To help with my work I recently installed Ubuntu 20.04 on my home computer. 20.04 is surprisingly snappy, crisp and stable on my home computer (Ryzen 7 1700, 32GB 3200Mhz DDR4, GTX 1080, NVME drives). However I hit upon an interesting problem with a USB WiFi dongle that I use TP-LINK Archer T4U v3, It did not work out of the box. So as expected I had to look at the self compiling of drivers route.
Recently I integrated Firebase’s Crashlytics solution into one of our main Android products. It’s fairly easy to integrate, just 4 steps as per Crashlytics’s documentation here. But as with any reporting system there involves the issue of privacy and data collection problem. Always important to inform the user if you are collecting any information and also request for their consent to do so. By default Crashlytics’s behavior is to start reporting on every crash. So instead if you want to setup an opt-in process then all you have to do is
End of 2019 my daily driver 2015 MacBook Pro was beginning to show signs of ageing. Especially when I’m running multiple IDE’s, terminal emulators and browsers running in the background. Also two monitors (Laptop’s built in and an external 1080p monitor) was just not enough. I had to constantly switch between IDE and system monitoring and IRC/Slack clients. But driving more than two monitors would be next to impossible on it. However the processor inside is pretty decent for my current requirement of Android and web development. To solve this dilemma of to upgrade or not upgrade I decided to make a pros and cons list