Hacker News: Tajnymag

New comment by Tajnymag in "Run Linux containers on Android, no root required"

Tajnymag — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 10:44:54 +0000

There's for example redroid (https://github.com/remote-android/redroid-doc) which seems to be exactly that. Android inside a container.

New comment by Tajnymag in "The RCE that AMD won't fix"

Tajnymag — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 00:35:58 +0000

Just like burglary is illegal in every country on Earth, yet it still happens.

New comment by Tajnymag in "I prefer to pass secrets between programs through standard input"

Tajnymag — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 14:08:26 +0000

I guess the kernel is stopping that. I don't think permission wise you'd have the privileges to read someone else's stdin/out.

New comment by Tajnymag in "Noctia: A sleek and minimal desktop shell thoughtfully crafted for Wayland"

Tajnymag — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 16:17:54 +0000

I'd say the problematic part is not capturing the desktop but injecting controls into it. Proper universal support for simulated input is still missing.

New comment by Tajnymag in "Netbird – Open Source Zero Trust Networking"

Tajnymag — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 16:12:11 +0000

Much easier setup, management, permissions, meshing etc.

New comment by Tajnymag in "Dell admits consumers don't care about AI PCs"

Tajnymag — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 21:35:42 +0000

I thought they actually dumbed down the model names. Basically the more adjactives the laptop has, the higher the model is. Now the machines can have pronounciable names and just add generation number every year or so.

Sure, the original numbering system did make sense, but you had to Google what the system meant. Now, it's kind of intuitive, even though the it's just a different permutation of the same words?

New comment by Tajnymag in "Show HN: Gaming Couch – a local multiplayer party game platform for 8 players"

Tajnymag — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 13:32:01 +0000

Oh, I didn't know that. That explains quite a lot.

New comment by Tajnymag in "Show HN: Gaming Couch – a local multiplayer party game platform for 8 players"

Tajnymag — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 10:57:14 +0000

Looks great. Like a more open and cuter version of, now enshittified, AirConsole.

AirConsole link for context: https://www.airconsole.com/

New comment by Tajnymag in "CSS now has an if() conditional function"

Tajnymag — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 08:04:06 +0000

Would it be enough to have hidden using an inline style in the initial html response and when everything is loaded, one would remove the style using javascript?

New comment by Tajnymag in "CachyOS: Fast and Customizable Linux Distribution"

Tajnymag — Sun, 30 Nov 2025 14:54:59 +0000

Manjaro is not Arch. It uses custom repositories with patched packages, delayed version rollouts and custom kernels.

New comment by Tajnymag in "WinApps: Run Windows apps as if they were a part of the native Linux OS"

Tajnymag — Sat, 29 Nov 2025 10:31:55 +0000

What is missing from the unofficial Bedrock launcher?

https://minecraft-linux.github.io/

New comment by Tajnymag in "Show HN: Whirligig.live"

Tajnymag — Mon, 17 Nov 2025 07:58:48 +0000

Dude, that's amazing! How responsive and simple to use the tool is.

Obligatory question, are you planning on adding support for additional countries?

New comment by Tajnymag in "Steam Controller"

Tajnymag — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 21:34:08 +0000

Wait... didn't the original Steam Controller already feature Bluetooth?

New comment by Tajnymag in "Nearly 90% of Windows Games Now Run on Linux"

Tajnymag — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 13:08:40 +0000

Well, yes, but APIs aside, as long as the developers and users have the choice, they won't choose a new backwards incompatible solution if when they can stay with their old solution.

Look at Apple Macs, all went from x86 to arm, breaking software and fixing incompatibilities later. Users had no choice but to use m1 macOS if they wanted a new device.

New comment by Tajnymag in "Nearly 90% of Windows Games Now Run on Linux"

Tajnymag — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 07:43:25 +0000

That's a reasonable baseline, yes. I would also consider trying running it on Arch Linux, because it usually has newer library versions and it's the base of SteamOS.

New comment by Tajnymag in "Nearly 90% of Windows Games Now Run on Linux"

Tajnymag — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 07:37:36 +0000

At this point, that's exactly what Windows needs. As Microsoft only adds new features and doesn't remove almost any, Windows is getting reaaally bloated. And what was Microsoft's response? Everyone should buy a new faster computer to run Windows 11.

New comment by Tajnymag in "Bun v1.3 is here [video]"

Tajnymag — Sat, 11 Oct 2025 11:00:58 +0000

For short lived one off scripts and programs, bun is amazing. Everything you need without configuring much and minimal external dependencies.

For a large project, bun seems to have become almost a framework like experience? Once you start using all its features, you get locked in and you do everything "the bun way".

New comment by Tajnymag in "A security incident that may involve your Plex account information"

Tajnymag — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 07:35:19 +0000

Why not use Jellyfin then? It's basically an open source alternative to Plex. You run Jellyfin on your server and in Apple TV use Swiftin (Jellyfin + Swift) for integration.

New comment by Tajnymag in "I ditched Docker for Podman"

Tajnymag — Fri, 05 Sep 2025 13:17:19 +0000

Well, yes, but rootless is basically the main selling point of podman. Once you start using daemons and privileged containers, you can just keep using docker.

New comment by Tajnymag in "I ditched Docker for Podman"

Tajnymag — Fri, 05 Sep 2025 12:23:31 +0000

I've wanted to migrate multiple times. Unfortunately, it failed on multiple places.

Firstly, podman had a much worse performance compared to docker on my small cloud vps. Can't really go into details though.

Secondly, the development ecosystem isn't really fully there yet. Many tools utilizing Docker via its socket, fail to work reliably with podman. Either because the API differs or because of permission limitations. Sure, the tools could probably work around those limitations, but they haven't and podman isn't a direct 1:1 drop in replacement.