I have an EliteBook 845 G7 and also that one is top notch, minus the screen and driver bug on the WWAN modem. I whish HP did not include a keypad though on the bigger screen sizes since your hands are always towards the left instead of the middle of the machine (Dell and Lenovo have 15/16 inch options for which the keyboard does not have a keypad).
At work I am limited to using HP but I have to say that I have been very pleasantly surprised by the HP EliteBook 845 G7 (Ryzen 7 PRO 4750U). When I bought it new in 2020 it had initially sleeping problems but later kernels improved the situation. Other driver problems where with the finger print reader (easily fixed with LVFS firmware upgrade) and the Intel WWAN card (that still doesn't work due to a bug). The display with privacy filter works but generally, when privacy mode is off, the screen viewing angles are terrible (I will not buy a build-in privacy filter on future models).
Personally I would recommend laptops from shops that give you a Linux option right from the start. From the big manufacturers I could see that this is the case for the Dell XPS and Precision 7670, while Lenovo offers it on various Thinkpad models. I could not find that for any of the HP models (except Dev One).
Although I have not used them, I am not a big fan of the Clevo based machines that System76 and Tuxedo have. I think the Librem and Framework machines look nicer (even though I prefer 14+ inch sized machines).
A good resource to check for Linux compatibility of specific components and laptops is https://linux-hardware.org. I whish this resource was used more often by reviewers.
I would also give a laptop bonus points if its firmware is supported by easy upgrades via LVFS https://fwupd.org/lvfs/devices/.
There are modern alternative systems with an open firmware stack, for example the Talos II running Power9. Granted, it is not available as a cheap, slick and slim power efficient laptop, but it is real, only twice as expensive and very capable. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/POWER9
There's also the Blackbird which is even more affordable - https://raptorcs.com/content/BK1B01/intro.html. It's still sadly more than I could justify spending - for my non-portable needs I use a ~5 year old Intel NUC which was cheap as chips and still going strong. But if that ever changes a Talos POWER-based system is at top of my list.
The Talos guys pop up in the comments on HN now and then and they're very pleasant.
What I was saying was it’s more affordable than the Talos II mentioned earlier in this thread. I agree that it’s not exactly cheap, but I don’t think it’s for everyone.
Regarding usability: I keep getting confused by the controls: indicating where you want to go vs which thruster to use. Back in yonder days I used to play Lunar Lander on Windows (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_Lander_(video_game_genre...) but there the controls indicate which rocket you're firing: down for going up, left for going right, etc.
These generator+gearbox combo's operate at efficiencies (mechanical to electrical power) in the order of 80-90%. I would assume it will be quite challenging to do that with a 100m long mechanical transmission system handling 5-10MW. I wonder how much maintenance such a system would require too.
I've been in the EV world for a while now. We used to do 100-200kW drive systems where motor+inverter would be 90-94 percent efficient. Adding a single stage gear to that would cost another 1-2 percent efficiency loss.
The whole time I was reading this I kept thinking we could throw 100 electric vehicle drives on a giant ring gear for a total mass under 10k-tons with no super conductors or anything too fancy. The problem is that the EV systems are not rated for continuous operation at higher power levels. You only use full power for acceleration - driving even at highway speeds doesn't take that much. OTOH one would expect good airflow in a wind application.
I think there might be room for a change of approach in the wind turbine area.
Exactly. Other concept studies have looked at driving mechanical pumps to feed hydraulic pressure into a network [1], or (at a very small scale) mechanically drive a desalination unit [2]. As mentioned in the article, the problem is not figuring out if these concepts can work (usually they just do). The question is always: what will it cost compared to what we have now, and how much more complicated will the wind turbine become?
In the server/workstation space you can also opt in for an expensive Raptor Talos II system (but you'll get Power instead of x86). There is very little competition in the space for open/libre high end computer hardware systems.
I agree with what others have mentioned here: I really like your elegant workflow (thanks for sharing!!). I also like that it is generally applicable to any collection of PDFs.
However, to be fair, you can follow a somewhat similar workflow with Zotero in combination with the Firefox plugin: download pdf by adding it to the Zotero database in Firefox and Zotero takes care of the indexing. Zotero misses the fancy interactive fuzzy searching you have in your workflow thanks to fzf, but I've added it as a feature request for Zotero [1].
You don't have to organize your papers into folders (or collections in Zotero parlance since a single item can appear in multiple collections). For most academic papers the Zotero plugin will also grab the pdf's metadata as a bonus without additional costs.
* manage to-do-lists based on the page they occur, and/or their tags, deadlines and priority level.
* table of contents for a larger one page note
* auto git add/commit upon application start
What I would love to see is:
* automated and robust git push/pull with GUI based conflict resolvement so I could collaborate with colleagues who are not too comfi with git using zim
* organize pages using a nested tag structure (like gmail lables) instead of folder structure.
