Re: [Arm-netbook] new development laptop needed, looking at dell xps 13 9350

2016-12-05 Thread FaTony
Julie Marchant: > On that note, I'd recommend for Firefox (if that's what you use) an > extension called QuickJS, which gives you a button in the toolbar to > enable and disable JavaScript. I suggest uMatrix: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/umatrix/ In whitelist mode it blocks all

Re: [Arm-netbook] new development laptop needed, looking at dell xps 13 9350

2016-12-05 Thread Julie Marchant
> by contrast: fvwm2 is an 8 *megabyte* install size. gnome is... > what... several hundred megabytes? latest versions force you to use > wayland? and systemd?? fuck that!! absolutely no way i'm tolerating > that. GNOME does not force you to use Wayland. I don't know where you got this idea

Re: [Arm-netbook] t-firefly RK3399 in crowdfunding

2016-12-05 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
On 12/5/16, Mike Leimon wrote: > Since as I understand it, the people at t-firefly have been pretty helpful > towards getting the RK3288 EOMA board put together, I figured I would point > out that they have just launched a crowdfunding campaign to build a RK3399 > development

Re: [Arm-netbook] new development laptop needed, looking at dell xps 13 9350

2016-12-05 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
On 12/5/16, Adam Van Ymeren wrote: > The real solution is to get EOMA-200 rolling with 32GB of RAM :). yeah :) gotta redo that. with 4k displays now prevalent, i think it's going to be necessary to add either MIPI, eDP or both to EOMA-200. l.

Re: [Arm-netbook] new development laptop needed, looking at dell xps 13 9350

2016-12-05 Thread Julie Marchant
Just my 2 cents: From what I've been gathering, Luke, this is the situation: you are used to a very high spec setup capable of really large amounts of multitasking and don't want to give up your current way of doing things, so you are looking for a new laptop capable of this. There's nothing

Re: [Arm-netbook] new development laptop needed, looking at dell xps 13 9350

2016-12-05 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
On 12/5/16, mike.v...@gmail.com wrote: > 2016-12-05 11:55 GMT+01:00 Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton : > >> *sigh* argh i can just feel that, after thinking it through, 16GB >> simply isn't going to be enough, long-term. >> > > How about using a lighter/smaller

Re: [Arm-netbook] new development laptop needed, looking at dell xps 13 9350

2016-12-05 Thread mike.v...@gmail.com
2016-12-05 11:55 GMT+01:00 Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton : > *sigh* argh i can just feel that, after thinking it through, 16GB > simply isn't going to be enough, long-term. > How about using a lighter/smaller laptop and a "mini" desktop as a server, SSH/VNC. Like an Intel NUC Asus