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2019

I have a Pixel Slate i5, it’s decent. Very quick, the on-screen keyboard with Swype is pretty much the only decent way to use Chrome with a Tablet form-factor. www.reddit.com/r/chromeo…
I’ve noticed some cables, like my Dell WD-15 dock, seem to be loose in the port while others are very tug. I’ve heard some mixed reviews about https://www.amazon.com/Magnetic-Adapter-Connector-Transfer-Compatible/dp/B07TT6NGBC/ref=sr_1_7?keywords=usb+c+magnetic+data&qid=1567282002&s=gateway&sr=8-7 which should allow for data transfer and power delivery. I’ve thought about investing in some, too. www.reddit.com/r/chromeo…
I wish I kept all my boxes as an awesome collection. I’m constantly pushed to throw boxes away, pretty much as soon as I open it. www.reddit.com/r/google/…
Compared to the other Changelings, Odo isn’t a very good shapeshifter. They cover this in the episode “Children of Time” where Odo has a lifetime to practice shapeshifting and can more convincingly pull off human features. A good episode, if your interested in this sort of thing. www.reddit.com/r/Daystro…
16TB a year seems fairly reasonable, but I don’t know if I’d trust those hard drives. www.reddit.com/r/videos/…
I got one of these last week, I like it a lot so far. The major issue I’ve had so far is with the two WD-15 docks I own. The one at work works more-or-less, but it doesn’t bring the system out of standby. At home, the display has stopped working. This reminds me of the early days of my XPS 9550 (same laptop, a few generations ago) and these problems were totally solved by the time this laptop came along.

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Be nice to your parents, they are trying really hard and are still dumb www.reddit.com/r/Drugs/c…
Seems like it would go far beyond this. Imagine a world where you go to work in a Holodeck; you enter the room, you say you want to go to Starfleet Command, and it appears around you, while simultaneously a hologram of you appears in the actual building somewhere in San Fransisco. Imagine you meet a girl there, and decide to have dinner with her. Perhaps she’s on the Enterprise, and you’re on DS9, if you both have access to a holodeck, why not just have the date virtually in the holodeck?

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I will say that the social benefits are something you are already bringing to the table, I wouldn’t be so quick to attribute them to the drug. www.reddit.com/r/Drugs/c…
The thing to know about smoking cigarettes is that you feel better after smoking them because your body misses the nicotine and made you feel like shit so you’d smoke one. True story. www.reddit.com/r/Drugs/c…
I would say one leg up many Linux users have is they have experienced installing it from scratch, and therefore know they can do it again if they end up breaking everything. If you know you can bring it back to a working state no matter how bad you screw something up, it liberates you to experiment a bit more. www.reddit.com/r/linux/c…
This is ironic, because the Pixel Slate is an outstanding tablet for running Chrome. Far better experience than using it on any Windows tablet. Google’s touch controls are fully compatible with Chrome, power management and battery life on a Pixel outperform my defunct Surface Pro 4. I hope they continue to improve the tablet experience, otherwise this $1000 Pixel Slate i5 might not have been such a great purchase after all.

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I install a few extensions but love stock gnome! www.reddit.com/r/gnome/c…
This is like a list of regressions and things you can add through extensions.gnome.org. The thing to keep in mind is GNOME is part design philosophy, the vanilla experience is spartan but GNOME gives a lot under the hood for apps to take advantage. Granted, I don’t think the project is quite there yet as GNOME 3.x is meant to be an in-progress desktop. Still, it seems the author would be happier with some other GNOME-based DE’s that are designed to give him the (rather old-school) UX he seeks.

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Really owe it to yourself to try Fedora, an to a lesser extent OpenSuse. www.reddit.com/r/Ubuntu/…
Go ahead and bring it up, if you like it and your talking about your likes, what’s wrong with it? If she hears Trek and wants to bail you weren’t going to like her anyways. Just don’t talk about any of your dumb hobbies too much, whatever you talk about she should enjoy the conversation. www.reddit.com/r/startre…
People alive today is going to rebuild this thing, and it’ll last another thousand years. Pretty cool, honestly. www.reddit.com/r/obama/c…
I mean I’m really not bothered by how she got here, just feel others should be allowed to come here www.reddit.com/r/worldpo…
Civ 5 seems to work on my Pixel Slate, albeit incredibly slowly. Little Inferno finally has decent frame-rates. In all, a solid release. www.reddit.com/r/Crostin…
I added this recently in my dockerized lemp stack. It’s pretty neat and does, in fact, work in Crostini. www.reddit.com/r/Crostin…