I absolutely adore new experience, it's facebook after all. You can't do it on facebook and now on instagram. I didn't use these products for a long time but IG was definitely moving to that direction.
Can't get why some users don't like the change. You're free to decide should you use a product or not. To put it from other perspective, you choose to become a product for instagram to sell or not. If you don't have an account, it's hard to earn more from your time spent in the app. Billions doesn't ROI themselves.
Old web is still there, forums/personal websites isn't banned. You still can do things the old decentralised way probably to a greater extent because internet is even bigger now.
> Can't get why some users don't like the change. You're free to decide should you use a product or not.
Some people aren't quitters. They don't just quit whenever something stops going their way, they try to change it, try to improve it, try to make it better, even if the only way they have to do that is express why its not best.
My point is you're not a customer after all. IG customers are advertisers. Why advertisers wouldn't be happy with a new change?
We do try to improve products we use but in this story unfortunately you don't have a voice because if you're not an advertiser. Think about how much ads you need to sell to earn 1B back at least and sustain operating expenses especially when you're not trying to be lean with your resources.
I think you are putting too much stock in the importance of a "Customer". If I'm using a service, i'm a user of that service. As a user, I do have a right to not like the changes to usability of that service.
You have those rights as a human not as an IG user.
As IG user you have only one right, to say "yes" to any changes they want and to obey to the algorithm of banning and censoring. You don't have any right if you can't enforce it. They can ban end censor your opinion and can enforce this right, you can't do anything about it. You are the product they're selling after all and they care about you in terms of as much revenue you can generate on this particular platform (macro picture of user retention).
You can choose only one. Otherwise I can't see how it would be end-to-end encrypted. Your devices should create some sort of a group chat to make this work.
Group chats have large enough attack surface and "end-to-end encryption" will create false sense of security.
Signal has end-to-end encryption and you are able to see the conversation on other devices from the point you link your devices.
What it does not have is the ability to send your conversation history to your linked devices (which I find a bit odd, if you can trust a device with your present/future conversations, you should be able to trust it with your past, or at least be able to opt in in trusting it with sending over your past conversations). I hope they will provide this in the future.
All you need is for the two instances of the app to use separate sets of key pairs, where the keys have been generated on the device itself and the private keys never leave the devices, to share the private key for the conversation between the two devices. I don't know if Signal or any other app does this, but it's 100% conceptually possible.
In general there is a simple rule: either usability or security.
All general consumer grade tools are fighting with this equation: How can we make an app which will appeal to the broad audience which will be easy to use.
I can't say anything about signal but in general if something is easy to use and you can chat super secure with your grandma then most likely it isn't secure how you might think it is and it's actually an issue because you may want to send data which otherwise you wouldn't if you know you're on compromised channel.
Sharing history between e2e encrypted devices is a tricky thing because you should have forward security with some ratchet keys.
Laptops isn't designed for serious workloads. It's a small portable devices to hash some errands at starbucks. You can't change physics laws unfortunately to make all the heat disappear somewhere.
Keep in mind Intel marketing as well which advertises CPU with way less heat than they expose in real life.
The way you have this machines is because apple is commercial company and they should follow market demands.
"10 cores", "silent": you can only choose one.
If you want a reliable silent machine, use the proper tool for the job. I.e. mac mini / imac. There is the only way to get proper cooling. You can't have silent cooling in your laptop. Especially if it's "a top spec".
No. It's "10 cores", "silent", "5mm thick": choose two.
Personally I don't see the point in having a laptop thinner than 20mm. I would pay very good money for a 25mm thick, reasonably powerful laptop with super quiet cooling.
The Thinkpad T440s was dead quiet. It was the first generation of thinkpads with a 15W CPU instead of 35W. A current mobile CPU configured to 15W TDP would be powerful enough for basically any task that you would throw at a single computer. Instead of keeping things quiet, manufacturers focus on making laptops thin enough to replace a knife.
On current laptops, the noise level tends to follow the system load very closely. Just putting a bit more thermal mass into the cooling system would allow for a much more steady noise level, which is much less annoying (and the fan would not have to spin up at all on short load bursts like starting a VM).
> Instead of keeping things quiet, manufacturers focus on making laptops thin enough to replace a knife
They focus on what customers want. If they want 10 cores 5mm thick notebooks, they'll get it. It'll be noisy but who cares. It'll be used to like facebook posts anyways. Professions will buy stationary computers for the heavy lifting anyways.
T440 is an awesome machine although X1 is more popular, which is kind of slender version of t440.
I, a professional, have no say in what equipment I use in my profession — my employer does, and they do not allow outside equipment. (I get 1 MBP.)
I don't think this at all uncommon, either; I've only worked for one company so far that allowed personal machines, and that was only briefly while they were so small they weren't purchasing any equipment for the employees yet. (They rapidly outgrew that.)
