Hacker News: alimbada

New comment by alimbada in "Docker is weird"

alimbada — Fri, 23 Oct 2026 09:41:49 +0000

> crun has just proven good enough that AFAIK no one has RIIR.

You'll be glad to know of youki then: https://github.com/youki-dev/youki

New comment by alimbada in "Stop Making TUIs"

alimbada — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 22:37:27 +0000

My servers can’t and shouldn’t run GUIs so you can take your “hot take” and stuff it... somewhere else. Choices are great to have. Advocating for fewer choices deserves the derision it’s been met with in the comments here.

New comment by alimbada in "Ziggity – A terminal UI for Git, written in Zig"

alimbada — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 21:15:52 +0000

I like the Zig+Git+TTY portmanteau.

New comment by alimbada in "Moonshine: Lets you stream games from your PC to any device running Moonlight"

alimbada — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 17:37:51 +0000

Not sure if LXCs would help in that regard as I haven't used it for gaming but you can share a GPU between LXC guests and the host. I have an unprivileged LXC running in Proxmox that uses the GPU for transcoding video.

New comment by alimbada in "Ente – Opening Our Books"

alimbada — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 14:00:41 +0000

I was wringing my hands trying to decide between Ente and Immich for a while as I'm trying to de-Google. I went with Immich in the end, but Ente seems like a great alternative for anyone that doesn't want to self-host.

New comment by alimbada in "Show HN: Fast, native Mac file manager (filters, fuzzy find, 9 MB, no Electron)"

alimbada — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 11:54:52 +0000

I've been using it for the last 3 years since I needed to use Macs for work and it is a boon compared to the janky/jarring native Mac app switching behaviour.

New comment by alimbada in "Microsoft Can Track Users via a Windows Device ID"

alimbada — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 11:22:34 +0000

I went to check if Flatpak would protect against this but it seems although it's a wanted feature it's not so straightforward to implement: https://github.com/flatpak/flatpak/issues/4311

New comment by alimbada in "Ask HN: Has anyone replaced Claude/GPT with a local model for daily coding?"

alimbada — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 12:36:17 +0000

You could try running the smaller QAT Gemma 4 models but I doubt they'll be very good for software engineering work.

New comment by alimbada in "Notepad++ v8.9.6.4 Tiananmen Massacre Commemoration"

alimbada — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 16:19:27 +0000

So many in the software world pretend to care about human rights for some kind of credibility that they're good people. I've seen Ukrainian flags all over GitHub on many profiles or repos but the same people will be silent on the atrocities happening in Gaza, Lebanon, etc. Notepad++ left a sour taste in my mouth when they did the same and now they're "commemorating" something that happened decades ago rather than call attention to what's happening now.

Edit: here comes the Hasbara brigade with the downvotes.

New comment by alimbada in "A 10 year old Xeon is all you need"

alimbada — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 11:48:10 +0000

What's the best way to apply this to slightly more modern hardware - i.e. 5800XT 32GB DDR4, 9060XT 16GB?

New comment by alimbada in "Parallel agents in Zed"

alimbada — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 12:29:53 +0000

I'll just leave this here (again): https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/discussions/36604

New comment by alimbada in "Resizing windows on macOS Tahoe – the saga continues"

alimbada — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 11:45:36 +0000

I've been using Amethyst for a couple of years now and it's been working quite well for me.

New comment by alimbada in "GitHub is down again"

alimbada — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 16:27:11 +0000

What does antitrust have to do with the GitHub services downtime?

New comment by alimbada in "GitHub is down again"

alimbada — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 16:24:42 +0000

Do you also post "Take it away from $OWNER" every time your open source software breaks?

New comment by alimbada in "Kimi Released Kimi K2.5, Open-Source Visual SOTA-Agentic Model"

alimbada — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 15:29:51 +0000

> Now, the reason why it won't work on Linux is that the Linux kernel and Linux distros both leave that unified memory capability up to the GPU driver to implement. Which Nvidia hasn't done yet. You can code it somewhat into source code, but it's still super unstable and flaky from what I've read.

So it should work with an AMD GPU?

New comment by alimbada in "Apple, What Have You Done?"

alimbada — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 13:06:19 +0000

I would expect the M4 options to be cheaper than their M5 counterparts. Given how expensive Apple products are, I appreciate them offering both options at the same time. Just because it doesn't make sense to you doesn't mean it doesn't make sense for anyone; you're obviously in the miniscule [nit-picking] minority since Apple will have done enough market research to offer the options that they do offer.

New comment by alimbada in "The struggle of resizing windows on macOS Tahoe"

alimbada — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 12:45:56 +0000

I'd rather use the 2.4Ghz adapter rather than Bluetooth as the connection is supposedly more reliable (and less prone to latency issues) from what I've read. Anyway, after jumping through all those hoops I did get it working so I'm happy with xone for now. I even managed to boot into the newer version of the kernel without the degraded display resolution issue after that.

I have a new issue though after updating 900+ packages using KDE Discover which is that the GUI login doesn't work. The screen goes blank after I enter credentials and nothing happens unless I switch to another TTY at which point I get thrown back to the login screen on TTY1. As a workaround, I can login on another TTY and then use startplasma in order to use KDE. I've learnt my lesson not to use KDE Discover for updates though because it doesn't get logged in dnf history so you can't use dnf rollback.

New comment by alimbada in "Doing gigabit Ethernet over my British phone wires"

alimbada — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 12:32:52 +0000

Interesting. Every place I've lived in has been older than that so that makes sense.

New comment by alimbada in "Doing gigabit Ethernet over my British phone wires"

alimbada — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 12:16:53 +0000

> It’s not uncommon to have a one bed flat with 2 phone sockets in the living room and 2 phone sockets in the bedroom and a master socket in the technical room. It’s ridiculous.

This sounds a bit farfetched to me. I'm 40+ and lived in the UK all my life. Growing up we only had 1 phone socket in the house for the first few years until my dad got an extension put in upstairs. I've lived in multiple cities since then and no flat or house I've lived in has had more than 1 phone socket including the house I eventually bought and live in now (which is not small by most UK standards).

New comment by alimbada in "The struggle of resizing windows on macOS Tahoe"

alimbada — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 16:27:29 +0000

So I cleared out one of my SSDs and installed Fedora yesterday.

I still had the issue of no gamepad detection. I had to install xone which took some trial and error. Firstly, I didn't have dkms installed and secondly, soon after installing Fedora the kernel was updated in the background and on reboot my display resolution was fixed to 1024x768 or something for some reason (that's gonna be another issue I'll have to look into). I rebooted and went back to the previous version and then dkms complained the kernel-headers were missing. However, the kernel-headers were installed for the latest kernel but not the older version I had rebooted to. I'm not used to Fedora or dnf (I run Proxmox+Debian in my homelab) so after a quick search to figure out how to install a specific version of a package (it's not as simple as @ but rather -.fc$FEDORA_VERSION.$ARCHITECTURE) I got kernel-devel installed and was able to finally run the xone install script successfully and have my gamepad detected.

The most frustrating thing is that the xone install script doesn't fail despite errors from dkms so after the first install (where I almost gave up because I thought something was wrong with my setup) I had to run the uninstall script each time there was a problem and then run it again. The xone docs also mention running a secondary script which doesn't actually exist until the first script runs successfully so that added a lot of confusion.