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by pqvst 5y ago
Interesting. Indeed, I wasn't aware of that. But I wonder if the capped repair cost is only available in the US, or if it's a global thing. There seem to be some differences between US and ex-US when it comes to Apple support.
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by pqvst 5y ago
Hah, thanks!
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by pqvst 5y ago
Honestly the swollen battery made me fear for my life any time I used it. On planes it would swell so much (even when turned off) that the keyboard almost popped out.
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by pqvst 5y ago
I had to wait for parts as well. For example, Taiwan and Japan didn't have a Swedish top-case so they had to order one. It took about a week. But I could keep the laptop while they were waiting for the part to arrive. Once it arrived I
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by pqvst 5y ago
Like I said in the post, Dell refused to offer any sort of service while I wasn't in the country I had purchased my laptop. I don't know if that's changed, but that was a complete deal breaker for me back then.
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by pqvst 5y ago
They did. I had 2 complete replacements. I'm on the third one now. It's all logged in the blog post.
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by pqvst 5y ago
Yes. My laptop is where I do all my work. Since I work remote a lot, I try to stick to as few devices as possible. Having a MacBook where I can also run Windows and Linux as VMs when I need to, has been a huge benefit.
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by pqvst 5y ago
Haha, nope. It's perfectly fine and undamaged. I work remote a lot, coffee shops, cafes, coworking spaces, airplanes. So it moves a lot. No unusually high temperatures. I always use a soft case when I put it in my backpack for extra pr
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by pqvst 5y ago
I'm not sure to be honest. I was not aware of that as an option when I bought my previous Dell XPS around 5 years ago. Maybe things have improved now though.
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My MacBook Pro had over 10k USD in repairs(pqvst.com)
276 points by pqvst 5y ago|476 comments
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Self-Hosted Analytics with Umami and Traefik(pqvst.com)
4 points by pqvst 5y ago|0 comments
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Streetonomics – Quantitative analysis of street names(social-dynamics.net)
3 points by pqvst 5y ago|0 comments
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Tink Is Joining Visa(tink.com)
83 points by pqvst 5y ago|59 comments
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by pqvst 5y ago
When we were self-hosting Grafana with an influx data store writing queries was actually very easy since Grafana provides a "query editor" to generate the SQL for Influx. Ironically that was much easier to use than InfluxDB Cloud&
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Hosted Monitoring: Evaluating InfluxDB Cloud and Grafana Cloud(pqvst.com)
71 points by pqvst 5y ago|18 comments
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The secret piece of information hiding in plain sight on Tokyo’s subway signs(soranews24.com)
2 points by pqvst 6y ago|0 comments
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New Chrome icon on macOS looks horrendous(twitter.com)
2 points by pqvst 6y ago|0 comments
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Show HN: BrowserFrame 2.0 – Easiest way to wrap screenshots in browser frames(browserframe.com)
1 points by pqvst 7y ago|0 comments
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by pqvst 10y ago
...säger vd:n :)
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by pqvst 10y ago
Yeah but a survey isn't what I'm looking for. I want something like this: https://wantoo.io/paperworks/ideas/
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by pqvst 10y ago
I gave that a try, but it felt too "clunky" and the voting part felt hidden. Other than that it's a good suggestion.
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Ask HN: Recommend a simple (& free) solution for tracking feature request votes?
4 points by pqvst 10y ago|5 comments
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by pqvst 10y ago
how would they even do that? do they some how receive a receipt from the merchant? i use amex myself and have never seen any receipts. i'll do some more research...
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by pqvst 10y ago
that's definitely on my todo: https://github.com/pqvst/paperworks-talk/issues/3
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Show HN: Paperworks.io – All your receipts, invoices, and payments in one place(paperworks.io)
23 points by pqvst 10y ago|7 comments
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Show HN: BrowserFrame.com – Easily wrap screenshots in different browser frames(producthunt.com)
1 points by pqvst 10y ago|0 comments
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One Week Build: Paperworks.io(medium.com)
1 points by pqvst 10y ago|0 comments