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1. Apple Watch Series 5 w/GPS: - Surprisingly, my iPhone Xs battery lasts longer because I'm checking it less. - Counter-intuitively, I'm spending less time o
by pgt 6y ago
1. Apple Watch Series 5 w/GPS:
- Surprisingly, my iPhone Xs battery lasts longer because I'm checking it less.
- Counter-intuitively, I'm spending less time on my phone because I'm less likely to get sucked into my Watch than my phone. Now I just read non-urgent messages and Dismiss them.
- I use the compass all the time now that I'm travelling[^1] in the UK and I use the compass all the time to learn the city layout. Apple Maps is still crappy on the Watch compared to Google Maps on iPhone, but because my Watch vibrates before every important turn, I have less navigation anxiety.
- I feel safer walking in the city because I don't have to hold my phone in my hand.
2. Macbook Pro 16":
It was f*cking expensive, but:
- Rust compile times have come down 10x compared to my mid-2015 MBP15.
- Screen is 200% better.
- Sound is 500% better.
- Keyboard is 200% better.
- Track Pad is way better.
...hate the Touch Bar, though :).
- [^1] If you are a professional dev in London, hit me up for a beer, esp. if you write Clojure for a living.
(PS. @dang please can we have list formatting support?)
- neurostimulant 6y agoMy mbp 2012 is very slow when used to compile stuff these days, and struggles to build react projects and docker images. So I built a small server out of secondhand parts to offload those tasks away from my old laptop. Using vscode's remote development support (which lets you mount a remote machine in the editor as well as doing port forwarding), there is almost no change to my usual development routine but massive improvement to build time and battery life, for ~$300 in parts. I guess I will postpone upgrading my laptop again. This setup also works outside of my home network because I use zerotier on both the laptop and the local server, though I also configured my router to expose the server's ssh port in case I can't use zerotier for some reason. I also configured autossh to connect to my small vps server and port-forward the local server's ssh port there as an additional fallback because my isp sometime doesn't assign a public ip when the modem is restarted.
- znpy 6y agoDid you open it up to clear the fans from dust? Macbooks accumulate a lot of dust during their life, and they're not really servicing-friendly. But many people reported lower temperatures die to better cooling. This also means longer lasting batteries and faster CPUs (because of less thermal throttling). It won't completely resurrect your MacBook, but it might give a significant performance boost (and lower the operating temperatures).
- raihansaputra 6y agoI agree on this. Re-pasting the cooler + clearing up the dust boosts the performance quite significantly. But beware that you need to pay attention to the rubber gasket and how it seals to the body. On the rMBP 2015 the camera cable needs to be clipped into the gasket carefully to maintain the seal.
- neurostimulant 6y agoI did opened the macbook several times to replace the disk, ram and the battery and I always clean the dust from the fan surface, but I never considered opening the fan and reapply the thermal paste. Maybe I'll do that later when I have some extended downtime.
- raihansaputra 6y agoYeah it's bettes to plan it. Get some good paste like Arctic or something like that.
- serjester 6y agoSeconded. Bought the new MacBook Pro and paired with Better Touch Tools using it is straight ecstasy. I couldn’t be happier. I’ve learned a good dev environment helps so much with enjoying side projects. Does slowly make me hate my Windows 10 work PC though.