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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. The other major issue is the fingerprint reader isn’t supported, but it looks like the libfprint people are working on it. Otherwise, it’s been a great laptop for Fedora 30. Everything else seems to be well supported. The wifi didn’t work out of the box, but I plugged in a USB device and ran the updates and that sorted it out.

Edit: I was also pleased to discover that my 45 watt USB-C PD battery, that I hoped would work for my 9550, does work with the 7590.

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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? As far as both of you are concerned, you might as well be meeting in real life. I think if I were living in those times, I’d just want a holodeck shuttlecraft and call it a day.

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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.

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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.

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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. There’s rumors that Google will enable dual-booting to Windows, I guess that will suffice - the hardware is still great.

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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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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.

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The best way to do this is with Google’s Remote Desktop implementation https://remotedesktop.google.com/ . The client works purely in Chrome, supports touch, and will generally be less resource intensive then Android solutions like Steam or Moonlight. There is a Moonlight for Chrome, but it it’s unusable on ChromeOS in my experience.

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Sometimes people are needlessly abrasive and adversarial, in my experience these are oftentimes decent enough people but for whatever reason can’t fathom why their boarish behavior would ever bother anymore. It sounds like he sucks up all the oxygen in the room and nobody on his team is willing to confront them. In my experience, these assholes are people too and when you get to know them you’ll find a way to look past their behavior.

But it’s sometimes fun to give them a taste of their own medicine. If he’s not used to confrontation, you’ll be surprised at how far a little push-back will go. Especially in public, I’ve found you’ll usually get away with pointing out if someone is being an asshole in a standup if it happens to be true. It’s a jungle out there.

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I’m writing this on an i5 slate and I like it a lot. If you primarily use Chrome and like the idea of running Android or Linux apps, it’s a great option. Not the most refined OS, but a better experience generally than Windows and the Slate hardware is great.

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I can’t find a single good Android app for this thing that works well in Tablet mode. It’s a shame, because the device itself is a little easier to deal with than a Harmony.

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