I've been exclusively using Linux (Antergos) on the XPS 15 since mid-February. Installing was remarkably easy, though I haven't had time to mess with the fingerprint reader or GPU switching due to work.
My only complaint is that the glossy screen somehow seems more reflective than my Macbook Pro and iMac--and FWIW I'm typing this with all three machines on my desk right now. However, I'm not too bothered by it. IIRC the 1080p configuration of the 9560 is matte.
I may be mistaken but my understanding was that touch panels can't reduce glare as effectively as non-touch because they need oleophobic treatment in addition to anti glare treatment, and this is why MacBooks of all flavors have better glare mitigation than touch-equipped laptops.
You might enjoy Stephen Baxter's "Xeelee" books. I started with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vacuum_Diagrams and enjoyed it, but could see its various stories coming across as too jumbled up and disconnected for some.
He paints a grand vision of almost unparalleled scale and scope. I really liked his Xeelee cycle, even though the writing is quite arid. But holy cow, this is a writer who thinks BIG.
Unfortunately he takes a few liberties with physics. Dark matter could never produce and sustain life. It's just too poor in terms of interactions. You need richly interacting matter for that, producing the most richly interacting atom of all - carbon - in order for life to appear and evolve.
Interstingly this could make sense, because they're selling off all of the Yahoo! assets there is no reason there is no incentive to use Yahoo! mail and in fact they lose the rights to those assets once the sale is completed.
Altaba will still be holding all of the other assets not sold to verizon so this is likely the best way to move forward for whoever is left working for this not quite dead entity once the sale is complete.
Maybe I could be hitting a cache or something, but here's what I see:
$ host Altaba.com
Altaba.com mail is handled by 10 alt4.aspmx.l.google.com.
Altaba.com mail is handled by 1 aspmx.l.google.com.
Altaba.com mail is handled by 5 alt1.aspmx.l.google.com.
Altaba.com mail is handled by 5 alt2.aspmx.l.google.com.
Altaba.com mail is handled by 10 alt3.aspmx.l.google.com.
Here's yahoo.com for reference:
$ host yahoo.com
yahoo.com has address 206.190.36.45
yahoo.com has address 98.138.253.109
yahoo.com has address 98.139.183.24
yahoo.com has IPv6 address 2001:4998:58:c02::a9
yahoo.com has IPv6 address 2001:4998:c:a06::2:4008
yahoo.com has IPv6 address 2001:4998:44:204::a7
yahoo.com mail is handled by 1 mta7.am0.yahoodns.net.
yahoo.com mail is handled by 1 mta5.am0.yahoodns.net.
yahoo.com mail is handled by 1 mta6.am0.yahoodns.net.
I'll punt as to the accuracy of your "moralizing America" sneer, but remember that Disney chose their mascot--not the American public.
Additionally, my understanding is that Donald Duck had at least a few American fans. Though their numbers are probably limited to the few Americans who enjoy Looney Tunes, Homer Simpson, and the stereotypical sitcom dad (among other characters).
TIL that Donald Duck isn't very popular in the US.
I grew up with a weekly Disney comic book that was a collection of mostly Donald Duck and Mickey Mouse (detective) stories. Almost always skipped Mickey, he's just way too boring as a character.
But didn't you guys have Duck Tales as well? I thought that was massively popular.
Donald comes off a lot better in comics, where he's not saddled with a comedy voice that renders him almost completely incomprehensible. Duck Tales was, indeed, pretty popular, with four seasons - and it focused almost entirely on the adventures of Uncle Scrooge and Donald's nephews. Who you could actually understand. (It was also largely based on the Carl Barks comics, so a lot of the stories would probably be super familiar to you.)
And yeah. Mickey's a boring goody-two-shoes. The earliest cartoons had him as an anarchic troublemaker but once he became the Disney mascot he got all the fun siphoned out of him and everyone quit giving a shit about him.
I don't think it was. It lasted a while, but that had to do with it being the first syndicated afternoon Disney animated cartoon. (Gummi Bears was a saturday morning one first.) It lasted a bit because of that, but around the same time you had the really popular cartoons and shows, like Tiny Toon Adventures, Batman the Animated series, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers.
Ducktales was a very well done series, but what appeals to adults doesn't always appeal to kids, and the Ducktales movie bombed so bad it canceled the rest of the movies based on Disney Afternoon shows.
For comparison, the best Disney Afternoon series in the states was Aladdin, which outlasted Ducktales by several years, and spawned several direct to DVD movies.
Agreed. For the last two years or so I've found myself weighting text-heavy websites like HN, or Reddit much more positively.
What I find disconcerting is that this shorthand seems entirely about ornamentation--the worry is that maybe some future TimeCube-like site will be subtle enough that it won't trigger my "is the author a kook" filter.
You might find http://realearth.ssec.wisc.edu/ useful. Just be sure to click on either the "Presets" or "All" tabs within the "Layers" section.
Oh, and if you decide to use the animation feature just try to be patient with the way it loads in the individual times--once you've pulled down everything the animation should look a good bit nicer.
For whatever reason, the following snippet prompted me to see who the author was:
Amid the hundreds of congratulatory messages I received,
one stuck out: “Were you a bully at school?”
As it turns out, the author is Jon Ronson. He's well worth checking out. I've particularly enjoyed The Men Who Stare at Goats (the book), The Secret Rulers of the World, and The Psychopath Test.
My only complaint is that the glossy screen somehow seems more reflective than my Macbook Pro and iMac--and FWIW I'm typing this with all three machines on my desk right now. However, I'm not too bothered by it. IIRC the 1080p configuration of the 9560 is matte.