Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

StarFighter 16-Inch

us.starlabs.systems

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

231–240 of 409 posts

Re: StarFighter 16-Inch

#231

Post by jve »

walthamstow wrote: post #157
klez wrote: post #151

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm curious: why is hacker news non-GDPR-compliant?

You can't delete your account by self-service, you have to email dang, which is probably non-compliance because it adds friction. It's a grey area, it'd have to be tested in court. I highly doubt anyone will bring a case though. That's like calling the police on your own drug dealer. (IANAL)

> You can't delete your account by self-service, you have to email dang, which is probably non-compliance because it adds friction

GDPR has nothing to do with friction I beleve.

Our lawyer told me that GDPR also applies to paper records, so there is some real-world friction right there.

The important part that there is a right - in whatever good/broken process it is enveloped is irrelevant.

Moreover does HN host PII data? Not if you don't give it to them.

Re: StarFighter 16-Inch

#232

Post by devmor »

puzzlingcaptcha wrote: post #130
tarjei_huse wrote: post #84

A framework competitor! Most of all I love the keyboard. Full size arrow keys as well as home, end and page up/down nearby. I wish framework laptops could come with multiple possible keyboard layouts like the one on the picture.

StarLabs predates Framework by a couple years. Framework just does advertising to geeks better.

It also helps that Framework actually releases their products when they say they will.

Re: StarFighter 16-Inch

#233

Post by ulrikrasmussen »

komadori wrote: post #163
ulrikrasmussen wrote: post #106

I have been using this for about a month and I love it. The screen looks great, the keyboard is great, the trackpad is great (I have been using Lenovos for ~20 years and though I couldn't live without the trackpoint). The battery life is more than enough for my usage during my daily commute and way better than the mere 1.5 hours I could squeeze out of my old Thinkpad P1. I genuinely don't think there is anything I wo…

Would you like to have a version with a TrackPoint even if you have managed to live without it? With all these boutique laptop brands, I hope that one of them will eventually produce a pointing stick keyboard offer a route off Lenovo.

I feared that I would miss it too much, but after a week I stopped reaching for it with my finger.

Re: StarFighter 16-Inch

#235

Post by bwhmather »

puzzlingcaptcha wrote: post #128

FWIW I have had a StarLite Mk IV for three years now and haven't run into a single issue with it (except maybe the speakers being quite poor). Unfortunately the company stopped releasing firmware updates for it soon after they launched Mk V. I don't know if it can be still built from source for the older devices.

I'm also the happy owner of a StarLite Mk IV. The perfect travel laptop. Thin, light, fanless, excellent keyboard and touchpad, matt screen, rock solid chassis, good battery life. I'm dreading the day when it finally breaks as there's nothing comparable on the market today. I wish they could do another run.

Very different niche from the StarFighter but StarLabs make excellent machines.

Re: StarFighter 16-Inch

#236

Post by varispeed »

mkl wrote: post #107
steve_adams_86 wrote: post #87

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Does it ever worry you that all 8TB could fail in one place? Do you have redundant drives (like two 4TB or four 2TB drives)? I'd be worried about having all of my storage in one place. I like to back up data to more than one place if it's important, and never have huge on-device storage because if something happens to damage it, I'm assuming it's game over for all on-device storage (rather than only part of it). I'd…

Data only in one place is bad no matter how big the drive is. Sync it to a NAS, PC, online, external drive, other laptop, or multiple of those.

I don't know. I had dozens and dozens NVMe drives and only one 8TB. Guess which one failed? The 8TB one. That hurt.

Re: StarFighter 16-Inch

#237

Post by bryanlarsen »

operatingthetan wrote: post #49
bryanlarsen wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There isn't exactly a lot of design freedom in a black rectangle with a screen a keyboard and a touchpad. A real Macbook copy would include Macbook misfeatures, like: - control key in wrong place - camera notch - half sized arrow keys

>There isn't exactly a lot of design freedom in a black rectangle with a screen a keyboard and a touchpad No, every laptop does not look exactly the same and they are not all macbook clones.

The ones that look more different are generally made of plastic and/or eschew minimalism.

minimalism as a design choice far predates Apple, and constrains design choices substantially.

Re: StarFighter 16-Inch

#240

Post by 999900000999 »

bityard wrote: post #225
999900000999 wrote: post #185

The prices are still way too high. You're better off buying a Dell XPS on sale, I saw one for about 800$ the other day with 32 GB of ram. Dell has committed to actual Linux support. I don't feel like paying a Linux nerd tax when most Windows laptops are fine. Lenovo seems to have the best support here. Otherwise enjoy the adventure in driver land!

I love cheap secondhand Dells and have been running them for decades. But it's absolutely the case that their build quality has been going steadily downhill for a long time, even for their business line laptops. This laptop looks to be more in line with a MacBook in terms of build quality, with a price to match. It's being sold as a Linux laptop, what makes you think there will be driver issues?

I’m not convinced here.

All the lower scale manufacturers have to charge more to make a profit. Plus most just white label an existing brand.

The other feedback in this thread isn’t great.

As for drivers, I meant for Windows laptops running Linux. But that’s pretty rare now.

Post reply on HN