Comment by commandersaki
8 months ago
I don't know if it's still the case, but a young developer in Bangladesh has been making pretty cool neovim plugins on a mobile phone. Hack club is (or was?) collecting donations to get him a macbook laptop to hopefully reduce the pain points: https://hcb.hackclub.com/oxy2dev-laptop/transactions
Yep! They got a Macbook Pro!
Damn that’s so cool. When I heard about that kid programming OSS on his phone it really put me to shame complaining about my work load.
On the one hand, that's awesome. On the other hand, I do wish open source people would have opted to get him something more free than a MacBook.
He choose the laptop for durability because he can't get it repaired in Bangladesh. People didn't pick a non-free laptop without consulting him.
A ThinkPad might have also been an excellent choice, but hope the MacBook serves him well!
Note: this isn't a critique of his choice, just a mention of something others might find useful.
Source: I had a T480, P51, X1 Carbon and now P1 Gen 6, they're pretty good. Also have a MacBook M1 Air for note taking and stuff.
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>he can't get it repaired in Bangladesh
Sounds untrustworthy. Bangladesh's standard of living is roughly on par with India's, so cheap Chinese laptops should be fairly common there, and repairs for such laptops should be pretty available.
So, instead of one MacBook, you could buy about 10 laptops for 10 Bangladeshi kids, and developing on them would be about as comfortable as on a MacBook.
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