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Dell brings back XPS laptops — ditches the capacitive touch bar, adds 1Hz display option, and upgrades 14 and 16-inch models

Replacing the function keys with a capacitive bar was the stupidest thing they have ever done. So silly that even Apple walked back on that design choice.

Any serious laptop buyer would rule out a laptop just for that. And any casual buyer looking to spend XPS money on a laptop is going to buy a MacBook.

I'm glad the XPS line is back but unfortunately for Dell Windows is worse than ever.

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Why Are Cars Getting Rid Of Android Auto?

Because GM sucks.

People aren't asking for much. People just want their phone navigation and music controls displayed onto the infotainment. Won't consider any car that cannot afford me this tiny bit of convenience for the sake of nickel and diming me.

And if every car manufacturer starts forcing me to adopt their own stupid software I'll just buy a fucking phone holder.

And GM has shitty reliability anyways.

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Pluribus - 1x09 "La Chica o El Mundo" - Episode Discussion

It's a good show. Nothing spectacular IMO. A solid 7. I didn't have an issue with the slow pace, but I do have an issue with this slow place + having to wait 2-3 years for a new season. Watching an entire season for nothing to happen and now I have to wait 2-3 years for plot to continue inching forward again? I'll likely have lost almost all interest in this show when season 2 comes out.

The best part was the cold open. Any semblance of society only existing in the proximity of an immune. The goat was heartbreaking.

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Quick post about AI-free FireFox Based Browsers (Keep your Addons and avoid the Bloat)

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Mozilla is still the only company maintaining an alternative to Chromium (there's also webkit if you count Apple). Without Firefox you can't have Librewolf or other alternatives.

Mozilla is not perfect but people really need to stop treating them in a purely binary fashion (you are either horrible or are perfect).

You can criticize Mozilla for the direction they are taking with Firefox, but also you can argue that being a hardcore privacy-centric browser will kill interest for Firefox even faster.

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Dell brings back XPS laptops — ditches the capacitive touch bar, adds 1Hz display option, and upgrades 14 and 16-inch models

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I don't see anything wrong with touch bar+proper control keys either. There isn't anything inherently bad about a touch bar in itself.

But replacing your function keys with a touch bar is a bad idea. It's not standard.

Sticking to standards plus giving other alternative control methods are fine. Kind of like how Asus implements a numpad into the toucpad. I think it's a gimmick but it doesn't hurt anyone.

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