College studentsare seen as cancer to the current administration. They used to be sweetheart pawns for the previous administration. This is why financial literacy should be mandatory education in high school so they can make more informed decision while borrowing for college.
I used to be KDE nut until version 4 came around. I stuck for a while but once gnome 3 got a few years of development on it's back I started liking it more over the direction KDE took. Nowadays I just use GNOME and think their design and HIG works really well across multiple different devices. Be it a desktop with a big screen and tons of real estate for lots of windows showing up concurrently, running on a cramped notebook screen with mostly just a single FS widnow or two side by side or as a "couch" experience on my HTPC, with a great interface for a "ten foot UI" usage.
I've also heard some good feedback on how well it works on a phone/tablet context but haven't had the chance of trying that my-self. Perhaps the GNOME project is on the right track for converging all those computing experiences in one in a way that makes sense, specially compared to the train wreck that microsoft's attempt unifying stuff in windows 8/mobile was.
Disclaimer: I use GNOME on my main computer and on my small-factor, touch screen enabled, couch laptop.
In terms of usability and UX, there loads of things that frustrate me. They seem to be due to design choices that the dev team made and that they don't intend to change anytime soon, so I know I'm stuck with them as long as I stick with GNOME. For that reason, I also know that someday I'll probably just snap (no, Canonical, not you) and switch DE. But for now I don't have the mental room, energy nor time to do so, so I just deal with my frustrations and stick with what Just Works™. I have to use Windows and MacOS at $dailyJob anyway so I'm used to having a subpar experience with my OS.
On the touch screen side, they indeed nailed it, as far as I can tell. I do have the occasional driver issue, due to my laptop being an obscure and not really well supported model, but the UX is far more enjoyable on my laptop than on my main computer. There's still much work to do to have a unified experience à la Apple, or as Microsoft envisioned it at the time, but they did make Linux usable on small touch screens.
It feels like GNOME has a touch-screen first approach, which is good on one hand, and bad on the other.
If only gnome shell could be used on Mac OS, I would jump at heartbeat. I really can’t understand what apple developers had in mind when bringing window in focus which is present in the current screen it switches to a different workplace. Is it a bug or is it intentional is hard to tell with macOS.
It depends on if you want to model a point or an area. lat/lng gives you a point, but you often want an area to, for example, count how many people are in that area. A spatial index like H3 provides a grid of area units.
You can use those if they work for your application. One downside would be that you're storing 4 numbers compared to a single `int64` index with H3.
You also have to decide how you'll do that binning. Can bins overlap? What do you do at the poles? H3 provides some reasonable default choices for you so don't have to worry about that part of your solution design.
Lat/lon is in a spherical coordinate. It’s more complicated to do calculation.
Btw. I have a need recently to compute the shortest distance from a point to a line defined by two points, all in lat/lon. Anyone has any lead on how to do it?
In the form of bug reports and testing patches, yes. I’ve considered writing a device driver before, but if this is the mentality of the people I’d have to fight with to get something included, I have better things to do with my time.
You can easily turn off Ai under settings. I have deep slept most unused apps. And set thr processing speed to optimized. Battery is going pretty solid, lasts a full day at 85% charge.
Also try resetting app settings. if something is draining in the background, that could help.
I've found like three things to turn off. Finding one was easy. But to root around looking for things to turn off is not hard but time consuming & elaborate.
