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Obamacare is going to get completely eviscerated by the combination of a Republican President and a Republican Senate..

The biggest about this is not being able to 'compress' images to 25%, but that you can now take (some) images that we're previously only low-res, and upscale them!

.. which is usually capped. So you are covered for minor incidents, but anything above 200k (or whatever the cap is) will completely fuck you up. Because anything that will have that much cost will also be something serious enough to incapacitate you for a long time and leave you without income. EU healthcare usually doesn't have cap, nor a deductible of thousands of dollars.

> get cancer, or accident, or kids

> financial life ruined

in the EU, not so much.

> Apple needs Windows because next to nobody depends on Mac OS X to do anything.

Photographers, musicians, software developers, small businesses, students.. but except those none, sure..

Which is kind of silly since Apple (notorious for 'my way or the highway') officially supports dual-booting Windows.

I hope that's a rhetorical question.. pretty much every company loves to shaft Europe on price, even with taxes considered. Although Australia has it even worse!

And here I thought the Netherlands was expensive.. 100 bucks a month + a 385 deductible. And our level of care is top of the world. Man do I completely un-envy Americans.

Then why does nearly every business use Google Maps and it's API for map features? You have to pay for maps access on a commercial basis, so they'd be stupid to ignore a free (and according to you superior) solution.

My guess is you're a FOSS zealot who can't admit that a commercial rendition of a particular idea is superior, because it would crush your ideologies and beliefs.. (and I say that as someone who has no problem with using good FOSS like VLC or Transmission)

> (which shoots a massive hole in your theory about that having anything to do with whether a nation's infrastructure is adequate)

Let's not pretend the US infrastructure is anywhere near as adequately done as in most North or West-European countries.

.. so use Safari and Sublime.

People seriously need to start ditching apps built on Electron and start using native applications again. Atom uses about 400-600Mb memory. So does GitKraken, and so does WhatsApp. The first two can be replaced by Sublime (rarely above 200Mb and much faster) and Fork, although the only real alternative for WhatsApp is Telegram (with the native client), although that has not nearly as much users.

What's also completely dismissed is the erroneous result(s) that were around 18h battery life... my MBP is rated for 12hrs (of light use) and I've got it to 14 once, but I can't imagine getting to 18.

Yeah, sounds what he really needs is i3.

A lot of major extensions still turn off e10s, so no, it isn't here yet.

This one's already a '15 refurb. We'll see. Shittiest thing is that I don't have an Apple store in my university town or hometown, only APRs, and I can't miss my Macbook for too long (I do AI, so yeah..), so if they want to send it out for repairs for a long time, I'm fucked.

On another note: what I actually meant with my comment is that I'm kind of amazed Apple still has parts for a 2yr (and presumably 3yr according to OP) old laptop, since they usually push their old stock out pretty aggressively. They either must have giant warehouses full or still have the factories churning out old parts??

I'm in pretty big 'luck' as well: my screen is starting to show the delamination issue ('staingate') as well. Coupled with that I'm also having excessive coil whine under load (even hearable when I'm chilling in bed downloading a torrent). What I'm wondering is: this is an 'early 2015' model. Its early 2017 now. Do they still have the 2015 model screens and logic boards in stock or will they just give me a free 2016 model?

One great thing is I have Applecare on this one so I won't have to pay a penny for sure..

Aww yiss muthafucka

Thats very nice. Although I wonder what Debian's 'official' container format will be.. almost everyone else seems to be standardizing around Flatpak so it'd be nice if Debian did as well, especially since that will mean Ubuntu (hopefully) will switch to it in the future as well instead of Snappy, same as the whole Upstart -> SystemD story.

Nope. And I say that as someone who wants to switch away from the straightjacket that is MBP + macOS.

