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Re:Ask HN: What lesser-known accessories do you use with you... by cheriot on Tuesday April 04, 2023 @01:48AM (#35435602)
I have an older laptop and user Docker for Mac daily. My fingers never get cold!
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Re:Ask HN: What lesser-known accessories do you use with you... by bdg on Tuesday April 04, 2023 @04:08AM (#35436549)
Put a few slices of bacon under the macbook and you even have breakfast.
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Re:Ask HN: What lesser-known accessories do you use with you... by brigandish on Tuesday April 04, 2023 @05:54AM (#35437263)
Try out Colima[0]. I saw someone else mention it on here a few months ago and thought to try it and it's been very good. I did encounter my first problem yesterday so I have moved back to Docker Desktop for now but even if it only worked half the time I'd still suggest it, the memory usage is under a quarter of Docker's offering!

[0] https://github.com/abiosoft/colima

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Re:Ask HN: What lesser-known accessories do you use with you... by samuria on Tuesday April 04, 2023 @06:01AM (#35437321)
I think the OP actually prefers the heat generated from Docker.
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Re:Ask HN: What lesser-known accessories do you use with you... by _shantaram on Tuesday April 04, 2023 @06:51AM (#35437636)
relevant: https://xkcd.com/1172/
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Re:Ask HN: What lesser-known accessories do you use with you... by justherefornews on Wednesday April 05, 2023 @01:00AM (#35449491)
Is it tho
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Re:Ask HN: What lesser-known accessories do you use with you... by mystickphoenix on Friday April 07, 2023 @10:42AM (#35482055)
Another thing to try is podman. I run it on my mac and my mac is no longer trying to fly away on the strength of the cooling fans alone.

Podman used to be a bit rough on mac but it's gotten significantly better, especially with podman-desktop. docker-compose even works with it as it does something on the backend to swap out the docker socket. I wouldn't recommend doing podman-compose as it looks to be mostly unmaintained? Or at least no new releases have been cut in a couple of years.

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Re:Ask HN: What lesser-known accessories do you use with you... by cheriot on Saturday April 08, 2023 @03:36AM (#35491380)
I'll have to give podman another look. Last I checked I couldn't see how to replace my routine docker commands.
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