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Re:Wayland desktop for Linux with skeuomorphic design on Thursday October 15, 2026 @04:55PM (#50110073)
Amazing and beautiful, I love it! I'm working on something similar so it gives me ideas.
Re:Wayland desktop for Linux with skeuomorphic design on Thursday October 15, 2026 @04:54PM (#50110062)
Hey you may like this project: https://github.com/AdoPi/wlgblock
Re:MinIO (apparently) becomes source-only on Thursday October 23, 2025 @01:58PM (#45684820)
Could you elaborate please?
Re:M5 MacBook Pro on Wednesday October 15, 2025 @11:43AM (#45594295)
I suggest trying Nix on Macos, it is very nice as a package manager but also it can be used as a way to replace Docker (at least for my needs, it works very well). This days I don't even bother installing brew on my Mac, I only use Nix.
Re:Show HN: Play Pokémon to unlock your Wayland session on Saturday August 16, 2025 @09:19AM (#44923156)
Thank you for your kind comment! To be honest I saw this as a novelty project, however I think it could be more secure than a password locker, at least in some cases where the password is weak.
Re:Show HN: Play Pokémon to unlock your Wayland session on Tuesday August 12, 2025 @07:50AM (#44875065)
Very cool idea, I may implement a hardcore mode in the future just for fun lol.
Re:Show HN: Play Pokémon to unlock your Wayland session on Tuesday August 12, 2025 @07:46AM (#44875032)
Thank you for your kind comment! I don't have a ko-fi but I will think about creating one :)
Re:Show HN: Play Pokémon to unlock your Wayland session on Monday August 11, 2025 @07:16PM (#44870538)
Thanks for your idea! I think it is totally possible to implement a screensaver with the ext-session-lock protocol. I will try to explore this idea when I have time in the next few months :)
Re:Show HN: Play Pokémon to unlock your Wayland session on Sunday August 10, 2025 @05:55PM (#44858642)
Thank you for the link! Hope to see more people using Wayland then :D

Show HN: Play Pokémon to unlock your Wayland session

Posted by anajimi on Sunday August 10, 2025 @08:15AM
from the show-hn dept.

https://github.com/AdoPi/wlgblock

Hello everyone!I've created a gameboy emulator to unlock my Wayland session and wanted to share this project to everyone here!I've been a Linux enthusiast since I was a kid. What always captivated me was the freedom to customize my system exactly the way I wanted. With Wayland, we've reached an incredible level of performance. It's like turning your operating system into a video game! I've...

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