In broad strokes, yes, the XPS13 (and 15) are pretty close to the Macbook Pro's. However, since Apple has already been 'here' ( = great trackpad, solid body, great battery life) since 2012 they have had time to absolutely perfect the Macbooks. Just a small list of engineering stuff they did:

1. Battery life. They developed both terraced batteries and special non-standard sleeper modes on Thunderbolt chips. Also one of the few laptops left that has a 'muxed' dual-graphics solution. 2. Custom motherboards, in very weird shapes, to maximize spatial efficiency. 3. Fans. The fan blades are all at a different angle, thus producing a slightly different pitch and spreading fan noise across the audible spectrum 4. The hinge. Opening and closing a Macbook is an absolutely joy, because its sturdy enough to not wobble, but if you open it, it doesn't tilt the Macbook off the surface. [1] 5. Magsafe (sadly gone since 2016 models)

The XPS line not having these little things is not a show-stopper, but IMHO does elevate a laptop from 'great' to 'near-perfection'.

[1] They test this painstankingly, so it feels perfect from the 11" Air all the way up to the 15" Pro. Even my dad's brand new 2016 XPS 15 still has the tilting problem.

There's another standard? Why couldn't the deb guys just support Flatpak... damnit

It's not better, it's just a million times more usable. A Ferrari is nice, but for day-to-day stuff I'd rather use a Volvo :)

Packages are often kept at stable (but old) versions for a very long time. This is good for servers, but bad for users. Same goes for the kernel - again, good for servers, but not so much for new-ish hardware. In general its a very conservative distro.

As far as it being a server OS, well..

'In July 2010, CentOS overtook Debian to become the most popular Linux distribution for web servers, with almost 30% of all Linux web servers using it.[15] (Debian retook the lead in January 2012.)'

Remember that if you do it that way you can't have your /home encrypted by either Linux or macOS. Which is a very, very bad thing, for obvious reasons.

CentOS is meant to be a server OS and misses a lot of the niceties that Desktop Linux variants have.

Switch to Manjaro. Its to Arch Linux what Ubuntu is to Debian. Puts stability and ease-of-use before ideology.

> Debian and I'm surprised more people aren't saying so. Ubuntu or Mint, which are built on Debian do not add much value these days, IMO and Ubuntu's 6 month release cycle is intolerable. If you get behind with upgrades you are screwed.

Ever tried to install Debian on a Macbook without an Ethernet-to-USB cable? I take it not, because then you would know how completely retarded it is that you need a second USB stick with the broadcom-wl driver on it to do a proper install. Debian's 'free software' zealotry makes for a horrible UX.

Edit: and here come the 'free software' zealots. Keep downvoting, but everyone out of your echo chamber can see how rabidly sticking to ideology completely destroys usability.

Do you you use macOS, Linux or Windows? Because if it's the first, that's pretty weird behavior. macOS is very good at compressing and vacating memory as necessary..

> "They just want products that work" sounds like an explanation of why people buy iPhones, because I don't know anyone who's had that experience with Google products (other than Chrome, I suppose).

Uhm... Gmail is an amazing Google product that people are very happy with, and that (at introduction) had no equal. Same goes for Maps.. at introduction there was nothing like it, and it has only gotten better. Hell, Apple Maps still sucks if you're not in the US. YouTube is (arguably) another product that people are very happy using.

And Safari is an amazing browser. The macOS version is by far the most battery friendly of all browsers (where Chrome and Firefox have an 'energy use' of 40-50 when playing H264, Safari is in the low 20s). The tricks used to get there are too many to name, but I take my hat off to Apple for going the extra mile. The iOS version is also very very battery friendly and oh so smooth.. although since all browsers have to use Safari's webkit backend, there isn't really a good way to compare.

Plus this: https://github.com/5digits/dactyl/issues/99#issuecomment-263...

A very large part of the globe does not follow common law.

> Go to site > $29 > Not your currency? > select € > €29 > Select £ > £29

Even going past the fact that OverGrive is $5, I won't support companies that think currency conversion is a way to leech more money from non-US customers. Yeah yeah taxes, but then the £ price should be around £27 and not £29. Its crystal clear what they're doing.