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8 votes
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Things I won't work with: The higher states of bromine
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Should some of these Republicans start to recuse themselves from the impeachment of Donald Trump?
Just a question. Lindsey Graham, Mitch McConnell, and the rest of them saying they already have a vote against removal of Donald before a court appearance. Sorry if this is the wrong sub tilde for...
Just a question. Lindsey Graham, Mitch McConnell, and the rest of them saying they already have a vote against removal of Donald before a court appearance.
Sorry if this is the wrong sub tilde for this. It just pisses me off.
"'I'm not trying to pretend to be a fair juror here': Graham predicts Trump impeachment will 'die quickly'" in Senate https://edition.cnn.com/2019/12/14/politics/lindsey-graham-trump-impeachment-trial/index.html
17 votes -
The difference between aerodynamic and ballistic reentry
7 votes -
When will the Arctic see its first ice-free summer?
6 votes -
Hand-crafted lanterns made for a festival contest
8 votes -
A new study shows an animal’s lifespan is written in the DNA. For humans, it’s thirty-eight years
20 votes -
Death Stranding: Hideo Kojima’s latest release is strange, celebrated by critics, and highlights how hard it is for any video game to achieve mainstream legitimacy without a vast budget
5 votes -
"Why do we need to know this when there’s fancy part X that already does Y?"
7 votes -
Keybase cancels further Stellar Lumen cryptocurrency giveaways after giving away 10% of the intended amount, due to abuse
19 votes -
Gary Clark Jr - Travis County Courthouse (2004)
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Reply All - The Real Enemy (3-parts)
Part 1: https://gimletmedia.com/shows/reply-all/llhd33/152-the-real-enemy-part-1 Part 2: https://gimletmedia.com/shows/reply-all/94hwe43/153-the-real-enemy-part-2 Part 3:...
Part 1: https://gimletmedia.com/shows/reply-all/llhd33/152-the-real-enemy-part-1
Part 2: https://gimletmedia.com/shows/reply-all/94hwe43/153-the-real-enemy-part-2
Part 3: https://gimletmedia.com/shows/reply-all/j4hl3vj/154-the-real-enemy-part-3
4 votes -
Every year, revellers gather in a Danish national park to ring in one of the largest Independence Day celebrations outside the US
4 votes -
The story of Salvador’s Banda Didá
4 votes -
How Apple survived the flawgic-filled 2010s, butterflies and all
5 votes -
Feminism comes of age in Finland as female coalition takes the reins – but even there, the battle for equality isn't over
8 votes -
The universal Lego sorter is an AI-powered machine that sorts every type of block
7 votes -
How would medieval kings see today?
11 votes -
NASA approves December 20 Boeing Starliner test flight onboard an Atlas V to International Space Station
10 votes -
What have you been listening to this week?
What have you been listening to this week? You don't need to do a 6000 word review if you don't want to, but please write something! If you've just picked up some music, please update on that as...
What have you been listening to this week? You don't need to do a 6000 word review if you don't want to, but please write something! If you've just picked up some music, please update on that as well, we'd love to see your hauls :)
Feel free to give recs or discuss anything about each others' listening habits.
You can make a chart if you use last.fm:
http://www.tapmusic.net/lastfm/
Remember that linking directly to your image will update with your future listening, make sure to reupload to somewhere like imgur if you'd like it to remain what you have at the time of posting.
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Laptop review of Acer A315-42
So I bought this laptop mainly for web browsing, document editing, note taking and programming with perhaps light gaming although that's not something I've tried yet. So, really just for school...
So I bought this laptop mainly for web browsing, document editing, note taking and programming with perhaps light gaming although that's not something I've tried yet. So, really just for school work.
Specifications
Laptop Model : Acer Aspire 3 A315-42
Laptop screen : 1080p IPS (with matte finish?)
CPU : R5 3500U
RAM : 8GB DDR4 (6GB available because of iGPU)
Storage : 256GB SSD NVMe
Wireless : Qualcomm Atheros QCA9377
Wired : Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168/8411 (According to lspci)
2x USB 2.0, 1x USB 3.0, 1x HDMI port, Audio jack, 1x RJ45 Ethernet port
Battery : 36.7WhLinux compatibility
Everything worked out of the box, gotta modify TLP to not kill the touchpad and webcam. The touchpad seems to have a mind of its own when it comes to being detected, It seems to be a kernel bug, unsure what I'll do about it concretely but rebooting a couple of times makes it work. Nothing to install thanks to AMD's open source mesa drivers. Might need a kernel higher than 5.3 because of general Ryzen 3000 issues but I've not tried, it was already higher than that.
Operating system tested
Basically never touched Windows, directly installed Fedora 31 Silverblue.
My Silverblue configuration is :
● ostree://fedora:fedora/31/x86_64/silverblue Version: 31.20191213.0 (2019-12-13T00:42:11Z) BaseCommit: a5829371191d0a3e26d3cced9f075525d2ea73679bd255865fcf320bd2dca22a GPGSignature: Valid signature by 7D22D5867F2A4236474BF7B850CB390B3C3359C4 RemovedBasePackages: gnome-terminal-nautilus gnome-terminal 3.34.2-1.fc31 LayeredPackages: camorama cheese eog fedora-workstation-repositories gedit gnome-calendar gnome-font-viewer gnome-tweaks hw-probe libratbag-ratbagd lm_sensors nano neofetch powertop radeontop sysprof systemd-swap tilix tlp
Kernel : 5.3.15
Gnome : 3.34.1Body and Looks
The screen back has metal, I believe it feels quite sturdy. The rest is reasonable feeling plastic. The material used just loves to imprint grease / fingers which kinda sucks - the keys being the exception thankfully. There was also stickers on the inside which well, are somewhat standard but I thought they were pretty obnoxious so I removed them.
