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mactuneson ThinkPad X1 Carbon

To be honest it's not as good as my MacBook Air's. I have very low requirements when it comes to that. If it is of importance to you I guess you might not be happy with the ASUS...

mactuneson ThinkPad X1 Carbon

I just recently bought a ASUS ZenBook UX360UAK with a 7th gen i7, 16GB RAM and a 512GB SSD.

It's made out of aluminium, has a glass touchpad and costs around half of what a similarly priced MacBook pro costs in Germany.

It's my first non-Mac after 20 years. I've owned it for a good week and so far I'm very happy. It has superb battery life, great build quality and is fast. Only 1 minor con: the fan always runs, but it's not too loud and I can live with it...

mactuneson The future is arriving too fast

Which I understand they had to, but they did a poor job explaining that. Afaik, only after lots of people rage-quit their accounts they kind of explained what happened...

mactuneson The future is arriving too fast

We don't have the 4th season of House of Cards on Netflix in Germany (and I also think other European countries), because they sold the rights to Sky. This is why I quit my Netflix subscription.

mactuneson Launching a weather balloon, a camera and a Raspberry Pi to the stratosphere

I did a very similar thing with my group of young volunteer firefighters (also in Germany). We launched a total mass of 500 grams in order to avoid having to get a special permit for this (note: this will change in Germany quite soon!)

We also used a Raspberry Pi Model A+, but recorded 720p video. We powered it using a 9V block battery and regulated the voltage to 5V. Worked like a charm!

Here's some videos and pics: http://www.florianerzons.de/yffzhab/

Edit:

Completely forgot. I also wrote some blog posts for anyone asking themselves how this can be done:

http://mactunes.de/posts/2015/2/25/yffzhab---taking-videos-a... http://mactunes.de/posts/2015/3/2/yffzhab---powering-electro... http://mactunes.de/posts/2015/4/6/yffzhab---bill-of-material...

mactuneson NASA to Make Major Announcement Today About Astronaut Transport to the ISS

According to this article Boeing beat SpaceX.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/alexknapp/2014/09/16/reports-boe...

mactuneson Show HN: Simplistic game for iOS written in OpenGL ES 2.0

Thanks for the hint. Thinking of how I could achieve that. Thanks for downloading! :)

mactuneson Ask HN: What kind of volunteer jobs have you done that have changed your life?

5 years ago I joined my local fire brigade. It has changed my life in multiple ways:

- I met a lot of new people who I am mostly good friends with - you learn to trust people and understand their strengths and weaknesses - you feel better about yourself because you help others - my life got more balanced as I have an office job and operating heavy machinery is totally different. I also made my driver's license for trucks, trailers and the fire boat we have. - there is a lot of testosterone involved with fire fighters ;) so I learned to better deal with conflicts

If you only have a couple of days/weeks this might not be for you as this volunteer job requires a lot of dedication. But it definitely has changed my life very much to the better!