most people understand negation as negation, and not as something entirely different". Are there any languages or cultures where negation is same as inversion?
How would you even invert an adjective that doesn't exist on a one-dimensional scale? For example, good<->bad makes sense, because they are clear opposites. But happy<->sad does not make sense, because emotions don't exist on a single axis and do not have clear opposites. "Not happy" encompasses all states besides happiness. Could be angry, could be sad, could just be neutral. Like the old saying goes, "the opposite of love is not hate; it's indifference".
Thanks for the recommendation! I was looking at the Fedora family since AMD officially supports RHEL 9. Hadn't gotten as far as to figure out how well that transfers to Fedora and its derivatives. Good to hear that it works.
If you're only testing on one set of hardware, it isn't going to tell the whole story. The results might be very different on an AMD vs Nvidia GPU, or even on a brand-new vs 1-3 generation old GPU.
Probably the most important thing for gaming is driver support and ease of installation. This sometimes runs directly counter to other general-purpose needs.
I'm still on the hunt for a distro where everything I need is easy to install. I don't think any exist, primarily because GPU drivers suuuuuuuck, especially when you need CUDA or ROCm to work.
Emulation.
Definitely going to incur a performance hit relative to native code, but in principle it could be perfectly good. It's not like the GPU is running x86 code in the first place. On macOS, Apple provides Rosetta to run x86 Mac apps, and it's very, very good. Not sure how FEX compares.
Correct.
Batteries will still lose charge very slowly, so at some point the battery controller will top itself back up. This is nothing to worry about, and I'm not sure macOS (or Linux) will every display the true charge level of a battery. I believe there is some wiggle room built in at the firmware level.
When MacBooks are plugged in, they get their power from the charger. They are not simultaneously draining and charging the battery in general, unless they need more power than the charger can provide (unlikely unless you are using a charger with lower wattage than the official charger that came with your laptop).
I was not able to find an official source on this from a quick search, but if I remember correctly, this should be true for any moderately recent MacBook. Maybe any MacBook at all, since they only started making "MacBooks" in 2006 and then tech hasn't changed much since then.
Personally, I leave my MBP plugged in during use whenever possible, and I typically unplug it at the end of the day. You don't need to unplug it, but hey, it's a good idea to unplug anything that doesn't need to be plugged in, just to save power.
This is my plan A. I'll only go to plan B if something goes wrong — which has happened to me a couple times. I tried to upgrade Ubuntu (LTS, I forget which version) years ago, but it failed hard. I still don't know why. It wasn't something I could figure out in half an hour, and it wasn't worth investing more time than that.
Come to think of it, it's possible all my upgrade woes came down to Nvidia drivers. It was a common problem on Suse (TW), to the point where I pinned my kernel version to avoid the frequent headaches. I'll try a rolling distro again when I switch to AMD, maybe.
Pulaski had interesting dynamics with almost every other character. I think she was written very well, especially for such a short tenure. Crusher was largely neglected by the writers.
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I forgot tupperware was (...or still is??) an MLM scheme. I remember hearing about "tupperware parties" when I was a kid and thinking adults needed better toys, like Legos or something.
It's nutty that we haven't had a proper offline mode in like 20, maybe 25 years. This was something every browser had in the 90s. Loading from cache was the default, even. Now it's like, I'm not sure why Firefox even has a cache folder. They bend over backwards to prevent you from using it.
Before you tell me that Firefox has an offline mode, yeah, I know. It's basically useless.
I would love a way to have my browser automatically store a local, static copy of everything I view.
That will work in either zsh or bash, yes. It's a good habit to use quotes, but I am pointing out that quoting and expansion behavior is not the same across all shells.
Yeah, Apple moved to Zsh as default some years back, which is the main reason I'm familiar with its differences in terms of parameter expansion. They still ship Bash 3.2 with macOS, but they can't ship newer versions due to GPLv3 licensing, or something like that. So they had the motivation to switch.
In the Linux world, there's no great motivation to change the default, because Bash 5.x is already comparable to zsh in terms of features, and it's what everyone is already familiar with.
Perhaps I misunderstood OP's question. I figured they meant using variables. Otherwise I don't know how to make sense of it.
other shells like sh, csh, tcsh, zsh, etc. are the same
Zsh has some important differences in how it handles whitespace and quoting, which affects OP's exact example.
Consider this:
touch a b c 'd e f' 'g h i'
for f in *; do ls -la $f; done
In zsh, this works. In bash, it will give you six errors saying d, e, f, g, h, and i do not exist.
The short answer is that you can't without rooting. If ALL your apps use Google cloud backup, then it'll work great. But that's not very likely.
Here's what I do when I switch phones, without root:
Use Google cloud restore. This gets app data for supported apps.
Run the built-in backup and restore features for any apps that have them. A few examples of such apps off the top of my head are Lawnchair, Eternity for Lemmy, Relay for Reddit, and Signal.
Copy internal storage (like downloads, photos, etc.) using a USB cable with MTP or ADB. This gets non-app-specific files.
Your contacts app should have an export feature. If you're using your Google account to store contacts, then you don't need to bother with this.
That gets almost everything. Over the years I have mostly stopped using apps that lock data in protected locations with no way to export. The biggest problem is that there's no easy way to see which apps use Google backup. IIRC there's a way to check in your Google settings on the web but not directly on Android.
Edit: a little historical context in case you find outdated results in web searches: this used to be a lot easier. On older OSes, adb backup could pull ALL app data, and the were some user-friendly apps like Helium that used the same mechanism to back up and restore arbitrary app data. Google locked that down at some point (I forget when, maybe Android 10?) and it's not possible without root now.
Doesn't it require jumping through a ton of hoops to install apks from unknown sources on modern Android? How many people are A) capable of doing this, and B) naive enough to actually do it?
That said, I don't use Chrome so I've never seen that incredibly shady-looking real update notification they showed in the article. If Google has indeed trained users to expect and accept something like that, then shame on Google. I can't blame users for thinking the fake one is legit. It looks very similar (and it seems like it would be trivial to make it look 100% identical). But still, how does the apk actually get installed?
Do a religion tier list next.
I came in here knowing exactly what the comments would look like, and I'm still disappointed. "Just don't use so many tabs" is not an answer. If you don't have anything constructive to say, just move on instead of getting uppity about...not using browsers very heavily or understanding other use cases.
Yeah, thousands of tabs seems extreme. But "you should dedicate a larger amount of time and effort all day, every day to make the computer's job easier" is a bad take. That's obviously worse than OP's existing workflow.
Sorry OP, I don't have a real answer either. You might find Arc Browser's tab system to suit you better, but since it's chromium-based I suspect performance might be worse.
Edit: out of curiosity, how much memory does your PC have, and how much is Firefox using during these freezes? I wonder how much of the delay is caused by swapping.