Some states release early and absentee data at the precinct level. Campaigners can glean a lot from this information, including modeling the likelihood that you have voted early or not based on your past vote history. With the exception of Utah (whose voter file is now opt-in), every state identifies which elections you have voted in.
Warning for the uninitiated. Be cautious using this on a production machine. I recently caused a production system to crash because disk throughput was so high that it started delaying read/writes on a PostgreSQL server. There was panic!
The experience with the PopOS related pop shell is an honourable mention here with reasonable key defaults. You should try it if you haven't already, it's quite good.
I did mention that I tried it. The issue is less with the extension and more with dealing with Gnome. I think Gnome has sane defaults and works pretty well for a lot of people but the problem is that the second you want to change something it fights you and Gnome has gotten increasingly hostile towards user customization with each release. I think another issue might have been with setting keybinds with hyper and meh is problematic but it's been a while since I've used Gnome.
Hello! I have been using PopOS which is a derivative of Ubuntu that comes with Nvidia drivers baked in. Setup on every XPS since 2018 (I buy a new one every year), has been about 20 minutes. Dell devices have excellent Linux support. Battery is a problem, I can get 5-7 hours in PopOS vs. 5-9 hours in Windows, depending on what I'm working on by using $ powertop --auto-tune and $ tlp start. Disabling touchscreen, and disabling cores directly also works extremely well when I know I need a longer battery life (9+ hours on 2021 xps with half cores disabled, running around 6-8 watts). PopOS also offers the ability to turn discrete graphics on or off which can also increase battery life.
Oh wow. I’m grateful you shared this. Wasn’t aware of PopOS and your experience with it sounds promising. I will gladly take 5 hours of battery. Currently I get 60-90 minutes in Ubuntu.
I keep one as a back up and if soneone in my family needs, I'll give it to them. I have another whose motherboard is toast, so it's just sitting there. Can't decide if it's worth $800 to fix it.
For me personally, this is exactly what I want. On days where I have meetings. It's a tablet for note taking. On days where I'm studying, it's a PDF reader either in 12.5" mode or 17" mode depending on the symbols. On days where I'm coding I would probably pair this with a g915 tlk and a second 15" portable monitor. That's a very reasonable workstation in a bag and wouldn't be heavy at all. The flexibility to be different types of devices in just one laptop is excellent. Where do I buy it?
A sales person making $600k probably has a base salary of $50-100 the rest is all commission. Sales can be a grueling slog that requires wit, emotional intelligence and significant research into your target. It's both strategic and tactical in a way that can only be practiced through repeated failure. To be bringing in a revenue that justifies a $600k salary is a rare person indeed. We all tend to oversimplify other people's work or problems. This is a good example.
Well, we don't reward engineers who find a way to increase sales or decrease overhead by half a million either. Maybe both teams could copy some habits from the other and delete a few.
One main advantage of LiteFS is being able to deploy a SQLite-based application and not have downtime during deploys. This is especially true in ephemeral systems like Kubernetes where pods will rollover.
Another use case is moving data close to users. If you're only targeting users in a single country then it's not as big of a deal but RTT from the US to Europe is ~100ms and US to Asia is ~250ms. That's a big latency hit depending on what you're trying to do.
It might be interesting for embedded scenarios where you need an always-available database but can't guarantee there will be a connection available consistently to a central database server.
