{"id":641,"date":"2019-01-27T19:34:24","date_gmt":"2019-01-28T03:34:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dragonwarz.net\/?p=641"},"modified":"2019-12-06T15:34:18","modified_gmt":"2019-12-06T23:34:18","slug":"mild-progress-new-laptop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dragonwarz.net\/?p=641","title":{"rendered":"Mild progress, new laptop"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I have not posted an update recently, as I have been busy with work and configuring my new laptop.  I decided to go with a Dell XPS 13 Developer edition (AKA Ubuntu pre-installed).  So far I&#8217;m pretty happy with the computer purchase.  The price was rather high, but the design is darn good.  I didn&#8217;t think I would like to type on a 13&#8243; laptop&#8230; notebook&#8230; netbook&#8230; Ultrabook&#8230; whatever you want to call it, but I do! It&#8217;s a well-designed keyboard on a few levels.  I won&#8217;t go into any of the details, as there are enough reviews of the thing for sure, but I like it!  Fast, good battery life, made to run Gnu\/Linux ^_^  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It has been a few years since I last tried to use Ubuntu or some other Gnu\/Linux variation full time.  I have a good feeling about this time since a lot of the deal breakers have been solved!  The following issues I had before to varying degrees have been fully fixed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Netflix<\/li><li>Games (Steam)<\/li><li>TeamViewer<\/li><li>Managed Service application I use<\/li><li>Audio and Video seem to work flawlessly now<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>I still have a few more things I need to setup and configure, but I already have PyCharm working and my programs loaded and working.  So I&#8217;ll be doing more programing soon.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I found out that Ubuntu 18.04 displays the interface of my sensor control center app different than both Windows &amp; Raspbian, so I added GUI customizations to support Ubuntu.  OpenGL works well for graphing on my Ubuntu computer, so I have enabled it by default for Ubuntu, but I&#8217;ll have to add the option to use CPU rendering in case others are not as lucky to have a working graphics card.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Just doing a quick update today.  Until next time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have not posted an update recently, as I have been busy with work and configuring my new laptop. I decided to go with a Dell XPS 13 Developer edition (AKA Ubuntu pre-installed). So far I&#8217;m pretty happy with the &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dragonwarz.net\/?p=641\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,27,26,3],"tags":[33],"class_list":["post-641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-programming","category-project","category-python","category-random","tag-kootnet-sensors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dragonwarz.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dragonwarz.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dragonwarz.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dragonwarz.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dragonwarz.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=641"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dragonwarz.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":643,"href":"https:\/\/dragonwarz.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641\/revisions\/643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dragonwarz.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dragonwarz.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dragonwarz.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}