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krutzgeron Ask HN: What to replace my MacBook with?

You can get a refurbished x220 for $200. It won't be the best laptop ever, but probably enough to learn Linux.

Had multiple co-workers going this route and now they are full-time ThinkPad users.

krutzgeron Ask HN: What to replace my MacBook with?

How well does the precision work out of the box? I would prefer to run standard Ubuntu with no modifications or proprietary drivers of possible.

krutzgeron Ask HN: What to replace my MacBook with?

Seriously, you went from osx to Gentoo? It's like going from using computers to designing your own cpus...

Just install Ubuntu and be done with it

krutzgeron Ask HN: What to replace my MacBook with?

I see a lot of ThinkPads and Dells here, but how about hp? Are they good for Linux?

krutzgeron High Sierra macOS freezing and stops

How is the Dell laptop in general?

I'm about to ditch apple and was thinking to get either a Dell or a ThinkPad.

krutzgeron HTC and Motorola say they don’t slow old phones like Apple does

No need for artificial slow downs when you have Google play services. That thing requires more resources with every release.

Jokes aside, I don't think any other than apple does this. For one, android batteries are often larger giving them a bigger headroom.

On the other hand, maybe this is exactly what LG should have done to fix the bootloop issue (which seems to be due to a combination of bad soldering and excessive current draw during boot).

krutzgeron Everything That's Wrong with Hackintosh

There are osx vagrant images for doing exactly this...

krutzgeron A Dark Room: From Sabbatical Year to $800k

I think ADR with its simplistic graphics should run on any android (even a "toaster").

But your app seems more demanding, can't you limit it to newer versions of android? Many banking apps for example require users to be on 6.0 or better.

krutzgeron A Dark Room: From Sabbatical Year to $800k

Nope, the iOS version looks different (e.g. buttons on main page are not off center)

krutzgeron A Dark Room: From Sabbatical Year to $800k

If it looks like a half-loaded web page on a nexus (which is the reference device for the platform) then something is wrong.

Please don't take offence, I'm just trying to explain why it did so bad on android.

edit: you don't need to test your app on 1500 devices. They are all the same, if you plan for it only two devices (big/small screen) should suffice. Source: former app developer.

krutzgeron A Dark Room: From Sabbatical Year to $800k

Finally created an account, just to say this

"A Dark Room recently hit the #2 spot _overall_ on Google Play (pro tip: stick to iOS, the revenue is almost an order of magnitude better)"

I bought the game on android to support the developer despite the game being VERY late to android. With that said, the android port is horrible. It's behind garbage. Amir cannot talk about love for the code and release crap like that.

So treating android user as idiots. We pay for good game and avoid crap. Don't be crap.

Edit: ADR went quickly free on android because nobody would pay for that crap. So that's why it didn't make much money.