You're not, I don't like Ubuntu as a distro as I believe they've put testing and security in a back seat, but the one thing I really was excited about was the convergence of mobile and desktop, it seems like the future to me and it's something I've wanted since my first smart phone.
Not a programmer but I write plenty of puppet DSL and scripts and if I'm on a roll I find myself regularly talking through elements / relationships within the code all the time, I think I sound like a madman to those near by.
I've used FastMail calendering for several years now, I've got to say I've never had a single issue with it, accepting links / invites from other people on gmail etc... all works perfectly and events sync and update not only quickly, but reliably. I've (been forced to) used O365 for work for years and that shows a stark contrast where events go missing, have incorrect timezones from people in not just the same timezone but same organisation, disconnection issues, many year old appointments popping up at random etc... I've never had any of that with FastMail's calendering - just the way it should be. However I know that this Ask HN is about open-source calendering and FM is a hosted solution. The biggest issue I've personally had with most of the available CalDAV web interfaces I've seen / tried is that they tend to be written in PHP and while I don't want to hate on languages and it's not that simple, PHP isn't something I want to add to my existing web-stack of Ruby and Python which while both far from perfect feel more modern to host / deploy.
I actively block 'like' and '+1' buttons using uBlock Origin in the browser, I do however upvote an article, story or link on HN and (less frequently these days) Reddit if I feel it has merit.
Yeah I miss the sidebar too, it annoyed me and our devs when the pinning was broken and then when there were less items in it.
It felt like without the side bar there is wasted screen realestate that could have project related options or navigation in the side bar.
As resolutions and screens get larger I'm a strong believer that as long as you don't over complicate or make the interface too busy, you shouldn't waste ⅔ of a web site with white space.
Regardless, very happy with 9.0 otherwise, another fantastic release from the team and contributors.
Likewise, I've run it on hundreds of machines over the past three years without issue. I do continue to use EXT4 for database hosts as it far outperforms BTRFS with PostgreSQL from what I've seen.
This isn't titled correctly, the store isn't 'down' as the title suggests in a way in which it crashed or there is some big problem.
The chances are this is just a part of the process of a regular mid-term product refresh which aligns both with physical products and some site design / marketing.
It's not a big deal unless you're at the point where you're about to purchase a product but are holding off as there may be a refresh occurring - in which case it's likely this is good for you and will just be updated versions of the existing products.
This kind of hype is not created by the company / marketing, it's created by people speculating.
Remember - just chill, it might be a nice product refresh, which will either mean the old models will drop in price (new or second hand) and the new models might be what you want, OR the new refreshed models don't peak your interest / needs and you don't feel like you want to purchase it for any reason, but prices of the previous models will drop a little which is nice also.
I'm a sucker for getting lots of gadgets and then shelving them, the switch is the first game console / handheld I actually genuinely appreciate both for its quality and for its marvellous simplicity since the game boy advanced, it's truly wonderfull. It's has its flaws in that there aren't many release titles but Zelda is amazing and it's just a joy to use. Mad rep out to Nintendo for pulling one out of the hat.
I've been doing a lot of research on this recently including contacting Chinese wholesellers to see what individual parts would cost.
Essentially all I'm after is a Linux (not android) based 7-12" eink tablet with touch screen, a decent resolution / PPI for the size and at least say 2-4GB of ram at a minimum although if it was cheap enough I'd drop as far as 1GB if I really had to.
I have a Dasung E-Ink monitor and it's dreadful, lots of ghosting, very slow refresh, have to have some 'interesting' software running to make it work, hard to work with multi-desktops etc.... and very, VERY expensive: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/paperlike-world-s-first-e... otherwise I'd attach that to a Pi or Cubox and live without the touch screen.
Likewise, last year it was noted at certain points in time it was very clear that target campaigns run by or for Microsoft on Reddit and HN were working to down/up-vote specific posts and write replies in their favour. The results and details of this were posted at least two or perhaps thee times before fading away, they might be on the internet archive somewhere, if I get a chance I'll try and hunt them down.
I would say they are purely sales focus and any remaining energy / time is spent saving face and convincing C(E/I)Os they're not just the best option, they're the only option.
Other than some of the weird licensing I've heard (by know very little) about, I love so much about ARM / RISC based systems but the one thing I find myself needing is higher single core clock speeds, not just on ARM but on x86 as well. Considering how popular and accessible interpreted languages such as Python are these days and yet how hard it is to write multithread code easily I often find processes bottlenecked by a single core, I'd love a high clock speed (3.5ghz+) dual (or more) CPU ARM setup with at least 24 physical cores and a sensible amount of L1/2 cache, but as far as I'm aware it's not really something that's readily available. Something like that would hum with modern Python / Ruby apps or even an ARM build of PostgreSQL and a modern (4.10+) kernel with NVMe storage (if that exists / makes sense for ARM) running either CentOS 7 + some trusted third party mirrors such as elrepo/epel or Fedora Server which I have not actually tried in a production environment so I can't comment on its updates stability but have found it the most reliable desktop desktop distro (excluding macOS).
No, at least three of them were online / part of the O365 bundle (fumble if you ask me), it was an absolute nightmare dealing with Microsoft support, the level of incompetence they showed two of the times (when I was involved) was astounding, I'd heard bad things but it was next level and what made it worse is they were paying for the service, both with money and with the downtime while they were messed around both by the initial disruption and the messing around with the seemingly endless running with Microsoft support engineers, finally files were restored but the damage from the downtime and time spent on trying to get the vendor to deliver the cost to the business in at least one of the cases (I'm under an NDA for the one) was immeasurable but large. They experienced had previously experienced many problems with MS support and with the O365 (completely online / hosted) platforms it is enough that they're now underway evaluating alternatives, it might be the same products but on-prem or something entirely different but I am not involved in that process.
I highly doubt that, the yammer, SharePoint, onedrive, O365 etc... integration is abysmal and every product seems to get worse as they seem to tie them together with silly string behind the scenes.
You mention onedrive, funny (perhaps not) story: I've seen 5~ situations at different organisations where malware in the form of cryptolocker spreads through onedrive destroying everyone's files and connected computers more often than not, also interestingly I've seen onedrive completely mess up its versioning system and rid the organisation at hands files dated and resulting in days if not weeks of re-work. I can't believe these things seem to go unreported as if I've seen it (at least) 5 times others must have witnessed it many more, onedrive seems like one the carrier of bad all that is bad and vulnerable in the Microsoft ecosystem. Note: I am not some anti-corp / anti-ms fanboy, I'm simply stating what I've witnessed which I have not with other platforms.