Typing experience
It's nothing amazing but it's good enough. I'm not really knowledgeable on keyboards so that's as much as I can say on it, really.
Performance
Everything feels quite snappy but I don't game at all on this machine so I'm not pushing it too much other than while I'm compiling or doing other things. The temperature does go up to 75°C and the fans get a little loud but it's not that bad. It's mostly the bottom getting hot so it's not something you notice too much while typing. It also cold boots quite fast, in about 10-20seconds I want to say but I've not benchmarked that. It's my first computer with an SSD so there's that.
Battery life
I get about 5hours with tlp installed doing web browsing, some programming occasionally, listening to music on the speakers and chatting. Personally I was kind of expecting more from this considering it's an APU but it seems to be what other people are getting on similar setups so It'll do.
Conclusion
Overall, I'm pretty happy with this laptop considering how I bought it for 575$ on sale. I made this review mostly because I wasn't finding much information about this laptop on Linux and well, I don't know, I guess I felt like it. If you have any questions, ask up!
11 votes -
How releasing 1,500,000 balloons went horribly wrong
8 votes -
Heatwaves on multiple continents linked by jet stream tendency
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Call of Duty: Modern Warfare claims to walk an impossible line—it’s a story about torture and imperialism, and yet the writers say it's "not political," and "doesn't have a perspective."
13 votes -
Day 13: Care Package
Today's problem description: https://adventofcode.com/2019/day/13 Join the Tildes private leaderboard! You can do that on this page, by entering join code 730956-de85ce0c. Please post your...
Today's problem description: https://adventofcode.com/2019/day/13
Join the Tildes private leaderboard! You can do that on this page, by entering join code
730956-de85ce0c
.Please post your solutions in your own top-level comment. Here's a template you can copy-paste into your comment to format it nicely, with the code collapsed by default inside an expandable section with syntax highlighting (you can replace
python
with any of the "short names" listed in this page of supported languages):<details> <summary>Part 1</summary> ```python Your code here. ``` </details>
8 votes -
Dumbass Home 2.0: Home automation without bullshit
21 votes -
The world wants more Danish TV than Denmark can handle
8 votes -
Minecraft diamond challenge leaves AI creators stumped
7 votes -
Best Illusion of the Year 2019 - Winners announced
18 votes -
Some of the Pew Research Center's most noteworthy findings from 2019
9 votes -
FCC proposes designating 988 as national suicide prevention and mental health hotline number
19 votes -
Fitness Weekly Discussion
What have you been doing lately for your own fitness? Try out any new programs or exercises? Have any questions for others about your training? Want to vent about poor behavior in the gym? Started...
What have you been doing lately for your own fitness? Try out any new programs or exercises? Have any questions for others about your training? Want to vent about poor behavior in the gym? Started a new diet or have a new recipe you want to share? Anything else health and wellness related?
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What are you doing this weekend?
This topic is part of a weekly series. It is meant to be a place for users to discuss their weekend. If you have any plans, things you want to get done, things you have done, things you haven't...
This topic is part of a weekly series. It is meant to be a place for users to discuss their weekend.
If you have any plans, things you want to get done, things you have done, things you haven't done, or even if you just want to talk about how you're doing this weekend, this is a place for casual discussion about those things.
A list of all previous topics in this series can be found here.
So, what (or how) are you doing this weekend?
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What programming/technical projects have you been working on?
This is a recurring post to discuss programming or other technical projects that we've been working on. Tell us about one of your recent projects, either at work or personal projects. What's...
This is a recurring post to discuss programming or other technical projects that we've been working on. Tell us about one of your recent projects, either at work or personal projects. What's interesting about it? Are you having trouble with anything?
17 votes -
Sweden's central bank has tapped Accenture to develop its e-krona digital currency pilot project
6 votes -
The Verge’s gadgets of the decade
14 votes -
Oil drilling has brought great prosperity to Nuiqsut, Alaska. The town has also experienced warming more than three times the global average.
6 votes -
For decades, anti-government and white supremacist groups have been attempting to recruit police officers – and the authorities themselves aren’t even certain about the scale of the problem
12 votes -
Music Software & Bad Interface Design: Avid’s Sibelius
9 votes -
Pastry chef, Claire Saffitz, attempts to make gourmet Milky Way Bars | Gourmet Makes
5 votes -
QA Lead at Obsidian explains a bug in The Outer Worlds where the game decided your companion was dead, despite the fact that companions usually can't die
18 votes -
Scotland's UK election results deliver another independence mandate, says First Minister
13 votes -
The Arctic may have already turned into a net emitter of carbon emissions due to thawing permafrost, according to the US government's 2019 Arctic Report Card
11 votes -
The real purpose of US President Donald Trump's executive order on anti-Semitism is to quash the defense—and even the discussion—of Palestinian rights
15 votes -
"Forgive us our debts": Jubilee Baptist Church is a quasi-socialist, anti-racist, LGBTQ-affirming church conducting a bold experiment, focusing on debt, work, and freedom from oppression
10 votes -
Showdown in Wisconn Valley: Why won’t Foxconn tell Wisconsin what it’s building?
13 votes -
"Humans were not centre stage": How ancient cave art puts us in our place
13 votes -
Bloomberg just bought CityLab—and will put half its staff out of a job
13 votes -
Too many thoughts about Star Wars | Movies with Mikey
4 votes -
How to get a book deal in ten years or less
18 votes