Show HN: Pocket Puter • Hacker News Board

Re: Show HN: Pocket Puter

#41

Post by DoreenMichele » Mon, May 21, 2018, 2:46 AM UTC

gelstudios wrote: post #40

DoreenMichele wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Congrats, that’s a catchy domain name you got there. Thanks. It took some effort to come up with it. have you considered blogspot’s CNAME feature? No, I am not planning on using blogspot's CNAME feature. It breaks when you type in yourdomainname.com. You have to include the www for it to work. This is a bug that causes problems. I would rather it just be a redirect for now. That serves my stated purpose in buying a d…

I don’t currently use blogspot so I don’t know about that bug, or if they support multiple CNAME records. It’s not obvious but, using the same mechanism that allowed you redirect to blogspot will allow you to redirect the bare “@“ record (pocketputer.com) to www.pocketputer.com

Thanks. I will see if I can't resolve it on an existing site where I am using the CNAME feature. If I can, I might do that here as well.

Re: Show HN: Pocket Puter

#42

Post by vortico » Mon, May 21, 2018, 3:04 AM UTC

skeleton wrote: post #39

vortico wrote: post #2

In the "battery" section, perhaps it is useful to mention that if you have a phone with a removable battery, you can buy extra batteries (normally $5 each on eBay) and a battery charger (also $5) to charge two batteries at once. You can carry multiple batteries to extend your battery life to a week if you want.

Just a personal experience: I had bought several ~$20AU iPhone 4S batteries from eBay from different sellers, and while they started off okay their capacity dramatically decreased after a few weeks. Also I'm unsure on how a device determines battery charge, but I forever had issues with the phone turning off while reporting the battery had ~30% left. Maybe I didn't treat the batteries correctly, but I can't recall as…

I've had great success ordering OEM Samsung batteries for Galaxy S3 and S5, $3 and $7 respectively, that are still working after several years.

Re: Show HN: Pocket Puter

#43

Post by bradknowles » Mon, May 21, 2018, 6:03 AM UTC

So, this website doesn’t appear to work on iOS.

Was that intentional?

Re: Show HN: Pocket Puter

#44

Post by jannes » Mon, May 21, 2018, 9:25 AM UTC

bradknowles wrote: post #43

So, this website doesn’t appear to work on iOS. Was that intentional?

Another data point: It seems to work fine on an iPad.

Re: Show HN: Pocket Puter

#45

Post by EamonnMR » Mon, May 21, 2018, 11:13 AM UTC

miguelrochefort wrote: post #10

I've used my smartphone as my only personal computer for the past 3 years. Overall, it's been a positive experience. The only thing I can't do efficiently is software development. Is anyone familiar with the state of the art in mobile software development?

If you want a Linux shell there's Termux, you can use vim, compilers, python, etc.

Re: Show HN: Pocket Puter

#46

Post by jarnix2 » Mon, May 21, 2018, 11:50 AM UTC

Sorry but why is it upvoted? It's a blog with 4 pages with no content or anything new. Is just says "to use less battery, turn off the brightness of the screen..."

Re: Show HN: Pocket Puter

#47

Post by dschep » Mon, May 21, 2018, 5:23 PM UTC

I can't get https://pocketputer.com to load, but https://pocketputer.blogspot.com works and is the same blog AFAICT

Re: Show HN: Pocket Puter

#48

Post by DoreenMichele » Mon, May 21, 2018, 7:18 PM UTC

gelstudios wrote: post #40

DoreenMichele wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Congrats, that’s a catchy domain name you got there. Thanks. It took some effort to come up with it. have you considered blogspot’s CNAME feature? No, I am not planning on using blogspot's CNAME feature. It breaks when you type in yourdomainname.com. You have to include the www for it to work. This is a bug that causes problems. I would rather it just be a redirect for now. That serves my stated purpose in buying a d…

I don’t currently use blogspot so I don’t know about that bug, or if they support multiple CNAME records. It’s not obvious but, using the same mechanism that allowed you redirect to blogspot will allow you to redirect the bare “@“ record (pocketputer.com) to www.pocketputer.com

Just an FYI:

Since the last time I fussed with this, they fixed some of the issues that were problematic with custom domain names. One of those that I had forgotten was a security issue. So I do now have this set up as the actual domain name for the site and I think it all works without any weird security issues or bugs that I know of.

Re: Show HN: Pocket Puter

#49

Post by masukomi » Tue, May 22, 2018, 12:51 AM UTC

I don't get it. I see a page with a bunch of large brown boxes and almost no text in each. Am i missing images? Am i missing text? I'm not sure what this sites wants me to do. It's asking me to support it with patreon or paypal but it is so far from even giving me a clue what i'm supporting or why i should support it

Re: Show HN: Pocket Puter

#50

Post by hamslamwich » Thu, May 24, 2018, 3:15 PM UTC

masukomi wrote: post #49

I don't get it. I see a page with a bunch of large brown boxes and almost no text in each. Am i missing images? Am i missing text? I'm not sure what this sites wants me to do. It's asking me to support it with patreon or paypal but it is so far from even giving me a clue what i'm supporting or why i should support it

I'm with you. I don't know what the heck is going on. Someone fill us in!