You can add a centimeter or so of thickness and get perfectly adequate cooling for high power parts - look at all the gaming laptops for an example of this (if you can get past the godawful visual design).
This isn't a "laptops" issue, this is an "ultra thin" issue. Trouble is most people only want to buy ultra thin laptops and don't realize that that super powerful 8 core cpu isn't any faster than a much less expensive one when there isn't adequate cooling.
Laptops certainly can be designed for actual work. Its just macbooks are focused on being as thin as possible. If they put the current gen macbook in a 2012 macbook case they could make it run much much better since they could put a good cooler in it.
In theory, laptop manufacturers that use aluminum in their chassis could just put the CPU die right up against the chassis, Remove the bottom feet, and then tell you to only ever use it sitting on top of a table designed to function as a top-down heat pipe (i.e. the kind they use to make “scraped” frozen yoghurt.) The table would become the CPU’s direct-contact heatsink.
Not practical at all, of course, but this is well within the laws of physics. (And people do lesser things all the time, using e.g. those laptop “cooling stands” with clearance and fans built in.)
It would be practical to at least have some form of heat transfer to the case for passive cooling advantage, but this can have the downside of the end user getting burned/uncomfortable and saying, Why does my computer get so hot?
The recent metal-cased RTL-SDR's from rtl-sdr-blog have this "problem". The metal case actually helps the chip run cooler, but it gets hotter to the touch then the early insulating plastic models.
They are not that slim nor very beautiful, but gaming laptops can handle serious workloads for a long time. And many of them have a feature to stay silent with lower performances. They actually have a much better cooling system, but it's heavier and more expensive.
Could you please explain to me why Signal is the superior messaging platform?
I can't understand why it requires ID/passport from you to use it. I guess if you want to use an encrypted messaging platform then you don't want it to be tied to the government issued ID.
p.s. you phone number is tied you your ID, so it's basically your ID
It sounds like you are worried about a threat model (being identified by your government) that Signal is not designed to, nor attempts to address. There are some workarounds that may satisfy your needs, such as using a different phone number provided by Google Voice or Twilio.[0]
It may not be for you, but Signal does a very good job of solving the problems it does aim to solve for the millions of people who use it.
In comparison to what other messaging platforms? What do you mean it requires ID/passport? It uses phone number as a "username", which is why it's easy to use.
Some countries require ID/passport to just get a phone number. This could potentially be sidestepped by getting a Twilio number or Google Voice number, but that causes it to be far from frictionless.
Unless if ISP positions itself as rigid security service devoted to provide you security features and some famous people recommend using it in order to transfer sensitive documents.
Public internet access, both in the form of hotspots and computers, are perfectly usable (if not terribly secure). But you cannot use Signal with a payphone.
As you mentioned you're comfortable with vi, Spacemacs probably should be a good start although I think it kind of overloaded. Doom emacs should be a better/lighter option to start with till you ready to create your own edition.
I suggest don't go full inside but start slowly incorporating emacs into your workflow.
If you write code then using emacs only for git via magit for the first couple of weeks should be a good start (while reading some emacs related book in parallel).
Then try to experiment with the org mode, this thing alone might get you on the hook to be productive with the tool.
If you like the experience then I suggest you to consider buying ergonomic keyboard like ergodox/maltron/kinesis advantage to improve your typing.
I'd suggest starting with the Kinesis and then trying Emacs. I tried Emacs multiple times on "regular" keyboards and it never made sense to me. It wasn't till I tried it with the Kinesis keyboard that I was able to fall in love with the keybindings. Great comment.
What was your behaviour couple of years ago? Have you worked overtime? Did you have older colleagues that time?
The answer is simple. If you don't want to work overtime then don't do it and see what will happen. Most likely nothing.
Think about how you can deliver move value to the company by working smart instead of putting more hours (hint: automate your job, try to bring new clients).
I would not bother to host email service for one user. You have to keep up with all updates and vulnerabilities on daily basis.
You don't have enough volume as well and it increases your chances to be marked as a spam. Self-hosting is quite pricey because you have to care about your IP reputation (and you can't really gain any reputation if you send couple of emails). You can't use cheap VPS providers because most likely IPs from them will be marked as increased chances of spam.
If you really want to go with the self-hosting route, configure your server to accept email but when you send, send it through large email providers like sendgrid/amazon ses or so.
Can't get why some users don't like the change. You're free to decide should you use a product or not. To put it from other perspective, you choose to become a product for instagram to sell or not. If you don't have an account, it's hard to earn more from your time spent in the app. Billions doesn't ROI themselves.
Old web is still there, forums/personal websites isn't banned. You still can do things the old decentralised way probably to a greater extent because internet is even bigger now.