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Re:Incident with Github.com on Monday August 17, 2026 @11:54AM (#49333040)
"oh shit, here we go again"
Re:Ask HN: How do you handle iOS app submissions? on Thursday August 06, 2026 @03:48AM (#49193760)
subsequent reviews are almost always faster than the first one in my experience
Re:Escape IntelliJ: Scala and Kotlin LSPs on Emacs Eglot on Thursday July 23, 2026 @05:20AM (#49018886)
This is actually not an exaggeration. Ive been using WebStorm when it worked well, then it became progressively slower to the point of being unusable even on small projects.
I've sold my PS5 several months ago. You can get a pretty gameable laptop and gog/steam prices are better. And I can install mods. Tree Sentinel Thomas Mod for example.
Re:Asahi Linux 7.1 Progress Report on Wednesday July 01, 2026 @06:24AM (#48744641)
It is exciting that they are working on AVD driver.
Re:Steam Machine on Monday June 22, 2026 @04:41PM (#48635880)
Is this US only?
Re:Volkswagen started blocking GrapheneOS users on Wednesday June 17, 2026 @04:29PM (#48576400)
I am confused here... this is the car, that person buys and person owns. It is used to haul said user's butt from point A to point B. (a) like wtf? (b) what is it about these companies that want to commoditize everything?
i run all my stuff in vm's built with nix

not as easy as docker, but i have a few bash scripts that simplify things for me a lot

i hope that this protects me from the sweep attacks at least

Re:Mercor Hit by Cyberattack on Thursday April 02, 2026 @09:05AM (#47613934)
I am genuinely wonder if anyone have had success landing gigs at Mercor.
Re:Apple Just Lost Me on Wednesday March 25, 2026 @11:54AM (#47519077)
I have FP6 with eOS, it's fine and works well. One thing that I can't do is use my phone to pay, e.g. Apple Pay.

You can't install Google Wallet - it does not work, but also defeats degoogle mindset. There were curve company that people seem to have used in the past, but seems like the company was sold to someone and now it's dead. So I have to use physical card like a boomer.

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My story is similar, somehow my air managed to update to 26' (maybe I just clicked that stupid notification window button to make it go away). I will keep my opinions on glass to myself.

Facts are: docker broke again, app launcher is whatever the hell it is, firewall with started messing up with my dns blacklists. I know you can somewhat fix it, but nixos/asahi on m2 with hyprland gives me a workflow that is superior. I just won't go back. AeroSpace just can't match.

Then the credit cards... I have my original store country elsewhere. I've then moved a few times and changed banks. Now, apple does not like my card. It won't accept it. That's it. Nothing you can do about that. And I couldn't really change the country because I have had some subscriptions and I had to wait until they expire. Meanwhile, apple killed my apple subscription I lost Music, I lost cloud storage, I lost some backups.

The thing that incredibly pissed me off is that as soon as my apple subscription got cancelled I could not even see my music library in the app. It would just prompt me with "gotta subscribe buddy" screen, which I can't.

And yes, the hardware is very good. I love my m2. But the whole software part is becoming messier and messier and I don't want to deal with it anymore.

Re:Why I love NixOS on Monday March 23, 2026 @10:53AM (#47490377)
You can point AI to omarchy repo and have it generate a plan and them implement step by step.

My entire config is almost "omarchy", at least visually with hyprland and some other packages.

Re:Why I love NixOS on Monday March 23, 2026 @10:52AM (#47490357)
Yes, but you can also reclaim your space. I've configured nix to only store two latest revisions and have a ./switch.sh file that automatically clears everything up after applying nix.

I had issues when giving boot partition only 512mb, so I'd recommend going with 1G.

Re:Why I love NixOS on Monday March 23, 2026 @10:50AM (#47490321)
Nix is a really good good good approach to manage packages. I've configured an entire asahi setup with for my m2 and can't be happier. It's not without it's quirks and nixlang itself is a bit cumbersome to express what you want.

However, AI is a great fit to write flakes. You can easily understand the generated code and it gives a power to "review" the changes before applying them.

And while nixos is amazing, I think nixpkgs are a bit overhyped; I've encountered many packages that are abandoned and outdated.

I can share my configs if anyone is interested.

Re:Bucketsquatting is (finally) dead on Friday March 13, 2026 @08:58AM (#47363891)
While I understand where it's coming from I always had something like <bucket_tag>-<9_random_\d\w>
> It is the young people that are growing up conditioned to press accept

There is a similar story with Ford and how they build pavement everywhere and taught the young population that roads are for cars. Now we have to drive for 10 minutes to get from one shop on the plaza to another shop on the different plaza.

Re:Apple introduces the new iPad Air, powered by M4 on Monday March 02, 2026 @01:36PM (#47222086)
Yes, exactly. Second this.

I've run nixdarwin + aerospace now for a while on the older macos version and it's insanely how the customized workflow can improve productivity.

Recently I started experimenting with nixos/asahi and it's waaaaay more better than even what I had on macos.

Yes, cool, but how fucking dystopian this is.
Re:Show HN: An encrypted, local, cross-platform journaling app on Thursday February 19, 2026 @08:23AM (#47073469)
I'm using obsidian and cryfs. Nothing has access to those except a few programs. I'm storing notes, files, documents, whatever is important and everything is synced to the cloud.
So the new wave of reptiloid zuck memes incoming.
Re:Germany is facing a shortage of skilled workers on Friday January 30, 2026 @07:37AM (#46823762)
Maybe today, but first few years it wasn't like that.
Re:Moltbook on Friday January 30, 2026 @06:14AM (#46823050)
I think you overestimate the current generation of t9.
Re:Germany is facing a shortage of skilled workers on Thursday January 29, 2026 @07:08AM (#46809107)
Sooo... i know a few of ukrainian refugees on germany. They waited for over a year to get work permit...
I eat so much vitamin d and omega 3 i should be shitting fish shitting sunshine... and yet, cold baltic winters with only a few hours of sun still make me depressed.
And you have to update to the new shitty ios.... I'd rather loose my stuff then.
Re:Can You Disable Spotlight and Siri in macOS Tahoe? on Friday January 16, 2026 @03:02PM (#46651436)
Id disable half - if not more - of default services. Thats why my next laptop will be linux.

Apple is not there yet, but kind of drifting towards becoming the new windows.

Re:Creators of Tailwind laid off 75% of their engineering team on Wednesday January 07, 2026 @04:12PM (#46532885)
Explain please
Re:Creators of Tailwind laid off 75% of their engineering team on Wednesday January 07, 2026 @12:53PM (#46529781)
Just charge a bucks for every deployment or something. Most of will easily pay a dollar.

Tailwind should not be free, its good.

Re:Venezuela's capital hit by explosions, smoke seen on Saturday January 03, 2026 @01:11PM (#46479686)
International law does not exist.

Regardless of how retarded maduro was, "i felt like it" should not be justifiable reason to kidnap a president of a different country on their own turf.

Maybe i felt better about that if trump wasnt in bed with another dictator.

Roads in baltic are shit, Im frankly surprised that there are so many speeding offenders. Those people mush have a lot of money to not worry about their suspension.
Apologies, I realized I had a typo. It should be "It's like bash scripts but WITHOUT the ability to debug them". I am personally not a fan of GHA and I think unsuperwised claude code could have produced a better CI system.

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