That said, it is against the Hacker News guidelines to comment about voting/down-voting and generally only results in further down-votes.
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
"Please don't comment about the voting on comments. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading."
Have fun running brand new Android on a seven year old tablet.
(I used the same MacBook, replaced the battery a couple of months ago, and have no plans to replace it anytime soon.)
It is essentially a Hackintosh, albeit a legal one, as the hardware is Apple hardware.
I do dev work on it, though it is ruby and/or javascript, not a lot of true compiling happening. But it works well.
I'd love it to be officially supported, but I mean you have to draw the line somewhere.
Edit: I forgot to mention the SSD I put in it, or the RAM I maxed out. (I did the upgrade work, I was not about to pay the premium for Apple to do it.)
Where did you purchase the battery from, and how is the performance, if you do not mind me asking?
I also use a mid 2009 Core 2 duo, but lately I have struggled to find a source for a battery that will last more that 1.5 hours in typical usage. I assume the issue is that any authentic Apple battery must have been manufactured so long ago that its capacity is severely degraded after having been stored (at non-ideal temperature) for so long, and it seems like even many third party batteries available are old and had inferior capacity to begin with.
I bought the battery from iFixit[1], and I am back to the original of 4ish-5ish hours.
[1] https://www.ifixit.com/Store/Mac/MacBook-Pro-15-Inch-Unibody...
If you’re talking about what I think you’re talking about, this is a feature and you can turn it off by disabling “Recent Apps” in System Preferences.
Edit: added link
Also, you are still within your 7 years :)
It wasn't until the last ~6 months that I noticed a drop-off in battery performance. Not sure if it was from streaming football/hockey games or my tendency to throw it into sleep mode thinking "I'll have time later tonight" while keeping my server/db/container processes still running.
There appears to be some debate online as to whether turning off secure boot on T2 Macs allows Linux to work. It should, but there are some reports online that it does not, at least if you want to use the computer's internal storage. https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/a4thsc/the_actual_fu....
I would have expected this to be sorted out by now, but that doesn't appear to be the case. If anyone knows more, please share...