Firefox Lockwise and firefox sync are really good synchronizing tools. Between the two services, they do a good job of keeping my desktop, laptop, iPad and Android phone in sync. Since lockwise integrates with Android and ios' built in password manager systems it works everywhere including in apps. I don't feel like I am missing anything over the first party options.
I've been a Firefox desktop user for years, but I just switched to the Firefox mobile apps. On the iPad it's fine. It's basically safari with Firefox sync. On Android it feels like someone finally made a full powerful browser for mobile. You can run standard browser extensions and that is a big win for me.
"Design" was in the title but I was hoping for a development tutorial. I know its just gtk, but I'm hoping someone with the project can put together a very simple python or js tutorial for making simple apps.
- are there ever times when there aren’t enough charging stations free due to other Teslas tying them up?
It happens. I use them maybe once a month for the last year and I've only had to wait once. It cost me 10 minutes or so. If you're unlucky you might live near a particularly crowded supercharge and have longer waits. I think the vast majority of owners charge at home 90+% of the time.
- do you find yourself chatting with fellow Tesla owners while charging?
Some people hang around their cars while they charge but I tend to grab a coffee or do some shopping. The chargers are usually near at least a coffee shop if not an entire mall. With the exception of the occasional long trip, I'm usually not staying long.
-are the superchargers free to use
For some people. My model 3 didn't come with free supercharging but a lot of the chargers are sponsored by the local mall (I've seen a few tourist centers with free charging too). The only time I've paid it cost about $6 for a roughly 75% charge (200 to 240 miles).
> The chargers are usually near at least a coffee shop if not an entire mall. With the exception of the occasional long trip, I'm usually not staying long.
What happens when the car is fully charged and the owner doesn’t come out for hours?
Not sure if it's still true, but recently I was in a rented Model X, and the encouraged you not to do this by -charging- owners for over-charging, even if they have unlimited charging.
I don't think it is intended to be a business or business model. I think its just about the technology. It aims to provide scalable distribution of video without a huge youtube-size infrastructure. Maybe you can build a business model on top... or maybe you just host your own videos and use the federation tools to share the files with others.
I agree. That was my first reaction and I suspect most visitors will be in the same boat. I like the simple design of the landing page and in the context of a hackernews visitor, I might click through to see more of the project. I almost certainly wouldn't signup in the context of being a potential customer.
I think lumina is based on Fluxbox, which is very similar to openbox. Lumina isn't a currently window manager, it you wouldn't compare it dirrectly. Think of it as openbox plus a a start-menu and system tools like a network manager.
I say it "isn't a currently window manager" because the devs have said they are looking at making their own, but I haven't heard that they have started.
I assume Canonical wants to have some influence with Gnome and Wayland going forward. The nature of open source, and just working with groups of people for that matter, is that you have to build consensus before trying to push changes, especially big and visible changes.
Why would a volunteer coordinator (or paid contributor at a different company) even look at a contribution from another team that just called him anti-social if the code isn't perfectly in line with his goals.
Even if Mark is 100% right, his 'anti-social' shots are not a good way to build in-roads with the projects Canonical will be relying on.
The http://puri.sm people are trying to make an open source phone running their distro PureOS (based on debian). They even said on a podcast that they have removed or mitigated the binary blob issues. Apparently they are already working with Gnome developers to make Gnome work on a small screen and build the specialized phone software like a dialer.
Sadly, it will fail. I spoke to the founder about the project and in my opinion he's underestimated the challenge. He said something to me like "all we need to do is solve the battery life issue". That's like saying, to get to space all we need to do is build the space shuttle. As far as efficiency is concerned, android is the only show in town. Debian won't cut it. What he does works for stuff you plug in, not for battery operated gadgets.
I just switched from Macs to a Fedora desktop and never compiled anything. Maybe I've been lucky, but my Lenovo and Dell desktops and my old IBM and new Asus laptops run with no issues.
I'm capable of solving most linux driver issues, but I've been pretty impressed that I haven't needed to during my switch. Again, maybe I've been lucky.
I was a little disappointed that installing nodejs requires a magic shell script but it didn't require any effort on my part beyond setting similar things up on Mac with Brew (or Brew itself) Otherwise, Fedora's app store has covered my needs. That said, I don't do any graphics work, so maybe you're going to run in to issue I haven't.
I've been a Firefox desktop user for years, but I just switched to the Firefox mobile apps. On the iPad it's fine. It's basically safari with Firefox sync. On Android it feels like someone finally made a full powerful browser for mobile. You can run standard browser extensions and that is a big win for me.